1. Introduction
The increasing demand for unsaturated hydrocarbons as raw materials in the petrochemical industry has
encouraged the development of new processes aimed at utilizing new raw materials, increasing yields, and
minimizing energy requirements. One such topic of investigation is the cracking of high-molecular-weight
hydrocarbons at high temperatures and over very short times using electrocracking techniques and energy beams [1-
3]. The process of electrocracking is based on excitation (by certain methods) of an electric arc discharge between
electrodes placed inside a liquid feedstock. The plasma formed as a result of the electric discharge, with a
temperature in the range of 5000 to 10000 K, interacts with the feedstock and induces its thermal decomposition,
yielding gases composed of hydrogen, acetylene, methane, ethylene, and fine carbon black [4]. The first reactor used
for the decomposition of liquid hydrocarbons by electric arc discharge featured two graphite electrodes and was
constructed in the 19th century by Pechuro and Pesin, and the first patent for such a reactor was granted in the 1970s