Fouling Management of Thermal Cracking Units
| Autor: | Simon J. Pugh, Edward M. Ishiyama, James Kennedy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
Waste management Fouling Vacuum distillation Mechanical Engineering Oil refinery 02 engineering and technology 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Condensed Matter Physics Refinery Cracking chemistry.chemical_compound 020401 chemical engineering chemistry Thermal Heat exchanger Environmental science Petroleum 0204 chemical engineering 0210 nano-technology |
| Zdroj: | Heat Transfer Engineering. 38:694-702 |
| ISSN: | 1521-0537 0145-7632 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01457632.2016.1206410 |
| Popis: | Visbreakers and other thermal cracking units are thermal process units in crude oil refineries that upgrade heavy petroleum, usually residual oils produced from atmospheric or vacuum distillation of crude oil. The associated process streams of these units consist of heavy hydrocarbons with very high viscosities and impurities, resulting in fouling of the heat exchangers used to cool or heat these streams. This paper presents a practical fouling analysis for thermal cracking units in a refinery in Germany. Fouling management at this refinery was initiated as part of the refinery energy-saving program. Following similar analysis of the refinery's crude preheat trains, heat exchanger networks associated in the thermal cracking units were modeled by entering the plant monitoring data, network topology, and heat exchanger geometries into a commercial heat exchanger network simulator, SmartPM. Fouling behaviors of vacuum residue streams and thermal cracker residue streams were identified and quantified.... |
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