Fouling of heat exchangers (HEs) has become a major concern across the industrial sector.
Fouling is an omnipresent phenomenon but is particularly prevalent in the dairy, oil, and …

Heat exchangers as a heat transfer device has gained wide applications across different
levels of domestic and industrial set-ups. Various studies have been carried out to study …

Fouling impairs the hydrodynamic and thermodynamic performance of crude oil pre-heat
train exchangers in refineries. The very early stage of fouling, so-called induction period …

Fouling is one of the leading causes of energy loss in oil industry, particularly in preheat
exchangers of refineries and desalting units. For each day that an oil operation unit …

Oil viscosity is an important factor in every project of the petroleum industry. These
processes can range from gas injection to oil reservoirs to comprehensive reservoir …

The dead oil viscosity is a key parameter to numerous reservoir engineering problems such
as modeling of (viscously-unstable) flow and transport in hydrocarbon reservoirs, sweep …

The article presents a mathematical model for on-line control of a heat exchanger network
(HEN), aiming at maximization of heat recovery. The model assumes that HEN operates at …

Crude oil fouling is described as an accumulation of unwanted materials such as asphaltene
and metallic salt on a heat transfer surface in a pre-heat train of the crude distillation unit in …

Crude oil fouling within heat exchanger networks (HENs) is a long-standing challenge that
detrimentally affects heat transfer efficiency, increases operating and maintenance costs …

Dispersions of oil in water are encountered in a variety of industrial processes leading to a
reduction in the performance of the heat exchangers when thermally treating such two …