A review of experimental measurement and prediction models of crude oil fouling rate in crude refinery preheat trains

Y Wang, Z Yuan, Y Liang, Y Xie… - Asia‐Pacific Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a review of the experimental measurement and prediction models of
crude oil fouling rate in crude refinery preheat trains. Test apparatus of crude oil fouling can …

[PDF][PDF] Fouling phenomenon and its effect on heat exchanger: A review

O Ajayi, S Ogbonnaya - Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer …, 2017 - researchgate.net
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 …

Organic and inorganic fouling in heat exchangers–Industrial case study: Analysis of fouling state

E Diaz-Bejarano, E Behranvand, F Coletti… - Applied energy, 2017 - Elsevier
A comprehensive model-based thermo-hydraulic methodology is used to investigate fouling
behaviour in refinery heat exchangers where high concentration of inorganics in the …

Twenty years of Ebert and Panchal—what next?

DI Wilson, EM Ishiyama, GT Polley - Heat Transfer Engineering, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Ebert and Panchal introduced the “threshold fouling” approach for describing the initial rate
of crude oil chemical reaction fouling at the meeting in this series of conferences held in San …

Data reconciliation and gross error detection in crude oil pre-heat trains undergoing shell-side and tube-side fouling deposition

J Loyola-Fuentes, R Smith - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Fouling is a problem in crude oil refineries. The effect of fouling deposition is particularly
significant in the heat exchanger network (or pre-heat train) upstream of the crude oil …

Thermo‐hydraulic analysis of refinery heat exchangers undergoing fouling

E Diaz‐Bejarano, F Coletti, S Macchietto - AIChE Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A complete, systematic approach is presented for the analysis and characterization of
fouling and cleaning in refinery heat exchangers. Bringing together advanced thermo …

Organic and inorganic fouling in heat exchangers: industrial case study analysis of fouling rate

E Diaz-Bejarano, E Behranvand, F Coletti… - Industrial & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Fouling rates in refinery heat exchangers with mixed organic/inorganic deposits (frequent in
practice) are estimated using a comprehensive model-based thermohydraulic methodology …

Characterizing foulants on slotted liner and probing the surface interaction mechanisms in organic media with implication for an antifouling strategy in oil production

L Gong, J Wang, L Xiang, J Huang, V Fattahpour… - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Fouling phenomena are commonly observed in oil production processes, which have
caused many challenging issues. Many previous studies focused on fouling in aqueous …

Oil fouling in double‐pipe heat exchanger under liquid‐liquid dispersion and the influence of copper oxide nanofluid

HS Majdi, HA Alabdly, BO Hasan… - Heat Transfer—Asian …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Fouling at post desalter and preflash drum heat exchangers of CDU preheat train

MR Mozdianfard, E Behranvand - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Following an 8-year field study at EORC refinery including visual inspection, operational
data and fouling resistance analysis, as well as foulant chemical characterization, it became …