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Fouling in Heat Exchanger Networks

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Fouling in Heat Exchanger Networks
المؤلفون: R. Smith, J. Loyola-Fuentes, M. Jobson
المصدر: Chemical Engineering Transactions, Vol 61 (2017)
بيانات النشر: AIDIC Servizi S.r.l., 2017.
سنة النشر: 2017
المجموعة: LCC:Chemical engineering
LCC:Computer engineering. Computer hardware
مصطلحات موضوعية: Chemical engineering, TP155-156, Computer engineering. Computer hardware, TK7885-7895
الوصف: Fouling in heat exchangers has major cost implications; especially in applications such as crude oil pre- heating. In principle, fouling can be mitigated through changes in the way a heat exchanger network is designed and operated. In crude oil fouling, the rate of fouling is dominated by the wall temperatures of the heat exchanger tubes and the shear rate at the tube wall. Prior studies have demonstrated that under certain sets of wall temperatures and tube shear rates, a threshold for fouling deposition exists, which can be used for mitigation purposes. In principle, fouling can be alleviated or stopped by adjusting conditions within individual heat exchangers. Previous research has shown that heat exchanger networks can be designed and operated to mitigate fouling by accounting for the effects of wall temperature and shear rate. Various fouling models have been suggested previously to predict fouling rate as a function of temperature and shear rate. However, all of these models have adjustable parameters that need to be fitted to experimental data. The previous approach to this has been to carry out laboratory tests in shear cells. Unfortunately, this is impractical for most applications. Each crude oil (which might be subjected to frequent changes in a given pre-heat train) needs the appropriate parameters to be fitted. Also, the relationship between the fouling in laboratory shear cells and fouling in actual heat exchangers has yet to be established. This presentation will develop an alternative approach to fitting parameters to fouling models based on actual operating equipment. The approach presented allows for data reconciliation and model fitting from operational data that allows different fouling models to be fitted simultaneously for each side of a heat exchanger. Once such parameters have been fitted, they can be used for operational optimisation for fouling mitigation, including the optimisation of cleaning schedules. In design and retrofit, dynamic fouling characteristics can be included in the procedure to design and retrofit so that fouling can be mitigated simultaneously through operating cycles by the systematic manipulation of operating conditions and optimisation of cleaning schedules.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2283-9216
Relation: https://www.cetjournal.it/index.php/cet/article/view/349; https://doaj.org/toc/2283-9216
DOI: 10.3303/CET1761296
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/0a8179ed32bd4512b184f08a4fa06dc2
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.0a8179ed32bd4512b184f08a4fa06dc2
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:22839216
DOI:10.3303/CET1761296