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Heat Exchanger Fouling and Cleaning: Fundamentals and Applications

May 18-22, 2003 - Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA


Editors: Paul Watkinson, University of British Columbia, Canada
Hans Müller-Steinhagen, German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and University of Stuttgart
M. Reza Malayeri, German Aerospace Centre (DLR)
The articles for these proceedings are peer-reviewed.

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Chemical Cleaning of Oil Refinery Heat Exchangers -- The Need for a Joint Effort
Himanshu M. Joshi, ExxonMobil
Glen Brons, ExxonMobil

ABSTRACT:
One component of the high cost of fouling to oil refineries is the maintenance money spent to clean fouled heat exchangers and the associated lost production while the exchanger is out of service. This presentation will highlight some specific fouling situations in oil refineries which can benefit from chemical cleaning. Cooperative efforts are needed between refinery operators, researchers, and chemical suppliers to develop the proper solvents and to find the optimum procedures to use them for cleaning.

Himanshu M. Joshi and Glen Brons, "Chemical Cleaning of Oil Refinery Heat Exchangers -- The Need for a Joint Effort " in "Heat Exchanger Fouling and Cleaning: Fundamentals and Applications", Paul Watkinson, Hans Müller-Steinhagen, and M. Reza Malayeri Eds, ECI Symposium Series, Volume RP1 (2003). http://services.bepress.com/eci/heatexchanger/29

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