Industry-Recommended Procedures for Experimental Crude Oil Preheat Fouling Research |
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| Authors: | Christopher A. Bennett Steve Appleyard Martin Gough Robert P. Hohmann Himanshu M. Joshi Dave C. King |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Heat Transfer Research, Inc. , College Station , Texas , USA;2. ConocoPhillips Co. , Ponca City , Oklahoma , USA;3. Cal Gavin Limited , Alcester , Warwickshire , UK;4. ChevronTexaco Energy Technology Co. , Richmond , California , USA;5. ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co. , Annandale , New Jersey , USA;6. BP p.l.c., Sunbury-on-Thames , Middlesex , UK |
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| Abstract: | Of all heat transfer research arenas, few have the investment return potential of crude oil fouling mitigation. However, crude oil fouling is a very complex phenomenon that occurs via the simultaneous activity of multiple mechanisms. Advances in this field of research are complicated further by the lack of standardized procedures, which would permit unequivocal comparisons of non-proprietary data. As a result, Heat Transfer Research, Inc. formed the Crude Oil Fouling Task Force (COFTF), which is composed of heat transfer experts from many of the world's leading energy companies. The principle endeavor of the COFTF is to ensure that crude oil fouling research is both standardized and industrially relevant. The COFTF recommendations are detailed in this paper. |
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