Gaseous pretreatment of high-alloy steels used in ethylene furnaces: Pretreatment of Incoloy 800

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 42, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 4741-4747

  Luan, Ta Chi ^a   Eckert, Roger E ^b   Albright, Lyle F ^b  

^a Taiwan LTD   (Taiwan)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; ETHYLENE; GASES; MANGANESE; PYROLYSIS;

HIGH-ALLOY STEELS;

STEEL;

ALLOY; CHROMIUM; ETHYLENE; HYDROGEN; IRON; MANGANESE; NITROGEN; STEEL;

PYROLYSIS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIFFUSION; GAS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PYROLYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 0141566587     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie030422s     Document Type: Article

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