Industry-recommended procedures for experimental crude oil preheat fouling research

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 28-35

  Bennett, Christopher A ^a   Appleyard, Steve ^b   Gough, Martin ^c   Hohmann, Robert P ^d   Joshi, Himanshu M ^e   King, Dave C ^f   Lam, Tin Yin ^g   Rudy, Thomas M ^e   Stomierowski, Scott E ^h  

^a Heat Transfer Research Inc   (United States)

^b Phillips Research Center 224GB   (United States)

^c Cal Gavin Limited   (United Kingdom)

^d CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^e EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^f BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^g Chevron Products Co   (United States)

^h SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; FOULING; HEAT TRANSFER; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

MULTIPLE MECHANISMS; PREHEAT FOULING;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

EID: 33747598229     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630600845788     Document Type: Conference Paper

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