Acid salt corrosion in a hydrotreatment plant of a petroleum refinery

Engineering Failure Analysis

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1035-1041

  Alvisi, Paulo Pio ^a   de Freitas Cunha Lins, Vanessa ^b  

^a PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

^b Chemical Engineering Department   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Heat exchanger failures; Hydrogen assisted cracking; Intergranular corrosion; Petrochemical

Indexed keywords

COOLING; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); DIESEL FUELS; FOULING; HEAT EXCHANGERS; LOW TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; PETROLEUM REFINERIES;

DIESEL HYDROTREATMENT PLANT; HYDROGEN-ASSISTED CRACKING; INTERGRANULAR CORROSION;

CORROSION;

COOLING; CORROSION; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); DIESEL FUELS; FOULING; HEAT EXCHANGERS; LOW TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; PETROLEUM REFINERIES;

EID: 41849099669     PISSN: 13506307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2007.11.014     Document Type: Article

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