Interaction of process design, operating conditions and corrosion in amine systems

NACE - International Corrosion Conference Series

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 073981-0739833

  Nouri, Mahdi ^a   Clarida, Dannie R ^b  

^a SAZEH Consultants   (Iran)

^b CorrMat International ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Acid gas; Amine degradation; Amine treating; Corrosion rate; Filtration system; Material flow diagram; Operating conditions; Process design; Sazehcor

Indexed keywords

ACID GAS; FILTRATION SYSTEM; MATERIAL FLOW DIAGRAM; OPERATING CONDITIONS; SAZEHCOR;

ACIDS; AIR FILTERS; AMINES; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CORROSION PREVENTION; DEGRADATION; DESIGN; FLOWCHARTING; GAS INDUSTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POROUS MATERIALS; PROCESS DESIGN;

CORROSION RATE;

EID: 69249156057     PISSN: 03614409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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