Pretreatments of coils to minimize coke formation in ethylene furnaces

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1991-1994

  Zhang, Zhaobin ^a   Albright, Lyle F ^b  

^a SINOPEC   (China)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COKE FORMATION; ETHYLENE FURNACE; INNER SURFACES; NOVA CHEMICALS; OXIDIZING GAS; PRE-TREATMENTS; REDUCED PRODUCTION;

COKE; COST REDUCTION; ETHYLENE; PROPYLENE;

FURNACES;

EID: 77649123427     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie900271q     Document Type: Article

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