Application of radioactive particle tracking to indicate shed fouling in the stripper section of a fluid coker

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1175-1182

  Sanchez, Francisco J ^a   Granovskiy, Mikhail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fluidisation; Fouling; Radioactive particle tracking

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT THICKNESS; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; FLUIDISATION; FLUIDISED BED REACTORS; HEAVY HYDROCARBONS; RADIOACTIVE PARTICLE TRACKING; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; STRIPPING EFFICIENCY;

CHEMICAL REACTORS; EXPERIMENTS; FLUIDIZATION; FOULING; HYDROCARBONS; LIQUID FILMS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS;

FLUIDIZED BEDS;

EID: 84877683131     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: 1939019X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.21740     Document Type: Article

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