Jamil J. Al-Bagawi
Saudi Aramco Dhahran Saudi Arabia
Syed-Ahmad M. Said
Mechanical Engineering Department King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
Abstrakt
This paper presents the causes and recommended solutions for three examples of fouling in heat exchangers in oil industry. The studied cases include fouling and underneath corrosion in heavy diesel oil (HOD) heat exchangers, fouling in glycol heat exchangers and fouling in vertical thermosyphon heat reboilers.