HE Changchun, XU Lei, CHEN Wei, XU Xiaofeng, OUYANG Pengwei. Mechanism prediction of flow-induced corrosion and optimization of protection measures in overhead system of atmospheric tower[J]. CIESC Journal, 2019, 70(3): 1027-1034
HE Changchun, XU Lei, CHEN Wei, XU Xiaofeng, OUYANG Pengwei. Mechanism prediction of flow-induced corrosion and optimization of protection measures in overhead system of atmospheric tower[J]. CIESC Journal, 2019, 70(3): 1027-1034DOI: 10.11949/j.issn.0438-1157.20180785.
Mechanism prediction of flow-induced corrosion and optimization of protection measures in overhead system of atmospheric tower
Corrosion failures often occur at the overhead cooling system in the atmospheric tower in a domestic oil refinery. Based on the material balance principle
this study uses the reverse derivation method and process simulation to analyze the flow corrosion failure mechanism of the atmospheric pressure overhead cooling system
including dew point corrosion
ammonium salt crystal deposition scale corrosion
and multiphase flow erosion. Generally
water injection is a convenient and efficient measure to eliminate dew-point corrosion and under-deposit corrosion caused by ammonium salt crystallization. Nevertheless
due to the restricted water injection flow rate and various water injection modes for the heat exchangers
corrosion failure still occurred in the overhead cooling system of the atmospheric tower. By simulating the overhead system
the suitable one of three water injection modes (in the main process pipe
in the heat exchangers and by a programming controller) can be determined to realize the long-term stable operation of the overhead cooling system in the atmospheric tower according to a given injected water flow rate.
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