TYPICAL FOULING FACTORS | |||||
COOLING WATER | Fouling Factors in [m²K/W] | ||||
Conditions | Cooling water < 50ºC | Cooling water > 50ºC | |||
Cooled fluid< 120ºC | Cooled fluid > 120ºC | ||||
Water velocity | v < 1 m/s | v > 1 m/s | v < 1 m/s | v > 1 m/s | |
Type of water | |||||
Sea | 0,00009 | 0,00009 | 0,00018 | 0,00018 | |
Brackish | 0,00035 | 0,00018 | 0,00053 | 0,00035 | |
Cooling tower with inhibitor | 0,00018 | 0,00018 | 0,00035 | 0,00035 | |
Cooling tower without inhibitor | 0,00053 | 0,00053 | 0,00088 | 0,00070 | |
City grid | 0,00018 | 0,00018 | 0,00035 | 0,00035 | |
River minimum | 0,00018 | 0,00018 | 0,00035 | 0,00035 | |
River average | 0,00053 | 0,00035 | 0,00070 | 0,00035 | |
Engine jacket | 0,00018 | 0,00018 | 0,00018 | 0,00018 | |
Demineralized or distilled | 0,00009 | 0,00009 | 0,00009 | 0,00009 | |
Treated boiler feedwater | 0,00018 | 0,00009 | 0,00018 | 0,00018 | |
Boiler blowdown | 0,00035 | 0,00035 | 0,00035 | 0,00035 | |
SEVERAL FLUIDS | Fouling Factors in [m²K/W] | ||||
Group | Fluid | Fouling Factor | |||
Oil | Gasoil | 0,00009 | |||
Transformer | 0,00018 | ||||
Lubrication | 0,00018 | ||||
Heat transfer oil | 0,00018 | ||||
Hydraulic | 0,00018 | ||||
Gas and Vapour | Hydrogen | 0,00176 | |||
Engine exhaust | 0,00176 | ||||
Steam | 0,00009 | ||||
Steam with oiltraces | 0,00018 | ||||
Cooling fluid vapours with oil traces | 0,00035 | ||||
Organic solvent vapours | 0,00018 | ||||
Compressed air | 0,00035 | ||||
Natural gas | 0,00018 | ||||
Stable top products | 0,00018 | ||||
Liquid | Cooling fluid | 0,00018 | |||
Organic heat transfer fluids | 0,00018 | ||||
Salts | 0,00009 | ||||
LPG, LNG | 0,00018 | ||||
MEA and DEA(Amines) solutions | 0,00035 | ||||
DEG and TEG(Glycols) solutions | 0,00035 | ||||
Stable side products | 0,00018 | ||||
Stable bottom products | 0,00018 | ||||
Caustics | 0,00035 | ||||
Vgetables oils | 0,00053 | ||||
REFINERY FLUIDS | Fouling Factors in [m²K/W] | ||||
Crude – wet (bearing salty water) | Temperature | 0 – 95ºC | 95 – 160ºC | 160 – 260ºC | > 95 ºC |
Velocity | |||||
< 0,6 m/s | 0,00053 | 0,00088 | 0,00105 | 0,00123 | |
0,6 m/s – 1,2 m/s | 0,00035 | 0,00070 | 0,00088 | 0,00106 | |
> 1,2 m/s | 0,00035 | 0,00070 | 0,00070 | 0,00088 | |
Crude – dry | Temperature | 0 – 95ºC | 95 – 160ºC | 160 – 260ºC | > 95 ºC |
Velocity | |||||
< 0,6 m/s | 0,00053 | 0,00053 | 0,00070 | 0,00088 | |
0,6 m/s – 1,2 m/s | 0,00035 | 0,00035 | 0,00053 | 0,00070 | |
> 1,2 m/s | 0,00035 | 0,00035 | 0,00035 | 0,00053 | |
Products | Gasoline | 0,00018 | |||
Naphtha and light distillates | 0,00018 | ||||
Kerosene | 0,00018 | ||||
Light gas oil | 0,00035 | ||||
Heavy gas oil | 0,00053 | ||||
Heavy fuel oil | 0,00088 | ||||
Asphalt and residuum | 0,00176 | ||||
Cracking and coking units streams | Overhead vapors | 0,00035 | |||
Light cycle oil | 0,00035 | ||||
Heavy cycle oil | 0,00053 | ||||
Light coker gas oil | 0,00053 | ||||
Heavy coker gas oil | 0,00070 | ||||
Bottom slurry(> 1,5 m/s) | 0,00053 | ||||
Bottom liquid products | 0,00035 | ||||
Catalytic reforming, hydrocracking, hydrodesulfurization (HDS) | Reformer charge | 0,00035 | |||
Reformer effluent | 0,00018 | ||||
Hydrocracher charge and effluent | 0,00035 | ||||
Recycle gas | 0,00018 | ||||
HDS charge and effluent | 0,00035 | ||||
Overhead vapors | 0,00018 | ||||
Liquid product > 50 API | 0,00018 | ||||
Liquid product 30 to 50 API | 0,00035 | ||||
Light ends processing streams | Overhead vapors and gases | 0,00018 | |||
Liquid products | 0,00018 | ||||
Absorption oils | 0,00035 | ||||
Alkylation trace acid streams | 0,00053 | ||||
Reboiler streams | 0,00053 | ||||
Lube oil processing streams | 0,00053 | ||||
Feed stock | 0,00035 | ||||
Solvent feed mix | 0,00035 | ||||
Solvent feed mix | 0,00018 | ||||
Extract | 0,00035 | ||||
Raffinate | 0,00018 | ||||
Asphalt | 0,00088 | ||||
Wax slurries | 0,00053 | ||||
Redined lube oil | 0,00018 |