Improve heat exchanger leak detection
Journal Article
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· Hydrocarbon Processing; (United States)
OSTI ID:5664865
- Amoco Production Co., Houston, TX (United States)
- Unichem International, Inc., The Woodlands, TX (United States)
A quick and easy method identifies exchangers that leak hydrocarbons into cooling water. A portable, explosion-proof flame ionization detector (FID) measures volatile hydrocarbons off-gassing from an exchanger's cooling water. Now, a hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) facility can perform a leak detection survey on heat exchangers on a routine schedule. Suspected leakers are identified earlier than with conventional leak-detection methods such as chlorine consumption and cooling water turbidity. Greater sensitivity to hydrocarbons enables a facility to be proactive -- not reactive -- on exchanger maintenance.
- OSTI ID:
- 5664865
- Journal Information:
- Hydrocarbon Processing; (United States), Journal Name: Hydrocarbon Processing; (United States) Vol. 72:11; ISSN HYPRAX; ISSN 0018-8190
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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