Problems Associated with Materials Used in Carbon Depositing Environments in Petroleum Industries

Abstract

Heater tubes, piping, heat exchanger tubes, and other facilities used at elevated temperatures in petroleum industries often suffer from carbon deposition. Such carbon deposition sometimes causes various kinds of failures in the materials. Some of these failures are brought about directly by carbon deposition while others are caused through carburization of the materials.
This paper deals with a number of such failures and describes the phenomena.