Location: BP Chemicals, Grangemouth
Product: Cracking Tower Application
Principal: Primasonics® International Ltd (UK)
Problem: Required a solution to build-up problems in the heat exchangers of their 9 ethylene cracking furnaces.
Primasonics® were first contacted by Derek Turner in May 1998 they were interested in resolving build-up problems in the heat exchangers of their nine ethylene cracking furnaces. A mixture of combustion products and fine catalytic powder were building up on heat exchange surfaces and reducing the efficiency of the boiler. They had previously used fixed and retractable soot blowers but found these unreliable and only partially effective at removing the built-up material.