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Evaluation of a Ti-Base Alloy as Steam Cracking Reactor Material.


ABSTRACT: Low-coking reactor material technologies are key for improving the performance and sustainability of steam crackers. In an attempt to appraise the coking performance of an alternative Ti-base alloy during ethane steam cracking, an experimental study was performed in a jet stirred reactor under industrially relevant conditions using thermogravimetry (Tgasphase = 1173 K, Ptot = 0.1 MPa, XC2H6 = 70%, and dilution δ = 0.33 kgH2O/kgHC). Initially, a typical pretreatment used for Fe-Ni-Cr alloys was utilized and compared with a pretreatment at increased temperature, aiming at better surface oxidation and thus suppressing coke formation. The results revealed a decrease in coking rates upon high temperature pretreatment of the Ti-base alloy, however, its coking performance was significantly worse compared to the typically used Fe-Ni-Cr alloys, and carbon oxides formation increased by a factor of 30 or more. Moreover, the analyzed coupons showed crack propagation after coking/decoking and cooling down to ambient temperature. Scanning electron microscopy combined with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy indicated that the prompt and unsystematic oxidation of the surface and bulk caused observable crack initiation and propagation due to alloy brittleness. Hence, the tested Ti-base alloy cannot be considered an industrially noteworthy steam cracking reactor alloy.

SUBMITTER: Sarris SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6719091 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Evaluation of a Ti-Base Alloy as Steam Cracking Reactor Material.

Sarris Stamatis A SA   Verbeken Kim K   Reyniers Marie-Françoise MF   Van Geem Kevin M KM  

Materials (Basel, Switzerland) 20190810 16


Low-coking reactor material technologies are key for improving the performance and sustainability of steam crackers. In an attempt to appraise the coking performance of an alternative Ti-base alloy during ethane steam cracking, an experimental study was performed in a jet stirred reactor under industrially relevant conditions using thermogravimetry (T<sub>gasphase</sub> = 1173 K, P<sub>tot</sub> = 0.1 MPa, X<sub>C2H6</sub> = 70%, and dilution δ = 0.33 kg<sub>H2O</sub>/kg<sub>HC</sub>). Initially  ...[more]

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