Fouling Effect on heat Exchanger of Sour Water Treatment unit - Khartoum Refinery Company

Abstract

Fouling is the deposition of any kind of extraneous material that appears on the surface of process equipment, such as heat exchangers and reactors. It is a major economic penalty to oil refineries especially Khartoum Refinery (Sour Water Stripping Unit).Through deposited of this material inside heat exchangers witch effect onto the performance of finned tube heat exchangers systems.Due to most important of fouling it must be reduced to minimum.Our project about simulation of Khartoum Refinery Sour Water Stripping Unit.Then installed and designed these units byusing HYSYS program.Compared the results which approved that the efficiency of unit is dependable for fouling limits of. Also this project provides a review on the fouling mechanism and its effect onto the performance of heat exchangers systems.