TITLE:
Progress of Modern Pyrolysis Furnace Technology
AUTHORS:
Guotai Zhang, Bruce Evans
KEYWORDS:
Ethylene Furnace; Cracking Kinetics; Adiabatic Cracking; Non-Adiabatic Cracking; Radiant Coil; Convection Section; Burner and Selective Catalytic Reduction
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Materials Physics and Chemistry,
Vol.2 No.4B,
January
16,
2013
ABSTRACT: This paper presents the fundamentals of thermal pyrolysis and discusses the modern ethylene furnace technology and its design trends. Technip’s proprietary SPYRO? program is discussed for prediction of hydrocarbon cracking.