Author(s)

Guotai Zhang, Bruce Evans

Technip USA Inc., Claremont, California, USA.

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.

Ethylene Furnace; Cracking Kinetics; Adiabatic Cracking; Non-Adiabatic Cracking; Radiant Coil; Convection Section; Burner and Selective Catalytic Reduction

G. Zhang and B. Evans, "Progress of Modern Pyrolysis Furnace Technology," Advances in Materials Physics and Chemistry, Vol. 2 No. 4B, 2012, pp. 169-172. doi: 10.4236/ampc.2012.24B044.