A Study on The Diagnostic Technology for Fouling Occurred in Heat Exchanger.

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Fouling causes serious maintenance problems on heat exchanger tubes and process facilities. To avoid such fouling problems, numerous efforts have been tried, e.g., diagnosis of fouling, reducing and eliminating the fouling, etc.. The objective of the present study is to develop an innovative diagnostic system of fouling, which can detect the scaling attached to the wall non-homogeneously The performance of the diagnostic system has been evaluated with a scaling simulator that generates scaling on tested tube wall The measured values with the diagnostic system were compared with the amounts of the scaling generated by the simulator.