Objective European process industries running plant that utilises fired heater tubes generally operate in a highly competitive world market. An important factor affecting their competitiveness arises from the fact that the tubes operate in aggressive environments under complex loading and heating cycles which means that up to now it has not been possible to develop procedures for accurate tube life assessment and design. The overall aim of the work is to improve the efficiency of processes utilising fired heater tubes through the development of systems for accurate lifing of tubes and of a life optimiser enabling simultaneous optimisation of tube life and process performance. The project will focus on three different industrial applications, namely catalytic reforming, steam reforming and ethylene production and will be based on the development of models for predicting tube life. The potential economic benefit in terms of increased sales and reduced production costs is estimated as 500 MECU within the five year period after project completion. Fields of science natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryaliphatic compounds Programme(s) FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 0202 - New methodologies for product design and manufacture Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator ERA TECHNOLOGY LTD Address Cleeve road KT22 7SA Leatherhead, surrey GB See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all DSM Nv Netherlands EU contribution € 0,00 Address 49,mauritslaan 6160 MC Geleen See on map Integridade, Serviços de Manutençao e Integridade Estrututal Lda. Portugal EU contribution € 0,00 Address Rua francisco antónio silva 2780 Oeiras See on map Kinetics Technology International SpA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via monte carmelo 5 00166 Roma See on map Paralloy Ltd GB EU contribution € 0,00 Address Nuffield road TS23 4DA Billingham See on map
