18th International Conference on Process Control

Lifetime Estimation of Heat Exchangers with Consideration of On-line Cleaning

T. Friebel1, R. Haber1, U. Schmitz2
1 Cologne University of Applied Science, Köln
2 Shell Deutschland Oil GmbH

Abstract

In the presented paper two quality parameters are used to represent the state of a heat exchanger. The remaining lifetime can be estimated by trend regression. Also of interest is the uncertainty of the predicted lifetime which is determined by the confidence interval of the parameter estimation. These algorithms developed are used in this paper in an off-line evaluation of the measurements on a heat exchanger in a refinery. It is shown that the time point of the heat exchanger cleaning can be predicted. So the presented method can be used for planning the cleaning time point in advance and saving money in maintenance.

Full paper

062.pdf

Session

Modelling, Simulation, and Identification of Processes (Lecture)

Reference

Friebel, T.; Haber, R.; Schmitz, U.: Lifetime Estimation of Heat Exchangers with Consideration of On-line Cleaning. Editors: Fikar, M. and Kvasnica, M., In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Process Control, Tatranská Lomnica, Slovakia, June 14 – 17, 434–439, 2011.

BibTeX
@inProceedings{pc2011-062,
author = {Friebel, T. and Haber, R. and Schmitz, U.},
title = {Lifetime Estimation of Heat Exchangers with Consideration of On-line Cleaning},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Process Control},
year = {2011},
pages = {434-439},
editor = {Fikar, M. and Kvasnica, M.},
address = {Tatransk\'a Lomnica, Slovakia},
publisher = {Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava},
url = {http://www.kirp.chtf.stuba.sk/pc11/data/papers/062.pdf}}
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