Thermal Non-Catalytic Cracking TRIZ Cases

Heating particles in a feed line overcomes buffer container temperature limits, enabling high-temperature reactions while maintaining uniform heat distribution.

Differential air distribution across hearth and wall burners reduces tube metal temperatures while maintaining process efficiency.

A steam cracking furnace burns hydrogen-enriched fuel to produce ethylene without importing external hydrogen.

Processing renewable feedstocks via catalytic cracking into heavy cycle oil enables delayed coking to yield needle coke with reduced fossil carbon content.

Introducing a make-up liquid stream into the primary fractionator compensates for feed variability, maintaining stable gas oil and tar production rates.

Patsnap Eureka analyzes denitrogenation units that remove ammonia from steam cracker feeds to protect catalysts.

A molten salt reservoir captures thermal energy from a reactor effluent to enable efficient heat reuse in hydrocarbon upgrading.

Depositing additional coke on spent catalyst in the stripper section boosts regenerator heat supply, resolving low CO2 emission trade-offs.

Separate phenols from hydrotreatment effluent and recycle them to increase hydrocarbon yield while reducing wastewater toxicity.

Water-soluble molybdate compounds passivate metal surfaces in hydrocarbon processing equipment to inhibit coke formation.

FCC feed pretreater removes contaminants from pyrolysis oil to produce high-quality fuels and pure ethylene.

Varying aspect ratios in serpentine reactor components reduce pressure drop and erosion rates while minimizing fouling.

Acid and base post-synthesis treatments extend ZSM-5 catalyst life by reducing coke formation, enabling 10 days of continuous ethylene oligomerization.

Stabilized zirconia refractory prevents carburization and ceramic corrosion, extending reactor component life.

A quench medium mediates rapid cooling of pyrolysis vapors to prevent product deterioration, achieving high bio-oil yields in continuous processing.

A mesoporous catalyst with aluminum-incorporated silica saturates aromatics in lubricating oil feedstreams.

Segmented convection banks preheat liquid feedstock and gasify it with steam, reducing fouling in low-temperature sections while maintaining high product yield.

A solvent deasphalting process separates asphaltenes from steam cracked tar using selective solubility to produce a compatible fuel oil blendstock.

Composite refractory lining dissipates transient thermal stresses to prevent pressure boundary cracking during rapid quench cycles.

Co-converting mixed waste plastic with methane and hydrogen maximizes ethylene and propylene yield while suppressing coke formation.

A guard bed adsorbs contaminants from mixed waste plastic pyrolysis oil before catalytic cracking with HZSM-5 and USY catalysts.

Countercurrent quench oil cooling minimizes fouling and pressure drop in olefin cracking reactors.

Solid alumina silica phosphate additive reduces coke yield by 1 to 5 wt% while increasing liquid product yields.

Catalytic conversion of propene and butenes into 2-propanol and butanols using steam cracking feedstocks.

Solvent deasphalting removes asphaltenes before thermal cracking, reducing coke formation while maintaining high olefin yields from crude feedstocks.

Electric heaters vaporize hydrocarbon feed streams, eliminating carbon dioxide emissions from gas-fired furnaces and enabling precise temperature control.

Purification device recovers thermal energy from bottom stream to preheat top stream, lowering external heating demand.

A spiral baffle guides shell-side fluid through a helical path to improve velocity distribution across the heat exchange surface.

Centrifugal separation within the reaction chamber eliminates downstream processing costs while enabling distributed biomass conversion to high-value fuels.

Replacing hydrocarbon fuel with biomass-sourced hydrogen in steam cracking reduces ethylene carbon intensity below 0.6 kg CO2e/kg.

Operating pyrolysis at high pressure with thermal mass heating shifts equilibrium toward ethylene while suppressing acetylene and coke formation.

Segmented firebox design enables independent hydrocarbon feed processing without dividing walls, reducing structural complexity and plot space.

Lateral liquid injections disrupt flow patterns in hydrocarbon processing equipment, preventing solid deposit accumulation that causes frequent shutdowns.

Real-time feedback control of pyrolysis parameters prevents under- and over-cracking, reducing equipment contamination.

Composite MnxCr3O4 and Cr2O3 layers prevent oxide spalling while maintaining high coking resistance at elevated temperatures.

Segmented nozzles atomize resid fluid to intersect 700°C-1200°C particles, reducing inlet port fouling and improving conversion efficiency.

Hydrotreating removes heteroatoms from heavy hydrocarbons before steam pyrolysis, reducing coke formation in the furnace while increasing petrochemical yields.

Thermal cracking destroys naphthenic acid compounds in high TAN crude oils, reducing acidity and eliminating corrosion issues without frequent inhibitor dosing.

Integrates mixed feed steam cracking with fluid catalytic cracking to convert crude oil into petrochemicals and fuel products.

A steam cracking process varies dilution steam based on operating parameters to control vaporization.

Extracting heavy components reduces equipment size and energy demand while increasing olefin yield.

Splitting turbine exhaust heats combustion air while mixing a second stream to limit flame temperature and reduce NOx formation.

Quenches heated coker feedstock to lower temperature before drum entry for thermal cracking.

Controlling economiser heat exchange capacity regulates feed preheater temperature, reducing fouling and coking tendencies in heavy tail hydrocarbon cracking.

Co-processing used lubricant oil with coker feedstock deposits metals on coke particles, eliminating dedicated re-refining facilities.

A waste heat recovery boiler supplies high pressure steam to drive process compressors in an integrated ethylene and power plant system.

Microwave energy concentrates in a reaction zone to convert heavy fossil hydrocarbons into fuels and chemicals using dielectric discharges.