Antifoulants for thermal cracking processes
US4404087A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 30, 1982 |
| Grant date | Sep 13, 1983 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 30, 2002 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S585/95
- WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
The formation of carbon on metals exposed to hydrocarbons in a thermal cracking process is reduced by contacting such metals with an antifoulant selected from the group consisting of tin, a combination of tin and antimony, a combination of germanium and antimony, a combination of tin and germanium and a combination of tin, antimony and germanium.
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