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Antifoulants for thermal cracking processes

US4511405A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMay 27, 1983
Grant dateApr 16, 1985
Priority date
Expiry dateMay 27, 2003

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC10G9/16
  • 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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