Heat Exchanger Fouling & Cleaning Conference 2024

Heat exchanger fouling presents a persistent challenge that affects the economics, production capacity, and environmental and safety considerations in diverse industries, including food, pharmaceutical, water, chemical, petrochemical, and refining.

Numerous studies have shown that heat exchanger fouling is contributing significantly to global CO2 emissions. A better understanding of fouling mechanisms, fouling control, and mitigation will help the energy-intensive process industries to significantly reduce their carbon footprint.

Furthermore, cost penalties associated with heat exchanger fouling are estimated to be roughly 0.25% of the gross domestic product (GDP) for industrialized countries. Fouling of heat transfer equipment is costing global industries hundreds of millions of dollars every year in increased equipment and maintenance costs, as well as energy and production losses.

It is important to advance research in fouling mechanisms, performance monitoring and process optimization methods, the use of predictive models, and fouling mitigation and cleaning technologies.

The Heat Exchanger Fouling & Cleaning Conference provides a unique opportunity to facilitate innovative thinking through the sharing of ideas, research, and technology. Collaboration is encouraged through interaction, discussion, and networking. Attendees will be able to participate in informative presentations and poster sessions, as well as interactive ad hoc discussions. Social activities—meals, evening receptions, and an offsite excursion—are also planned.

Submissions from industry and academia—including students presenting their work—are welcome. Because fouling is a complex problem, all papers related to this topic will be considered, including practical and theoretical approaches, case studies, modeling, techniques on cleaning, or new inventions.