March 2013
Special Report: Corrosion Control
Mitigate reactor failures due to graphitization
Graphitization occurs in carbon steel (CS) reactors in high-temperature service (> 455°C). As discussed in this case history, the shell of a methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) reactor became s..
The Authors
Abdulaziz Al-Meshari is a principal engineer at SABIC’s Asset Technology Center. He has 18 years of experience in the petrochemical industry, mostly related to failure analysis, metallurgy and materials selection. Dr. Al-Meshari holds a PhD in materials science and metallurgy from the University of Cambridge in the UK; an MSc degree in corrosion science and engineering from the University of Manchester’s Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in the UK, and a BSc degree.
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