For decades the FCC industry has been fighting to resolve the issue of corrosion within high temperature processing vessels. Most of these efforts have focused on chemical solutions to this problem.
But Wouter Garot, CEO of SILICON and a metallurgist by profession, believes that corrosion issues can be resolved by applying a barrier system that has already been proven to enhance the internal condition of process vessels. If he's right, it could substantially reduce maintenance costs across the industry worldwide.