Furnace Improvements Services

Fired Heater School

• Increase technical knowledge

• Improve fired heaters’ operations

• Reduce fuel consumption

Efficient Operations

Furnace Improvements Services (FIS) is a full service engineering and consulting company,

having completed over 300 engineering studies and projects. We have experience in design, re-

vamp and troubleshooting all types of refinery fired heaters. We also have been conducting tech-

nical seminars and training schools on various aspects of fired heaters, since May 1997.

We have developed a special training program offering practical tips in a simple language. During

this training, we shall cover the basics of fired heater equipment, combustion reaction, reliability

issues, revamp issues and optimization operations. We will also present actual case studies discuss-

ing various aspects of fired heaters operation and troubleshooting.

2-Day Course Outline

Refinery Fired Heaters

• Energy Consumption

• Types of Fired Heaters

• Fired Heaters in Refining

Fuels and Combustion

• Heat Transfer

• Combustion Calculations

• Efficiency Calculations

– Direct Method

– Indirect Method

Burners

• Type of Burners

• Sizing & Selection

• Oil, Gas, Combination Firing

NOx Emission Control

• NOx Formation

• Low NOx Technologies

Refractory

• Types and Selection Criteria

• Reducing Heat Losses

• Refractory Failures

Stack

• Design Parameters

• Draft Profile

• Damper Selection

Air Preheating Systems

• Air Preheater:

– Types and Selection

• Heat Recovery Limitations

•Air Preheater Corrosion

Troubleshooting

• Coking in Tubes

• Convection Section Fouling

• Burner/Flame Failure

• Etc.

Fired Heater Revamp

• Capacity Increase

• Efficiency Improvement

• Case Studies

Fired Heater Operation

• Instrumentation and Control

• Control Schemes

• Tuning Fired Heaters

Fired Heater Specifications

• Process Conditions

• Design Requirements

• Maintenance Considerations

• Important Parameters

For more information contact:

FIS_USA.- (281)-980-0325 info@heatflux.com

Or

Any of our agents. We will be glad to work with you.

Better Performance

Instructor

Ashutosh Garg brings to this course more than 35 years of experience in design, engi-

neering, and troubleshooting of fired heaters and combustion systems for the refining

and petrochemical industries.

He graduated from IIT, Kanpur, India, in chemical engineering in 1974. He started as

a graduate engineer in an ammonia plant. This was followed by 6 years at KTI India

and 8 years at EIL, New Delhi, in the heater group. He joined KTI Corporation, San Di-

mas, California, in May 1990 and moved to KTI Houston in 1992. Currently is managing

a team of 50 engineers and designers at Furnace Improvements.

He has published several papers on fired heaters and burners. He is a registered professional engineer and

a member of AIChE and ASME. He is also a member of the API subcommittee of heat transfer equipment.

Students Comments

The course helped improve my understanding of heaters, how they operate and how to improve

furnaces. – James Jones, Coker Unit, Lyondell-CITGO

“All course material has been found to be valuable, reinforcing past experience.”

– Attila Marcus, Flour Daniel, S. Africa

“Very good information received from the faculty, the knowledge gained is useful for day to day

operation” – Atul B. Kulkarni, HPCL

“Overall content was very good and there were many ideas to optimize our unit furnaces”

– A. Arias, BASF

“I wish I had this course a year ago; Discussion on levels of Burner NOx capabilities, information

on vendor products, pitfalls to avoid and suggestions for revamps are the most valuable topics in

the course” – Andy Holman, ConocoPhillips

“The course was outstanding - beginning to end”. - D.G Shepard, Equilon Enterprises

“A complete overall training of every aspect of Fired Heaters”

– Bobby Coleman, Fina Oil & Chemical

“The course offered an excellent over-

view of all the technology pertaining to

NOx reduction in fired heaters and

boilers”.

– Ben Chen, BP

FURNACE IMPROVEMENTS SERVICES

Our Clients We have an Agent near You.

Furnace Improvements Services Inc.

1600 Highway 6 South, Suite 480

Sugar Land, Texas 77478 USA

Tel: (281) 980-0325

Fax: (832) 886-1665

A.G. Furnace Improvements Pvt. Ltd.

K-33, Ground Floor

Opp. Balaji Estate, Kalkaji

New Delhi, India 110019

Tel: 91-11-405-8-8696

Email: info@heatflux.com

www.heatflux.com

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