London Training For Excellence Furnaces: Safe Operation and optimisation London Training For Excellence
Price: USD 5,900
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Objectives:
  • To describe industrial combustion phenomena and calculate the air/fuel ratio for optimumcombustion.
  • To identify bad-quality combustion from flue gas analysis and flame study  and implement corrective steps.
  • To list and apply the main steps of a furnace start-up procedure. To recognise the main operating and material constraints for an optimal  safe and reliable ;

Operators  panel operators  supervisors and plant managers of refining  chemical and petrochemical plants involved in furnace operation. Engineers and supervisors concerned with various safety  optimisation andoperating issues of furnaces.

Furnace construction and operating conditions           
  • Different types of furnace and their ;        
  • Operating conditions.
  • Distribution of heat  influence of operating ;      
  • Efficiency of energy recovery.
  • Estimation rule  parameters governing furnace efficiency  scope and limitations for improving furnace ;        
  • Construction of heat exchange areas and refractory materials: tube bundle arrangement  insulation  type of materials used and operating ;    
Combustion - Burners           
  • Combustion conditions: stoichiometric air/fuel ratio  heating value  liquid and gas fuel characteristics  liquid ;        
  • Burners: fuel and air supply and mixture  burner operation  low NOx burner ;        
Combustion quality: analysis of the oxygen and the unburned material in the flue gases  control of the combustion air flow rate  air/fuel ratio ;
       
Combustion safety:
  • flame detection 
  • control and safety devices on the fuel ;
       
Air and flue gas circulation:
  • natural draft 
  • forced draft 
  • pressure differential control 
  • automatic safety devices.
  • Damper or forced draft fan role.
  • Impact of furnace positive ;        

Application:         
  • Natural and forced draft pressure profile ;        
  • Review of draft ;        
  • Presentation of different types of burners and spraying ;  
  • Heat transfer and tube coil           
  • Heat transfer to the tube bundle: heat flux  conduction  convection and radiation  parameters governing heat transfer  tube skin temperature  type of fuel burned  tube temperatures  fouling ;        
  • Division of the heated fluid into several passes: control of partition  low flowrate safety ;        
  • Heating control: process fluid outlet temperature  fuel flowrate ;        
Most important furnace temperature and constraints: skin temperature  bridgewall temperature  limits and risk of overcoming 
       
Application: furnace temperature profile and heat recovery distribution as a function of fuel burned and combustion air ;            

Furnace operation           
  • On-stream furnace operations: monitoring of combustion and heating. Modifying operating conditions. Analysis of disturbances. Key points for safe operation  operating conditions control and ;        
  • Start-up and shutdown: preparation  safe ignition procedures  ignition after a short shutdown  normal shutdown  emergency ;        
  • Incidents: explosive atmosphere in the radiation zone  tube rupture  unbalancing of the heat  ;        
  • Diagnostic facilities; ;        

Application:         
  • Case study of furnaces ;        
  • Start-up procedure study.
  • To describe industrial combustion phenomena and calculate the air/fuel ratio for optimum ;        
  • To identify bad-quality combustion from flue gas analysis and flame study  and implement corrective ;        
  • To list and apply the main steps of a furnace start-up ;   To recognise the main operating and material constraints for an optimal  safe and reliable furnace operation.
Updated on 08 August, 2024

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