Furnace design fundamentals

Furnace and heaters

A furnace is a device used for heating. In American English, the term furnace on its own is generally used to describe household heating systems such as boiler or a heater and sometimes as a synonym for kiln, a device used to fire clay to produce ceramics.

Furnace and Heaters

In British English the term furnace is used exclusively to mean industrial furnaces which are used : as the extraction of metal from ore (smelting) or in oil refineries and other chemical plants, for example as the heat source for fractional distillation columns.

Furnace and Heater

The term furnace can also refer to a direct fired heater used in boiler applications in chemical industries or for providing heat to chemical reactions for processes like cracking, and is part of the standard English names for many metallurgical furnaces worldwide.

Furnace components

Body Coils or tubes Burners Stack Combustion air fan Flue Gas fan Damper

Furnace and Heater Types

Up fire Furnaces or heaters, that mostly applied in crackers and reboilers Down fire Furnaces, applied in reforming processes, and H2 production Side fire Furnaces, crackers, reformers

Furnace and Heaters process characteristics

Designed according to API-530,531 Has two main parts, radiation and convection section (economizing section) Efficiency, in most of them is about 82% to 96%, pushed to compact shape flow regime is depend to the furnace application Flow velocity is different in different cases, depent to the required R.T. Safety is the most concern

Furnace and heaters process characteristics.

height, depend to the types, mostly 12 meter is the tube height, widths is depend to capacity Coil size is different in different process

Burner and stack

Burners are premix and low NOx type. Stack height is depend to the required draft.