Enhancing Efficiency and Reliability in Refinery Process Heaters

What are the Goals?

At the end of this Enhancing Efficiency and Reliability in Refinery Process Heaters training course, you will learn to:

• Identify heater main components and functions
• Calculate heater carbon footprint and other pollutants
• Develop a heater monitoring and evaluation methodology
• Optimize daily heater operation and thermal efficiency
• Advise on efficiency improvement projects

Who is this Training Course for?

This training course will greatly benefit those professionals who need a thorough understanding of hands-on aspects of process heater operation such as Operations, Reliability and Process engineers.

It will be as well of great value and interest to:

• Process Plant Supervisors and Team Leaders
• Process Heater Maintenance and Technical Service Engineers
• Refinery Inspection, Materials, Environmental and Safety Engineers
• Experienced Operators Applicant to handle heater console operation
• Members of Refinery Energy Optimizations Groups
• Professionals dealing with Risk Assessment and Integrity Analysis

Daily Agenda

Day One: Fossil Fuels, Emissions and Combustion Reactions

• Overview
• Fossil fuels
• Emissions and climate change
• Combustion reactions, stoichiometry and excess air

Day Two: Refinery Process Heaters

• Introduction
• Heater Types and Common Service Applications
• Heat Transfer and Process Coil Design Fundamentals
• Burners

Day Three: Proactive Heater Operational Assessment

• Introduction
• Heater performance assessments
• Periodic heater inspections
• Draft and excess air continuous control

Day Four: Heater Performance Evaluation

• Introduction
• Operational monitoring trends and adjustments
• Energy balance and thermal efficiency
• Reporting and setting short term operating targets

Day Five: Troubleshooting and Energy Performance

• Introduction
• Troubleshooting
• Fuels savings and carbon footprint reduction
• Upgrading and revamping heaters