Troubleshooting:
Is your fired heater limiting your operations? Most heater operations problems like,
- Low draft availability,
- Positive pressure,
- Low / high excess O2,
- High tube metal temperature,
- Flame impingement,
- Flames are unstable, long, loose, lazy etc.
- Coking,
- High stack temperature,
- Poor flue gas distribution,
- Frequent tube ruptures,
- After combustion,
- Air leakage,
- Noisy or Huffing-Puffing operation etc.
can be fixed with proper and thorough step by step analysis and on-field corrections.
We provide both short term and long-term recommendations to solve the problems so that your current heater operation is not affected.
Whether it is root cause failure analysis, a complex assessment of equipment integrity, or a detailed computer modeling and simulation of your heater conditions, we can review, analyze and identify the bottlenecks to solve your problems in a timely and cost-effective manner with practical solutions.
We conduct heater inspection & field survey, collect performance test data and investigate thoroughly with unit engineers and operators. The results and data are brain stormed with our expertise in the heater field. Our rigorous computer simulations and heat & mass balance calculations developed in house are compared with our field findings and the root cause shall be found.
Infrared (IR) Thermography;
We can perform IR thermography and assist you in monitoring below;
- Tube skin temperature measurement, ,
- Predict relative coking.
- Hot spot / Flame impingement analysis.
- Refractory failures can be identified
- Burner operation can be fine tuned to improve combustion & flame quality.
- Our camera model can see through flames. Hence coverage and accuracy are better.
Heater / Burner / Combustion Tuning:
We can assist you, in tuning your heater / burner / combustion to improve its thermal efficiency and performance. It can even address some of your limitations, if any.
- Improve combustion quality.
- Improve flame stability.
- Fine tune;
- Fire box draft,
- Excess O2 / air,
- CO / Unburnt HC,
- Fire box flue gas temperature etc.
- Reduce;
- Stack flue gas temperature,
- Emissions (NOx/SOx VOC/CO etc.).
Emission Measurement / Monitoring:
With our portable analyzers we can assist you to measure / monitor emissions levels of NOx, SOX, CO, VOC, etc. We use EPA verified analyzers, for any formal report submissions.