- Overview
- Schedule
Summary:
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand combustion basics
- Understand operating best practices
- Understand hardware
- Understand instrumentation of fired equipment
- Make rough calculations for troubleshooting of field problems
- Optimize/balance proper operation and thermal efficiency of fired equipment
Outline:
Combustion Theory
- Combustion of fuels
- Furnace efficiency calculations
- Flammability limit
Burners
- Burner types
- Operating characteristics
- Optimization
Low NOx Burners
- Formation of NOx and Solids
- Overview of NOx and Solids reduction techniques
- How to reduce the impact of combustion on the environment
Furnaces
- Purposes and process application
- Furnace scheme, components, and general lay-out
- Main parameters in furnace efficiency
- Transfer of heat from fuel to process (radiation/convection; gasfiring / oil firing)
- Two phase flow
- Causes of furnace tube overheating
- Effect of coke formation
- Air Different furnace types
Air Preheat
- Effects on efficiency
- SO3 Dew point corrosion
- Different types
- Operation/maintenance
Furnace Control and Safety
- Minimum stops
- Steam atomizers
- Fuel temperature and steam-oil delta p control
- Safeguarding
- Air/fuel ration control schemes
- Effect of variations in molecular weight
- Safeguarding types
Furnace Draft
- Purpose of furnace stacks
- Pressure profiles of natural and forced draught systems
- To be able to calculate actual draught levels in combustion systems
Start-up and Operation
- Maintenance and inspection of burners
- Furnace Oxygen – and draft control
- Normal operation – “control knobs”
Furnace Tube Decoking
- Shot blasting
- High Pressure Water Jetting
- Spalling
- Safeguarding
- Steam-Air decoking
- Mechanical decoking aka Pigging
Refractory
- Integrity and drying
- Preparations
- Water requirements and bonding systems”
Furnace Tube Failure
- Causes
- Prevention
- Optimization
On-Line Chemical Cleaning
- Fuel additives
- Radiant cell additives
Boilers
Instructor:
Training Location:
Becht Training Office [Tentative location- Due to class size, the course may move to a location near Den Haag train station. Please check back to confirm.]
Voorschoten, Dobbeweg 1C
[Neer Den Haang, Netherlands]
Accommodation Suggestions:
*There is no specific hotel for this training, although we suggest the following.
Bezuidenhoutseweg 53
2594 AC, Den Haag
Nederland
To get to the training location, you will cross the courtyard to Den Haag Station and take the sprinter train to Voorschoten. From the Voorschoten train station the office is a 5-minute walk.
For more information on training logistics, see the linked Attendee Info Sheet.