Fired Heaters, Combustion Technology - Europe Public 2025
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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:  


Dirk Jan Treur is a Mechanical Engineer with 23 years of experience with design, construction, commissioning, start-up, and operation in heat transfer and fired equipment in the oil & gas, energy, and power generation industries. He has provided asset, engineering, and project support in furnace design, process/technical safety, troubleshooting, burners and combustion, emissions, maintenance, inspections, turnaround, commissioning, and start-up support as well as areas including energy & power, boiler, steam, condensate, feed water, heat transfer fluid systems, fuel systems, industrial gases, utility water treatment, and cooling/chilling systems design.



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.

Babylon Hotel Den Haag

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.

Upcoming Sessions
April 2025
16
**In Person** Fired Heaters, Combustion Technology
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Time Zone
Central Standard Time UTC -6
Instructor
Treur Dirk Jan
Location
Becht Europe - Netherlands | Dobbeweg 1C | Voorschoten, 2254 AG | Netherlands
Starts
April 16 2025 08:00 AM
Ends
April 18 2025 05:00 PM
April 2025
16
**Virtual** Fired Heaters, Combustion Technology
08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Time Zone
W. Europe Standard Time UTC +1
Instructor
Virtual Instructor
Location
VIRTUAL ZOOM | | , |
Starts
April 16 2025 08:00 AM
Ends
April 16 2025 05:00 PM