FIRED HEATERS – BEST

PRACTICES SEMINAR Conducted by Furnace Improvements Services

AUGUST 14-16, 2018

HILTON GARDEN INN

SUGAR LAND, TX
Maximize Your Fired Heaters
Knowledge With Best Practices From
Experts
Course Overview Who should attend this
This seminar is a comprehensive review of course?
the best practices for fired heater
technology for refinery and petrochemical • Process Engineers
• Technical Service Engineers
industries. Participants will learn about the
• Inspection and Maintenance and
best practices in the design, engineering, Reliability Personnel
procurement, inspection, piping, • Production Engineers, Supervisors
instrumentation, burner management • Project Engineers and Managers
systems, installation, operations, • Instrumentation and Control
maintenance and troubleshooting of fired Engineers
heaters.
SPECIAL COURSE FEATURES
Objective We have been continuously improving
our courses by adding real-life case
If you are buying or specifying fired studies.
heaters, this course will help you save We encourage you to bring your
money. If you are operating or monitoring operating and maintenance problems
fired heaters, this course will help you get for discussion during the
the maximum from your fired heaters. course. Lectures are combined with
liberal question and answer time.

ON SITE TRAINING VALUABLE COURSE MATERIALS

We also provide site specific fired heater training You will receive a complete set of
for your plant operators and engineers. The course materials that will serve as a
course is customized to the specific heaters in text during the course and as a
your plant. You save money and time on travel. reference for your future use.
 YOUR INSTRUCTOR
COURSE OUTLINE
Ashutosh Garg brings to this
INTRODUCTION -BEST PRACTICES course more than 40 years of
•Combustion Principles experience in design,
• Heat Nomenclature engineering, and troubleshooting
• Fired Heaters in Refining of fired heaters and combustion
• Design Considerations systems for the refining and
HEAT TRANSFER -BEST PRACTICES petrochemical industries.
• Conduction, Convection and Radiation
• Radiant Section Design He graduated from the Indian Institute of
• Convection Design Technology, Kanpur, India, in chemical
BURNERS -BEST PRACTICES engineering in 1974. He started as a
•Type of Burners graduate engineer in an ammonia plant.
• Sizing & Selection This was followed by six years at KTI India
• Burner Operation and eight years at EIL, New Delhi, in the
STACKS AND DRAFT CONTROL -BEST PRACTICES heater group. He joined KTI Corporation,
• Definition San Dimas, California, in May 1990 and
• Stack Design Parameters moved to KTI Houston in 1992.
• Normal Draft Profiles
• Excess Air Control He has published several papers on fired
• Stack Damper Operation heaters and burners. He is a registered
REFRACTORY -BEST PRACTICES professional engineer and a member of
• Types and Selection Criteria AIChE, ASME, API subcommittee of heat
• Reducing Heat Losses transfer equipment.
• Heat Loss Calculations
Additional Instruction may include:
NOX EMISSION & CONTROLS -BEST PRACTICES
• NOx formation • Low NOx burners Bala Saligram– more than 20 yrs
•SCR/ SCR Systems experience in mechanical engineering
AIR PREHEATING SYSTEM -BEST PRACTICES and consulting.
• Air Preheater types and Selections
• Best Practices for Air Preheater Harsh Ghuge- 10+ years experience in
Operation mechanical engineering.
• Selecting Right Fans
FIRED HEATER OPERATIONS -BEST PRACTICES Location:
• Achieve Uniform Heat Distribution in a Hilton Garden Inn
Firebox Sugar Land
• Instrumentation and Control
August 14-16, 2018
• Safe Startup and Shutdown
CONDUCTED BY:
• Normal Operation
FIRED HEATER REVAMPS -BEST PRACTICES
Furnace Improvements Services
• Capacity Increase www.heatflux.com
• Efficiency Improvement
• NOx reduction Call 281-980-0325 or visit our web site at
TROUBLESHOOTING www.heatflux.com
 WHAT PAST PARTICIPANTS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT OUR COURSES:
❖ “Course was excellent”
❖ “Information on burners, heater efficiency, and troubleshooting was very valuable”
❖ “Having very little background in the design, operation of fired heaters this entire course was
valuable”
❖ “Sample calculations with background information was very good”
❖ “Technical information and reference material was excellent”
❖ “Specific problem at our plant was discussed”
❖ “Very good refresher for me, very useful information for future design”

THE FOLLOWING COMPANIES HAVE SENT THEIR ENGINEERS TO OUR

SCHOOLS:
ABB Lummus Air Products & Chemicals
Lion Oil Company Sabic
Chevron Chemicals Flint Hills Resources
Citgo Refining Valero Refining
Westlake Chemicals Equistar Petrochemicals
Huntsman Petrochemicals LyondellBasell
Marathon Inc. Mitchell Gas Services
Mobil Oil Corporation INEOS
Shell Oil Company Phillips 66
Southwestern Gas Company Sinclair Oil Corporation
Syncrude Ltd. Western Refining Inc.

GENERAL INFORMATION
COURSE LOCATION
Hilton Garden Inn Sugar Land
722 Bonaventure Way,
Sugar Land, TX 77479
Phone: 281-275-8400 • Fax: 281-275-8401
CONFIRMATION
Upon receipt of your completed registration form, FIS will forward an email confirmation to you. If you do not receive
any confirmation by August 02 please call us.
SCHEDULE
Registration will begin at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, August 14 at the Hilton Garden Inn. The course will meet from 8:00
a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on first two days and 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on third day. The daily schedule will include breakfast,
refreshment breaks, and lunch at noon. Fee covers notebook, breakfast, break refreshments and lunches.
CANCELLATION
If you cannot attend the course after registration, please notify us by August 4th, 2018 and we will refund 100% of your
fee. Cancellations received after August 4th, are subject to $400 processing fee. No-shows are subjected to full course
fee. You may enroll a substitute at any time before the course starts. FIS reserves the right to cancel any course with
insufficient registration. Registrants will be notified as soon as a decision is made .
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
If for any reason, you are not satisfied with our school we will give you a credit towards another course or refund your
money.
 Please enroll me in the
“FIRED HEATERS – BEST PRACTICES SEMINAR”
August 14-16, 2018
Course Fee: $2495 per person
Register by July 14th and save $150.
Bring a colleague along and save another $100.
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CONTACT US
FURNACE IMPROVEMENT SERVICES
Value Added Solutions
www.heatflux.com
PHONE: 281-980-0325
FAX: 1 (877) 395-0760
EMAIL: info@heatflux.com
MAIL: Furnace Improvement Services
1600 Hwy. 6 • Suite 480
Sugar Land, TX 77478-5214