Use computational fluid dynamic analysis to revamp fired heaters

has more than 40 years of practical experience in the design, engineering and troubleshooting of fired heaters. He has provided fired heater training for more than 15 years, and has worked in the heater groups of KTI India, Engineers India and KTI Corp. for almost 20 years. Since 1996, he has being leading more than 20 engineers and designers at Furnace Improvements. Mr. Garg is a registered professional engineer and a member of AIChE. He is also a member of the API subcommittee on heat transfer equipment. He holds five patents on fired heater improvements, and he has also published several papers on fired heaters. Mr. Garg graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India in 1974.

works at Furnace Improvement Services' office in Pune, India, as a CFD engineer. He has 14 years of experience in the field of computational fluid dynamic modeling. He has worked on a variety of process fired heaters, performed detailed combustion analyses, studied and improved air flow maldistribution across multiple burners, and improved flow and reduced system pressure losses for the induced-draft fan suction and discharge side. Mr. Chilka previously worked at the Fluent India office for six years, and Tridiagonal Solutions for seven years, working on various CFD consulting projects for the process, energy and oil and gas sector. He holds an MTech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India.