June 2019
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Executive Viewpoint: Trends in the global process furnace market
Whether it is heating process fluids to achieve enough temperature in crude atmospheric and vacuum distillation units, or reaction temperatures inside furnace tubes to produce ethylene, vinyl chloride monomer, synthetic gas and continuous catalytic reformer reactors, or simple process heating (thermal fluid), process furnaces play a critical role in refineries and petrochemical complexes.
The Authors
Thomas Grimaud is a chemical process engineer graduate from École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris and from the Insead Global Executive MBA. He held various management positions at Total, Arkema and Manoir Industries before joining Heurtey Petrochem in 2015. Mr. Grimaud is Executive Vice President in charge of the Engineering and Solutions business unit of Axens, which regroups the former activities of Heurtey Petrochem, the project execution teams of Prosernat, and the advanced services of the Performance Programs product line of Axens.
Niaz Mustafa graduated from the University of Calicut India with a degree in chemical engineering. He has more than 25 yr of process design and commercial experience in process furnaces. He held positions at Engineers India Ltd., Lummus Heat Transfer and Technip (KTI Corporation) before joining Petro-Chem Development Inc. (later acquired by Heurtey Petrochem) in 2006. Based out of Houston, Texas, he is the Global Commercial Director of Furnaces for the engineering and solutions business unit of Axens.
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