May 2020
Heat Transfer
Flow modeling as a tool for WHRU performance optimization
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have become a growing concern for many industrialized countries over the past few years.
The Authors
Amit Gupta is the Director of Furnace Technology and Proposal with Petro-Chem Development Co. Inc. He has more than 24 yr of experience in the design of process fired heaters, cracking furnaces and emissions reduction systems. He has held positions at Engineers India Ltd. and Technip (KTI Corp.) before joining Petro-Chem Development Co. Inc., which was later acquired by Heurtey Petrochem. Heurty was acquired by Axens in 2017. Mr. Gupta holds a BS degree in chemical engineering from Panjab University in India.
Matthew R. Gentry has worked for Airflow Sciences Corp. for more than 15 yr, performing flow modeling as well as laboratory and field testing. He has served as project manager for heat recovery steam generators, waste heat recovery units, selective catalytic reduction and sorbent injection projects, helping optimize performance and pollution control in a wide variety of industrial applications. Mr. Gentry received his MSE degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2004, with a specialization in structural mechanics.
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