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Heat Transfer

How to select the best reboiler for your processing operation

Fluor Corp.: Tammami, B.

Guidelines streamline choosing a heat exchanger to maximize process efficiencies

Understand the secrets of fired heaters tuning

Heaters Revamping and Troubleshooting, Inc.: Vinayagam, K.

New guidelines help engineers fine-tune heaters to consume less fuel and improve thermal efficiencies

Optimize energy savings on steam generation

Fluor Corp.: Sutikno, T.

Steam-turbine selection involves evaluating heat duty vs. work requirements in critical service units

Prevent leaks in heat exchangers

Reliance Industries Ltd.: Rajkumar, R.

Changes in design code lead to solutions for chronic leaking glycol exchanger

Improve heat exchanger design

Heat Transfer Research, Inc.: Farrell, K. J.

Using simulation improves impingement device application in exchangers

Key factors in selecting refractories

Blasch Precision Ceramics: Bolebruch, J.

Advanced ceramics perform well in many applications

Consider low fouling technology for 'dirty' heat transfer services

KLAREN BV: DeBoer, E. F.  |  Klaren, D. G.
Whitson Sullivan Co.: Sullivan, D. W.

Advances in heat exchanger designs mitigate fouling problems with crude oil preheater trains while conserving energy and cutting operating costs

Typical fired heater problems and root causes

Petro-Canada: Patel, S.

A quick look at symptoms can provide operational answers

Improve vertical reboiler piping analysis

Reliance Refinery: Chowdhary, M. G.  |  Darji, P.
Reliance Industries Ltd.: Sharma, R. K.

Vertical reboilers (shell-and-tube heat exchangers) are widely used in the petrochemical industry for performing the necessary vaporization function for various types of distillation columns/separatio..

Optimizing crude oil fired heaters

National Iranian Oil and Petroleum Distribution Company: Dehghani, P.  |  Gargani, S.
Tehran University: Hamidi, A. A.

Case study shows best ways to improve efficiency