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Process Plant Layout, 2nd Edition
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Process Plant Layout, 2nd Edition

by Sean Moran
November 2016
Intermediate to advanced
756 pages
32h 9m
English
Butterworth-Heinemann
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Chapter 21

Furnaces and Fired Equipment

Abstract

Furnaces or fired heaters are used to raise the temperature of process fluids. There may be more to this than simple heating, as sometimes (as with, e.g., cracking or reforming furnaces) this causes chemical and physical changes to take place in the process streams passing through the heater. Typically the term “fired heater” refers to equipment that simply heats a fluid, while a “furnace” is typically more complex, and usually include a process reaction and/or multiple services. The first consideration in the layout of fired equipment is safety.

Keywords

Furnace; fired heater; safety; source of ignition

21.1 General

Furnaces or fired heaters are used to raise the temperature of process ...

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