Low Cost Value Added Solutions
for Fired Heaters
Fired Heater Revamp
Do it Once, Do it Right!
Furnace Improvements Services (FIS) is a full service engineering and consulting company, hav-
ing completed over 300 engineering studies and projects. FIS currently has a team of 45 skilled engi-
neers on board with offices in Sugar Land, TX and in New Delhi, India. We have experience in design
and revamp of all types refinery fired heaters.
FIS Technologies
Fired Heaters develop many problems during operation. They are capacity limitation, unstable
combustion, high tube skin temperatures, premature coking, and high stack temperature. To com-
bat these issues FIS has developed and patented three different technologies to solve most of these
issues.
Revamping
Revamping fired heaters is a practical and effective way to improve heater performance, debot-
tlenecking, and increase capacity. FIS focuses on working with existing components and as a result,
investment and downtime is minimized. Revamping provides:
♦ Longer Run Length
♦ Capacity Increase
♦ Efficiency Improvement
♦ NOx Emission Reduction
Our Services
Furnace Improvements’ scope of
services includes:
♦ Process Design
♦ Detailed Engineering
♦ Project Management
♦ Procurement
♦ Fabrication
♦ Site Services
Before After
Working Methodology
A fired heater revamping project typically has the following phases:
Phase I → Engineering Study with +/- 30% Cost Estimates.
Phase II → Project Design Basis Report +/- 10% Cost Estimates.
Phase III → Detailed Engineering and Project Services, Procurement, Fabrication and
Erection.
FIS can undertake complete turnkey projects including erection.
Case Study FIS was hired to improve the efficiency of a Platformer Heater. The stack
temperatures were over 1100°F. Thermal efficiency of the heater was only 66%.
The client evaluated the conventional preheater parallel scheme and FIS Split Flow
Technology. They chose FIS’ patented Split Flow Technology, which divides the process
fluid into parallel two streams.
Improvements were:
♦ Increased capacity by 33%
♦ Improved thermal efficiency from 67% to 86%
♦ Lower pressure drop
The installation costs were half compared to that of the conventional series flow de-
sign. The job was completed in October 2002 and has been running without any prob-
lems .
High Quality Technical Work
FURNACE IMPROVEMENTS SERVICES
Some of our clients We have an agent near you.
Furnace Improvements Services Inc.
1600 Highway 6 South, Suite 480
Sugar Land, Texas 77478 USA
Tel: (281) 980-0325
Fax: (832) 886-1665
A.G. Furnace Improvements Pvt. Ltd.
K-33, Ground Floor
Opp. Balaji Estate, Kalkaji
New Delhi, India 110019
Tel: 91-11-405-8-8696
Email: [email protected]
www.heatflux.com
BRAZIL Jose Fleischmann Tel: (+55) 11-5641-4361 Fax: (+55) 11-5641-4361 [email protected]
TAIWAN Douglas Chang Tel: +8862-2706-1544 Mobile: +8869-2106-9827 [email protected]
CANADA Paul Henry Tel: +450-676-3222 Fax: +450-676-5997 [email protected]
U.A.E., OMAN, QATAR Sarwar Ali Tel: +971-6742-5035 Mobile: +9715-0631-7452 [email protected]
INDIA R. Rajamani Tel: + 91 94483 79108 Tel: +91 80 65971113 [email protected]
VENEZUELA, COLUMBIA, ARGENTINA & ARUBA Carlos Alarcon Tel: +58-441-6609-3444 Fax: +58-441-4366-8406 [email protected]
INDIA Ajai Agarwal Tel: +9111-4214-3751 Mobile:+9198-1015-9901 [email protected]
CALIFORNIA, USA David P. Diggins Tel: +94-9497-6551 Mobile:+94-9463-8591 [email protected]
KUWAIT Alex Ambi Tel: +965-2482-9160 ext.126 Mobile: +965-3384-1712 [email protected]
LOUISIANA, USA Charles H. Thatcher Tel: 985-892-4224 Mobile: 985-966-5513 [email protected]
MEXICO Lorena Nieto G. Cel: (04455)43493284 [email protected]
SOUTHEAST, USA David Gangle Tel: +20-5437-1702 Mobile:+20-5542-7006 [email protected]
SAUDI ARABIA Azfar Mahmood Tel: +966-3899-6333 Mobile: +9665-3451-2635 [email protected]
TEXAS, USA Stan McHugh Tel: +713-839-8788 Mobile:+713-703-8907 [email protected]
Low Cost Value Added Solutions for Fired Heaters