Fired Heaters: Operating Techniques
e-Learning
About the eLearning Course
In this course, you will learn about safe and efficient operating procedures for fired heaters, including variables that are monitored on the process and combustion sides of the furnace, and the major steps and safety measures in furnace startup, shutdown, emergency shutdown, and troubleshooting.
Target Audience
Operations personnel who require a fundamental understanding of knowledge to operate and maintain facilities. Also suitable for maintenance and technician personnel whether new to their roles or seasoned experts looking to enhance their skills.You Will Learn
Participants will learn how to:
- Describe how to control excess oxygen in a fired heater.
- Identify the effect of too little and too much draft in a fired heater.
- Describe the values for product outlet and stack temperature.
- Identify how to determine how much feed is being heated over a given period of time.
- Describe how to change fuel flow and maintain safe and efficient combustion.
- Identify how to inspect header boxes and pilots.
- Identify safe burner and flame patterns for both oil and gas burners.
- Describe how to safely start a fired heater operation.
- Describe the correct sequence for purging, lighting the pilots, and lighting the burners.
- Describe how to shut down the fired heater in both normal and emergency situations.
- Describe how to operate a fired heater in normal conditions and emergency operations.
- Describe the need for critical thinking during troubleshooting, and describe how to identify and solve flame impingement and hot spots.
- Describe how coke builds up and is removed and how to sootblow a fired heater.
- Describe the impact of feed pump, fan, valve, and burner failure.
- Describe how to detect instrument failure.
- Identify how to detect the signs of flame out within a fired heater.
