Practical Low NOx Burner Retrofit Considerations for Ethylene Furnaces
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2018
2018 Spring Meeting and 14th Global Congress on Process Safety
The 30th Ethylene Producers' Conference
Ethylene Plant General Environmental Session
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 - 1:15am to 1:40am
Case studies are presented for retrofit installations of low NOx burners that comply with new air quality regulations. While the effects of air leakage, fuel gas condition and burner design have been widely studied, here the effects on both NOx and heater performance are explored and documented through physical experimentation, computational fluid dynamics, and field installation.