Heat Transfer
How to select the best reboiler for your processing operation
Guidelines streamline choosing a heat exchanger to maximize process efficiencies
Understand the secrets of fired heaters tuning
New guidelines help engineers fine-tune heaters to consume less fuel and improve thermal efficiencies
Optimize energy savings on steam generation
Steam-turbine selection involves evaluating heat duty vs. work requirements in critical service units
Prevent leaks in heat exchangers
Changes in design code lead to solutions for chronic leaking glycol exchanger
Improve heat exchanger design
Using simulation improves impingement device application in exchangers
Key factors in selecting refractories
Advanced ceramics perform well in many applications
Consider low fouling technology for 'dirty' heat transfer services
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
A quick look at symptoms can provide operational answers
Improve vertical reboiler piping analysis
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
Case study shows best ways to improve efficiency
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