A Modeling and Design Study on the Determination of the Most Influential Parameters on the Industrial Furnaces Performance (original) (raw)

Modeling of heat and mass transfer of fired heaters for refinery use was carried out to determine the equipment efficiency as well as the process and flue gas temperature variations. Previous research involving non-computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis of fired heaters modeled individual sections of the heater with little attention to the other. In this study, transfer models were developed and compiled in the MATLAB environment for validation. Upon which, simulations were run to determine the most influential parameters affecting the performance of fired heaters. Research papers referenced in this study developed models by incorporating correlations established in the early 1950s’. This study differs in a sense that the formulas used to develop the model are generally modified using common engineering sense to accommodate the dimensions of a refinery fired heater. Initially, the research involved the modeling of separate sections of the heater encompassing heat and mass balan...