Problems with large heating furnaces
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Our plant is going to install a vacuum distillation unit for refining tens of millions of tons of oil – something we have never encountered before. There is one issue that I just can’t figure out: are the heating furnaces used in refining tens of millions of tons of oil the same as those used for refining a few million tons in the past? At present, we have a refinery with a capacity of 3.5 million tons per year; both of its heating furnaces have four feed channels and two radiation chambers. I’m not sure how many feed channels and radiation chambers the heating furnaces used in crude oil distillation processes with a capacity of ten million tons per year have, nor what the fundamental differences are between those furnaces and our current ones. Does anyone here have any information or experience in this regard? Thank you. Wishing everyone a happy New Year!
Heating furnaces are essentially no different from one another; as for the type of furnace, it is generally a vertical furnace with multiple chambers. There will be multiple pipes.
There is indeed no fundamental difference, especially for vertical furnaces: as the processing capacity increases, there are simply more radiation chambers and tube passes