Fired Heaters for General Refinery Service Online Training

Elevate your expertise in refinery operations with Fired Heaters training. Comprehensive outlines covering design, operation, and maintenance.

Level

Intermediate

Type

Online

Fired Heaters for General Refinery Service Online Training

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About Training

The seminar is a comprehensive course for the fired heater technology for refinery and petrochemical industries. The participants will acquire the knowledge and /or enhance their experience in the design, engineering, inspection, installation, operations, maintenances and troubleshooting.

The course is more for the practical side than the theoretical. The approach to the training will be to transmit the technology and knowledge of the fired heaters by going through the requirement of Fired Heaters Standard. As such, the Participants Learn Fired Heaters and its applications at the same time.

 

Training Objectives

  • Enhance the experience of the participants in their prospective field/specialty while learn about the job of the other specialties involved in the project.
  • Minimize initial and operating costs while maintaining a high quality product with a minimum turn down.
  • Transmit the technology and knowledge of the fired heaters and the requirement of fired heaters
  • Cleary define the responsibility of each involved Party (Purchaser, Vendor, Contractor, etc).
  • The ultimate objective is to make the participant smart Buyer and better Operator.

Audiences

This course is designed for:

  • Planning
  • Engineering
  • Process Engineering
  • Design
  • Project Engineering & Management
  • Operation
  • Maintenance

Each attendee must bring a Scientific Calculator

Instructor

MB

M. Bassem Tolba

Bassem Tolba is former President of a manufacture and consultant ABB Lumus Heat Transfer which is the worldwide leader in heat transfer equipment including API 560 fired heaters and TEMA exchangers. For over 40 years, he directly and supervise his former team in design, engineer and supply to the worldwide market over 5.000 heaters and over 25.000 exchangers to the Refining, Petrochemical & Chemical industries.

He also introduced to the market proprietary heaters and exchangers with superior performance that can only be supplied by his consultant. Bassem also provided solutions for the problems encountered by the clients.

Most probably, each refinery or Petrochemical plant in the world have one or more his former consultant’s fired heater.

He had worked and lived in five continents helped him to bridge the gap between many cultures, which is required for the globalization of the business.

Daily Aims

  • Heater Types – By Configuration (Structural, tube coil and burners)
  • Heater components
  • Heater Type – By Process (Selection Criteria)
  • ­Case Study - Applications (Hot Oil, Crude, Vacuum, DelayedCoker, Visbreaker, Reformer, Hydrocrackers, Steam Reformers, Ethylene Cracking Heaters)
  • Codes, Standards, Specifications and regulations
  • Minimum Data Required for the Design
  • Design Considerations
    • Process
    • Combustion
    • Mechanical
  • Conceptual Design
    • Radiant Section and Recommended Heat Flux
    • Convection Section
    • Coils, Tubes, Extended Surface, Tube Supports, 
    • Refractory and Insulation
    • Stack
    • Burner Selection
  • Case Study – Thermal Design of Fired Heater. This will be covered by hand calculations so that the participants learn the effect of all the variables.
  • Case Study – Calculation of Tube Wall Thickness, Insulation Thickness, Stack Dimensions
  • Auxiliary Equipment
    • Sootblowers
    • Airpreheaters
    • Fans and Drivers
  • Instruments and Auxiliary Connections
  • Shop Fabrication and Field Erection
  • Case Study – Air preheater and Ducts design
  • Inspection, Examination and Testing
  • Optimization - Initial and operating costs (Increasing Heater Efficiency) & Schedule
  • Bid Evaluations
  • Case Study – Process Debottle Necking.

Training Schedule

Code Start Date End Date Locations Cost Instructor
PST0404-202201 28 Nov, 2022 01 Dec, 2022 USD 3995 M. Bassem Tolba
PST0404-202401 24 Jun, 2024 27 Jun, 2024 USD 3995 M. Bassem Tolba

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Align with API/ASME standards. Trusted by major operators.

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Led by industry veterans with real field experience.

Real Case Studies

Practical application of concepts through real world scenarios.

Practical Skills

Hands on calculations and decision making for FFS outcomes.

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Delivered to Aramco, ADNOC, SABIC, and other major operators.

Global Training Standard

Recognized across major industries by PetroSync's proven approach.

Professional Training Aligned with Industry Standards

Practical, industry ready training designed for real work environments

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