Oxy-Flameless Combustion Heaters for Refinery Process

Paper from the AFRC 2013 conference titled Oxy-Flameless Combustion Heaters for Refinery Process by William Gibson

The next generation of flameless heater technology for refinery and petrochemical process heaters may be Oxy-Flameless heaters. Great Southern Flameless (GSF) is currently developing a flameless heater design concept that will utilize oxy-combustion technology in order to further reduce CO2 emissions. Oxy-combustion is not at all a new concept however it will be new to the direct fired process heater industry. Combining oxy-combustion with flameless technology will revolutionize the process heater industry and will be well suited for the carbon capture requirements that may be mandated in the future. GSF's current flameless heater design can be installed today and then easily modified to Oxy-Flameless at a later date if carbon capture regulations are implemented.