Flameless Combustion Safety

Paper from the AFRC 2014 conference titled Flameless Combustion Safety by W. Gibson.

It is necessary to provide the refining industry with documentation and information on the inherent safety of the Great Southern flameless heater technology. High Temperature Air Combustion (HTAC) and Flameless Combustion are not at all new concepts but they are both new to the direct fired process heater industry. With safety being a key focus of all refineries and chemical process plants, it is necessary to understand the basics of flameless combustion and how a simple control system will ensure safe and reliable operation of the flameless heater. GSF's technical paper and presentation will focus in detail on how the flameless process heater works, how to set up a simple monitoring and control system and why it is the safest combustion technology available for delivering heat input to the process with extremely high efficiency and low NOx.