The course will normally be held at the BIFCA offices. Alternatively, it can be held at your premises - please contact BIFCA for details.

Course Overview

High temperature furnaces are major sources of carbon and other emissions from industrial processes. As a result of rising fuel costs and changing legislation, it is becoming increasingly important to enhance the thermal efficiency of furnaces by improving their design and operation. The furnace designer and user must satisfy the often conflicting requirements of reducing operating costs, increasing production throughput, and improving product quality.

This course will provide greater understanding of the principles and practices
associated with efficient design and optimum operation of fuel-fired furnaces, with emphasis on enabling participants to improve the thermal efficiency of their plant and products.

The course has evolved over several years as a result of discussion and feedback from industrial advisors and earlier course participants. Content will be delivered through lectures supported by comprehensive course notes, but to obtain maximum benefit, delegates are invited to participate in discussion sessions.

Course Syllabus

• Fuels and Combustion: Properties of gaseous and liquid fuels - basics of
combustion reactants and products. Combustion and burner aero-dynamics. Design and operation of gas burners and oil burners.

• Heat Transfer in Furnaces: Radiation properties of flames and combustion
products. Thermal radiation from gas and oil flames. Convective heat transfer in
combustion systems. Conduction in furnaces, heat losses through furnace walls,
load temperature uniformity.

• Efficient Operation of Furnaces: Thermal efficiency, specific fuel consumption.
Effects of furnace operation on thermal efficiency. Instrumentation and control of
furnaces, air/fuel ratio control, control of furnace pressure and temperature.
Recovery of waste heat from exchangers, recuperative and regenerative burners.
Reduction of wall and structural losses, low thermal mass refractories, high
emissivity coatings. Effect of oxygen addition in combustion processes.

• Control of Furnace Emissions: Pollutant formation, smoke, SOx, NOx - techniques for NOx reduction in high temperature furnaces. "Flameless" combustion.

• Thermal Design of Furnaces: Mathematical models as an aid to furnace design
and operation. Application of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and zone models
- furnace design case study. Small scale experimental modelling techniques and
applications.

Who will benefit from this course?

• Staff who are responsible for the efficient management and operation of industrial furnaces.

• Personnel involved in the specification, design and development of industrial furnaces.

• Staff involved in technical sales and marketing of combustion equipment.

• Research staff working in relevant areas such as combustion and heat transfer.

Certification

This course is offered in association with the University of Glamorgan.

Attendees are presented with a certificate on successful completion of the course.

Refreshments / Notes
Course notes and all refreshments including a buffet
lunch are provided.

Presenters

The course will be presented by Professor John Ward of the University of Glamorgan, Dr Robert Tucker of Zerontec and Jeff Rhine of Rhinenergy who all have many years experience of working in the fields of combustion and furnace technology