Troubleshooting Tube-Deterioration Mechanisms in Direct-Fired Heaters
| By Babak Maghbooli and Hamidreza Najafi
A practical step-by-step guide for reducing future tube failure
Forced outage of a direct-fired heater is the worst nightmare for any operator in a petroleum-refining or petrochemical plant. Since fired heaters are not replaceable by spares, forced outage…