ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on CFD simulations applied to furnaces and incinerators in the petrochemical industry. Petrochemical furnaces are typically gas-or oil-fired. In the U.S., nearly all petrochemical furnaces are gas-fired, but in other parts of the world, various grades of oil are used. The focus of this chapter is on gas-fired furnaces, with only brief discussion of oil-fired furnaces. This bias is reflective of the bias in the open literature, where little discussion of modeling full-scale, oil-fired furnaces can be found.