ABSTRACT
Heat transfer is one of the fundamental purposes of combustion in the hydrocarbon and petrochemical industries. The objective of many industrial combustion applications is to transfer energy, in the form of heat, to some type of load for thermal processing of that load.1 An understanding of heat transfer is essential to the successful design and operation of fired equipment. The objective of this chapter is to review helpful concepts of heat transfer, focusing on those topics as applied to combustion, particularly in the hydrocarbon and petro chemical industries.
