Fired heaters are the highest-duty, highest-risk assets on a refinery or chemical plant. A single tube failure can shut a unit down, cause a fire, and cost millions. Yet fired heater engineering is rarely taught as a structured discipline — most engineers learn it in fragments, on the job, after something goes wrong.
This course teaches it properly. Built around API 560 (fired heater design), API 530 (tube wall thickness), API 535 (burners) and API 536 (waste-heat recovery), it covers the full engineering picture: heater types and configurations, process and thermal design, mechanical tube design, combustion and draft, and operation, inspection and troubleshooting.
You will start with how a fired heater actually works — radiant and convection sections, heat flux, bridgewall temperature and efficiency — then move into the thermal design that sets coil duty and the API 530 mechanical design that sets tube life. You will understand tube metal temperature, creep, the Larson-Miller parameter and material selection from carbon steel to cast HK-40.
