United States
 Environmental Protection
 Agency
Air and Energy Engineering
Research Laboratory
Research Triangle Park NC 27711
 Research and Development
 EPA/600/S7-88/015  Dec. 1988
 Project  Summary
 Fired  Heaters:  Nitrogen  Oxides
 Emissions  and  Controls

 S. Anwar Shareef, Carol L. Jamgochian, and Lawrence E. Keller
  The petroleum refining and chem-
ical  manufacturing  industries ac-
count for  most of the fired  heater
energy use. An estimated 4,600 fired
heaters are in operation in these two
industries, Nitrogen oxides (NOX) are
formed in fired  heaters  by two
mechanisms:  thermal NOX and fuel
NOX. This study briefly describes the
design and  operation  of fired
heaters. Descriptions of the two
major industries with fired heaters
and the various heater applications
are presented. An  estimate is made
of the growth in fired heater energy
demand and the number of new fired
heaters to  be built in the next 5 years
in these  industries. The factors
affecting NOX emissions from fired
heaters are discussed and quantita-
tive  relationships  are  presented,
where  available. Combustion modi-
fications  and flue  gas  treatment
controls  for  NOX  emissions  are
described. Low excess air  (LEA)
operation  and low-NOx burners are
discussed in detail.  Long-term
continuous NOX emissions  data for
12 petroleum refinery heaters are
presented. Results of a regression
model to predict the effect of stack
oxygen level on NOX emissions are
used to evaluate LEA performance.
This study also presents capital and
annualized costs for LEA and low-
NOX burner controls.
  This  Project Summary was  devel-
oped by EPA's Air and Energy Engi-
neering Research Laboratory, Re-
search Triangle Park, NC, to announce
key findings of the research  project
that is fully documented in a separate
report of the  same title (see  Project
Report ordering information at back).

Introduction
  The purpose of  this  study is  to
characterize  NOX emissions form  fired
heaters,  identify  applicable  control
techniques, and  present the costs
associated with these control techniques.
A fired heater is a heat transfer device in
which  heat liberated  by the combustion
of fuels is transferred to fluids contained
in tubes. The major applications of fired
heaters are in the petroleum refining and
chemical manufacturing industries. There
are  two  basic  functional categories  of
fired  heaters applications:  (1) the
simplest are heaters  designed  to
increase  the temperature of a feedstock
stream prior to additional processing
(e.g., distillation column feed preheaters
and reboilers);  and (2) fired reactors in
which  high-temperature chemical reac-
tions are carried out in the heater tubes
(e.g.,  steam-hydrocarbon  reformers
used  in ammonia  and  methanol
manufacturing,  and pyrolysis furnaces
used in  ethylene  manufacturing). The
fuels  used for fired  heaters  include
natural gas,  refinery  gas, and  various
grades of fuel oil.
  NOX is formed in fired heaters  by two
mechanisms: thermal  NOX formation and
fuel NOX formation. Thermal NOX is the
result  of the reaction between  atmos-
pheric  nitrogen and oxygen, while fuel

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NOX is the result of the reaction between
fuel-bound  nitrogen  and  oxygen. The
various  heater  designs and operating
parameters that affect NOX emissions are
described in this study. When available,
quantitative data are  presented  from
previous studies showing the relationship
between these  parameters and  NOX
emissions
  This  study  also  summarizes  short-
term (1-2 hour) NOX  emissions data  for
about  150  fired  heaters  in  various
applications. While most of these data
were collected and reported in  previous
studies, some  were  obtained directly
form various  plants specifically for this
study  In addition,  continuous  long-term
NOX emissions data were obtained in this
study for 12 heaters  at three petroleum
refineries,  two of which  continuously
monitor NOX emissions for  regulatory
compliance  purposes.  Data  on one
heater at the third refinery were collected
over a 45-day period in a previous EPA
study Table 1  describes the heaters in
the contmous long-term data base.
  The  continuous data  included  from
about 540 to 3,400 hourly data points for
each  heater.  The hourly measurements
included NOX  emission  rates,  stack
oxygen  levels,  fuel firing  rate,  fuel gas
hydrogen content, and the energy  basis
ratio of gas to  oil  (where  applicable).
Table  2 presents a  summary of the
long-term  data.  These  data  were
analyzed  statistically  to  quantify the
effect of stack  oxygen level  on NOX
emissions. A  multiplicative functional
form based on the Zeldovich mechanism
for  thermal NOX formation was  found to
adequately correlate the data.
  The basic form of the model used is:
           f-1  ft       /-I       p
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    E = CjL  A   (1 + R)  (1 + H)

where:

E = NOX emissions (Ib/MM Btu)


L = fuel firing rate expressed as a fraction of
     the design thermal energy release


  .       Fuel firing rate, Btu/hr
     design thermal capacity, Btu/hr

A =  stack oxygen (volume fraction of O2)

R =  oil fraction, ratio of oil-fired heat release
     to total fuel-fired heat release. When no
     oil is fired, R = O and model parameter
     C4 has no meaningful value.
H =  fuel gas hydrogen content (volume
     fraction of  H2). When no fuel gas
     hydrogen data are available, model
     parameter C5 is assigned a value of zero.

CL,   C2, C3, C4, and C5 = model coefficients
     that  indicate  the  effect  of the
     corresponding variables on NOX
     emissions.

  The model coefficients  were fit to the
NOX emissions data using a  statistical
procedure  known  as autocorrelative
regression.  The  autoregressive  model
accounts  for  any effects  on  the
coefficients of autocorrelation associated
with  the sequential  nature  of  the  data.
Using  the  results  of  the  regression
analysis,  NO levels were predicted for
the  12 heaters at various  oxygen levels.
This allowed  for a determination of the
effectiveness  of  low excess air  (LEA)
operation on  NOX emissions as well as
for a comparison of  NOX emissions from
different heater/burner types at  the same
stack oxygen  level.
  The  two  major  combustion  modi-
fication control techniques discussed in
this report were  LEA operation and low-
NOX burners. LEA operation of  fired
heaters can be achieved  by (1)  manual
damper  control systems  based on
oxygen  monitoring and increased oper-
ator  attention.and (2) automatic damper
control systems  based on oxygen  mon-
itoring (and/or other process monitoring)
and  microprocessor control.  Low-N0x
burners  can  be  used  alone  or  in
combination  with LEA operation. The
major type  of  Iow-N0x  burner  is the
staged air burner which employs staged
air addition to the fuel stream. A  more
recent  type of Iow-N0x  burner  is the
staged  fuel  burner which  also  uses
staged  combustion  to  reduce  NOX
formation, but with reversed staging.
  Cost estimates were made for LEA and
Iow-N0x  burner controls. The  energy
credits associated with  LEA operation
were also estimated

Conclusions
  The  following  conclusions were de-
rived from this study:

• The  petroleum  refining  and  petro-
  chemical industries account for the
  major fired heater use.  The estimated
  fired heater energy consumption in the
                                         "To convert to metric 1  Btu = 10543 J or 0252
                                          Kcal
  petroleum refining  industry in  1985 is
  approximately  2.2 x 1014  Btu/yr.* The
  1985  chemical industry  fired  heatei
  energy consumption is estimated to be
  6.8 x 1014 Btu/yr.
• The  annual  increase  in  fired  heatei
  energy consumption m the petroleum
  refinery industry is estimated to be
  14.6  x 1012  Btu/hr. It is projected tha
  approximately  80 new fired heaters wil
  be built in  the petroleum  refining
  industry over the next 5 years.
• The  annual  increase  in  fired  heate
  energy  consumption in  the  chemica
  industry is estimated to be about 14.^1
  x 1012 Btu/hr.  About 100 fired heater;
  are  projected to  be  built  in th«
  chemical  industry  over  the  next   5
  years.
• Almost 100 percent of the fired heate
  applications  in  the petroleum  refining
  industry  are low  and  mediurr
  temperature  heaters. About 81  percen
  (energy basis) of  the fired  heate
  applications  in  the  chemical industn
  are high temperature heaters (ethylem
  pyrolysis   furnaces  and  steam
  hydrocarbon reformers).
• The  major  heater  design parameter:
  affecting NOX  emissions are fuel typi
  (i.e.,  N2 content of the fuel),  burne
  type,  use  of combustion  preheat, an<
  firebox temperature.
• The major neater operating parameter
  affecting NOX emissions are excess ai
  level,  degree of combustion  ai
  preheat, and oil/gas ratio for  heater
  firing combined fuel.
• The control techniques that have beei
  used  on fired  heaters  in  commercic
  applications include low excess ai
  (LEA)  operation,  low-NOx  burners
  staged air lances, flue gas recirculatior
  selective  catalytic  reduction,  am
  selective noncatalytic reduction.
• LEA  control  systems are  applicable  t
  all fired heaters. Manual and  automati
  damper control systems  designed  t
  reduce excess  air  levels  can be usei
  with  natural  or mechanical  draft ani
  with  gas,  oil,  or gas/oil  combinatio
  burners.
• At least 55 fired heaters use  automati
  LEA  control  systems and many other
  use  manual  LEA  control  system
  based on oxygen monitoring.
• The target stack oxygen level for mos
  heaters operating  with  LEA  is  2-3°
  The  lowest long-term average oxyge
  level for heaters in the data  base wa
  2%.
• The  average stack oxygen  level fc
  about 180 heaters for which  data wer
  obtained in this study was 5.5%.

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• Statistical  analysis  of continuous
  long-term NOX emissions data  for 12
  petroleum refinery heaters indicated an
  average  of 9%  reduction  in NOX
  emissions  per  1% reduction  in stack
  oxygen level. The individual reduction
  in  NOX emissions ranged from 4.4 to
  16.4%. Table 3  shows the predicted
  variation in  NOX  at 100%  load and
  varying stack oxygen levels.
• No effect of burner or draft type was
  found on the NOX/C>2 relationship.
• Two   major burner  vendors  have
  indicated that about 50 to 65% of their
  new   burner  sales  are  Iow-N0x
  burners.
• No conclusion  about the performance
  of  low-NOx burners could be  derived
  from  the  continuous  monitoring data
  because  other  design differences
  between heaters  obscure the  effect of
  Iow-N0x burners
• Test-scale  data from burner  vendors
  indicate that NOX emission reduction
  with  the use of  staged air  burners
  ranges from 38 to 40%  compared to
  conventional burners  NOX  emission
  reduction associated  with the  use of
  staged fuel burners ranges  from 70 to
  72%  compared  to  conventional
  burners
• Staged combustion air  lances have
  been  demonstrated for  15  days on a
  natural-gas-fired,  natural  draft
  heater. The same heater was retrofitted
  with   forced draft and tests  were
  conducted  for 30 days with staged air
  lances
• Regression  modeling results  showed
  that  at a fixed  stack oxygen  level,
  natural draft air  lances reduced NOX
  emissions  by 50  to 60%  relative to
  baseline (without  staged air  lances).
  Forced draft air lances further reduced
  emissions  by 30  to 50%  relative to
  natural draft air lances.

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