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Designing and Delivering High-Performance Fired Heaters

Process Furnaces for Refining, Petrochemicals, and Syngas

Heurtey Petrochem Solutions, by Axens, designs and delivers high-performance fired heaters for refining, petrochemical, and syngas processes. Each furnace is tailored to specific needs, ensuring efficiency, reliability, and optimal thermal performance backed by decades of expertise.
Tailor-Made

Fired Heaters

Each furnace is unique and tailor-made by Heurtey Petrochem Solutions’ teams. The thermal and process design is performed specifically according to clients’ specifications with in-house applications retro-fed with more than 70 years of experience worldwide.  

We are unique in being capable of designing, procuring, fabricating all types of process heaters, with a large experience also in modularization, operation and specific country regulations. 

Process Furnaces for Various Industries

Process Heaters for Refinery Units

Oil refineries transform crude oil into a wide range of products such as gasoline, kerosene, diesel, etc. They are industrial complexes with several process units, each one with is particularities concerning location, economical aspects and feedstock.

In common for all the production facilities is that the heater is the heart of the unit. Heurtey Petrochem Solutions, is a world leader provider for refining heaters, with a long-standing history with the most reputable operators and technology licensors for refining applications in all five continents.

Crude & Vacuum Distillation Units

Designing and delivering advanced process heaters tailored for Crude & Vacuum distillation units in the oil refining industry. 

Catalytic Reforming (CCR, Semi-Regenerative Reformer)

Delivering fired heaters optimized for catalytic reforming units, including continuous catalyst regeneration (CCR) and semi-regenerative types, ensuring precise temperature control and high thermal efficiency to maximize reformate quality. 

Isomerization

Custom process heaters are engineered for isomerization units to provide uniform heat distribution, maintaining critical process temperatures that enhance octane levels and product yield while ensuring operational safety.

Catalytic Cracking (FCC, (R)FCC)

Our furnaces for fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) and residual FCC, RFCC units deliver robust performance and thermal stability, supporting efficient cracking of heavy hydrocarbons into valuable lighter products with minimal downtime.

Hydrodesulfurization

Specialized fired heaters for hydrodesulfurization units enable effective sulfur removal by maintaining optimal temperatures that protect catalysts and improve fuel quality in compliance with environmental standards.

Hydrotreating

Heaters designed for hydrotreating processes provide consistent heat to remove impurities and enhance product stability, combining reliability with energy-efficient operation tailored to specific feedstocks.

Hydrocracking

Advanced fired heaters support hydrocracking units by supplying precise thermal energy required to break down heavy fractions into lighter, high-value products while maximizing catalyst life and unit efficiency.

Delayed Coking

Furnaces for delayed coking units are engineered to withstand severe thermal cycling and deliver uniform heat, enabling effective thermal cracking of heavy residues into lighter hydrocarbons and petroleum coke.

Visbreaking

Our visbreaking heaters provide controlled heating for thermal cracking processes, reducing the viscosity of heavy oils while maintaining safety and optimizing energy consumption. 

Bitumen

Heurtey Petrochem Solutions offers robust fired heaters designed for bitumen processing, delivering consistent heat to ensure product quality and process reliability under demanding operating conditions.

Hot Oil Heaters

Hot oil heaters designed for indirect heating applications provide stable and uniform heat transfer, supporting various refinery and petrochemical processes that require controlled thermal management.

Steam Superheaters

Furnaces for steam superheaters ensure the generation of high-quality superheated steam with precise temperature control, enhancing power generation and process efficiency.

Regeneration Gas Heaters

Specialized heaters for gas regeneration units maintain optimal temperatures required for catalyst regeneration, ensuring continuous operation and improved process yields.

Reboilers

Heurtey Petrochem Solutions designs fired heaters that serve as reboilers, supplying the necessary heat to drive distillation and separation processes with high efficiency and reliability.

Charge Heaters

Charge heaters are engineered to preheat feedstocks before processing, improving unit throughput and energy efficiency by delivering consistent, controlled thermal input.

Start-up Heaters

Start-up heaters provide reliable and safe heating during process unit commissioning and maintenance, ensuring smooth transitions to full operational conditions.

CO Boilers

Our CO boilers are designed for combustion of carbon monoxide-rich gases, optimizing heat recovery and maintaining safe, efficient operation in refinery and petrochemical environments.

Process Heaters for Petrochemicals Units

With the oil products coming from the refineries, the petrochemical units are able to produce olefins and aromatics that will generate an infinite range of products used all over the world.
Heurtey Petrochem Solutions, is present in most of those petrochemical units, with unique and tailor-made designed heaters for your specific application.

The thermal and process design is performed specifically according to clients’ specifications, with in-house applications retro-fed with more than 70 years of experience worldwide. We have a long-standing history with the most reputable technology licensors for petrochemical applications. It offers a wide range of furnaces for ethylene and aromatics production units.

EDC Crackers Units

Heurtey Petrochem Solutions being the world leader in designing and supplying EDC crackers engineered for optimal conversion of ethylene dichloride into vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), thanks to our proprietary kinetic model, with uniform heat flux distribution and process control that enhance efficiency and product purity in the production of PVC feedstocks.

Aromatics Units

Fired heaters for aromatics production are custom-designed to meet the specific needs of processes like catalytic reforming and extraction, providing consistent and efficient heating to maximize yields of benzene, toluene, and xylenes from various feedstocks.

Catalytic Reforming Units

In petrochemical applications, our catalytic reforming furnaces deliver precise thermal control and high efficiency to support the production of high-octane reformates and aromatic intermediates, ensuring superior product quality and energy performance. 

Styrene Units

Heurtey Petrochem Solutions designs and performs detailed engineering for high-temperature steam superheater taking into account specificities of furnaces operating at high temperature.

Steam Crackers Units

Heurtey Petrochem Solutions performs detailed engineering and develops project execution until furnace delivery based on process licensors basic engineering. 

Process Heaters for Syngas and Hydrogen

Heurtey Petrochem Solutions has built up an extensive expertise on the syngas and hydrogen markets, with numerous of steam reforming furnaces and waste heat recovery units in operation worldwide. Heurtey Petrochem Solutions provides a comprehensive range of furnaces for hydrogen or syngas production units (steam reforming), ammonia and methanol production units.

Steam Reformer

Designing and delivering efficient steam reforming furnaces for hydrogen and syngas production, ensuring optimal heat transfer, reliability, and catalyst protection in high-temperature environments.

Syngas Treatment

Custom heaters for syngas treatment units are engineered to maintain the precise thermal conditions required for downstream gas processing, enhancing syngas purity, process efficiency, and plant performance.

Ammonia Production Unit

We supply specialized furnaces for ammonia production, delivering the high-temperature heat needed for the endothermic reactions in the synthesis loop, optimized for efficiency, reliability, and long operational life.

Methanol Production Unit

We supply specialized furnaces for methanol production units, optimized for efficiency, reliability, and long operational life.

Empower with

Heurtey Petrochem Solutions

Over 70 years of proven expertise

Over 70 years of Proven Expertise

With over 70 years of proven track record, Heurtey Petrochem Solutions has built a trusted reputation for delivering reliable and efficient solutions addressing industrial challenges.

Driven by Development & Innovation

To be able to support our customers in their daily operation and future goals, innovation plays a key role in our activities. Being fully aware of the industrial challenges in our reference markets, we continuously develop and invest in innovative and efficient solutions.

Complete Lifecycle Support

With more than 70 years of experience and a strong culture of innovation, Heurtey Petrochem Solutions supports customers throughout the entire lifecycle of their process furnaces — and beyond. From design and engineering to operation, maintenance, revamping, and upgrading, we deliver expertise and solutions at every stage to maximize performance and extend asset life.

Access to an Integrated Offer

Should you need extended process knowledge, as part of Axens, Heurtey Petrochem Solutions can offer fully integrated solutions across the entire value chain of Axens’ technologies and services. This synergy allows customers to rely upon a single trusted partner to address multiple requirements with seamless coordination and efficiency.

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