Direct Fired Heaters

Optimized Process Furnaces, Inc. supplies all types of refinery, gas processing, and petrochemical plant heaters.

Our previous designs range from simple regeneration gas heaters to delayed cokers and high pressure hydrotreater heaters. Included are such types as:

  • Coker 
  • Platforming 
  • Reactor Charge 
  • Reformer 
  • Visbreaker 
  • Heat Medium
  • Rose Crude 
  • Vacuum 
  • Ethylbenzene Reactor 
  • Sulfur Vaporizer 
  • Extract Heaters

Expert Engineering

OPF engineers use state-of-the-art computer technology to assure the design is completed accurately, efficiently, and in accordance with current industry standards. Whether it is thermal, process, piping, or mechanical design, OPF couples technology with decades of design experience to provide our clients with an optimized design.

Our process engineering staff uses design procedures based on more than 1,000 highly successful projects. These procedures, combined with the latest computer technology, allow our engineers to design and optimize to meet your requirements correctly and quickly.

Innovative Customization

We can custom-design a heating solution to fit your unique process requirements, from the configuration to the heat transfer method, emission standards, industry code regulations, burner fuel and draft requirements, space constraints, and more.

OPF has provided equipment for the hydrocarbon processing industry around the world for more than 40 years. Whether you need us to design a new fired heater or to optimize an existing system, we have the experience and tools to do it right.

OPF Advantage

  • Designs optimized for efficiency, safety and reliability
  • Designs customized for your exact needs
  • Efficient and professional project management from start to finish
  • Top-notch customer service
  • Highest standards of quality control
  • Ultra-low NOx emissions
  • Competitively priced

If you have any questions about our products or services, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

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Past Projects

Our list of (over 475) past clients includes many internationally recognized names, including AMOCO, BP, Citgo, ConocoPhillips, Diamond Shamrock, ExxonMobil, Proctor & Gamble, Shell, Sinclair and Texaco. We consider it a priviledge to work with each of our clients. Click here to download a full list of OPF clients.

Common Applications

  • Refineries
  • Petrochemical Plants
  • Gas / LNG / GTL Plants
  • Methanol/Hydrogen Plants

Fuels

  • Refinery Gas
  • Propane
  • Natural Gas
  • Waste Gas
  • High Hydrogen Gas
  • No. 2 or No. 6 Fuel Oil

Types of Heaters Designed and Manufactured

  • Absorber Feed Furnaces
  • Amine HMO Heaters
  • Amine Reboiler Heaters
  • Asphalt Heaters
  • Asphalt Mix Heaters
  • Atmospheric Column Feed Heaters
  • Atmospheric Crude Heaters
  • Atmospheric Pipestill Heaters
  • Atmospheric Tower Charge Heaters
  • Batch Still Reboiler Heaters
  • Blend Water Heaters
  • CDHDS Reboiler Heaters
  • Charge Heaters
  • Circulating Oil Heaters
  • CO2 Heaters
  • Coker Heaters
  • Coker Preheaters
  • Combined Feed Heaters
  • Combined Steam Superheaters
  • Cracking Furnaces
  • Crude Charge Heaters
  • Crude Combined Heaters
  • Crude Heaters
  • Crude Oil Heaters
  • Crystallizer Column Heaters
  • DCPD Cracking Furnaces
  • DEA Still Reboiler Heaters
  • Debutanizer Reboiler Heaters
  • DEC3 Reboiler Heaters
  • Decanted Oil Heaters
  • Dehydration heaters
  • Dehydrator Regeneration Gas Heaters
  • Deisobutanizer Reboiler Heaters
  • Delayed Coker Heaters
  • Demethanizer Reboiler Heaters
  • Depropanizer Reboiler Heaters
  • DHT Charge Heaters
  • Diesel Combined Feed Heaters
  • Diesel Recirculation Heaters
  • Distillate Charge Heaters
  • Distillate Fractionator Feed Heaters
  • Distillate Reboiler Heaters
  • DMO Phase Heaters
  • Dobo Bottoms Heaters
  • Dowtherm “A” Heaters
  • DP Reactor Feed Heaters
  • Dryer Regeneration Gas Heaters
  • Economizers
  • Ethane Regeneration Gas Heaters
  • Exchangers
  • Extract Heaters
  • Feed Heaters
  • Feed Preheaters
  • Feed Stripper Reboiler Heaters
  • First Stage Reactor Treatment Heaters
  • Fractionator Heaters
  • Fractionator Reboiler Heaters
  • Gas Heaters
  • Gas Oil Heaters
  • Gas Oil Tower Heaters
  • Glycol Heaters
  • Glycol Water Heaters
  • HDS Reactor Charge Heaters
  • HDS Reactor Feed Heaters
  • HDT Reactor Heaters
  • HDU Charge Heaters
  • Heat Media Heaters
  • Heat Medium Heaters
  • Heat Medium Water Heaters
  • Heating Oil Heaters
  • Heating Solution Fired Heaters
  • Hexane Isom Dryer Regeneration Heaters
  • HMO Heaters
  • Hot Oil Heaters
  • Hot Oil Trim Heaters
  • Hot Oil WHRUs
  • How Water Heaters
  • Hot Water Heater WHRUs
  • Hydrobon Charge Heaters
  • Hydrocarbon Charge Heaters
  • Hydrocracker Heaters
  • Hydrotreater Stripper Reboiler Heaters
  • Hydrogen Heaters
  • Hydrotreater Heaters
    • Intermediate Heaters ISAL Reactor Charge Heaters
    • Isostripper Reboiler Heaters
    • Isothermal Heaters
    • KAPP Start-UP Heaters
    • Kero-Treat Gas Heaters
    • LCO Combined Feed Heaters
    • LSR Heaters
    • Metaxylene Reboiler Heaters
    • Mixed Fee Preheaters
    • Molten Salt Heaters
    • Naphtha HDS Charge Heaters
    • Naphtha Hydrotreater Heaters
    • Naphtha Splitter Reboiler Heaters
    • Naphtha Tower Reboiler Heaters
    • Naphtha HDU Reactor Heaters
    • Natural Gas Heaters
    • Natural Gas Preheaters
    • NGL Dehydrator Regeneration Heaters
    • NGL HDS Charge Heaters
    • NH3 Heater/Ammonia Heaters
    • NHT Charge Heaters
    • Phenol Extract Heaters
    • Platforming Interheaters
    • Platforming Charge Heaters
    • Prefractionator Reboiler Heaters
    • Preflash Reboiler Heaters
    • Prefractionator Heaters
    • Preheat Heaters
    • Pretreater Preheaters
    • Process Gas Heaters
    • Product Fractionator Feed Heaters
    • Production Heaters
    • Promix Fractionator Heaters
    • Raffinate Heaters
    • Reactivation Gas Heaters
    • Reactor Charge Heaters
    • Reactor Feed Heaters
    • Reactor Reheaters
    • Reboil Oil Heaters
    • Reboiler Heaters
    • Recycle Gas Heaters
    • Recycle Hydrogen Heaters
    • Reformer Charge Heaters
    • Reformer Heaters
    • Reformer Interheaters
    • Reformer Reheaters
    • Regeneration Gas Heaters
    • Regeneration Gas WHRUs
    • Regeneration Hydrogen Heaters
    • Reheaters
    • Resid Preheat Heaters
    • Residue oil Heaters
    • Safecat Reactor Feed Heaters
    • Salt Bath Heaters
    • Second Stage Heaters
    • Solvent Heaters
    • Sour-Water Overhead Incinerators
    • Splitter Reboiler Heaters
    • Stabilizer Heaters
    • Stabilizer Reboiler Heaters
    • Start UP Heaters
    • Steam Superheaters
    • Still Heaters
    • Still Reboiler Heaters
    • Stripper Feed Heaters
    • Stripper Reboiler Heaters
    • Sulfur Vaporizers
    • T.C.C. Main Feed Heaters
    • T.E.G. (Glycol) Heaters
    • TEG (Glycol) Water Heaters
    • Terminal crude Oil Heaters
    • Thermal Cracker Heaters
    • Thermal Oil Heaters
    • Trickle Bed Reactor Feed Heaters
    • TUF Splitter Reboiler Heaters
    • Turbine Waste Heat Exchangers
    • Vacuum Heaters
    • Visbreaker Charge Heaters
    • WHRUs