Process Safety (PSM): An installation of Furnatek™ after a significant incident involving the total loss of over 300 catalyst tubes in a large SMR during start-up. Management asked, “Is there any technology that would have helped to prevent this loss?” Furnatek™ was available and installed. There have been no further major PSM firebox incidents since.
Avoidance: Several clients installed Furnatek™ when necessity required operation of their SMR with older, end-of-life, catalyst tubes. In one case, operation with a small process leak in the firebox was managed for over 2 years without direct personnel interaction with the burner deck or peep holes on the firebox.
Reliability: Successfully used to manage catalyst tube temperatures and burner adjustments so that after about 45,000 fired hours of operation, all catalyst tube creep measurements were less than 1%.
Operational Excellence: Used successfully to share best firebox operating practices via remote access to Furnatek™,and to leverage furnace start-up engineers for monitoring start-ups at several SMR’s remotely.