Hello Dear members,
On our Oil Refinery we have old fired heater which needs to be replaced by new. The purpose of this heater is to preaheat condensate in the bottom of Distillation column.
The same time we have available steam - (T=250 C, P=16 bar.) and we consider replace this heater by steam reboiler.
My question is how to compare using steam rebioler and fired heated on fuelgas. Is we burn gas to preheat condensate using Heater or we generate steam to preheat condensate.
Regards,
Dmytro