Dryouts & Curing

Stork Cooperheat's high velocity heat treatment and refractory dryout services are in operation throughout the world. The utilisation of high velocity burners is an effective method of curing and driving out moisture from refractory materials used in process industries such as:

Petrochemical

• Flexicokers
• Fluidised Catalytic Crackers
• Power former reactors
• Platfomers
• Carbon Monoxide boilers
• CO2 Absorbers
• Visbreakers
• Vacuum heaters
• Separators
• Chlorinators

Steel Manufacturing

• Blast furnaces
• Blast furnaces stoves
• Blast furnace mains
• Blast furnace runner systems
• Torpedo ladles
• Steel mixing furnaces
• Arc furnaces
• Degassing units

Other Industries

• Cement furnace and kilns
• Alumina calcining plant
• Magnesite kilns
• Coke oven batteries
• Zinc and cadmium retorts
• Waste boilers
• Municipal incinerators
• Fluidised bed incinerators
• Fluid bed power generators
• Aluminium heat treatment furnaces
• Induction heat treatment furnaces
• Glass

Working under carefully controlled conditions we minimise the risk of damage that can be caused by spalling and thereby extend the life of the refractory.

The high turndown ratio of our high velocity burners (approx 50:1) coupled with suitable volume change ratio, enables excellent temperature control. This flexibility also allows us to provide low temperature heat treatment services for curing applications such as paints, phenolics, epoxy resins and rubber linings which are widely used in the fabrication of tanks and vessels. .