FIRED HEATERS FOR REFINERIES AND PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY
KIRCHNER ITALIA SPA was founded in 1954 by Emmanuel Gualandris and Ernst Kirchner as affiliate of Ernst Kirchner GmbH, Hamburg.
KIRCHNER ITALIA SPA is an indipendent family owned Company operating worldwide and is one of the leading engineering companies specialized in supplying heat transfer equipment and has a solid reputation of competence and reliability. KIRCHNER ITALIA can carry out design, engineering, fabrication, installation and start-up of Fired Heaters for a wide range of applications in the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries. Equipment can be supplied worldwide either on FOB basis or on turn-key basis according to Customer requirements.
Heaters are directly designed by our process engineers or supplied under the design of international licensors, like UOP, Haldor Topsøe, Davy McKee, Exxon, Stone&Webster, who nominated our Company as approved constructor. Year after year KIRCHNER ITALIA gained the loyalty of the main Oil and Petrochemical Companies (like Exxon, Fina, Statoil, Agip, Enichem, NIOC, NPC, SOPC, CNTIC, CPCIC, SAFCO) as well as International Main Contractors (as Technip-Coflexip, Snamprogetti, Fluor Daniel, Tecnimont, Techint, Eurotecnica,
Parsons).
KIRCHNER ITALIA is competent to provide heaters and recovery systems for the following applications:
a) Refinery and Petrochemical Heaters as:
- Charge Heaters and Reboilers
- Topping and Vacuum Heaters
- Hot Oil Heaters
- Catalytic Reformers (as Platforming and Powerforming heaters)
- Hydrocracking; Hydrotreating; Hydrodesulphurisation; Hydrofiner Heaters
- Start-up; Regeneration; Air; Oxygen and Gas Heaters
- Steam Superheaters
- Visbreaking, Thermal Cracking
- Coking
- EDC Pyrolisis
- VCM
d) Ethylene Cracking Heaters
e) High Intensity and Steam Reforming Heaters under Exxon license
f ) Waste Heat Boilers (WHB) and Waste Heat Recovery Sections (WHS)
g) Energy Conservation Plants, like:
- Air preheating systems
- Steam generation systems
News
SO.NA.RA. Societe Nationale de Raffinage - Limbe, Cameroun
On April 2010 Kirchner Italia has been awarded trough Foster Wheeler France of 2 jobs for the National Refinery of Cameroun (SO.NA.RA.)
REFICAR - Cartagena Refinery, Colombia
On January 2010 Kirchner Italia has been awarded of 2 important jobs for the Expansion Project of the Cartagena Refinery trough CB&I and Foster Wheeler US.
POLIMERI EUROPA - Revamping Ethylene Cracking Furnaces
On January 2010 Kirchner Italia has been awarded the Revamping of 2 Ethylene Cracking Furnaces for POLIMERI EUROPA Ethylene Plant located in Priolo, Italy.
CHONGQING Carbinol Chemical Industry Co. - Top-Fired Steam Reformer Convection Section
In December 2009 Kirchner Italia S.p.A. has been awarded the order for a convection section for a Top-Fired Steam Reformer for the CHONGQING Carbinol Chemical Industry Co. Another experience with Davy Process Technology design and Chinese market.
On July 2009 ENI R&M awarded Kirchner Italia the order for Sannazzaro Est Slurry Technology Plant.This Job consist of 5 heaters plus 130m common stack all under the new ENI Process.
On March 2009, NIOEC awarded Kirchner Italia trough Daelim (Korea) the order of 4 big heaters for the Esfahan Refinery. Kirchner Italia continues its long tradition with NIOEC and Iranian clients.
On March 2009 Saipem awarded Kirchner Italia the order of a Hot Oil Heater for the Sonatrach Refinery in Arzew, Algeria.
On July 2008 Tecnimont awarded Kirchner Italia the order of one big UOP Platformer consisting of 4 separate Heaters for Tobolsk Polymer Company situated in Tobolsk, Russia. UOP design is well known by Kirchner Italia and this order moves our Company a step forward in the Russian market.