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
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.
1350 MTPD Side-Fired Steam Reformer Package for JSC SHCHEKINOAZOT
At the end of March 2008 JSC ShchekinoAzot awarded Kirchner Italia the order of one Steam Reformer Package for the 1350 MTPD Methanol Plant situated in Shchekino, Russia. ShchekinoAzot is a primary chemical company situated in the Pula region in Russia. Kirchner Italia continues to build his solid experience as one of the principal supplier of Topsoe Reformers after 40 years from the first Topsoe Reformer supplied. (1970 Rhodiatoce, Novara)
2000 MTPD Top-Fired Steam Reformer Convection Section for Qinghai Zhonghao Natural Gas Chemical Co.
In November 2007 Kirchner Italia S.p.A. has been awarded the order of a convection section for a Top-Fired Steam Reformer for the Qinghai Zhonghao Natural Gas Chemical Co.This job confirms the confidence also with Davy Process Technology design and solid reputation of Kirchner Italia in the Chinese market.