Process Burners

ICE designs and supplies process burners for direct-fired heaters serving the oil refining, petrochemical, and chemical industries. Our solutions are developed to match specific process requirements, heater configurations, and emission targets, ensuring reliable operation, high efficiency, and low environmental impact.

With more than 40 years proven experience in side-fired, up-fired, and down-fired applications for both vertical cylindrical and box-type heaters, ICE delivers tailor-made burner solutions engineered for performance, flexibility, and long-term operability.

As process burners have become a critical factor in plant efficiency, emissions reduction, and production reliability, ICE continuously enhances its technologies to provide Clients and End Users with advanced low NOx, ultra-low NOx, and next-generation low NOx solutions tailored to the more-and-more demanding industrial applications.

Steam Reforming

Extremely well proven burner solutions for steam reforming heaters, with ample experience across the main licensor technologies and all major firing arrangements. 

Our burners are designed to deliver optimized heat flux, high turndown, reliable operation, no flame impingement on reformer tubes, and compliance with low NOx and ultra-low NOx requirements.

Ethylene

Burner solutions for ethylene heaters focused on: 

  • heat flux uniformity
  • hot spot prevention
  • reliable multi-burner operation with different fuels.

ICE’s in-house test rig supports performance validation under demanding firing conditions.

Hydrogen-Fired Burners

Hydrogen burner solutions for safe, reliable, and efficient operation across the full fuel range from 100% natural gas to 100% hydrogen, which is also extended for pilot burners. 

Our burners support decarbonization strategies and are particularly suited for retrofit applications, requiring no or only minimal modifications to existing heater connections

Others

Well-proven burner solutions for the widest possible range of applications, from the traditional Oil Refinery services (such as Crude & Vacuum), Petrochemical (EDC Crackers) and installation in upstream-midstream (Indirect Water Bath heaters) and Chemical Industry 

Available process burners technologies

Across all product families, ICE process burners are available in single or multi-inlet configuration, including liquid fuels for combined-firing arrangements. 

With staged fuel, staged air, and flue gas recirculation solutions for emissions control, ICE process burners ensure reliable operation, low emissions, and long-term performance in a wide range of heat release, flame shape, firing configuration.