An overview of the engineered ceramic parts Blasch makes for reformer furnaces and the boilers behind them.
Tunnels at the furnace floor, ferrules at the boiler, tips at the burners.
Where ceramics decide how long a reformer runs.
For steam methane reformers, Blasch makes engineered ceramic parts for three places that wear or fail: flue gas tunnels on the furnace floor, ferrules that protect the tubesheet of the waste heat boiler, and nozzles and tips for burners and flares. Every part starts from the measurements and operating data of your reformer and arrives as a finished precast piece, ready to set.
| Format | Overview by Blasch Precision Ceramics |
| Topic | Ceramic solutions for steam methane reformers and flue gas tunnels |
Brick tunnels crack, snake and collapse, and their fixed openings heat the catalyst tubes unevenly. StaBlox flue gas tunnels are stacked from interlocking precast blocks without mortar, with an insert sized for each opening. A single failed tunnel can be rebuilt on its own.
The hot process gas leaving the reformer enters a boiler, where the tube inlets at the tubesheet see the highest heat flux. Ceramic ferrules shield the tube ends and the tube to tubesheet welds.
Burner tips, pilots and flare tips see flame and thermal cycling at every start and stop. Ceramic burner nozzles and flare tips are made for that duty.
Every one of these parts is replaced at some turnaround, and the question is only whether it lasts to the next planned one or fails before.
The tunnel studies in this library go deeper: why brick tunnels fail, how sized openings even out the flow and what a missing tunnel costs.
Flue gas tunnel systems, ferrules for the waste heat boiler, and burner nozzles, pilot and flare tips.
No. A Blasch engineer can work from dimensions and operating conditions.
No. It is used in revamps, for single tunnel replacement and in new furnaces.
Tell us which part keeps you from reaching the next planned turnaround. A Blasch engineer will take it from there.
