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HONEYWELL UOP
CALLIDUS®

CUBP BREAKTHROUGH
LOW NO STEAM X

CRACKER BURNER
Leverage Breakthrough Low NOX and Extreme Fuel Gas Flexibility1
to Accelerate your Energy Transition for Steam Cracker Service

As regulatory requirements around NOX

emissions evolve, Honeywell Callidus
Ultra-Blue Petrochemical (CUBP) burners
provide the ability to cut your NOX
emissions in half1, or more, while offering
seamless flexibility to fuel your furnace
with hydrogen and hydrocarbon gasses.
The CUBP burner achieves low NOX through a patent-pending technology called
Targeted Flue Gas Recirculation (TFGR). The Honeywell burner is optimized for 100%
hydrogen to 100% hydrocarbon fuel sources and achieves the lowest NOX emissions
when firing 100% hydrogen.1 In addition to low NOX emissions limits, programs for
integrated petrochemical complexes addressing energy transition, hydrogen firing,
reduced carbon emission, and carbon capture will require flexible operations across
widely ranging fuels. The CUBP burner enables deliberate, stepwise progression
through the multi-step process of energy transition in a petrochemical complex facility. CUBP Steam Cracker Burner Firing
100% Hydrogen

BREAKTHROUGH LOW NITRIC OXIDE (NOX) EMISSIONS

CUBP burners enable integrated petrochemical complex operators to meet evolving
NOX emissions regulations and internal emissions targets. Achieving emissions reduction
using CUBP burners significantly lowers capital and operating expenditures compared to
conventional low NOX technology.2

The CUBP burner does this through Targeted Flue Gas Recirculation (TFGR), which
augments internal flue gas recirculation by drawing a very small amount of flue gas
selectively from either the combustion chamber or stack, conditioning the flue gas
and then injecting it optimally within the burner.

Breakthrough NOX emissions eliminate the need for Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR).
In cases where SCR is still needed to achieve regulatory limits, the CUBP burner can lower
the rate of ammonia reducing agent consumed. Additionally, CUBP burners can reduce
the amount of catalyst needed, thereby reducing both operating and capital expenses.3

CUBP burners can be retrofitted to operate in your existing furnace. If the furnace has
existing Callidus burners, then a simple retrofit kit may be all that is needed, reducing
downtime during turnaround. 4 If other brand burners are currently installed in the
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furnaces, UOP can conduct a feasibility study, including the review of the overall
condition and soundness of the furnace, computational simulation or physical testing, FEATURES AND BENEFITS
as well as an evaluation and sizing of the TFGR ducting, fan, and exchangers. • Breakthrough low NOX emissions

• Reduces NOX emissions by one

OPTIMIZED FOR 100% HYDROGEN FIRING half compared to conventional
WITH EXTREME FUEL FLEXIBILITY low NOX burners
The CUBP burner is designed, tested and field-proven to fire on any combustible
• Flexible fuel gas: 100% hydrogen
fuel gas mixture from 100% hydrogen to 100% natural gas and any hydrogen,
fuel gas to 100% hydrocarbon
hydrocarbon, or inert fuel gas blend in between. This fuel flexibility enables the
energy transition to low carbon operations and carbon capture technologies. • Low maintenance, long
runtime – Optimized for
CUBP burners operate the same as conventional burners. The rate of TFGR is 100% Hydrogen Firing5
factory proven and set, so often, no field adjustment or modulation is necessary.
• Improved throughput conversion,
Operators simply turn the TFGR fan “on” for breakthrough lower NOX or “off” for
efficiency, yield, and runtime for
conventional low NOX emissions. With TFGR “on” or “off,” the burner operates 6
steam cracking furnace installations
as a conventional natural draft, forced draft, or induced draft burner.
• Furnace thermal efficiency maintained
Finally, CUBP burners achieve their lowest NOX emissions, on both a volumetric and even when firing hydrogen fuel
mass flow basis, when firing 100% hydrogen. gas with lower mass flow rates
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• Adaptive heating of process coils to

ENABLING THE ENERGY TRANSITION
extend runtimes between decoking
In addition to low NOX emissions limits, programs for integrated petrochemical cycles to drive profitability
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complexes addressing energy transition, hydrogen firing, reduced carbon

emission and carbon capture will require flexible operation across widely • Minimizes downtime during
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installation and turnaround
ranging fuels. Energy transition in a complex facility is not a single-step event
into the future operating states. Real scenarios show there will be ongoing
and continual migration between various proportions of hydrogen firing SEE FOR YOURSELF
and hydrocarbon fuel firing – as corporate sustainability goals, regulatory • Pre-qualify the technology to meet
environment, technoeconomic factors, and feedstocks change over time. your performance requirements
with performance testing
Thanks to its flexible fuel capabilities that allow two-way transitioning, depending on
technoeconomic and regulatory changes, the CUBP burner enables the energy transition • Greatly reduce or eliminate project
across integrated refinery and petrochemical complexes. Callidus Breakthrough Low schedule and performance risk by
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NOx Technologies, as incorporated in processes that may be utilizing pre-combustion (H2 addressing all design questions
generation / purification) and post-combustion carbon capture, provide uninterrupted • Callidus can perform feasibility and
operation and annual revenue generation of up to $500,000 per steam cracking furnace.8 suitability studies of any fired equipment

• Pre-award and FEED study

OPTIMIZED FOR CARBON CAPTURE TECHNOLOGIES
performance validation testing available
By installing the CUBP burner, even if the immediate focus is NOX reduction,
the heater system will be ready for energy transition, flexible high hydrogen fuels
and post-combustion carbon capture.

Pre-combustion carbon capture generally delivers high-hydrogen fuel gases to the

burners – and the CUBP burner is optimized for low-NOX and low-carbon emissions that
can often be vented directly to the atmosphere and meet necessary environmental goals.

Post-combustion carbon capture systems such as Honeywell UOP’s Advanced Solvent

Carbon Capture (ASCC) are most effective when the CO2 emissions are concentrated
while NOX emissions are minimized. By directing concentrated hydrocarbons streams
to the CUBP burners, CO2 emissions are concentrated for the ASCC equipment.
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NOTES
1. Reference CUBP performance test reports comparing the operation with (CUBP) and without
(conventional low NOx burner) targeted flue gas recirculation. The NOx emissions are more than
50% lower than conventional low NOx burner.

2. By eliminating the need for a typical SCR with TIC of $2M and OPEX of $250k per year.

3. By reducing the size of the catalyst bed by approximately one half, the TIC can be $0.5M lower
and OPEX reduced by $100k per year.

4. By retrofitting existing Callidus burners, the retrofit kit may consist of new gas tips, possibly a new
tile that fits the existing burner mounting and some internal burner parts. When non-Callidus
burners are retrofit, the heater cut-out, refractory and mounting to the burner may need to be
modified, requiring more time and expenditure in turnaround.

5. The Callidus “bullet” gas tips have decades of service experience on high hydrogen, high temperature
steam cracking service. The H2 Optimized burner tile has years of field proven operation in steam
methane reformer service with no failures. Reference lists available upon request.

6. By alternately and selectively switching firing between H2 fuel and conventional hydrogen fuel,
the peak heat flux location on the tubes is moved approximately 5-10 ft. Therefore, by switching
fuels, the operator intentionally can move the peak coking location on the tube thereby coking
a longer length of the tube before steam decoke is needed. Laying down coke over a longer
length of tube means more coke can be laid down and longer run time between decoke can be
achieved. Longer runtime between decoke increases efficiency. The capability to move and
tailor adaptively the coke build up in the tubes allows operators to optimize for increased yield.

7. By retrofitting existing Callidus burners, the retrofit kit may consist of new gas tips, possibly
a new tile that fits the existing burner mounting and some internal burner parts. When non-
Callidus burners are retrofit, the heater cut-out, refractory and mounting to the burner may need
to be modified, requiring more time and expenditure in turnaround.

8. By increasing runtime between decoke cycle from 60 to 90 days, decoke cycles are reduced
from six to four days per year providing two additional days of continuous operation valued at
approximately $25,000 per day. Runtime results and costs/value associated with decoke will
vary site to site.

9. CUBP burner new installation or retrofit is significantly lower cost (>$2M CAPEX per heater) than
installing an SCR. Moreover, SCR requires structural and plots space considerations and burner
installation does not.
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