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EXPERTISE & INNOVATION

• Environmental planning and studies
• Specialist engineering and consulting
• Technologies
• Automation, optimisation and productivity
• Programme and project management
• Construction and project delivery
• Fired Heaters, proprietary equipment and en-
gineered products

Our business aims to maximise value and to deliver
against our customers’ challenges at every stage
of the project or asset life cycle from concept to de-
sign, execution to optimisation, decommissioning
and remediation. We deliver specialist consultancy
services, technologies and products to optimise
our customers’ investments, asset performance
and their total asset expenditure.

Wood’s FW Fired Heaters
In 2019, Wood celebrated more than a century of
FW Fired Heaters technology in the refining indu-
stry.

The roots of our fired equipment technology date
back to 1903, when Ernest Foster, co-founder of
the Power Specialty Company (now part of Wood)
invented and patented cast iron ‘gill rings’ which
increased the heat transfer surface area of steam
super-heaters.
The company’s first refinery application to use this
technology was an all-convective heater supplied
in 1919, and the technology was quickly adapted
for the emerging refining industry. Since then, fired
heaters have been critical components of all refine-
ries and petrochemical facilities, and the company
continues to design, build, revamp and support
them a century later.
The flagship of our fired heaters products portfolio
is Wood’s FW Terrace Wall , a very unique design
TM
used for services such as hydrogen production
Modular Steam Reforming dress environmental concerns, improve the pro- via steam reforming and for delayed coker units
Furnace ductivity of their day-to-day operations, and pre- (SYDEC ), two processes for which Wood acts as
SM
serve value in their property, plants, and equipment. Technology Licensor. The Terrace Wall design is
TM
Remaining customer-centric throughout the asset renowned for its safety, reliability and performances
life cycle, we focus on achieving their objectives difficult to achieve with any other furnace design,
with industry-leading technical experts in each positioning our team as one of the most important
phase of the life cycle: plan, engineer, build, opera- fired heaters supplier in the world.
te, and re-purpose.”
The flagship of our fired heaters
Services, capabilities products portfolio is Wood’s FW
and expertise “Terrace Wall , a very unique
TM
design used for services
The new business unit supports a global customer
base across renewables, infrastructure design, such as hydrogen production
environmental planning and remediation, upstream via steam reforming and for
and downstream oil and gas, manufacturing, SM
mining, and a range of governmental agencies. delayed coker units (SYDEC )

Across sectors and global geographies, at every The Terrace Wall reformer is characterised by a
TM
point in the life cycle Wood offers: flat flame firing arrangement and sloped-wall ra-
• Strategy, planning and advisory diant section design that, together, enable long

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