"Cabin Style Direct Fired Heaters", 29 Jul 2010: Interpretation of natural draft burner data.

Clearance data floor vertical burner (see radiant section sketch) 10.00
f(x)
f(x)
= 2.36109126984127
= 2.41904761904762
x+x 1.57691666666667
+ 1.2192
Gas firing per API 560 Oil firing per API 560 Oil or gas firing based on (1) R²R²= 0.999995064390718
=1
9.00
burner distance from burner distance from burner burner distance from [A']
wall tube roof tube wall tube roof tube heat wall tube roof tube
burner heat release release 8.00
CL level CL level CL level CL level CL level CL level API 560
f(x) = 0.302380952380952
f(x) x+
= 0.302380952380952 x 0.4572
+ 0.5334
R²R²= 1= 1
MM Btu/h MM kcal/h [B] m [A] m [B'] m [A'] m MM kcal/h [B''] m [A''] m 7.00 f(x) = 2.74190217346408 x + 0.399242881099703
[A] API 560
2 R² = 0.990708415408733
0.5 0.61 2.77 0.5 1 1.9

Burner CL clearance, m
6.00
4 1.0 0.76 3.96 0.84 3.66 1.0 1.1 3.1 f(x) = 0.203220130358279 x + 0.899030986939389
R² = 0.999843041362731 [B']
6 1.5 0.91 5.16 0.99 4.88 1.5 1.2 4.3 5.00 [B]
8 2.0 1.07 6.32 1.14 6.10 2.0 1.3 5.6
4.00
10 2.5 1.22 7.52 1.30 7.32 2.5 1.4 7.4
Ref (1)
12 3.0 1.37 8.71 1.45 8.53 3.00
Ref (1)
14 3.5 1.52 9.91 1.60 9.75
2.00
16 4.0 1.68 11.10

18 4.5 1.83 12.29 1.00

Estimated clearances from 95 MM Btu/h (NHV) burner to tube CL (centerline) - natural draft
0.00
95 23.9 7.70 58.1 7.77 59.1 23.9 5.76 66 0.0 5.0 10.0 15.0 20.0 25.0
burner heat release, MM kcal/h (LHV)
Estimated clearence from 6'' tube CL (centerline) to the internal refractory wall (1): m 0.23

Estimated clearances from 95 MM Btu/h burner to refractory wall - natural draft, m

[A]
95 23.9 7.93 58.3 8.00 59.4 23.9 5.99 66.3
Notes
a Assumptions for mentioned radiant section are presented in the scheme beside
[B]
(vertical burner and horizontal tubes around the walls)
[?] Burner
b Clearence of 6" tube CL from refractory wall should be 0.229 m (that is 9 in) (1)

radiant section sketch

References (1) P. & M. Mitsopoulos ''Applied numeric methods in Industry - Fortran programming'' (in Greek), ION publishers, 1994.
English, Greek and Romanian references in their book. Chapter 3.3.23 (58 pages) devoted to refinery furnace design through an example, also including following notes.
-- Typical dimensions of a (cabin type) radiant section: maxL=30 m, W=4-6 m, maxH=12 m (first tube row 1 m from floor).
-- Typical heat release in furnace radiant (or convenction) section (based on NHV) : 36000 - 72000 kcal/m3/hr.
thus concerning total heat release of 68/0.81=84 MM Btu/h=21.168 MM kcal/h
resulting radiant chamber volume is 294 - 588 m3 . This chamber can be of (say) 3.7 m x 14.5 m x 9.5 m, with 10 burners along it of 10 MM Btu/h each.
note Minimum length is considered as (1.22+0.23)+9x1.22+(1.22+0.23)=13.88 m between refractory walls, assuming distance [B]=1.22 m between burner centerlines, which
is uncertain (can be shorter?) since no relevant data has been found.
(2) W. L. Nelson ''Petroleum Refinery Engineering'', 4th edition, McGraw-Hill (1958)
Chapter 18 (40 pages) deals with furnace (tubestill heater) design, in a practical and comprehensive manner. But no mention on burner clearance.
Subjects similar to those referenced by Ankur in previous post are also touched, of course as of 1958.