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Amoco Corporation

Sidney H Melton

M Shannon Melton

Frank W Pickell

John Z Varesic

An economical, efficient, compact furnace is provided with horizontal radiant furnace tubes that extend along all the walls of the furnace for uniform heat distribution and load. The furnace is particularly useful in oil refineries and petrochemical plants. The furnace also has a special pattern of burners for safer, more effective heat transfer.

Furnace for oil refineries and petrochemical plants

A method of providing on a surface of a furnace a refractory covering including the steps of affixing to the surface of the furnace a fiber blanket layer formed such as mineral wool, fiber glass and ceramic fibers and then spraying on the blanket layer either pneumatically or hydraulically, a castable refractory, the fiber blanket absorbing the kinetic energy of the castable refractory causing an increased proportion of the sprayed material to adhere thereto, and permitting the refractory to harden into a continuous refractory covering.

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Broken Arrow, OK, United States of America

Sidney H Melton