Job Description
Zeeco is a global leader in advanced combustion and environmental solutions, serving industries worldwide with innovative technologies that enhance operational efficiency, reliability, and environmental performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform thermal design calculations for fire tube boilers, including heat and mass balance, furnace sizing, heat transfer analysis, and efficiency calculations.
- Design and optimize key boiler components such as furnaces, combustion chambers, smoke tubes, reversal chambers, tube arrangements, and economizers.
- Conduct combustion calculations for various fuels, including natural gas, LPG, diesel, furnace oil, and biomass fuels.
- Prepare thermal design reports, engineering calculations, datasheets, technical specifications, and supporting documentation.
- Evaluate boiler performance parameters, including evaporation rates, flue gas temperatures, excess air levels, pressure drops, and overall thermal efficiency.
- Provide technical support to proposal and sales teams by developing equipment sizing calculations, performance guarantees, and technical solutions.
- Collaborate with mechanical, process, manufacturing, and project engineering teams to ensure design feasibility, manufacturability, and compliance with project requirements.
- Perform thermal simulations and CFD studies, where applicable, to validate and optimize equipment performance.
- Ensure compliance with applicable industry standards and customer specifications, including ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code, IBR, and other relevant regulations.
- Investigate operational and performance-related issues in existing boiler installations and recommend effective engineering solutions.
- Support commissioning, start-up, performance testing, and troubleshooting activities related to thermal performance.
- Participate in design reviews, risk assessments, value engineering initiatives, and continuous improvement programs
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Thermal Engineering, Energy Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 4–5 years of experience in thermal design and performance engineering of fire tube boilers.
- Strong understanding of:
- Heat Transfer Principles
- Combustion Engineering
- Thermodynamics
- Fluid Flow and Pressure Drop Calculations
- Boiler Efficiency Improvement Techniques
- Familiarity with industrial boiler standards, codes, and regulations.
- Experience in preparing technical proposals, performance calculations, and engineering documentation.
- Knowledge of energy-efficiency enhancement systems such as economizers, air preheaters, and waste heat
- recovery systems utilizing PPSD and HTRI software tools.
- Ability to conduct root cause analysis and performance diagnostics for boiler systems.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting capabilities.
- Excellent technical communication and documentation skills.
- Experience working within multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Understanding manufacturing, fabrication, and operational considerations associated with boiler construction.
- Industrial Boiler Manufacturing
- Steam Generation Systems
- Process Heating Equipment
- Power & Energy Systems
- EPC Projects
- Thermal Engineering Consulting
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