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Getting Started: Building Your First Case in Xfh Ultra Webinar

October 20, 2022 | 9:00 AM CDT (UTC -05:00)


Are you ready to build your first case in Xfh Ultra? This webinar will discuss navigating the Xfh Ultra interface and identify the available options for modeling a fired heater in HTRI’s general purpose fired heater program. After the initial discussion, we will work through an example case to demonstrate how to simulate a fired heater in Xfh Ultra.

Registration deadline: October 18, 2022 (11:59 PM US Central Time)



Facilitated by Andy Mountford

Andy mountford

Senior Technical Lead, Training, provides technical support and training for HTRI. He earned a BSc and MSc in Chemistry and a PhD in Organometallic and Materials Chemistry from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. During his tenure there, he conducted research at Wolfson Laboratory for Materials and Catalysis. He previously held the position of Thermal Design Supervisor at Tecnicas Reunidas in Madrid, Spain, gaining valuable experience using HTRI methods and software. Mountford oversaw the development of several high-profile PWR and BWR nuclear plant projects, as well as gained valuable experience in the thermohydraulic design of heat transfer equipment for the petrochemical and nitric acid/nitrates industries. His experience in using HTRI Xchanger Suite makes him uniquely qualified to bring an end-user’s perspective to the HTRI training program and to share techniques for effectively working with the software.