Abstract:
Fuel is burned in accordance with a burning method and apparatus in two stages and in the presence of first and second oxygen-containing gases, respectively. The second oxygen-containing gas has a higher concentration of oxygen than the first oxygen-containing gas. The fuel stream is burned in a first of the two stages at a first equivalence ratio sufficiently greater than 1.0, so that thermal NO.sub.x formation is inhibited, a more heat transfer effective luminous flame is achieved and a combustible mixture comprising unburned and partially oxidized fuel and fuel radicals is produced for combustion in the second of the two stages. The combustible mixture is burned in the second of the two stages at an equivalence ratio of no greater than about 1.0 so that maximum heat is transferred to the first of the two stages to stabilize combustion therein, and the fuel radicals are sufficiently oxidized by the second oxygen-containing gas to inhibit formation of prompt NO.sub.x.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process and an apparatus intended to effect the combustion of a mixture of air and liquid or gaseous fuel, wherein the injection of the fuel is staged without that of the air for combustion being staged. According to the invention, in addition to the primary means (20, 34) for injecting fuel into the passage (10, 14) supplying air to the burner, secondary injection means (24) mounted inside said passage are provided and comprise a main part (24a) which is extended by a terminal part (24b) bent in such a manner that the end of said terminal part is situated downstream of the end of the primary means (20, 34) and at a distance from the axis (2) of said passage which is greater than the minimum section of the latter. The invention is applicable both to so-called parallel air admission burners and to burners having swirl vanes.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an improved premix burner and a method of its operation for combustion with a minimum of NO.sub.x emissions. The improvement is achieved by combining staged combustion with a premix burner in a manner such that mixing of the secondary air with the flame is delayed.
Abstract:
A swirl burner of the two-stage combustion type with suppressed NO.sub.x generation which is so arranged that combustion air supplied into the burner is divided into primary and secondary combustion air, and the primary combustion air subjected to a powerful swirling motion by a primary combustion air nozzle having a frusto-conical shape and swirling vanes is supplied into a primary combustion chamber for drawing only primary combustion gas thereinto, while the secondary air is directed, in the form of a rectilinear flow, into a furnace through secondary combustion air nozzles provided around the primary combustion chamber, with oil and gas for fuel being supplied into the primary combustion chamber through a fuel injector nozzle. Part of the fuel is burned in the primary combustion chamber, while the remainder of the fuel is sequentially mixed with the secondary combustion air for combustion in the furnace.
Abstract:
A combustion method which can reduce the emission of NOx and smoke. In sharp contrast to the conventional combustion method, the method of the invention can remarkably reduce the emission of both of NOx and the smoke simultaneously, by adopting a specific flow pattern of fuel and combustion air in the combustion chamber, the pattern has been obtained as a result of studies and experiments concerning the influence of the intensity of mixing of the fuel and the combustion air on the emission of NOx.
Abstract:
In a combustion apparatus provided with: a combustion box having a connection flange part for connecting a heat exchanger to an upper end of the combustion box; a partition plate disposed inside the combustion box for partitioning space inside the combustion box into a combustion chamber and an air supply chamber which lies under the combustion chamber; and a plurality of laterally arrayed burners which are elongated longitudinally, the internal volume of the combustion box is increased without increasing a height dimension or without enlarging the connection flange part, thereby restraining the occurrence of resonance sounds. A drawn part projecting laterally outward of the combustion box is provided in such a portion of each side-plate part as is above the partition plate, over a predetermined range in the vertical and longitudinal directions. An upper side of the drawn part is preferably positioned below the upper end of the burners, and is preferably parallel with the upper end of the burners.
Abstract:
Processes and systems for producing glass fibers having regions devoid of glass using submerged combustion melters, including feeding a vitrifiable feed material into a feed inlet of a melting zone of a melter vessel, and heating the vitrifiable material with at least one burner directing combustion products of an oxidant and a first fuel into the melting zone under a level of the molten material in the zone. One or more of the burners is configured to impart heat and turbulence to the molten material, producing a turbulent molten material comprising a plurality of bubbles suspended in the molten material, the bubbles comprising at least some of the combustion products, and optionally other gas species introduced by the burners. The molten material and bubbles are drawn through a bushing fluidly connected to a forehearth to produce a glass fiber comprising a plurality of interior regions substantially devoid of glass.
Abstract:
A burner assembly combines oxygen and fuel to produce a flame. The burner assembly includes an oxygen supply tube adapted to receive a stream of oxygen and a solid fuel conduit arranged to extend through the oxygen tube to convey a stream of fluidized, pulverized, solid fuel into a flame chamber. Oxygen flowing through the oxygen supply tube passes generally tangentially through a first set of oxygen-injection holes formed in the solid fuel conduit and off-tangentially from a second set of oxygen-injection holes formed in the solid fuel conduit and then mixes with fluidized, pulverized, solid fuel passing through the solid fuel conduit to create an oxygen-fuel mixture in a downstream portion of the solid fuel conduit. This mixture is discharged into a flame chamber and ignited in the flame chamber to produce a flame.
Abstract:
An oxy-gaseous fuel burner (400, 500) or a solid fuel burner (700) having an annular cavity (404, 504, 704) upstream from and proximate to an outlet plane (416, 516, 716) and a converging (434, 734) or converging-diverging nozzle (537) located upstream from and proximal to the cavity (404, 504, 704). The solid fuel burner (700) also is preferably operated so that the velocity of gas exiting a second annulus (730) is less than the velocity of gas exiting a central conduit (710).
Abstract:
Provided is a combustion burner including: a fuel nozzle (51) that is able to blow a fuel gas obtained by mixing pulverized coal with primary air; a secondary air nozzle (52) that is able to blow secondary air from the outside of the fuel nozzle (51); a flame stabilizer (54) that is provided at a front end portion of the fuel nozzle (51) so as to be near the axis center; and a rectification member (55) that is provided between the inner wall surface of the fuel nozzle (51) and the flame stabilizer (54), wherein an appropriate flow of a fuel gas obtained by mixing solid fuel with air may be realized.