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Utilization of energy obtained by substoichiometric combustion of low heating value gases

US4299086A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 7, 1978
Grant dateNov 10, 1981
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Expiry dateDec 7, 1998

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF02C6/04
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The combustible component of a gas stream of low heating value is combusted using less than a stoichiometric amount of oxygen in the presence of an oxygenation catalyst and the heat energy in the combusted gas is utilized, for example, by expansion in a gas turbine.

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