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Substoichiometric combustion of low heating value gases

US4366668A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateFeb 25, 1981
Grant dateJan 4, 1983
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Expiry dateFeb 25, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF23C13/00
  • WIPO fieldEnvironmental technology
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The combustible component of a stream of low heating value gas comprising carbon monoxide, hydrogen and methane is combusted using less than a stoichiometric amount of air 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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