Method of and system for determining the ratio between the oxygen-carrying gas content and the fuel content of a mixture

US4659306A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Ruhrgas Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Detlef Altemark · Dorsten, DE
• Manfred Weid · Haltern, DE
• Eugen Brockmann · Bad Soden am Taunus, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 8, 1985
• Grant date: Apr 21, 1987
• Expiry date: Mar 8, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F23N2223/06
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

For determining the ratio in which two constituents are blended in a mixture comprising an oxygen-carrying gas and a gaseous fuel to be combusted by a primary combustion system, the thermodynamic conditions (composition, pressure, temperature) of the two gases prior to and after blending being variable, a secondary combustion system reacting part of the fuel and part of the oxygen-carrying gas is used as a reference combustion chamber. A mixture reproducibly analogous with the mixture burnt by the primary combustion system is used for reaction in the reference combustion chamber. Combustion in the reference combustion chamber is measured to obtain at least one signal for measuring and controlling the ratio between the two constituents of the mixture burnt by the primary combustion system, the reference combustion chamber allowing the rapid, accurate and reliable determination of the ratio between the gaseous fuel and the oxygen-carrying gas contents of the mixture burnt by the primary combustion system.