Distributed combustion process and burner

US8827691B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude · FR
• American Air Liquide, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Rajeev S. Prabhakar · Wilmington, US
• Remi Tsiava · Corbeil-Essonnes, FR
• Magnus Mortberg · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Benoit Grand · Versailles, FR
• Bertrand Leroux · Breuillet, FR
• Vivek Gautam · Bear, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 31, 2010
• Grant date: Sep 9, 2014
• Expiry date: May 11, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E20/34
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

During a heating phase, injection of a jet of fuel and oxidant (fuel annularly enshrouding oxidant or oxidant annularly enshrouding fuel) from a fuel-oxidant nozzle is combusted in a combustion space. During a transition from the heating phase to a distributed combustion phase, an amount of a secondary portion of either the fuel or oxidant is injected as a jet into the combustion space while the primary portion of that same reactant from the fuel-oxidant nozzle is decreased. At some point during the transition phase, a jet of actuating fluid is injected at an angle towards the jet of reactants from the fuel-oxidant nozzle and/or towards the jet of the secondary portion of reactant. The jet of primary portions of reactants and/or secondary portion of reactant is caused to be bent/deviated towards the other of the two jets. The staging of the secondary portion of reactant is increased until a desired degrees of staging and commencement of a distributed combustion phase are achieved.