Distributed combustion process and burner

US9285113B2 · 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
• Air Liquide Advanced Technologies U.S. LLC · US

Inventors

• Taekyu Kang · Newark, US
• Vivek Gautam · Bear, US
• Rajeev S. Prabhakar · Wilmington, US
• Benoit Grand · Versailles, FR
• Bertrand Leroux · Breuillet, FR
• Magnus Mortberg · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Nicolas Docquier · Philadelphia, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 6, 2014
• Grant date: Mar 15, 2016
• Expiry date: Nov 6, 2034

Classification

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

Abstract

A burner has a fuel/oxidant nozzles and a pair of dynamical lances spaced on either side thereof that inject a jet of fuel and primary oxidant along a fuel injection axis, and jets of secondary oxidant, respectively. Jets of actuating fluid impinge against the jets of secondary oxidant to fluidically angle the jets of secondary oxidant away from the fuel injection axis. The action of the angling away together with staging of the oxidant between primary and secondary oxidant injections allows achievement of distributed combustion conditions.