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Atomizers for large boiler burners are usually of the swid pressure jet or internally mixed twin-fluid types, producing hoUow conical sprays. Less common are the externally mixed twin-fluid types (89,90). 

Disturbance noise covariance matrix Q This was set as a diagonal matrix, where q and q22 represent changes in the burner and dryer temperatures as a result of changing heat transfer through the walls of the dryer, due to wind and variations in external temperature. 

The chamber is externally insulated and clad. Combustion equipment for solid fuel may be spreader or traveling-grate stokers or by pulverized fuel or fluid bed. Oil and gas burners may be fitted either as main or auxiliary firing equipment. The boilers will incorporate superheaters, economizers and, where necessary, air preheaters, grit arresters, and gas-cleaning equipment to meet clean air legislation. 

The burner is fitted with a cooling jacket, which cools the exit gases to 200 °C. The gases are further cooled, to 50 °C, in an external heat exchanger. 

For a production rate of 10,000 tonnes per year of hydrogen chloride, calculate the heat removed by the burner jacket and the heat removed in the external cooler. Take the excess hydrogen as 1 per cent over stoichiometric. The hydrogen supply contains 5 per cent inerts (take as nitrogen) and is fed to the burner at 25°C. The chlorine is essentially pure and is fed to the burner as a saturated vapour. The burner operates at 1.5 bar. 

The subsequent steam reforming section is operated at very high temperatures 850-900 °C. The SMR catalysts themselves are already active below 400 °C, but high temperatures are necessary to drive the strongly endothermic reaction forward [8]. In industry, nickel catalysts are used in high-alloy reaction tubes, which are heated by external burners. This design is expensive and leads to heat losses, although much of the heat is recuperated. Noble metal catalysts such as sup-... 

Figure 1-14 shows a simplified layout for an SOFC-based APU. The air for reformer operation and cathode requirements is compressed in a single compressor and then split between the unit operations. The external water supply shown in figure 1-14 will most likely not be needed the anode recycle stream provides water. Unreacted anode tail gas is recuperated in a tail gas burner. Additional energy is available in a SOFC system from enthalpy recovery from tail gas effluent streams that are typically 400-600°C. Current thinking is that reformers for transportation fuel based SOFC APUs will be of the exothermic type (i.e. partial oxidation or autothermal reforming), as no viable steam reformers are available for such fuels. 

Flue gas recirculation Flue gas recirculation, alone or in combination with other modifications, can significantly reduce thermal NO,. Recirculated flue gas is a diluent that reduces flame temperatures. External and internal recirculation paths have been applied internal recirculation can be accomplished by jet entrainment using either combustion air or fuel jet energy external recirculation requires a fan or a jet pump (driven by the combustion air). When combined with staged-air or staged-fuel methods, NO emissions from gas-fired burners can be reduced by 50 to 90 percent. In some applications, external flue-gas recirculation can decrease thermal efficiency. Condensation in the recirculation loop can cause operating problems and increase maintenance requirements. 

Air-staged burners Low-NO air-staged burners for firing gas (or oil) are shown in Fig. 24-28. A high-performance, low-NO, burner for high-temperature furnaces is shown in Fig. 24-32. In this design, both air-staging and external flue-gas recirculation are used to achieve extremely low levels of NO emissions (approximately 90 percent lower than conventional burners). The flue gas is recirculated by a jet-pump driven by the primary combustion air. 

Figure 6.1 shows the apparatus diagram. The diffusion flame burner consisted of an air plenum with an exit diameter of 22 mm, forced at a Strouhal number of 0.73 (100 Hz) by a single acoustic driver, and a coaxial fuel injection ring of diameter 24 mm, fed by a plenum forced by two acoustic drivers at either 100 Hz (single-phase injection) or 200 Hz (dual-phase injection). The fuel was injected circumferentially directly into the shear layer and roll-up region for the air vortices. In addition, this fuel injection was sandwiched between the central air flow and the external air entrainment. Thus the fuel injection was a thin cylindrical flow acted upon from both sides by air flow. 

Both air and fuel are injected through the same atomizing nozzle in this burner. Fuel is injected at a low pressure while air is injected at a high velocity resulting in a finer spray than is provided by the high pressure atomizing gun. A secondary, external air supply is also provided. This type of atomizer is less susceptible to nozzle plugging. 

Fig. 124 is a representation of Winfield s lucent burner, in which the Liverpool button is applied to an argand gas-burner, and the peculiar form of ohimney causes an external current of air to impinge at a certain angle npon the flame, producing the same effect as the metallic cone in the solar lamp a basket of wire-gauze is fitted into the crutch of tire burner, which moderates the supply of air from below, and prevents the flickering caused by sudden draughts. 

The Pyrites Burners.—In the lead chamber process the first chemical action is the oxidation of sulphur to sulphur dioxide by atmospheric oxygen. The iron pyrites (or free sulphur, spent oxide from the gas works, or other sulphides such as zinc blende, as the case may be) is placed on shelves or bars in a series of ovens of suitable type. When iron pyrites or sulphur is used, the combustion when once started proceeds to completion without further assistance by external heat ... 

Figure 17.23. Representative temperature profiles in reaction systems (see also Figs. 17.20, 17.21(d), 17.22(d), 17.30(c), 17.34, and 17.35). (a) A jacketed tubular reactor, (b) Burner and reactor for high temperature pyrolysis of hydrocarbons (Ullmann, 1973, Vol. 3, p. 355) (c) A catalytic reactor system in which the feed is preheated to starting temperature and product is properly adjusted exo- and endothermic profiles, (d) Reactor with built-in heat exchange between feed and product and with external temperature adjustment exo- and endothermic profiles.

The ATR (Autothermal Reforming) process makes CO-enriched syngas. It combines partial oxidation with adiabatic steam-reforming and is a cost-effective option when oxygen or enriched air is available. It was developed in the late 1950 s for ammonia and methanol synthesis, and then further developed in the 1990 s by Haldor Topspe2. The difference between Steam Methane Reforming (SMR) and ATR is in how heat is provided to activate the endothermic steam reforming reaction. In SMR, the catalyst is contained in tubes that are heated by an external burner. 

Reaction (1) is the primary reforming reaction and is endothermic. Reaction (2) is the water-gas shift reaction and is exothermic. Both these reactions are limited by thermodynamic equilibrium. The overall reaction is endothermic and hence requires that additional fuel be combusted to supply heat. The conventional steam reformer is a fired furnace containing catalyst-filled tubes. The hydrocarbon and steam mixture is processed in the catalyst-filled tubes while external burners heat the tubes. Nickel supported on a ceramic matrix is the most common steam reforming catalyst. 

Shield The entire burner and flask assembly should be protected from external air currents. Any efficient shield may be employed for this purpose. 

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