A method is provided for heating a furnace arranged with a heating zone heated with a burner providing a flame extending in a longitudinal direction and fed with a fuel and a primary oxidant, the burner is operated with a mass relationship between the fed fuel and primary oxidant permitting less than 50% of the fed fuel to be combusted using the primary oxidant, and a respective pair of secondary oxidant lances are provided one either side of the furnace pointing into the heating zone, lancing a secondary oxidant into the heating zone downstream of the burner substantially parallel with a cross plane, such that a temperature is measured downstream of the lances and that each of the lance pairs includes an upstream, low-speed first and a downstream, high-speed second lance, wherein the amount of secondary oxidant supplied via the first lance is regulated to achieve a homogenous lateral temperature profile. A related furnace is also provided.

According to an embodiment, a combustion system is provided, which includes a nozzle configured to emit a diverging fuel flow, a flame holder positioned in the path of the fuel flow and that includes a plurality of apertures extending therethrough, and a preheat mechanism configured to heat the flame to a temperature exceeding a startup temperature threshold.

A combustion system such as a furnace or boiler includes a perforated reaction holder configured to hold a combustion reaction that produces very low oxides of nitrogen (NOx).

A combustion system outputs fuel gas from a plurality of fuel ejectors toward a forward end of a burner wall and preheats a perforated flame holder by sustaining combustion reaction of the fuel gas at combustion zone between the burner wall and a perforated flame holder. The combustion system then outputs fuel gas from the fuel ejectors onto the perforated flame holder and sustains a combustion reaction of the fuel gas within the perforated flame holder.

A method for providing automatic enhanced staged oxygen combustion in a glass furnace including providing two or more burner assemblies each positioned to provide a flame in the glass furnace. Each of the burner assemblies includes a burner body having a primary gas inlet in fluid communication with a gas source through a primary gas valve, and a staged injector sub-assembly having a secondary gas inlet in fluid communication with the gas source through a secondary gas valve. The primary gas valve and the secondary gas valve are automatically controlled to alternate the total gas flow between a first total gas flow condition with the secondary gas flow rate at a secondary gas flow rate maximum value and a second total gas flow condition with the secondary gas flow rate at a secondary gas flow rate minimum value to provide enhanced staged oxygen combustion.