A bright radiator includes a burner, a fan and a radiant panel functioning as a radiating surface and having flame through-channels, wherein the burner is connected to a fuel gas supply, wherein the fan is designed to supply the burner with combustion air, wherein the burner is designed to bring about extensive glowing of the radiant panel, and wherein the fuel gas supply is connected to a hydrogen source as a fuel gas source.

A method for reducing harmful gas emissions from a gas-fired boiler including a sealed forced-draught combustion chamber in which there is a burner to which there leads a first conduit for drawing in combustion air and from which there departs a second conduit for the discharge of combustion flue gases. Provision is made for drawing off a portion of the flue gases or exhaust gases from the second conduit and injecting it into the combustion air to reduce the percentage of atmospheric oxygen present in that combustion air and consequently reduce the production of harmful gases in the combustion flue gases. A boiler operating according to the aforesaid method is also disclosed.

Burner system for a radiant section of a steam cracking furnace configured to provide heat to the radiant section, the burner system including a fuel inlet and an oxidant inlet, and further comprising an ejector block arranged located within the radiant section and to receive a propellant and a propelled fluid and arranged to premix said propellant with said propelled fluid.

Disclosed is a staged-air burner device capable of high energy efficiency, high flame stability, combusting multiple readily switchable fuels ranging from pure hydrogen, to any hydrogen/methane mixture, to pure methane, and generating a low level of NOx. The burner device can include: a primary air chamber receiving a primary air and a flue gas; a burner tube capable of receiving a fuel jet and drawing in the air-flue gas mixture from the primary air chamber; a burner tip discharging the fuel-air-flue gas mixture formed in the burner tube to a first combustion zone and a second combustion zone via center orifices and side orifices on the burner tip, respectively; and a staged air chamber receiving staged air and discharging it via staged air ports into a third combustion zone. Combustion of the fuel occurs in at least one of the first, second, and third combustion zones.

A flue gas recirculation combustor includes a combustor chamber configured such that fuel and combustion gas are injected therein to cause combustion and having a nozzle-side end and a combustor outlet, a nozzle can connected to the nozzle-side end of the combustor chamber, a plurality of nozzles disposed in the nozzle can and configured such that an injection direction thereof is directed to a side of the combustor chamber, and a sleeve disposed in a premixing space defined between the nozzle can and the nozzle-side end of the combustor chamber, the sleeve including a recirculation pathway to recirculate combustion air from the combustor chamber to the premixing space.

A cylindrical furnace having a vertical axis controls combustion. Solid fuel, particulates, and gases inside the furnace rotate around the axis, inducing radial stratification using centrifugal forces. Fuel and particulates drag on the wall of the cylinder, slipping in and out of suspension, thereby increasing particle residence times. The solid particles comprise combustible fuel particles, and non-combustible ash and contaminants. Control of the temperature of non-combustible particles and the wall surface prevents these non-combustible particles from adhering to, and building up on, the furnace wall. It is also advantageous to control the gas temperature leaving the furnace to minimize temperature-driven corrosion of downstream heat-exchange surfaces. Method and apparatuses are described to control the gas, non-combustible particle, and wall temperatures. The furnace can be integrated into a stand-alone boiler or as a combustor in which a portion of the pyrolysis gas from the combusting fuel is burned in a separate vessel.

A furnace for treating metal parts includes a treatment atmosphere provided at an interior of the furnace; at least one burner operatively associated with the furnace for heating the treatment atmosphere to a temperature below a melting point of the metal parts; a passageway interconnecting the interior and the at least one burner, the passageway directing at least a portion of the heat treatment atmosphere exhausted from the furnace interior to the at least one burner for combustion; and a source of oxygen in fluid communication with the at least one burner for enriching combustion of the heat treatment atmosphere portion with oxygen at said burner. A related method is also provided.

A combustion method in which heated flue gas heats a regenerator through which a mixture of fuel and flue gas is then passed to undergo endothermic reactions that produce syngas which is fed into a furnace together with a motive gas stream.

Methods and combustion devices for reducing NOx formation upon combusting oxidant with fuel to form products of combustion are provided. Such methods and device may involve mixing at least first portions of at least two fluids selected from the group of oxidant, fuel and recirculated products of combustion in at least one first conduit to form a first mixture. The first mixture is subsequently supplied to a plurality of second conduits each in direct fluid communication with the first conduit. Motive energy is utilized to aspirate at least second portions of one or more fluids selected from the group of oxidant, fuel and recirculated products of combustion in at least one second conduit to form a combustible mixture that can be subsequently burned. In one embodiment, the motive energy may be provided or result from the first mixture.

Burner system for a radiant section of a steam cracking furnace configured to provide heat to the radiant section, the burner system including a fuel inlet and an oxidant inlet, and further comprising an ejector block arranged located within the radiant section and to receive a propellant and a propelled fluid and arranged to premix said propellant with said propelled fluid.