A method and apparatus for a burner adapted to heat a furnace or other environment of use. In particular, a burner for providing a fuel gas in combination with an oxidant to effect controlled reaction of the fuel gas in a manner to reduce NOx emissions is described. Combustion of the fuel gas is shifted from the burner combustor to a location outside the burner once the temperature within the furnace/radiant tube has reached a sufficient level to complete combustion of the fuel gas.

A combustor for a gas turbine engine having a central axis about which is arranged in flow sequence a radial swirler, a pre-chamber partly defined by a wall and a combustion chamber. The radial swirler has a base plate having an annular array of vanes and fuel injectors arranged to direct an air/fuel mixture radially inwardly and tangentially to create a vortex that flows through the pre-chamber and into the combustion chamber. The pre-chamber has a portion which is convergent in a downstream direction.

The burner (100) comprises a cylindrical porous substrate (110); and an end cap (130) at a first end of the cylindrical porous substrate (110). The cylindrical porous substrate (110) is provided for flow of a premix of combustible gas and air from the outside of the cylindrical porous substrate (110) through the pores of the cylindrical porous substrate (110) to an interior cavity (140), for the combustible gas to be combusted on the inner surface of the cylindrical porous substrate (110) thereby generating hot gas. The burner has an opening (182) at the second end of the cylindrical porous substrate (110) to exit the hot flue gas out of the interior cavity (140). The cylindrical porous substrate (110) has a higher permeability section (170), located at the opening (182) at the second end. The higher permeability section (170) has a lower resistance to gas flow than other sections of the cylindrical porous substrate (110).

A heat and hydrogen generation device comprising a burner combustion chamber (3), a burner (7) for feeding fuel and air into the burner combustion chamber (3), and a reformer catalyst (4). The target value of the O.sub.2/C molar ratio of air and fuel which are made to react in the burner combustion chamber (3) is preset as the target O.sub.2/C molar ratio. The actual O.sub.2/C molar ratio at the time of warm-up operation is estimated from the rate of temperature rise of the reformer catalyst (4) etc., when performing warm-up operation. When the estimated actual O.sub.2/C molar ratio deviates from the target O.sub.2/C molar ratio at the time of warm-up operation, the ratio of feed between the amount of feed of air for burner combustion and the amount of feed of fuel for burner combustion is corrected, in a direction making the estimated actual O.sub.2/C molar ratio approach the target O.sub.2/C molar ratio at the time of warm-up operation.

The invention relates to a gaseous fuel (including all mixtures thereof) burner structure, characterized in that it comprises: a housing defining a distal flame outlet end and a proximal gaseous fuel and air supply end, both ends having covers; a pressurized-air inlet arranged in the housing close to the proximal end, defining an inner pressurized-air-supply chamber; a pressurized-gaseous-fuel-supply duct arranged in the center, housed in a first mixing chamber and provided with a plurality of openings for the outflow of the gaseous fuel to said first mixing chamber, said first mixing chamber also comprising a plurality of openings for supplying pressurized air axially and radially; an igniter arranged inside said first mixing chamber for a first combustion; a second, over-mixing chamber arranged colinearly with said first chamber, the end of the fuel duct comprising a cover provided with openings via which gaseous fuel is axially supplied to said second, over-mixing chamber, and the wall of said second chamber comprising openings via which pressurized air is radially supplied, where a second stage of the combustion process is carried out; and a third, conical flame-formation chamber colinearly connected to the end of said second, over-mixing chamber.

Systems and methods are disclosed that include providing a cooking system that comprises a burner assembly and a heat exchanger, the burner assembly having a high velocity burner configured to provide the necessary high velocity, volumetric flowrate through the heat exchanger having a first fluid circuit having a plurality of compactly-arranged tubes disposed perpendicularly and interstitially to a second fluid circuit having a plurality of compactly-arranged tubes, and the burner assembly also having a low velocity burner configured to significantly reduce and/or substantially eliminate lift off that could result from operation of only the high velocity burner.

A fuel combustion system comprises a discharge nozzle with concentric fuel and air orifices. A fuel conduit is coupled to each fuel orifice for supplying liquid fuel thereto. An air conduit is coupled to each air orifice for supplying air thereto. The fuel and the pressurized air only mixing with one another, upon being discharged from the respective fuel and air orifices, to form a fuel mixture. A supplemental air source supplies supplement air to facilitate combustion. An air deflector sleeve at least partially surrounds and accommodates the at least one discharge nozzle and a cylindrical blast tube surrounding the air deflector sleeve and an outlet end of the cylindrical blast tube supports a flame retention head. The flame retention head redirects the supplement air radially inward, through openings in the air deflector sleeve and the flame retention head, to assist with combustion of the fuel mixture.

An implosion reactor tube is provided, including: a receptacle body having a tube shape open at a first end; a cylinder positioned within the receptacle body; a mixing chamber at a second end of the receptacle body; the mixing chamber defined by a baffle; the baffle having a plurality of inner passages proximate to the cylinder allowing fluid passage through the baffle and a plurality of outer passages proximate to the receptacle body allowing passage of air and fuel through said baffle; a fuel and air inlet for allowing the air and fuel to enter the mixing chamber; and a flash igniter for igniting the air and fuel.

An internal combustion burner including a combustion chamber supplied with fuel and with oxidant and at least two combustion devices supplied with oxidant and with fuel. Combining two combustion devices of distinct configurations, which respectively generate two distinct types of flames with a system for cooling the walls of the burner by introducing air along the walls, makes it possible to obtain a burner that supplies a combustion gas temperature of up to 1700 C., while at the same time being easily cooled and occupying very little space so that it can, for example, be housed in an existing installation used in the manufacture of rock wool or glass wool.

The object of the present invention is to provide a high-temperature oxygen generation device and a high-temperature oxygen generation method which can efficiently supply preheated high-temperature oxygen gas regardless of pressure conditions from normal pressure to high pressure, without requiring upsizing or expansion of the equipment, and the present invention provides a high-temperature oxygen generation device (10) in which a high-temperature gas (G4) and an oxygen gas (G3) to be heated are mixed to generate a high-temperature oxygen gas (G5), wherein the high-temperature oxygen generation device (10) includes a burner (1) which generates the high-temperature gas (G4), and a preheating chamber (7) which is provided on the downstream side of the burner (1) and mixes the high-temperature gas (G4) and the oxygen gas (G3) to be heated, and the burner (1) includes a combustion chamber (5) which forms a flame by a fuel gas (G1) and an oxygen gas (G2) for combustion, a fuel flow path (2) which supplies the fuel gas (G1) into the combustion chamber (5), a first oxygen flow path (3) and a second oxygen flow path (4) which supply the oxygen gas (G2) for combustion into the combustion chamber (5), and a flow path (6) for oxygen to be heated which communicates with the preheating chamber (7), and supplies the oxygen gas (G3) to be heated toward the preheating chamber (7).