Processes and apparatuses for heating process fluid in a furnace. Fuel to the furnace is either hydrocarbons or hydrogen. The fuels may be sent to different furnaces or be sent at different times to the same furnace. Furnaces that are configured to receive both types of fuels may have different exhaust paths. An exhaust path for hydrocarbon fuel flue gas includes a carbon capture process zone.

A burner and methods of using the burner. The burner utilizes bypass conduits to separate the combustion air that is passed to the primary combustion zone into two or more portions. The two portions are injected into the primary combustion zone at different points so as to reduce the flame temperature. A NOx reducing medium may be mixed with the combustion air in the bypass conduit. The NOx reducing medium may be flue gases from a combustion chamber having the primary combustion zone.

A burner is provided which includes a tile surrounding an opening of the tile extending along a burner axis, the tile including a front side and a rear side, wherein the rear side has an air inlet connected to the opening for feeding air into the opening, and the front side has a discharge outlet connected to the opening for discharging a flame into a surrounding area. The burner includes at least one oxygen lance extending along the burner axis in a first recess of the tile, and the oxygen lance having an ejection nozzle at an end region of the lance for ejecting oxygen, wherein the at least one oxygen lance is mounted with the ejection nozzle positioned along the burner axis to be adjustable between an uppermost position and a lowermost position via a zero-position in between the uppermost position and the lowermost position.

A method for burning primary fuel (F1), wherein the primary fuel (F1) comprises at least a first compound containing nitrogen and a second compound comprising sulfur. The method comprises producing primary combustion gas (G1) having a temperature of at least 450° C. and comprising oxygen; feeding the primary fuel (F1) and the primary combustion gas (G1) to a primary process zone (Z1) of a furnace (200); feeding tertiary combustion gas (G3) to a secondary process zone (Z2) of the furnace (200); letting the primary fuel (F1), the primary combustion gas (G1), and/or their reaction products to move from the primary process zone (Z1) via the secondary process zone (Z2) to a tertiary process zone (Z3) of the furnace (200); and feeding quaternary combustion gas (G4) comprising oxygen to the tertiary process zone (Z3) of the furnace (200). An embodiment comprises collecting the primary fuel (F1) from a pulp process. A corresponding system.

A boiler performs mixed-fuel combustion of a sulfur-containing fuel and ammonia as a fuel, and includes a furnace having a plurality of wall parts, a burner installed on at least one of the wall parts of the furnace, and an ammonia injection port that is configured to cause the ammonia to be burned as the fuel to flow along an inner wall surface of the wall part where the burner is not installed.

A method of melting a charge in a double-pass tilt rotary furnace having a door, including operating a first burner at a first firing rate, the first burner being mounted in a lower portion of the door and producing a first flame having a length; operating a second burner at a second firing rate, the second burner being mounted in an upper portion of the door and producing a second flame having a length, the second flame being distal from the charge relative to the first flame; in an initial phase when the solids in the charge impede the first flame, controlling the second firing rate to be greater than the first firing rate; and in an later phase after melting of the solids in the charge sufficiently that the first flame is not impeded, controlling the first firing rate to be greater than the second firing rate.

A system and method for synchronized oxy-fuel boosting of a regenerative glass melting furnace including first and second sets of regenerative air-fuel burners, a first double-staged oxy-fuel burner mounted in a first wall, and a second double-staged oxy-fuel burner mounted in a second wall, each oxy-fuel burner having a primary oxygen valve to apportion a flow of oxygen between primary oxygen and staged oxygen and a staging mode valve to apportion the flow of staged oxygen between an upper staging port and a lower staging port in the respective burner, and a controller programmed to control the primary oxygen valve and the staging mode valve of each of the first and second oxy-fuel burners to adjust flame characteristics of the first and second oxy-fuel burners depending on the state of operation of the furnace.

A combustion system with a combustion area in a boiler including a fuel pipe for delivering fuel is disclosed. A duct having a bend extended there through is in fluid communication with the fuel pipe and the combustion area of the boiler. The duct has an outer perimeter and an inner perimeter. The duct includes a first partition plate to form a first parallel flow of the fuel between the outer perimeter and the first partition plate, upstream of the bend.

The invention relates to a burner with a refractory burner body 1, 2, 3 for burning liquid or aerosol fuels, in particular, gaseous fuels. With the aim of reducing NO.sub.x emissions, the burner body comprises a gas nozzle 7, 9, 10, 11 and a plurality of air nozzles 4, 6, which are at least partially formed as integral mouldings in the burner body and flow out on a front side 16 of the burner body. Here, the air nozzles are symmetrically arranged around the gas nozzle and diverge at an angle to the gas nozzle. Likewise, the invention relates to a method for burning liquid or aerosol fuels, in particular, gaseous fuels with reduced NO.sub.x emissions.

Process for combusting a fuel with an oxidant and burner for the implementation thereof, process wherein at least one stream of the fuel is injected through at least one first perforation, a main flow of oxidant is injected below or above the one or more streams of the fuel through at least one second perforation, an auxiliary flow of the oxidant is introduced into contact with the at least one fuel stream so as to generate an initial flame by an initial partial combustion of the fuel with the auxiliary flow of the oxidant, this initial partial combustion being completed downstream of the initial flame by means of the at least one main stream of the oxidant, the flow rate of the main flow of the oxidant or the ratio between the flow rate of the main flow of the oxidant and the flow rate of the auxiliary flow of the oxidant being adjusted depending on the emission intensity of the initial flame.