A totally aerated combustion burner has a combustion plate part through which an air-fuel mixture is ejected. The combustion plate part includes: an air-fuel mixture permeable body made from metallic fibers to allow the air-fuel mixture to pass therethrough; and a distribution plate having formed therein a multiplicity of distribution holes and being stacked on a back surface of the air-fuel mixture permeable body. An air-fuel mixture permeable body is constructed by laminating a plurality of metallic-fiber woven bodies which are woven by metallic-fiber threads obtained by bundling a plurality of metallic fibers relatively large in diameter. These metallic-fiber woven bodies are laminated such that a part of meshes in one metallic-fiber woven body overlaps a portion other than meshes in another metallic-fiber woven body, said one metallic-fiber woven body and said another metallic-fiber woven body that lies adjacent to each other in the laminating direction.

Provided is a surface combustion burner which solves the passage blocking in a combustion part caused by dust, and enables stable combustion for a long term. The surface combustion burner comprises: a nozzle configured to discharge fuel gas and air for combustion; and a laminate, provided on a tip of the nozzle, in which a plurality of mesh plates is laminated, wherein the laminate includes a portion having an offset arrangement between at least any adjacent ones of the mesh plates.

A combustion membrane (14) for a gas burner (2) comprises a fabric or mesh (21) of interlaced metal threads (22), having two opposite interlacing surfaces (19, 20) which form a combustion surface (19) and an inner surface (20) of the fabric/mesh (21), respectively, wherein the metal threads (22) are formed by twisted metal fibers (22) to form a yarn and: the individual metal fibers (22) are shorter than the yarn (22) formed therefrom, and free ends (22″) of the metal fibers (22) protrude divergently from the yarn (22) along its longitudinal extension and make the yarn (22) hairy, and the metal thread (22) is a yarn (22) of mass per length in the range from 0.8 g/m to 1.4 g/m.

Methods and devices for gas mixture combustion on a surface of a permeable matrix are provided which produce or result in surface stabilized combustion (SSC) with increasing amounts of radiation energy emitted by the matrix surface and decreasing concentrations of pollutant components in the combustion products. The gas mixture is fed to a burner that includes a permeable matrix material having a first thermal conductivity and configured to preheat the combustible gas mixture as it travels through the matrix. The burner includes a plurality of thermal elements having a thermal conductivity higher than and disposed in thermal transfer communication with the matrix base material. The permeable matrix base material forms a combustion surface with at least a portion of the thermal elements exposed above the combustion surface. The gas mixture is combusted at or near exit pores and channels formed at the permeable matrix material combustion surface.

A radiant burner and method are disclosed. The radiant burner is for treating an effluent gas stream from a manufacturing process tool, the radiant burner comprises: a sintered metal fibre sleeve through which combustion materials pass for combustion proximate to an inner combustion surface of the sintered metal fibre sleeve; and an insulating sleeve surrounding the sintered metal to fibre sleeve and through which the combustion materials pass. In this way, a radiant burner is provided which does not crack due to rapid cycling caused by frequent idle steps during which the burner is extinguished. Also, by providing an insulating sleeve, the temperature within the radiant burner and the temperature of an outer surface of the radiant burner remain comparable with existing ceramic burners. This enables the radiant burner to be substituted in place of existing ceramic burners as a line-replaceable unit which does not suffer from cracking during such frequent and short-duration periods of process tool inactivity.

An infrared radiator for the heat treatment of a material web has an incandescent body with a flow-receiving surface that is subjected to a flow of a gas-air mixture supplied to the infrared radiator and heated by combustion of the gas-air mixture. The incandescent body is manufactured as a sheet material formed of a multiplicity of threads and connecting elements that at least indirectly connect the threads to one another. The connecting elements at least partially engage around the threads and thus connect them at least indirectly to one another. The connecting elements are configured in such a way that they may be detached from the connection with the threads, preferably by hand, while breaking up the sheet material.

High intensity combustion and low intensity combustion are carried out together, to stabilize flames and to hold down the emission of carbon monoxide. An air-fuel mixture outlet member (back plate) that includes a single or a plurality of outlet(s) (air-fuel mixture outlet(s)) out of which an air-fuel mixture (GA) flows is include, and a metal fiber knitting body (metal knit) that covers the air-fuel mixture outlet member is included. Therefor, the air-fuel mixture, which is made to flow out of the outlet(s), passes through the metal fiber knitting body (metal knit) and is combusted, a flame of low intensity (flame) is generated together with a flame of high intensity (flame) by combustion of the air-fuel mixture, and the flame of low intensity holds the flame of high intensity.

A tubular burner and methods of use in a furnace having reduced NO.sub.x emissions are provided. The tubular burner comprises a structural skeleton and a mesh screen disposed about the structural skeleton. The structural skeleton may be coupled to an air/fuel mixture source. The structural skeleton may comprise a hollow interior and a plurality of perforations to allow the air/fuel mixture to pass from the interior of the structural skeleton to the exterior. The burner systems may further comprise a plurality of holes spaced along and between the burners for cross-lighting of multiple burners using a single igniter.

A gas fired radiant emitter comprises a burner deck onto which premix gas is combusted when the emitter is in use; and a metal plate provided at the combustion side of the burner deck. The metal plate is provided to act as radiant screen when the emitter is in use. The metal plate is at least over part of its surface spaced from the burner deck. The metal plate comprises a plurality of elongated slots for passage through the metal plate of flue gas generated on the burner deck. The plurality of elongated slots comprise a first elongated slot. The first elongated slot has a first tangent along a position along the length of the first elongated slot. The plurality of elongated slots comprise a second elongated slot. The second elongated slot has a second tangent along a position along the length of the second elongated slot. The angle between the first tangent and the second tangent is between 45° and 135°.

A method for fabricating a component of an abatement apparatus is disclosed. The method comprises: meshing a 3D model representation of a component defining a reaction chamber of an abatement apparatus based on specified component characteristics to define an optimised finite element representation of the component; and fabricating the optimised finite element representation. In this way, a 3D model of a component of an abatement apparatus can be generated from which its performance can be modelled. Particular characteristics of the component may be defined which affect the operation of the abatement apparatus. Those characteristics may then be used to generate the optimized finite element representation of the component which has those characteristics using meshing (it will be appreciated that meshing is the operation of representing a geometric object as a set of finite elements). The optimized finite element representation may then fabricated, reliably producing a component having the required characteristics.