Combustion process

Combustion – Process of combustion or burner operation – Decarbonizing – cleaning or purging

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110345, 110347, 110263, 431 10, F23M 304

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052154556

ABSTRACT:
A combustion process for nitrogen- or for sulphur- and nitrogen-bearing fuels wherein fuel combustion is divided, by staged oxygen (preferably in the form of air) injection, into at least two combustion zones. The first combustion zone involves providing fuel-rich stoichiometric conditions under which nitrogen chemically bound in the fuel (i.e. fuel-bound nitrogen) is substantially converted to molecular nitrogen. The second (final) combustion zone comprises at least two stages. In the first stage of the final combustion zone, combustion products from the first combustion zone are further combusted under a condition of fuel-rich stoichiometry, preferably at an oxygen/fuel stoichiometric ratio of from about 0.80 to about 1.0 and at a temperature of less than about 2200 K. In the second stage of the final combustion zone, combustion products from the first stage are combusted at an oxygen/fuel stoichiometric ratio of greater than about 1.0 and at a temperature of less than about 1500 K. In this final zone, fuel combustion is completed while formation of new thermal NO.sub.x is substantially prevented. Thus, the process may be used to reduce emissions of undesirable nitrogenous compounds (e.g. NO.sub.x) which would ordinarily be formed during completion of fuel combustion. The process is particularly appropriate for use with the fuel-rich gases from a burner designed to control air pollutants arising from sulphur and nitrogen in the fuel.

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