Stoves and furnaces – Hot-air furnaces – Compressed air
Patent
1992-05-27
1993-06-29
Price, Carl D.
Stoves and furnaces
Hot-air furnaces
Compressed air
126116R, 126112, 126 99A, 431 10, 431 7, F24H 300
Patent
active
052224767
ABSTRACT:
A low NOx burner assembly of a fuel-fired heating appliance is supplied with an air/fuel mixture having a substantially less than stoichiometric air-to-fuel ratio. The air-rich mixture is partially combusted to create primary combustion products disposed within an open inlet portion of a combustor structure having a catalytic converter operatively positioned within an open outlet portion thereof spaced apart from its open inlet portion. A flow of aspirating air is introduced into the combustor structure between the inlet and outlet portions thereof. The aspirating air mixes with the primary combustion products, cools them, and flows with them outwardly through the catalytic converter. This essentially completes the combustion of the remaining fuel within the cooled primary combustion products, and does so at a temperature not appreciably greater than the initial combustion flame temperature to thereby substantially reduce NOx emissions without the use of flame quenching techniques. The burner assembly is representatively illustrated as being incorporated in several types of forced air heating furnaces, but could also be used in other types of fuel-fired heating appliances such as boilers and water heaters.
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Price Carl D.
Rheem Manufacturing Company
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