HEJ, HU ISSN 1418-7108
Manuscript no.: ENV-000624-A
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The formation of polluting gas components at staged firing

Environment protectional tests have been done to find out to what extent the amount of gaseous pollutants found in the combustion products of natural gas changes during the energetics utilization of the chemical heat of high $CO$, $CO_2$ and high $H_2$ content waste gases.

At the Department of Combustion Technology of University of Miskolc research has been carried out for several years now to clarify the theoretical basis of staged combustion. In this work two-stage gas combustion has proved to be most useful in $NO_x$ reduction.

Our experiments have been carried out under two-stage combustion. During two-stage combustion all the combustion air was added to natural gas which yielded a primary combustion zone of high air factor and then the waste gas was led into the secondary combustion zone, the combustion with the final air factor came into being.

For our research purposes a test furnace has been designed and built (Fig. 11 and Fig. 12). The test burner designed for our measurements was suitable for both normal and two-stage combustion.

Fig. 13 shows the principle the two-stage test burner designed and produced for experimental purposes. It can be operated both in a traditional operational mode and with two-stage firing. Base of this burner is an high speed impulse burner.

  
Figure 11: A. Line diagram of test furnace
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Figure 12: B. Line diagram of test furnace
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Figure 13: Principle of staged gas firing
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Fig. 14 and  15 summarises the results of our measurements done to specify the $NO_x$ reduction with e.g. bio gas mixtures.

  
Figure 14: Change of $NO_x$ formation at different rate of primary and secondary gas (natural gas- bio gas) ( $q_{v gas} = 2,2 m^{3}/h$; normal firing)
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Figure 15: Change of $NO_x$ formation at different rate of primary and secondary gas (natural gas- bio gas) ( $q_{v gas} = 2,2 m^{3}/h$; staged firing)
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HEJ, HU ISSN 1418-7108
Manuscript no.: ENV-000624-A
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