Article Number 200402, May 2004

Advanced Combustion Equipment For Continuous Furnaces

Ambrogio Milani and Joachim Georg Wünning

(PDF article, 490 KB)

The size of the document is 490 KB and it may take few minutes to appear on Acrobat window if you have a slow connection. Please be patient.

ABSTRACT:

The following report reviews modern technology of regenerative burners with emphasis on heat recovery and flameless combustion techniques for high temperature processes.

Performance of the combustion equipment are most important in large strip-line furnaces not only for energy savings and NOx abatement, but also for reliable, trouble free operation.

The paper describes a modern, compact regenerative burner that has been extensively installed and tested on industrial furnaces and assesses related features. Significant and successful applications to large Annealing and Pickling lines for stainless steel strip are reported.

Industrial practice and field feed-back point out that a modern, efficient and more reliable combustion system may be competitive and that possible additional investment costs can be recovered in a short time, while providing better quality and easy operating conditions.

Key Words: flameless combustion, burner-integrated heat recovery, regenerative burners, annealing and pickling lines

E-mail: Click here to send an e-mail message (IFRF Exchange member).