Grantee Research Project Results
Ultra Low-NOx Burner for Boiler and Process Heater Applications
EPA Contract Number: 68D60048Title: Ultra Low-NOx Burner for Boiler and Process Heater Applications
Investigators: Kelly, John T.
Small Business: Altex Technologies Corporation
EPA Contact: Richards, April
Phase: II
Project Period: September 1, 1996 through June 1, 1999
Project Amount: $224,956
RFA: Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) - Phase II (1996) Recipients Lists
Research Category: SBIR - Air Pollution , Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) , Air Quality and Air Toxics
Description:
Combustion in boilers and fluids heaters consumes approximately 5 TCF of gas per year and generates approximately 350,000 tons of NOx. To meet ambient air quality standards, particularly those for ozone, low-cost ultralow NOx burners are needed for these applications. This will reduce costs and increase the competitiveness of U.S. industry that might otherwise be forced to use the expensive Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) NOx control techniques.Altex has identified an ultralow NOx burner for boilers and fluid heaters called the ULNB. Phase I 2MMBtu/hr ULNB tests have shown the potential of the burner to reduce NOx to be low 9 ppm, over a turndown ratio of eight-to-one, and with good combustion conditions. The burner is projected to reduce the cost to remove a ton of NOx by 80 percent, relative to alternative low NOx burners, and 96 percent, relative to SCR. To demonstrate performance and economic benefits of this burner under the Phase II program, a 20 MMBtu/hr ULNB will be fabricated and then tested in an industrial boiler. Results of analyses and testing will be used to evaluate the burner performance and costs, relative to other low NOx burners and SCR.
Supplemental Keywords:
small business, SBIR, engineering, chemistry., RFA, Air, Scientific Discipline, Waste, Toxics, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, HAPS, Environmental Chemistry, Engineering, Chemistry, & Physics, Incineration/Combustion, tropospheric ozone, air toxics, Environmental Engineering, incineration, industrial emissions, emission control strategies, boilers, industrial waste, industrial boilers, process heaters, Nitrogen Oxides, Nox, boilers , selective catalytic reduction, clean combustion, combustion, combustion technology, industrial air pollution, nitrogen oxides (Nox), fluids heaters, ambient emissions, air pollutants, pollution control technologies, ultra low NOX burnerProgress and Final Reports:
SBIR Phase I:
Ultra Low-NOx Burner for Boiler and Process Heater ApplicationsThe perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Conclusions drawn by the principal investigators have not been reviewed by the Agency.