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Ultra Low-NOx Burner for Boiler and Process Heater Applications
EPA Contract Number: 68D50103Title: Ultra Low-NOx Burner for Boiler and Process Heater Applications
Investigators: Kelly, John T.
Small Business: Altex Technologies Corporation
EPA Contact: Richards, April
Phase: I
Project Period: September 1, 1995 through March 1, 1996
Project Amount: $65,000
RFA: Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) - Phase I (1995) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: SBIR - Air Pollution , Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) , Air Quality and Air Toxics
Description:
Combustion in boiler 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 ultra-low NOx burners are needed for these applica-tions. This will reduce the costs and increase the competitiveness of industry that might otherwise be forced to use the expensive Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) NOx control techniques.Altex has identified and ultralow NOx burner for fluids heating, called the ULNB, that has the potential to reduce NOx to 5 ppm. The burner does not require flue gas recirculation, steam injection or exotic materials and is projected to have a pollution control cost of approximately $320/ton of NOx removed. To show the feasibility and benefits of this burner under the Phase I program a burner will be fabricated and tested under conditions characteristic of a watertube boiler. Results of analyses and testing will be used to evaluate the burner performance and costs relative to conventional and low NOx burners and SCR.
Supplemental Keywords:
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, boilers, emission control strategies, industrial waste, industrial boilers, Nox, Nitrogen Oxides, selective catalytic reduction, boilers , process heaters, combustion, clean combustion, industrial air pollution, nitrogen oxides (Nox), ambient emissions, combustion technology, fluids heaters, air pollutants, pollution control technologies, tropospheric ozone destruction, air pollutionProgress and Final Reports:
SBIR Phase II:
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.