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Main Title Refinery Process Heater NOx Control by Staged Combustion Air Lances.
Author Hunter, S. C. ; Hall, R. E. ;
CORP Author KVB, Inc., Irvine, CA.;Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. Air and Energy Engineering Research Lab.
Year Published 1988
Report Number KVB72-P-322; EPA-68-02-3690; EPA/600/J-88/077;
Stock Number PB88-249867
Additional Subjects Heating equipment ; Air pollution control ; Nitrogen oxide(NO) ; Refineries ; Performance evaluation ; Revisions ; Design criteria ; Pilot plants ; Industrial wastes ; Combustion products ; Petroleum industry ; Emission ; Combustion modifications ; Air pollution abatement
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NTIS  PB88-249867 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
The paper gives results of tests of a natural-draft petroleum-refinery crude-oil process heater, modified to reduce oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions by installing staged-combustion air lances. Baseline nitric oxide (NO) emissions firing refinery gas before modification were measured to be 100-125 ppm by volume, dry, corrected to 3 percent oxygen. Staged-combustion air lances bypassed combustion air around the burners to achieve staged combustion. With the modification, an average reduction of 64 percent in NO emissions was observed over a 30-day test period, with NO emissions of 25-50 ppm, depending on the excess air.