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W. Blasiak, K. Narayanan & W. Yang

Abstract

The paper presents state-of-the-art combustion technologies for heating applications in the steel industry. Two types of burners that exhibit dilution combustion were evaluated in this study carried out in a semi-industrial furnace. These were regenerative air-fuel burner and oxy-fuel burner. The tests with regenerative air-fuel were carried out applying operation both with and without oxygen-enrichment. The main parameters studied for the different types of burners and operations include heat flux, thermal efficiency, and NOX at different levels of in-leakage of air. The in-flame parameters were measured including temperature, gas composition, total and radiative heat fluxes. All the studied burners provide a high efficiency of fuel utilization, a large ‘flame’ with uniform tem

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