METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A FUEL-RICH CATALYTIC REACTOR

• Main Authors: CASTALDI, MARCO, J, SMITH, LANCE, L, PFEFFERLE, WILLIAM, C, ETEMAD, SHAHROKH, UL KARIM, MD., HASAN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 27.09.2001
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: AIR; BLASTING; BURNERS; COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES; GENERATING COMBUSTION PRODUCTS OF HIGH PRESSURE OR HIGHVELOCITY, e.g. GAS-TURBINE COMBUSTION CHAMBERS; HEATING; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; METHODSOR APPARATUS FOR COMBUSTION USING FLUID FUELOR SOLID FUEL SUSPENDED IN; WEAPONS

The present invention is a method, and an apparatus for practicing the method, that creates a product stream (31) and a heat of reaction (39) from a fuel-rich fuel/air mixture (37) and then contacts the product stream with a sufficient quantity of additional air (30) to completely combust all of the...