Testing the Sonotech pulse combustor in a pilot-scale rotary kiln incinerator
Conference
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OSTI ID:111477
- Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH (United States)
- Acurex Environmental Corp., Jefferson, AR (United States)
- PRC Environmental Management, Inc., Georgetown, KY (United States)
This is a report on an incinerator performance test of an innovative soundwave-based combustion burner system that was patented, designed, and fabricated by its developer - Sonotech, Inc., of Atlanta, Georgia. The Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) program Demonstration of the Sonotech, Inc., tunable-pulse combustion burner technology was conducted In the fall of 1994 at USEPA`S incineration Research Facility (IRF) in Jefferson, Arkansas. Sonotech claims the technology will provide benefits when applied in a variety of combustion processes. The burner system Incorporates a natural-gas-fired burner, the pulse frequency of which can be tuned to induce large amplitude sonic pulsations inside a combustion process unit, such as an incinerator. Sonotech claims these pulsations will increase the efficiency of a combustion process by promoting better mixing of the combustion gases. In the SITE Demonstration of its technology, Sonotech`s technicians retrofitted a pulse combustion burner in the government`s pilot-scale rotary kiln incineration system (RKS) housed at the IRF. Sonotech claims their burner significantly improves the performance of the incineration process by increasing the rates of mixing (i.e., momentum ) and mass and heat transfers within an incinerator. These, in turn, increase the Incineration rate, reduce the amount of air required for incineration, reduce the severity of puffs, and reduce pollutant emissions. The developer claims these improvements reduce capital investment and operating costs In a wide variety of incineration systems and improve their performance.
- OSTI ID:
- 111477
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9504110--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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