Porous-insert technology for emissions reduction from gas-appliance burners. Topical report, March 1990-March 1995
Because of interest worldwide regarding the quality of indoor air, gas-appliance user and manufacturers need to know, with certainty, the extent to which burner design and operator parameters can be used to simultaneously control the emission of NO, NO2, CO, and other trace species. Appreciating the principals of the Davy fire-safey lamp, it was surmised that this goal might be realized by placing a porous insert at the base of a blue flame, such that it did not incandesce, but acted as an excess free-radical filter. Reported are efforts to establish the performance of, rationalize a mechanism for, and secure a patent on porous inserts. Different sampling and analytical methods measured emissions from flames with different primary aerations from different burner caps, with and without 3 different inserts.
- Research Organization:
- Battelle Memorial Inst., Columbus, OH (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 200209
- Report Number(s):
- PB-96-136775/XAB; CNN: Contract GRI-5088-254-1708; TRN: 60513097
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: May 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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