Potential Applications of High Temperature Air Combustion Technology to Other Systems - High Temperature Air Combustion: From Energy Conservation to Pollution Reduction - page 342

Industrial Furnaces
and Boilers

HiTAC

Conversion of
Wastes to Clean
Gaseous Fuels

Gasification of
Solid Wastes

Conditioned High
Temperature Air

High
Loading/Intensity
HiTAC

Engine and Gas
Turbine
Combustion

FIGURE 6.1 Applications of high temperature air comb ustion in furnaces and boilers, ther-

mal destruction of solid wastes, and engines.

ustion technology was initially developed for different
kinds of heating processes. Now the HiTAC is being developed for use in the thermal
destruction of solid wastes and turbulent high intensity HiTAC technology (high
loading HiTAC) for use in gas turbine engines. The above processes are summarized
in Figure 6.2 .
High temperature air has been used to convert several kinds of municipal and
industrial solid wastes into useful gaseous energy using high temperature air provided
by the NFK manufactured Air Enthalpy Intensifier

High temperature air comb

AI) and steam. Some other
potential applications include thermal destruction of hazardous chemical wastes and

(called

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FIGURE 6.2 Potential applications of high temperature air comb ustion, including applica-

tions already developed or at present being developed.