John Zink Company Showcases Breakthrough Low-NOx Technology
TULSA, Okla. (July 12, 2001) - Representatives of leading companies within the process industry recently joined John Zink Company at its International Research and Development Test Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for "One COOL Event." The day-long session was built around the demonstration of John Zink's next generation of ultra-low NOx technologies and low-emission burner systems spanning all industrial applications.
One COOL Event's live burner demonstrations included seven ultra-low NOX burner solutions that utilize COOL TechnologiesTM, a dynamic family of breakthrough techniques used in fired equipment to attain the lowest possible NOx while enhancing total combustion performance. To date, technologies have been developed under the trademarks COOLburnTM, COOLmixTM, COOLfuelTM and COOLflameTM.
"Forums like our 'One Cool Event' provide an excellent opportunity for us to demonstrate the most advanced combination technology to the most knowledgeable combustion specialists in the industry. It is their input combined with our passion for research and development that is driving the dramatic improvement in NOx performance," said Steve Pirnat, president of John Zink Company.
The John Zink® International Research and Development Test Center is the most comprehensive of its kind in the world and has become the preferred testing venue for researchers and end-users of combustion technology worldwide. This test capability allows Zink to simulate field conditions to demonstrate system performance and collect vital data to optimizing real-life operation.
COOL TechnologiesTM
COOLburnTM is an active entrainment burner strategy that employs variable staging of combustion air and fuel supply to efficiently utilize the potential energy of incoming fluid streams to reduce burner emissions.
COOLmixTM uniquely combines lean premix and fuel staging techniques to significantly widen the overall stable range of burner operation. A second portion of air is mixed with furnace gases prior to entering the flame zone, resulting in the entrainment of large quantities of inert furnace gases, improving radiant heat flux and reducing peak flame temperatures.
COOLfuelTM [PATENTED] is a fuel-dilution process applied to round or flat flame process burners, furnaces, boilers and fired heaters that employs the kinetic energy of the available fuel supply to dynamically adjust the fuel mixture and ultimately create a significantly cooler combustion reaction.
COOLflameTM is a quasi-flameless combustion strategy that mixes fuel and/or combustion air with large quantities of high-temperature furnace gases prior to combustion for improved heat-flux distribution. The diluted furnace gases limit the temperature rise resulting from the combustion process, considerably moderating normal flame luminosity.
Zink's team of engineers has revolutionized the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods, offering cutting-edge techniques to analyze and simulate airflow and combustion reactions in all burner systems. Employing CFD analysis in combustion applications improves understanding of fired equipment enabling operators to minimize flame interactions, reduce maintenance costs and reduce system improvement costs by focusing optimization efforts in the direction with highest probability of success.
John Zink Company, LLC
11920 East Apache
Tulsa, OK 74116
United States of America
+1-918-234-1800
email: info@johnzink.com
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