Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Ashwin Vinod

Mark Daniel D'Agostini

Michael J Gallagher

Mark Daniel D'agostini

A burner gas supply apparatus for increasing flame turbulence, the apparatus comprising a conduit having a characteristic width, W, defined by an inner surface having a circumferential direction and an axial direction, the axial direction terminating in a nozzle defining a nozzle exit plane and having a characteristic dimension, d, where d&#x3c;=W; and three bluff bodies each with a characteristic dimension, D, projecting a length, Linto the conduit from the inner surface, and an axial spacing Xbetween adjacent bluff bodies (between the downstream bluff body and the nozzle exit plane in the case of X) wherein 0.5&#x3c;=L/W&#x3c;=1 and wherein X/D&#x3c;=30.

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