Honeywell International Inc.

Uop Lcc

Stefano Bietto

Kurt Kraus

Matthew Martin

Kyle T Cuellar

Bradley P Russell

William Macallan Cady

Erick J Bennett, Iii

Addison Cruz

Oluwaseyi Kayode

Kwong Wing Au

Sharath Venkatesha

Elizabeth Carter

James T Wexler

Dusty Ray Richmond

Christopher Ferguson

Suryanarayana Murthy Konda Naga Venkata

Jay Jennings

A burner apparatus and process are described. The burner apparatus includes an inlet chamber in communication with a combustion chamber. A primary conduit delivers fuel gas to the combustion chamber. Each of a plurality of primary tips is located in the throat of the burner tile. Each of a plurality of cavities is disposed on a downstream wall of the burner tile and stabilize the flame. The primary tips have an end port and a lateral port. A secondary conduit provides fuel gas to a plurality of secondary tips. In a passive control mode, the fuel gas to the primary tips and secondary tips is a mixed gas comprising flue gas and fuel gas. In an active mode, valves are provided to proportion the amount of fuel gas fed to the primary tips and the amount of flue gas provided to the secondary tips.

Active and passive combustion stabilization for burners for highly and rapidly varying fuel gas compositions

A bio-renewable conversion process for making fuel from bio-renewable feedstocks is combined with a hydrogen production process that includes recovery of CO. The integrated process uses a purge gas stream comprising hydrogen from the bio-renewable hydrocarbon production process in the hydrogen production process.

Integrated hydrogen production and bio-renewable conversion process

A process and apparatus for producing a hydrogen-enriched product and recovering COfrom an effluent stream from a hydrogen production process unit are described. The process utilizes a COrecovery system integrated with a PSA system that produces at least two product streams to recover additional hydrogen and COfrom the tail gas stream of a hydrogen PSA unit in the hydrogen production process.

Method of producing a hydrogen-enriched product and recovering COin a hydrogen production process unit

A process and apparatus for producing a hydrogen-enriched product and recovering COfrom an effluent stream from a hydrogen production unit are described. The effluent from the hydrogen production unit, which comprises a mixture of gases comprising hydrogen, carbon dioxide, water, and at least one of methane, carbon monoxide, nitrogen, and argon, is sent to a PSA system that produces at least two product streams for separation. The PSA system that produces at least two product streams separates the gas mixture into a high-pressure hydrogen stream enriched in hydrogen, optionally a second gas stream containing the majority of the impurities, and a low-pressure tail gas stream enriched in COand some impurities. The CO-rich tail gas stream is compressed and sent to a COrecovery unit, where a CO-enriched stream is recovered. The CO-depleted overhead gas stream is recycled to the PSA system that produces at least two product streams.

Method of recovering a hydrogen enriched product and CO2 in a hydrogen production unit

A flare burner for burning combustible waste gases with a manifold, at least two arms, and a plurality of outlets disposed on the plurality of arms. The arms may be perpendicular to the manifold. The arms may also extend outwardly from the manifold. The arms may extend into annuli, to produce oppositely flowing exit gas. A curved dispersing surface may be disposed above the manifold. The arms may comprise a curvilinear shape or include both a linear and a curvilinear portion. The arms are unequal in length and may curve in an opposite direction from each other. The outlets are configured and spaced such that flame is short relative to size of the flare burner.

Asymmetrical and offset flare tip for flare burners

A flare burner for burning combustible waste gases with a manifold, at least two arms, and a plurality of outlets disposed on the plurality of arms. The arms may be perpendicular to the manifold. The arms may also extend outwardly from the manifold. The arms may extend into annuli, to produce oppositely flowing exit gas. A curved dispersing surface may be disposed above the manifold. The arms may comprise a curvilinear shape, or include both a linear and a curvilinear portion. The arms are unequal in length and may curve in an opposite direction from each other. The outlets are configured and spaced such that flame is short relative to size of the flare burner.

A flare burner for burning combustible waste gases with a manifold, a plurality of arms, and a plurality of outlets disposed on the plurality of arms. The arms may be perpendicular to the manifold. The arms may also extend outwardly from the manifold. The arms may extend into annuli, to produce oppositely flowing exit gas. A curved dispersing surface may be disposed above the manifold. The arms may comprise a curvilinear shape, or include both a linear and a curvilinear portion. The outlets are configured and spaced such that flame is short relative to size of the flare burner.

Flare burner for a combustible gas

A process is provided for analyzing and visualizing conditions of a combustion process in an enclosure, and includes steps of providing continuously updated images of the enclosure for visualization of the enclosure to a user, using a viewing device having a display representing a virtual window of the enclosure; detecting a viewing angle and a viewing position of the user relative to the enclosure; illustrating an interior prospect of the enclosure relative to the viewing angle and position of the user based on the images of the enclosure; and adjusting, in realtime, the illustration of the interior prospect of the enclosure as at least one of the viewing angle and position of the user is changed for reflecting a changed view of the user.

Equipment and method for furnace visualization using virtual interactive windows

A process is provided for mapping temperatures in an enclosure during a combustion process. A device setting of an image-capturing device is provided. An intensity-temperature mapping is generated by performing an intensity-temperature calibration based on an intensity of an image pixel in a field of view (FOV) generated by the image-capturing device, a corresponding temperature measurement, and a selected device setting. Each emitted radiation of selected regions is detected based on a first image in the FOV. At least one region is determined whether the region is poor responsive, based on the intensity-temperature mapping associated with the device setting. The at least one poor responsive region is replaced with acceptable regions unaffected by the saturation from at least one other image captured at a different device setting for higher temperature resolution.

Extended temperature range mapping process of a furnace enclosure using various device settings

A process is provided for mapping temperatures in an enclosure. A spectral band for a multi-spectral image-capturing device is selected. An intensity-temperature mapping is generated by performing an intensity-temperature calibration based on an intensity of an image pixel in a field of view (FOV) generated by the multi-spectral image-capturing device, a corresponding temperature measurement, and a selected device setting of the image-capturing device. An emitted radiation is detected based on a first spectral image in the FOV. At least one region is determined whether it is poor responsive, which is underexposed or overexposed, such that an accurate temperature is unable to be estimated based on a temperature value associated with the spectral band. Temperatures of the at least one poor responsive regions are replaced with temperatures from corresponding acceptable regions from at least one other spectral image to provide an extended temperature mapping of the enclosure.

Extended temperature mapping process of a furnace enclosure with multi-spectral image-capturing device

A process is provided for estimating a three-dimensional (3D) radiance field of a combustion process in an enclosure. An on-line intensity-temperature calibration is performed based on an association between an intensity of an image pixel and an actual temperature associated with a selected region in the enclosure. The intensity of the corresponding image is transformed to a radiance image based on settings of an image-capturing device and the on-line calibration. A registration and alignment estimation of the image is performed based on positional information of the enclosure. The radiance image is aligned based on the registration estimation. The 3D radiance field having voxels of the enclosure is estimated based on a two-dimensional to 3D transforming of the aligned radiance images.

Equipment and method for three-dimensional radiance and gas species field estimation

A system having a flame rod assembly for operation in a high temperature pilot burner. The assembly is designed for operation in temperatures from about &#x2212;40 to 1100 degrees C. The system may operate in inclement weather involving high speed winds and significant amounts of moisture and rain to hurricane storm force levels and rates. The system incorporates an electrical apparatus which may provide flame sensing and ignition via the flame rod assembly incorporating a quick drying insulator around a rod of the assembly to ensure proper operation of the electrical apparatus.

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Tulsa, OK, United States of America

Stefano Bietto