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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2018
Bloom Engineering Company Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
David G. Schalles, Jefferson Hills, PA (US);
Frank L. Beichner, West Newton, PA (US);
Bloom Engineering Company, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for heating a furnace using a burner system having first and second burner assemblies, each including a burner and a regenerative media bed, the method including operating the first burner assembly in a firing mode and the second burner assembly in a regeneration mode, switching the first burner assembly from the firing mode to the regeneration mode and the second burner assembly from the regeneration mode to the firing mode, and operating the second burner assembly in the firing mode and the first burner assembly in the regeneration mode. The burner assembly in the firing mode may be fired in either a first operating mode where the burner is supplied with preheated low calorific fuel and the burner is supplied with oxidizing gas or a second operating mode where the burner is supplied with preheated oxidizing gas and the burner is supplied with high calorific fuel.