Abstract: A firing installation includes a combustion space fed by premixing burners having combustion air inlet slots along the length of the burner bodies that create a tangentially directed inflow of combustion air. Fresh air guides are positioned along the inlet slots upstream to guide fresh air into the slots, and include an end plate having a plurality of perforations that act as air injection nozzles. Movement of fresh air through the nozzles creates a vacuum that draws combustion air from the combustion space into the inlet slots where it mixes with the fresh air to form a combustion gas mixture.

Abstract: In a burner for operating an internal combustion engine, a combustion chamber of a gas turbine or firing equipment, which consists essentially of at least two hollow conical partial bodies (1, 2) positioned one upon the other in the flow direction, the ignition of the air/fuel mixture forming in the hollow conical space (14) takes place by means of ignition electrodes (24a, 24b, 25a, 25b) which are placed at a location where there is a low flow velocity of the combustion air (15). This achieves the effect that the flame tongues starting from the electrode ends (25a, 25b) of the ignition electrodes (24a, 24b) can feed a flame front (7) forming at the outlet from the burner continuously and along ordered paths, i.e. paths directed in the flow direction with slight swirl in consequence of the motion of the combustion air (15), so that a stable reverse flow zone (6) forms.

Abstract: A method for adjusting a burner during the start-up phase in a furnace operated with recirculated flue gas (3), the furnace is subjected to a pre-flushing period prior to start-up. The furnace is started with a constant fuel amount (5), the fresh air (2) aspirated from the outside at first being reduced by means of a control. In the beginning, the stoichiometric or near-stoichiometric air balance for combustion is provided by recirculation of the fresh air (4) in the furnace. Following ignition of the burner, an increase of fresh air (2) from the outside will take place as a function of the diminishing fresh air (4) from the furnace. The diminishing fresh air (4) recirculated from the furnace is replaced by also recirculated flue gases (3) in such a way that at the end of the start-up phase only a combustion air mixture consisting of fresh air (2) from the outside and recirculated flue gases (3) is used.

Abstract: During the operation of a pressure atomization nozzle, the liquid fuel spray cone from the nozzle (4) is mixed upstream of a first orifice (3) which is placed downstream of the nozzle (4) in the outflow direction with a gaseous medium (7). In this process, the said spray cone is struck radially and/or virtually radially by the gaseous medium (7). In the process, the original spray angle from the nozzle, which is about 40.degree., is reduced to less than half. For this purpose it is sufficient if the gaseous medium (7) has a pressure of 20 mbar. The new spray angle is preserved across the first orifice (3), a second orifice (2) being provided in the outflow direction if required, the said second orifice functioning on the same principle as the first, i.e. in the case of the second orifice too, the mixture already produced is struck radially and/or virtually radially by the remaining proportion of the gaseous medium which was not used at the first orifice (3).

Abstract: In a firing installation, fresh air (6) is drawn in and mixed with a fraction of flue gases (7), which are taken from the combustion chamber (1), by means of a fan (5) which acts outside of the casing of the firing installation. The fresh air/flue gas mixture (8) thus formed flows on its way to the combustion chamber (1) through a first heat exchanger (2a) whose caloric preparation is accomplished by the flue gases (7) fed in. In the combustion chamber (1) itself, this mixture flows through a heat exchanger (2) placed there. Before the mixture (9) thus preheated is fed as combustion air to a burner (4), it undergoes a further mixing with flue gases via a number of jet injectors (3), which further increases the temperature of this combustion air (10), with an optimized flue gas fraction.