Ammonia-Oxygen Burner Layout for Clean Spheroidized Particle Production

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional oxygen burners used for producing inorganic spheroidized particles generate a large amount of carbon dioxide and soot due to the use of fuel gases containing carbon sources like city gas or LPG, leading to environmental and product contamination issues.

Innovation Solution

The use of ammonia as a fuel gas in an oxygen combustion burner with a concentric multi-pipe structure, where ammonia and oxygen are premixed in small chambers to form efficient flames, reducing carbon dioxide generation and soot production.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Temperature

If fuel gas containing carbon source (city gas or LPG) is used in oxygen burner, then high-temperature flame can be obtained, but large amount of carbon dioxide and soot are generated

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveflame temperatureVSAvoidcarbon dioxide and soot generation
Core Design Contradiction:
TemperatureVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the chemical composition parameter of the fuel gas from carbon-based fuels (city gas, LPG) to ammonia (NH3). This parameter change maintains the ability to generate high-temperature flame while eliminating carbon-based harmful emissions such as carbon dioxide and soot, directly resolving the technical contradiction between temperature generation and harmful factor production

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent converts the previously harmful carbon-based fuel into ammonia, which contains no carbon source. By using ammonia as fuel, the harmful effects of carbon dioxide and soot generation are eliminated while the beneficial high-temperature flame generation is preserved, effectively transforming a harmful system into a beneficial one

Inventive Principle:
Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Significantly reduces carbon dioxide emissions and suppresses soot generation during combustion, ensuring high combustion efficiency and cleaner production of inorganic spheroidized particles.

Implementation Method 1

a fuel gas and a combustion-supporting gas containing oxygen are mixed and combusted in a combustion chamber to form a flame

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectCombustion: Combustion

Implementation Method 2

the inorganic powder is heated by a flame formed by combustion of a fuel gas and a combustion-supporting gas containing oxygen

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectHeating: Heating

Implementation Method 3

an exhaust gas containing particles spheroidized in the flame in a vertical furnace is cooled (temperature diluted) by air introduced from a passage

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectCooling: Cooling

Data Source

PatentEP4035766B1Apparatus for producing inorganic spheroidized particles and method for producing inorganic spheroidized particles
Publication Date: 2026.01.28 NIPPON SANSO CORP
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AI summary

One object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for producing inorganic spheroidized particles which can significantly reduce the amount of warming gas generated and suppress the generation of soot during combustion. The present invention provides an apparatus (10) for producing inorganic spheroidized particles, including a burner (11) for producing inorganic spheroidized particles, a vertical spheroidizing furnace (15), an ammonia supply source (12), an oxygen supply source (13), an ammonia supply line (L1) located between the ammonia supply source (12) and the burner (11) for producing inorganic spheroidized particles, and an oxygen supply line (L2) located between the oxygen supply source (13) and the burner (11) for producing inorganic spheroidized particles.