Patent ID: 6896509
Filing Date: 2005-05-24
Classification: F23C,F23R

Abstract:
1. A combustion method, comprising: reacting a fuel/air mixture flowing through a flow passage in a first combustion stage in a catalytic reactor; burning fuel downstream of the catalytic reactor together with the exhaust gas from the catalytic reactor in a second combustion stage to form a homogenous flame by self-ignition; wherein reacting comprises partially burning the fuel from the fuel/air mixture in the first combustion stage in the catalytic reactor, creating an unburnt remainder of the fuel; wherein the unburnt remainder of the fuel is burned in the second combustion stage; and passing fuel-containing exhaust gas from the catalytic reactor, between the outlet of the catalytic reactor and the homogenous flame, through devices which aerodynamically stabilize the homogenous flame.