Pulse combustion' technology uses sound waves to produce much hotter and cleaner flames by re-circulating unburned gases. The equipment is also quieter and cleans itself while it works. David looks through the specially designed heating chamber, one of the secrets behind a revolutionary new way to produce energy.
Conventional burners extract heat just once from a continuous fuel stream.
Pulse combustion pulses the gas through the burner again and again, producing more energy for the amount of fuel used. Hardly any pollutants are emitted because they're burned - and no carbon monoxide or unburnt hydrocarbons are released at all. Rather than producing a continuous flame, the burner allows a series of small flames to be ignited on the 'leftovers' of past flames. When pulse combustion technology comes on the market in a couple of years, it will halve energy costs in the home and save millions of dollars in high-energy industries such as steel smelting, mining and hospitals. This site is optimised for Netscape 2.01 or Internet Explorer 2.0. or higher.