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Hydrogen and blends to address energy transition.
Our many years of experience in the combustion of process gases with an hydrogen content of up to 70% has been fundamental in solving the problems of flame retention, high temperatures, flame detection and NOx creation, which characterize pure hydrogen burners.
Thanks to the help of the SIAD Group, which has been managing a 30 km hydrogen pipeline for 20 years and builds hydrogen compressors, we have also successfully addressed leakage, embrittlement, decarburisation, flashback issues… which characterize the instrumentation and piping of this gas.
Burners for hydrogen use up to 100%
A complete range of cold air, recuperative and regenerative burners with refractory combustion head.
Burners for hydrogen use up to 20%
A wide range of cold air or high efficiency burners with core mixing, metal or SIC combustion head which can use blends of H2 and Natural gas or propane.
Instrumentation for hydrogen use
Regulators, mixers and co to reduce the risk of leakage and embrittlement at operating pressures.
UV detection systems
The electrodes do not detect the pure hydrogen flame. Our photocell is able to respond to most situations, but for particular situations we have developed a highly sensitive photocell.
“Phlogiston®”Multigas mixing station with calorimeter
It instantly measures the Wobbe index of any gas blend and using special software provides the furnaces automatic regulation system with the correct lambda for the burners. It should be positioned at the beginning of an entire industrial installation.
Mixing skid without calorimeter
H2/NG (or LPG) blending skids in fixed or variable ratios for testing or for normal operation.
DECARBONIZATION: EFFICIENCY FIRST
There’s no sustainability without profitability.
The first step to make decarbonisation happen is to reduce the very high hydrogen costs. For this reason, the ability to burn it is worthless if not combined with high-performance, efficient combustion technologies, which is in fact what we are focused on and what we offer to the market.
FAQ
The high flame temperature and its tendency to remain attached to the core cause significant increases in NOx emissions, particularly with preheated air burners. This requires the extensive use of diluted combustion techniques, such as flameless or staged combustion..
The speed of flame propagation is much greater than that of methane, creating serious risks of flashbacks in the sections of pipe where the mixture flows, which requires adequate solutions.
Hydrogen is a very small molecule that has a tendency to leak easily, an aspect which, combined with its high flammability, makes it necessary to use special control instrumentation as well as special leak control procedures. However, let us remember that the pressures involved are very limited.
Pure hydrogen flame can be detected only by radiation, not by ionization, i.e. electrodes are useless.
We can carry out tests up to and if necessary we can use external cylinder trailers with extended times.
While we can test many types of hydrogen burners, we are not equipped to test the effects on products and it is not our scope.
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