Using a Porous Environment In Catalytic Gas Heaters to Optimize Energy Consumption and Reduce Pollution in Heating the Furnaces

Abstract

Waste of energy in furnaces and cost fluctuations, especially the ascending trend of oil price which controls the energy market, have made the developing countries consider the processes to optimize energy consumption and improve industrial processes to decrease the production costs, and this approach has gradually been taken by semi-industrial countries as well. Nowadays, the modifications in consumption pattern and the ways of using energy have vital impacts on economic developments of the countries. Moreover, the hazardous influences of nitrogen oxides on environmental pollution have forced the designers of energy generator machines to think of procedures to lower the harmful gases as they often try to recognize the problematic sections inside combustion and control the temperature conditions in each section to restrain the production of harmful gases.

The present paper uses porous environment to produce non-flame heat in furnaces, which has ultimately led into simultaneous optimization of energy and environmental factors in furnaces. The decrement of fuel consumption, increment in profitability, less space requirements, removal of NOx, and decrement of other toxic gases are among other advantages of such system in the production of heat.