MethaNull means less CO2
The project MethaNull II comes to an end when the conference in Paris, the COP21 starts. The quantitative results will be published in June 2016. One thing must be known: our technology allows to extract more heat from a given amount of fuel compared to conventional. Or it is possible to generate the required amount of energy and save fuel, hence produce less CO2 with our technology. Combustion technologies can be improved - and we did it. This is important.
Inside CBOne
This short reportage was shot for the Final of the Fast Forward Award 2014.
(in German)
S3R: Safe, Smooth, Smart & Reliable Ignition
If Billy Joel did not make it to start the fire, we did! :)
Ignition is a crucial function in thermal systems. One counts on it when one needs it. This is even more true for set-ups where starts and stops are seldom.
As experts in technical combustion, we happen to have a large experience in ignition. Poor ignition can in the worst case provoke a detonation: the combustor has filled with reactants near the stoichiometry, the energy kernel of the ignition happens to be to high and generates unwillingly a deflagration-to-detonation transition. And boom! And at best the combustor is damaged... This cannot happen. One needs to rely 100% on the ignition, for a smooth and well-controlled start.
In the frame of the emo(o)tion projects, we developed an all-rounder ignition device that connects well with this project because it partly relies on an optical-based flame monitoring. The principle is based on a separated, autonomous premixed flame commanded by a remote central. The device can operate under atmospheric or under elevated pressure conditions. The central can be used for protection, where it prevents the main power source from starting as long as the safe start-up conditions are not reunited, exactly like in a rocket launch sequence.
Click here to read more about the S3R ignition specifics.
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Solutions for a better combustion
You have the fuel, we have the spark!
Combustion Bay One is an engineering office specialised in advanced combustion management, situated in Graz, Austria.
Less fuel consumption, less pollutant emissions, more flexibility, more safety for your thermal facilities.
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The name Combustion Bay One highlights the idea of experimental facilities towards a better combustion. In short CBOne.
Research and Development is our key asset at CBOne. Some call it the Combustion Engineering. Some clients call it our Magic.
We call it our job.
See also
MethaNull at EnInnov 2016: same power, 2% less consumption and CO2, 15% less other pollutants
(conference talk)
The COP21 conference in Paris, December 2015, made decisions about keeping the temperature rise below 2 degrees. This implies more sustainable resources and a rationalisation on our use of conventional energies. One option is better combustion technologies.
In 2012, CBOne announced the start of the programme MethaNull. Based on a flexible on-off pulse combustion technology, simultaneous decrease in consumption and in pollutant emissions should be made possible. We worked on this technology demonstrator intensively 2013-2015 with the support of the AWS / PreSeed grant. Today we are proud to announce: it works!
Laboratory testing showed that at the same fuel consumption, MethaNull technology versus conventional provides the following figures: +2% in outlet temperatures were observed, for -15% NOx and -13% CO emissions. Machine warm-up is accelerated with a 1.1 factor. Operation is extended down to 90% fuel consumption of the conventional lean blow out limit.
More at the EnInnov 2016:
Moosbrugger, V.; Giuliani, F.: MethaNull, ein Programm zur Senkung der Methanemissionen in der Atmosphäre. - in: EnInnov 2016, 14. Symposium Energieinnovation 2016 (2016) Symposium Energieinnovation, TU Graz, Austria (presentation Th. 11.02, 14h30, session B3)
- Read the article (in German)
- Download the presentation (in German)
- Download the ASME Montreal 2015 presentation (in English)
