Reduced carbon from under oxidized burner

摘要

A burner apparatus for reducing carbon production, comprises a burner having a combustion chamber and a heat exchanger located within the combustion chamber. The heat exchanger has an inlet end where a mixture comprising air and fuel enters, a heat transfer section, and an outlet end from which a process mixture of air and fuel discharges into the combustion chamber and is ignited to produce a product mixture. The inlet end and outlet end are located such that the general flow direction of the air and fuel within at least a portion of the heat transfer section is substantially parallel with flow direction of the product mixture in the combustion chamber. The heat transfer section is located within the combustion chamber so as to receive thermal input from the combusted product mixture therein to heat the process mixture to a temperature sufficiently high to substantially reduce the production of solid carbon therein. The invention is also for a method for reducing carbon production.