FUEL CONVERSION APPARATUS AND METHOD

摘要

FUEL CONVERSION APPARATUS AND METHOD Apparatus and method are described for the vaporization of liquid fuel oils to produce a gaseous mixture suitable for burning in a burner normally designed for operation utilizing natural gas. In the novel procedure, a carrier gas, e.g. steam, is mixed with a normally liquid fuel oil and this mixture is heated to vaporize a major amount of the fuel oil to form a gaseous mixture of oil vapors in the carrier gas. Any unvaporized oil is separated from the gaseous mixture and the gaseous mixture is then recovered at the operating temperature and pressure for a normally gas fired burner. The invention permits the utilization of Fuel Oil No. 2 through Fuel Oil No. 6 as an alternate source of fuel in normally gas fired equipment.