Journal of Power and Energy Engineering, 2014, 2, 7-10
Published Online December 2014 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/jpee
http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jpee.2014.212002
How to cite this paper: Fang, K., He, F. and Zhang, S.H. (2014) Research on Heating Clay by Low Carbon Catalytic Combus-
tion Furnace of Natural Gas. Journal of Power and Energy Engineering, 2, 7-10.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jpee.2014.212002
Research on Heating Clay by Low Carbon
Catalytic Combustion Furnace of Natural Gas
Kai Fang, Fan He, Shihong Zhang
Beijing Key Lab. of Heating, Gas Supply, Ventilating and Air Conditioning Engineering, Beijing University of Civil
Engineering and Arch., Beijing, China
Email: shihongzhang@bucea.edu.cn
Received Oc tob er 2014
Abstract
This article did a research about exhaust gas constituent inside the catalytic combustion furnace
with Pd-based honeycomb monoliths of lean natural gas-air mixtures and discussed the feature of
the exhaust gas. In addition, the near-zero pollutant emissions of catalytic combustion burner was
proved by a test report provided by NIM. From a low-carbon prospective, the application prospect
of catalytic combustion furnace was discussed
Keywords
Catalytic C om bus tion , L ow -Carbon, Exhaust Gas Pollutant Emissions
1. Introduction
Energy and environment are two major topics in today’s world. At the end of 2006 to the beginning of 2007, the
phenomenon that the average temperature has increased universally result of serious reaction, and greenhouse
effect that cause global warming became an important problem that people have to face [1]. Many studies focus
on new energies, such as nuclear, wind, marine stream and solar energy to find path to low carbon. However,
nuclear and many renewable technologies cannot be set in large scale in the short term, because of their uncer-
tainties. In addition, people came into the industrial revolution age at the same with the growing of the content
of greenhouse gas, thus can declare the effect of anthropogenic activities to the global climate variation [2]. Re-
search Introduction of Solar Energy in the USA proposed that we should use liquid fuel made from crops, nuc-
lear energy, wind energy, water energy, tidal energy, and many other energy wide-spread, so that we can de-
crease the dependence on petroleum and fossil fuel [3].
Catalytic combustion, as a new way of burning, nearly 100% of the fuel conversion can be realized. Com-
pared with flame combustion, catalytic combustion of combustion temperature is low, and can achieve near-zero
emissions. This is now the only way can achieve nearly zero emissions of burning [4]. Furthermore, when natu-
ral gas burning in average way, it can reach 1800 K usually, but when it reach 1500 K the rate of producing of
NOx will increase seriously with temperature rising [5]. At present, the main research contents for methane cat-
alytic combustion are: catalytic combustion reaction mechanism, characteristics, application and preparation of
the catalyst [6]-[8]. Catalytic combustion is recognized to be a kind of high combustion efficiency. Therefore,
the way of catalytic combustion can make natural gas burning almost totally. Through catalytic combustion, the