Ultra-high thermal intensity colorless distributed combustion has been examined for methane and methane diluted with air, nitrogen or carbon dioxide gas and liquid fuel (ethanol) burning in air at a fixed thermal load. Fuel was diluted with inert gases and air to simulate the combustion of low...

Distributed combustion has been shown to provide significant improvements of gas turbine combustors performance including uniform thermal field in the entire combustion chamber (improved pattern factor), ultra-low emission of NOx and CO, low noise, enhanced stability and higher efficiency. The...

Distributed combustion provides significant performance improvement of gas turbine combustors. Key features of distributed combustion includes uniform thermal field in the entire combustion chamber, thus avoiding hot-spot regions that promote NOx emissions (from thermal NOx) and significantly...