Colorless Distributed Combustion (CDC) has been demonstrated to provide ultra-high combustion intensity, increased performance in terms of ultra-low emissions, uniform thermal field, combustion stability and enhanced efficiency. CDC has been examined under both swirling and non-swirling...

Combustion characteristics of colorless distributed combustion have been investigated for application to gas turbine combustors. Very high intensity distributed combustion has been shown for application to stationary gas turbine engines. Various configurations examined have revealed reverse...

Colorless distributed combustion (CDC) investigated here is focused on gas turbine combustion applications due to its significant benefits for, much reduced NOx emissions and noise reduction, and significantly improved pattern factor. CDC is characterized by distributed reaction zone of...

Colorless distributed combustion (CDC) has been demonstrated to provide ultra-low emission of NOx and CO, improved pattern factor and reduced combustion noise in high intensity gas turbine combustors. The key feature to achieve CDC is the controlled flow distribution, reduce ignition delay, and...

High temperature steam gasification is one of the most promising, viable, effective and efficient technology for clean conversion of wastes to energy with minimal or negligible environmental impact. Gasification can add value by transforming the waste to low or medium heating value fuel which...

New innovative advanced combustion design methodology for gas turbine applications is presented that is focused on the quest towards zero emissions. The new design methodology is called colorless distributed combustion (CDC) and is significantly different from the currently used methodology. In...

In this paper reverse flow modes of colorless distributed combustion (CDC) have been investigated for application to gas turbine combustors. Rapid mixing between the injected fuel and hot oxidizer has been carefully explored for spontaneous ignition of the mixture to achieve distributed...

The need for fuel flexible ultra-low emission gas turbine combustors is imminent to secure future power needs. Distributed combustion technology is demonstrated to provide significant performance improvement of gas turbine combustors including uniform thermal field in the entire combustion...

Distributed combustion provides significant improvements under high intensity conditions characteristic of gas turbine to provide uniform thermal field (improved pattern factor), ultra-low pollution, enhanced stability and higher efficiency. Mixing between fresh air/fuel stream with hot reactive...

This paper examines the development of ultra-low emission colorless distributed combustion (CDC) for gas turbines, operating at thermal intensity in the range of 5–453MW/m3atm. Higher thermal intensity combustors are desirable for increased performance with minimal increase in hardware costs...