Apparatus and methods for treating and/or utilizing a gaseous medium

An energy generation system comprising:

• an apparatus for treating or utilizing the energy of a gaseous medium containing combustible components, the apparatus including:
• a burner including a heatable combustion chamber;
• a feed duct for feeding the gaseous medium into the combustion chamber;
• and
• a reaction chamber through which the gaseous medium can flow, the reaction chamber including an inlet opening through which the gaseous medium can flow into the reaction chamber and an outlet opening through which the gaseous medium can pass out of the reaction chamber into a hot gas duct for discharging treated exhaust gas from the reaction chamber;
• and
• a gas turbine unit connected to the hot gas duct of the apparatus, the gas turbine unit including a turbine duct;
• wherein the hot gas duct includes a pipe having a gas turbine connecting section held in a fixed bearing, the gas turbine connecting section including a pipe body projecting into the turbine duct, a portion of the pipe body being surrounded by a compensator having a molded section that mates with a molded section of the turbine duct.

A method for treating or utilizing a gaseous medium containing combustible components, the method comprising:

• feeding the gaseous medium containing combustible components via a feed duct to a burner having a heatable combustion chamber;
• converting the gaseous medium containing combustible components in the burner to form an exhaust gas containing residues of the gaseous medium;
• feeding the exhaust gas from the burner into a reaction chamber in the form of an exhaust gas flow;
• guiding the exhaust gas flow through the reaction chamber;
• and
• converting the exhaust gas within a residence period in the reaction chamber to form a treated exhaust gas;
• wherein the dispersion of the residence period of exhaust gas in the reaction chamber is less than 50%.