# US 4,101,632 A · Waste gas incineration control

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- Number: US 4,101,632 A
- Document ID: US4101632A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 05/736,480
- Filed: 1976-10-28
- Granted: 1978-07-18
- Earliest claimed: 1976-10-28
- Assignees: Aluminum Company of America
- Inventors: Thomas G. Lamberti; Harry B. Rowe
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US4101632A

## CPC

- F23G 7/065: {using gaseous or liquid fuel}
- B01D 53/62: Carbon oxides
- F23G 2207/101: for temperature
- F23G 2207/103: for oxygen
- F23G 2207/104: for CO or CO2
- F23G 2207/30: Oxidant supply
- F23G 2207/40: Supplementary heat supply
- Y02A 50/20: Air quality improvement or preservation, e.g. vehicle emission control or emission reduction by using catalytic converters
- Y02C 20/40: of CO2
- F23G: CREMATION FURNACES; CONSUMING WASTE PRODUCTS BY COMBUSTION
- B01D: SEPARATION (separating solids from solids by wet methods B03B, B03D; by pneumatic jigs or tables B03B; by other dry methods B07; magnetic or electrostatic separation of solid materials from solid materials or fluids, separation by high-voltage electric fields B03C; centrifuges, vortex apparatus B04; presses per se for squeezing-out liquid from liquid-containing material B30B9/02; treatment of water C02F, e.g. softening by ion-exchange C02F1/42; {arrangements of air intake cleaners in gas turbine plants F02C7/05} ; arrangements or mounting of filters in air-conditioning, air-humidification or ventilation F24F13/28)
- Y02A: TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02C: CAPTURE, STORAGE, SEQUESTRATION OR DISPOSAL OF GREENHOUSE GASES [GHG]

## Abstract

A process is provided for substantially completely converting carbon monoxide in waste gas into carbon dioxide in a combustion chamber. This process comprises the steps of supplying fuel to the combustion chamber in an amount sufficient to maintain a temperature greater than the combustion temperture of carbon monoxide therein, feeding waste gas containing carbon monoxide to the combustion chamber, measuring the percentage of carbon monoxide in the waste gas, feeding free oxygen to the combustion chamber, exhausting the gas from the chamber, measuring the actual percentage of free oxygen in the exhaust gas, calculating an optimum percentage of free oxygen in the exhaust gas, and adjusting the volume of free oxygen being fed to the combustion chamber in an amount sufficient to produce the optimum percentage of free oxygen in the exhaust gas.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A process for controlling the amount of air to be mixed with waste gas containing combustibles being fed into a combustion chamber comprising:
maintaining a chamber temperature greater than the combustion temperature of the combustible in the waste gas;
introducing a continuously fluctuating volume of waste gas containing a continuously fluctuating percentage concentration of combustibles into the combustion chamber;
measuring the percentage of combustibles in the waste gas;
computing the optimum percentage of free oxygen in the gas exhausting the chamber based on the percentage of combustibles in the waste gas;
measuring the actual percentage of free oxygen in the exhaust gas directly exhausted from the combustion chamber; and
adjusting the volume of air flow into the chamber so as to produce the optimum percentage of free oxygen in the exhaust gas.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A process as set forth in claim 1 in which the combustible in the waste gas is carbon monoxide.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

A process as set forth in claim 2 in which the optimum percentage of free oxygen in the exhaust gas is computed by the formula: %O.sub.2 in exhaust gas = 0.5 + (0.14 .times. %CO in waste gas).

### Claim 4

A process for substantially completely converting a fluctuating concentration of carbon monoxide in a fluctuating volume of waste gas into carbon dioxide in a combustion chamber, comprising:
supplying fuel to the combustion chamber in an amount sufficient to maintain a relatively constant temperature greater than approximately 1157.degree. F therein;
feeding waste gas containing carbon monoxide to said combustion chamber;
measuring the percentage of carbon monoxie in said waste gas;
feeding free oxygen to the combustion chamber;
exhausting the gas directly from said combustion chamber;
measuring the actual percentage of free oxygen in said exhaust gas directly exhausted from the combustion chamber;
calculating an optimum percentage of free oxygen in said exhaust gas based on the formula: optimum percentage of free oxygen in exhaust gas = 0.5 + (0.14 .times. the percentage of carbon monoxide in the waste gas); and
adjusting the volume of free oxygen being fed to said combustion chamber in an amount sufficient for the actual percentage of free oxygen in said exhaust gas to approximate the optimum percentage of free oxygen in said exhaust gas.

### Claim 5

A process for converting a fluctuating concentration of carbon monoxide in a fluctuating volume of waste gas into carbon dioxide in a combustion chamber, comprising:
supplying fuel selected from the group consisting of natural gas, mixed gas, blast furnace gas, fuel oil and coal to the combustion chamber in an amount sufficient to maintain a temperature of approximately 1550.degree. F to 1650.degree. F therein;
feeding waste gas containing carbon monoxide to said combustion chamber;
substantially continuously measuring the percentage of carbon monoxide in said waste gas;
feeding free oxygen to the combustion chamber;
exhausting the gas directly from said combustion chamber;
substantially continuously measuring the actual percentage of free oxygen in said exhaust gas directly exhausted from the combustion chamber;
substantially continuously calculating an optimum percentage of free oxygen in said exhaust gas based on the formula: optimum percentage of free oxygen in exhaust gas = 0.5 + (0.14 .times. the percentage of carbon monoxide in the waste gas); and
adjusting the volume of free oxygen being fed to said combustion chamber in an amount sufficient for the actual percentage of free oxygen in said exhaust gas to approximate the optimum percentage of free oxygen in said exhaust gas.