Brick drying and firing using syngas optimised burners

该项目将准备一项从天然气转向合成气的工程研究，用于砖的生产过程，从低风险的干燥选择开始，最终进行高风险的窑中烧制砖过程。该项目的创新之处是需要开发使用不同的合成气成分，优化各种燃烧器设计和控制，并最终证明以合成气作为燃料来源的砖制造过程是可能的。该项目既能提高能源效率，又能减少碳排放。需要实验开发的很可能是窑内的烧制气氛会受到不同气体的影响，从而影响产品的美观性。为了不浪费大量的产品，将使用一个小型的实验开发窑，这对优化和最终确定燃烧器设计是必要的。气体将从合成气生产过程中供应，他们将提供各种成分的气体，以最适合干燥和烧制过程。这个实验窑将在英国的一个制砖基地运行，使用英国公司提供的设备，可以使用天然气和其他设施。关键目标是在不影响产品质量的情况下，从利用合成气的成功干燥和烧制过程中收集必要的设计信息。该气体将在干燥器气体燃烧器和测试砖窑上进行试验，为完成工程研究提供必要的信息，该研究将概述安装在全尺寸干燥器和窑上所需的设计规范。

This project will prepare an engineering study for the switch from natural gas to syngas for the brick production processes starting with a low risk option of drying and ultimately following on to the higher risk process of firing bricks in the kilns. The innovation within this project is the need to take the development of using different syngas components and optimising various burner designs and controls and ultimately demonstrating the brick manufacturing process is possible with syngas as a fuel source. The project gives both an energy efficiency and carbon reduction benefit.The need for the experimental development it is likely that the kiln firing atmosphere will be affected by the different gases and hence affect the product aesthetics. In order that a large amount of product is not wasted a small experimental development kiln will be utilised, which is necessary to optimise and then finalise the burner design. The gas will be supplied from a syngas production process and they will supply gases with various components to best suit the drying and firing processes.The experimental kiln will be operated at a UK brick manufacturing site with access to the gas and other facilities using equipment being supplied by UK companies. The key objective being to gather the necessary design information from successful drying and firing in the process utilising syngas without affecting product quality.The gas will be trialled on the dryer gas burners and the test brick kiln, providing the necessary information to allow for an engineering study to be completed which will outline the design specification required for installation on a full-scale dryer and kiln.