Brick drying and firing using syngas optimised burners

该项目将为制砖工艺从天然气转换为合成气进行工程研究，从低风险的干燥工艺开始，最终到高风险的窑炉烧砖工艺。该项目的创新之处在于，需要开发使用不同合成气成分的技术，优化各种燃烧器设计和控制，并最终证明合成气作为燃料源的制砖工艺是可行的。该项目具有能源效率和碳减排效益。由于需要进行实验开发，窑炉的烧制气氛可能会受到不同气体的影响，从而影响产品的美观。为了不浪费大量的产品，将使用一个小型的实验性开发窑，这是优化和最终确定燃烧器设计所必需的。气体将从合成气生产过程中提供，他们将提供各种成分的气体，以最好地适应干燥和烧制过程。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使用气体和其他设施。主要目的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。将在干燥器气体燃烧器和测试砖窑上对气体进行测试，提供必要的信息，以便完成工程研究，该研究将概述安装在全尺寸干燥器和窑炉上所需的设计规范。

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.