Hot Prospect: Simple burner keeps pollution counts down

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June 28, 2006 at 6:16 pm - More than 2 years ago

A new type of combustion chamber reduces pollution with less complexity and a safer, more reliable design than other low-emission burners, the device’s developers say.

FIRE HOUSES. A typical combustion chamber (left) receives its fuel-air mixture at the bottom, burns it there, and expels exhaust from the top. A new design (right), closed at the bottom, both takes in fuel and air and releases hot exhaust gases at the top, achieving low emissions in a novel way.