Overview
In industrial combustion, heating and melting processes, oxygen can be added to combustion air or used as the oxidising agent in oxyfuel systems. Reducing the amount of non-reactive nitrogen helps increase combustion efficiency, accelerate heating, reduce flue-gas volumes and improve thermal efficiency.
Combustion Applications
01.Glass Production and Mineral Processing
Oxygen is used in glass melting furnaces and in mineral heating or processing operations. It can be added to combustion air or supplied through oxyfuel burners to intensify heat input where required.
This solution helps raw materials melt or react more quickly and uniformly, supports higher productivity and flexible fuel use, reduces fuel consumption, flue-gas volumes and dust emissions, while maintaining product quality.
02.Iron and Steel Production
In the iron and steel industry, oxygen is used in blast furnaces, electric arc furnaces, converters, reheating furnaces and in melting, heating or refining processes. The gas is supplied through burners, lances or oxygen supply systems suited to the respective equipment.
Oxygen enrichment increases temperature and reaction rates, helping to shorten heating or melting times, increase productivity and reduce fuel or coal consumption.
03.Non-ferrous Metal Melting and Refining
In non-ferrous metal production, oxygen is used in melting furnaces, heating furnaces and thermal refining processes. It can be supplied through burners or lances to support combustion, melting, oxidation and refining.
An appropriate solution helps improve heat-transfer efficiency, shorten processing time, increase reaction rates and productivity, while reducing fuel consumption, flue-gas volumes and dust emissions.