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Hey /sci/,
What's the best (cost-effective) method for reducing specifically carbon monoxide within exhaust fumes of LPG (mix of propane and butane).
My other idea is to increase the efficiency of combustion to ensure the CO isn't even produced in the first place. Is there a correlation between thermal transfer and production of carbon monoxide rather than carbon dioxide? e.g. if there's incomplete combustion, will it have any effect on the efficiency of the burn.
Obviously the best method for heat transfer is having the plate directly at the tip of the blue flame, but this area (if there's a plate there) also creates a large amount of carbon monoxide.
Main ideas are to either inject air into the burner using a fan, or incorporating some type of catalytic converter to specifically remove CO from the exhuast fumes.
Obviously efficiency, cost-effectivness and CO reduction are the main aims.
Thanks
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I don't know much about the correlation between heat and production of CO but the main idea behind CO reduction is to ensure complete combustion, which requires excess oxygen
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Catalytic converter is basically a one time cost, otherwise just lean out your fuel to get full combustion
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>>9172045
>Is there a correlation between thermal transfer and production of carbon monoxide rather than carbon dioxide?
Most definitely! CO is produced by an incompletely burn. Provide sufficient heat and oxygen and you will get ZERO carbon monoxide. Moreover, it is a very flammable gas, which just goes to prove the production of it during combustion means energy is being wasted.
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>>9172045
If you are really hurting for money then you could make a simple limestone slurry and push the exhaust fumes through that.
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>>9172214
>>9172255
Yeah I get that.
The main point here is I need to plate to get to a certain temperature (adjustable), using the least fuel as possible and reduce the amount of CO emissions as much as possible.
>>9172265
So there is energy lost because of incomplete combustion? If this is the case then that helps me out a lot. Thanks
>>9172282
The design here is for large scale production (effectively redesigning a fryer), so money isn't directly an issue, but the modifications are ideally as cheap as possible.
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>>9172342
most wood burning fireplaces these days do a secondary combustion on the gasses of the first incomplete combustion, you can do this with a secondary combustion chamber or a downdraft design.
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>>9172368
Thanks, I'll look into that.
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