High-Efficiency Low-Carbon Fuel Flexible Burner for Steel Industry

Sandeep Alavandi; David Cygan; Hamid Abbasi; John Wagner; Joseph Pondo; Mukul Tomar; David Schalles; Greg Kopycinski; Stephen Pisano; Riccardo Scarcelli; Chandrachur Bhattacharya; Joohan Kim; McKay Sperry; Mike Kirka

doi:10.33313/389/222

High-Efficiency Low-Carbon Fuel Flexible Burner for Steel Industry

Sandeep Alavandi
, David Cygan
, Hamid Abbasi
, John Wagner
, Joseph Pondo
, Mukul Tomar
, David Schalles
, Greg Kopycinski
, Stephen Pisano
, Riccardo Scarcelli
, Chandrachur Bhattacharya
, Joohan Kim
, McKay Sperry
, Mike Kirka

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Abstract

GTI Energy, with Bloom Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, are developing the Lumiflex H2^TM burner. This high-efficiency burner can achieve 45-100% CO2e emissions reduction using green hydrogen with natural gas. It offers NOx, CO emissions ≤50 ppm (3% O2), 15-51% fuel savings, ≥50% PM2.5 reduction with turndown of ≥5:1. The technology can work with renewable liquid fuels, ethanol or methanol and aims to significantly reduce emissions, enhance resiliency, improve process efficiency. The paper will discuss preliminary results of development, with planned laboratory validation including safety, CFD, burner system design and market for the technology.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	AISTech 2025 - Proceedings of the Iron and Steel Technology Conference
Publisher	Association for Iron and Steel Technology
Pages	2071-2085
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9780930767372
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.33313/389/222
State	Published - 2025
Event	2025 Iron and Steel Technology Conference, AISTech 2025 - Nashville, United States Duration: May 5 2025 → May 8 2025

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Name	AISTech - Iron and Steel Technology Conference Proceedings
ISSN (Print)	1551-6997

Conference

Conference	2025 Iron and Steel Technology Conference, AISTech 2025
Country/Territory	United States
City	Nashville
Period	05/5/25 → 05/8/25

Funding

The project team would like to thank U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO) and Utilization Technology Development, NFP (UTD) for their funding. The information, data, or work presented herein was primarily funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, under Award Number DE-EE0010847 with UTD providing cost share to the project. The authors would also like to acknowledge Argonne’s Laboratory Computing Resource Center (LCRC) for providing the Improv cluster CPU hours for conducting the CFD simulations. Argonne National Laboratory is a U.S. Department of Energy facility operated by UChicago Argonne, LLC, under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357.

Keywords

CFD model
H2 safety
Regenerative multifuel burner
combustion testing
fuel preheat
hydrogen and renewable liquid fired
low NOx
natural gas

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Alavandi, S., Cygan, D., Abbasi, H., Wagner, J., Pondo, J., Tomar, M., Schalles, D., Kopycinski, G., Pisano, S., Scarcelli, R., Bhattacharya, C., Kim, J., Sperry, M., & Kirka, M. (2025). High-Efficiency Low-Carbon Fuel Flexible Burner for Steel Industry. In AISTech 2025 - Proceedings of the Iron and Steel Technology Conference (pp. 2071-2085). (AISTech - Iron and Steel Technology Conference Proceedings). Association for Iron and Steel Technology. https://doi.org/10.33313/389/222

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High-Efficiency Low-Carbon Fuel Flexible Burner for Steel Industry. / Alavandi, Sandeep; Cygan, David; Abbasi, Hamid et al.
AISTech 2025 - Proceedings of the Iron and Steel Technology Conference. Association for Iron and Steel Technology, 2025. p. 2071-2085 (AISTech - Iron and Steel Technology Conference Proceedings).

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