Carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide are the two primary causes of air pollution, responsible for increasing greenhouse gas emissions. As a solution on this line, Georgia Tech researchers have designed a new combustion chamber. It can burn fuel in a wide range of devices, with next to no emission of these two gases.
The innovative device is called — Stagnation Point Reverse Flow Combustor. This amazing Georgia Tech device was originally developed for NASA.
Compared to the existing state-of-the-art combustors, this new combustor is designed simply, and the cost of its manufacturing and maintenance is much lower. Thus, this makes it more affordable in everything – be it jet engine and power plants or home water heaters.
Dr. Ben Zinn, Regents’ professor, the David S. Lewis Jr. Chair in Georgia Tech’s Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering and a key collaborator on the project said,
We must burn fuel to power aircrafts and generate electricity for our homes. The combustion community is working very hard to find ways to burn the fuel completely and derive all of its energy while minimizing emissions… Our combustor has an unbelievably simple design, and it would be inexpensive to make and inexpensive to maintain.
Via: Science Daily
