DESARROLLO Y EVALUACIÓN DE UN SISTEMA DE COMBUSTIÓN AUTOREGENERATIVO Y RADIANTE PARA PROCESOS DE ALTA TEMPERATURA EN PYMES DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF AN AUTOREGENERATIVE AND RADIANT COMBUSTION SYSTEM FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCESS IN SME

Searching for new heating technologies that reduce fuel consumption, contaminant emissions and to improve the process productivity and products quality of high temperature process, it has motivated the researching and technologic development of the thermal systems. In that context, this article displays the results of the project: "Development and evaluation of an autoregenerative and radiant combustion system for high temperature process in small and medium scale enterprises (SME)" presenting the configuration, operation, characterization, operation parameters and behavior of a developed prototype that operates with 28 kW of thermal power based to the lower heating value, excess air factors of 1.05 and 1.20 and temperatures of air preheating until 700oC.