Dr.-Ing. Nico Schmitz

Group Mana­ger Com­bus­ti­on and Bur­ner Technologies

Research

Com­bus­ti­on pro­ces­ses in gas-fired indus­tri­al fur­naces, mini­miza­ti­on of pol­lutant emis­si­ons in com­bus­ti­on pro­ces­ses, ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy of ther­mal pro­cess faci­li­ties, Incre­asing life­time of radi­ant tubes

Fields of activity

• Exten­si­on of the appli­ca­ti­on limits of fla­me­l­ess com­bus­ti­on (FLOX)
• Radi­ant tube technology
• Effi­ci­ent use of alter­na­ti­ve (low CO₂) fuels in ther­mal pro­cess facilities
• Sca­le free rehea­ting of semi-finis­hed metal products
• Deve­lo­p­ment of bur­ners (con­s­truc­tion and optimization)
• Pro­cess ana­ly­sis and opti­miza­ti­on at indus­tri­al furnaces
• Appli­ca­ti­on of gas ana­ly­tics for the deter­mi­na­ti­on of ener­gy and mass flows in pro­ces­ses and mea­su­re­ment of pol­lutant emissions

Projects

• Impro­ve­ment of ser­vice life of metal­lic recir­cu­la­ting radi­ant hea­ting tubes for indus­tri­al fur­naces by redu­cing ther­mal stres­ses (AiF IGF)
• Deve­lo­p­ment of ener­gy effi­ci­ent bur­ners for heat tre­at­ment fur­naces with a redu­cing / pro­tec­ti­ve gas atmo­sphe­re (AiF ZIM)
• Deter­mi­na­ti­on of the ener­gy balan­ce of two wal­king beam fur­naces and opti­miza­ti­on of the rege­ne­ra­ti­ve bur­ner operation
• Tem­pe­ra­tu­re mea­su­re­ment at the muff­le and off-gas volu­me flow mea­su­re­ment at a bright anne­al­ing line for stain­less steel
• Inves­ti­ga­ti­on of tem­pe­ra­tu­re uni­for­mi­ty in a bogie hearth fur­nace for har­dening and tem­pe­ring of semi-finis­hed metal products
• Deter­mi­na­ti­on of the off-gas mass flow in a bogie hearth fur­nace for the firing of cera­mic cata­lyst substrates
• Inves­ti­ga­ti­on of the ope­ra­ti­on of radi­ant tubes in the fur­nace of a hot-dip gal­va­ni­zing line to increase tube life

Publi­ca­ti­ons

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