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Combustors & Reactors with Plasma Enhancement

Applied Plasma Technologies (APT) offers a comprehensive range of services, including 3D modeling, CAD design, prototyping, fabrication, rigorous testing, and maintenance of custom combustors and reactors. These systems can be integrated with our unique combustion enhancement tools—such as the plasma pilot, plasma fuel nozzle, spatial arc, or high-power RF torch—and adapted to fit any technology or machinery, including gas turbines. To ensure the highest quality, reliability, and flexibility, all combustors are manufactured and tested exclusively at our facilities in the USA.

Our recently developed and commercialized Plasma System for Hazardous Liquids Destruction features a plasma chemical reactor based on a 50 kW RF plasma torch, coupled with a downstream dual-stage combustor (incorporating both direct and reverse vortex stages) capable of treating up to 100 liters per hour. This groundbreaking system is the first of its kind to use an RF torch as an igniter, evaporator, and flame sustainer. The entire system was designed and built by APT.

Another innovative combustor we’ve developed offers not only clean fuel burning with single-digit NOx emissions but also the capability to extract hazardous gases from any atmospheric pressure chamber for thermal treatment within the combustor.

APT has also developed and patented the Triple Helical Flow Vortex Reactor (U.S. Patents 7,452,513 B2 and 8,252,243 B2), which serves as the foundation for the Plasma Assisted Tornado Combustor. We believe this combustor represents the most advanced and promising solution currently available among combustion and fuel reformation technologies, offering several key advantages:

· Simple tubular and annular designs

· Ability to burn super-low heating value gases, ranging from 2.5 MJ/kg to 47 MJ/kg

· Stable combustion with extremely wide flammability limits, up to λ = 27

· Simple air swirler and fuel injectors

· Cold walls and exhaust nozzle (by 140°C)

· Single-digit NOx emissions (propane tests, 15% oxygen)

· Cost-effective materials for combustor fabrication

· Option to feed fuel through the liner wall

· Capability for multi-stage combustion processes

· Proven integration with internal and external plasma sources, including RF and Microwave for volumetric streamer discharge formation

· Easy conversion into a flexi-fuel combustor and fuel reformer

· Several full-scale, low and high-pressure Tornado Combustors (up to 10 Bar) with inner diameters up to 300 mm have been developed and commercialized.

For more detailed information, please refer to our Publications and Presentations.