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Fuel Sources for the General Vortex Combustion Chamber

The General Vortex Combustion Chamber burns all fuel in a controlled, continuous combustion process, and can tolerate a very lean mixture. The unique design of the Combustion Chamber allows it to burn nearly any gaseous or liquid fuel, including bio-fuels, at high efficiencies and low emissions.

The Multi-Fuel Combustion Chamber is capable of burning the following fuel sources at high efficiencies with low emissions:

Glycerin to Power

The immediate opportunity for GVE’s combustion technology is to use the waste glycerin stream from biodiesel plants as a fuel to provide plant process heat and to generate electric power.As the biodiesel industry has been growing faster than forecasted, this rapidly growing glut of waste glycerin (about 220 million gallons by year end) creates an increasing problem of disposal cost to the biodiesel industry. The MFVCC enables a step change in plant economics for the bio-diesel industry. By converting thie by-product to useful thermal energy.

Low Emissions - Test Results

Liquid fuel tests of the Combustion Chamber have demonstrated very low levels of NOx and CO emissions. The combustion laboratory at The University of Maryland College Park tested F-76 and Propane as fuel, and the results are shown in the graphs below.