Total Burner Solutions

High temperature and industrial heating applications for material processing across industries are extremely demanding and challenged every day; constantly pressed to lower emissions, realize higher productivity and efficiencies while lowering maintenance.

Understanding these challenges, our engineers continuously collaborate and innovate custom built engineered ceramic products that are custom designed, co-developed and manufactured for your industrial heating applications.

Our solution encompasses Ceramic Single Ended Radiant Tube, Recuperator, and Thermal designs that are manufactured to fit all size and shaped radiant tubes used for direct and indirect industrial heating applications.

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Solution by Radiant Tube Type

Discover our solutions for radiant tubes

Single Ended Radiant Tube

A straight tube-in-tube design made from thin-wall ceramic and alloy material with an integral self-recuperating design. This provides a compact design optimized for heat transfer and heat output with minimal losses. When combined with HeatCor™ recuperator, Ceramic Radiant Tubes, PyroCor™ flame tube, and 3D printed burner tips, efficiency approach 85%, 2X heat release and optimized temperature uniformity can be achieved.

Benefits:

2X heat output with ceramic radiant tube
Efficiencies approaching 85% with HeatCor recuperator
Optimized temperature uniformity with PyroCor inserts
Low NOx with 3D printed burner tips
Straight and compact enables minimal heat loss with maximum heat output


Componant	Material	Performance
		Throughput	Energy	Emissions	Maintenance
HeatCor Recuperator	AMASIC® 3D	STD	Up to 30% energy saving, <85% efficiency	NOx <150 ppm with NOxBuster	5-10 year life
Ceramic Radiant Tube (Maximum dimension - 0.3m dia x 3.5m length)	Silit® SKD	2X*	STD	STD	5-10 year life
PyroCor FT	AMASIC® 3D	<10%	5-10%	<10% improvement	50% hot spot reduction for 25% life increase
3D Printed Burner Tip	AMASIC® 3D	STD	STD	upto 50% reduction when combined with NOxBuster	5-10 year life

U-TUBE

Radiant U-tubes are an industry standard single return bend thin-wall alloy design with a modular burner and plug-in type recuperator. This design increases surface area to burner ratio for lower cost and easy replacement and retrofit capabilities. When combined with our thermal designs; HeatCor™ recuperator, PyroCor™ flame tube, SpyroCor® and NOxBuster® radiant tube inserts, efficiencies approaching 83%, 5-20% heat output improvements, and NOx reduction up to 50% are made possible.

Benefits:

Efficiencies approaching 83% with HeatCor recuperator
Optimized temperature uniformity with PyroCor flame tube and SpyroCor radiant tube insert
5-20% increased heat output with SpyroCor radiant tube insert
Up to 50% reduced NOx with NOxBuster radiant tube insert
Increased surface area to burner ratio, modular burner and plug-in type recuperator
Easy retrofit design capable


Component	Material	Performance
Component	Material	Throughput	Energy	Emissions	Maintenance
HeatCor	AMASIC®3D	STD	Up to 30% energy saving, <85% efficiency	NOx <150 ppm with NOxBuster	5-10 year life
PyroCor FT	AMASIC®3D	<10%	5-10%	<10% improvement	50% hot spot reduction for 25% life increase
SpyroCor	AMASIC®3D	4-10%	5%-20%	10% direct + energy	5-10 year life
NOxBuster	AMASIC®3D	STD	STD	up to 50% reduction	5-10 year life

W-TUBE

Radiant W-Tubes are found in large continuous annealing and galvanizing furnaces requiring a multi-bend thin-wall design with a modular burner and plug-in type recuperator. This design maximizes surface area to burner ratio for lower cost and easy replacement and retrofit capabilities. When combined with our thermal designs; HeatCor™ recuperator, PyroCor™ flame tube, SpyroCor® and NOxBuster® radiant tube inserts, efficiencies approaching 83%, 5-15% heat output improvements and NOx reduction up to 50% are possible to attain.

Benefits:

Efficiencies approaching 83% with HeatCor recuperator
Optimized temperature uniformity with PyroCor flame tube and SpyroCor radiant tube insert
5-15% increased heat output with SpyroCor radiant tube insert
Up to 50% reduced NOx with NOxBuster radiant tube insert
Exhaust leg recuperation with modular burner and recuperator
Easy retrofit design capable


Component	Material	Performance
		Throughput	Energy	Emissions	Maintenance
HeatCor	AMASIC® 3D	STD	Up to -30% energy saving, >85% efficiency	NOx <150 ppm with NOxBuster	5-10 year life
PyroCor FT	AMASIC® 3D	<10%	5-10%	<10% improvement	50% hot spot reduction for 25% life increase
SpyroCor	AMASIC® 3D	4-10%	5%-20%	10% direct + energy	5-10 year life
NOxBuster	AMASIC® 3D	STD	STD	upto 50% reduction	5-10 year life

Our Products

Discover our Ceramic System Burner products

Ceramic Radiant Tube

The foundation for our Burner Solutions is the silicon carbide radiant tube, that offers higher productivity at lower energy consumption. Our largest ceramic single ended radiant tube is two times the size of an alloy tube and measures 3.5 m long and 300 mm diameter and withstands application temperatures up to 1380°C / 2500°F and can input up to twice as much energy as alloy radiant tubes into the furnaces. Available for straight and single-ended applications.

Recuperators

Our recuperator are integrated into burner systems for both direct and indirect-heating applications and fit into every type and size of radiant tube. Recuperator serves to recycle energy, and these traditional ceramic recuperators allow for efficiencies of up to 75% in more sophisticated burner systems.

Material	Performance
	Throughput	Energy	Emissions	Maintenance
Silit® SKD	STD	STD 70% efficient	STD NOx <150 ppm	5-10 year life over metal

Flame Tubes / Diffusers

Flame tubes (diffusers) act as a guide for the flow of combustion and combustion gas in single-ended radiant tube applications. Our ceramic flame tubes are capable of handling significantly higher flame temperatures due to its inherent thermal properties and hence reduces maintenance and increases life.

PyroCor™ Flame Tube

A uniquely designed flame tube, modified and developed for use in U-tubes and W-tubes, protects the radiant tubes by eliminating hot spots caused by direct flame impingement and increases the life of the radiant tube. The spiral shape can be custom engineered to promote excellent temperature uniformity.

Burner Nozzles

We provide a wide range of industrial, domestic oil or wood pellet boiler burners for direct heating. Amasic®-3D additive manufacturing, 3D printing capabilities enable us to offer burner nozzle designs of novel configurations and innovative designs to enhance performance.

HeatCor™ Recuperator

Saint-Gobain also possesses a heat exchanger technology, enabled by its Amasic®-3D manufacturing platform that allows recuperators and burner systems to exceed 80% efficiencies. HeatCor™ recuperator’s unique twisted channel design enables surface areas of up to three times more than traditional recuperators that fit the same footprint.

FEATURES

Thin-wall silicon carbide
Variable twist / channel cross-section
3D printed end-sets
Novel metal-ceramic interface

Material	Performance
	Throughput	Energy	Emissions	Maintenance
AMASIC® 3D	STD	Up to 30% energy savings & 85% efficiency	NOx <150 ppm with NOxBuster	5-10 year life

SpyroCor® Radiant Tube Inserts

These inserts can be easily retrofitted into existing radiant tubes to improve efficiency and bolster the amount of heat that the radiant tube is re-radiating into the furnace chamber. By implementing these inserts, users can experience energy savings of up to 15% or throughput improvements of up to 5%. Available for simple installation in straight, U-type, W-type, and tri-type radiant tubes. Also applicable in P-type and Double-P-type radiant tubes.

FEATURES

Patented twist fin design
Absorbs heat energy
Re-radiates heat back into the furnace
2-6% throughput improvements

Material	Performance
	Throughput	Energy	Emissions	Maintenance
AMASIC® 3D	4-10%	5-20%	10% direct + energy	5-10 year life

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NOxBuster® Radiant Tube Insert

NOxBuster® patented design permits the recirculation of flue gases within the radiant tube. With the NOxBuster® radiant tube insert's shape, you can significantly reduce flame temperature and lower NOx emissions by up to 50%!