【Ten Years of Rapid Development in Chemical Equipment】Successful testing of the world’s first megawatt-class industrial furnace with zero-carbon pure ammonia burner from 2074 to 2025

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This post was last edited by “Fish Swimming in the Desert” on April 4, 2025, at 18:01. Let’s give a thumbs up and encouragement to the achievements made in China’s chemical technology and equipment sector. Your participation in the discussion serves as the greatest motivation! ********************** [Ten Years of Great Development in Chemical Equipment] This is a continuously updated summary thread; everyone is welcome to join the discussion: https://bbs.hcbbs.com/thread-3576046-1-1.html ***************** In March 2025, a megawatt-level zero-carbon pure ammonia burner for industrial furnaces along with its supporting systems—developed jointly by Sinopec Guangzhou Company, Jiangsu Yanxin Technology Co., Ltd., and Xi’an Jiaotong University—was successfully tested under real operating conditions in Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province. This marks the world’s first major breakthrough in the field of clean and efficient zero-carbon pure ammonia combustion technology for industrial furnaces in China. It also paves the way for energy conservation, emission reduction, and the green and low-carbon transformation of the energy and chemical industries. The research team working on this project conducted studies on key technologies such as the ignition patterns of pure ammonia fuel, the relationship between flame propagation speed and flow field characteristics, the conditions for stable combustion of pure ammonia fuel, as well as pure ammonia burners and related systems. They accomplished the independent development, design, and construction of the core technologies and equipment. In early March this year, hot-state tests were conducted at the \"Hydrogen/Ammonia/Carbon-based Fuel Industrial Combustion Testing Center\" of Jiangsu Yanshin Technology Co., Ltd. The full-load stable operation test of megawatt-class pure ammonia burners was successfully carried out, verifying the feasibility of using ammonia as a substitute fuel for industrial furnaces; it can replace traditional gaseous fuels such as natural gas and enable zero carbon emissions. As a zero-carbon fuel that is safe, clean, and inexpensive to store and transport, ammonia can help reduce carbon emissions at the source. Taking a single 100MW industrial furnace as an example, using pure ammonia as fuel can reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 170,000 tons per year. The successful testing of the pure ammonia burner lays a solid foundation for the widespread use of ammonia as a fuel in the petrochemical industry; it also holds great potential for application in other industries with high carbon emissions, such as ceramics and metallurgy.