How to Use combustor in a Sentence
combustor
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Would the combustor sustain a flame when 95 percent of the fuel mix is CO2?
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IEEE Spectrum,
30 May 2018
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In this and future tests, the combustor is operating separately from the turbine.
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IEEE Spectrum,
30 May 2018
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After compression and pumping, most of the CO2 makes a pass through the other end of the heat exchanger to get warmed up before flowing to the combustor.
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IEEE Spectrum,
30 May 2018
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The now highly pure CO2 stream is then compressed, cooled, and pumped up to a supercritical 30 MPa for a return trip to the combustor.
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IEEE Spectrum,
30 May 2018
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The hot exhaust enters a heat exchanger, which transfers the gas’s thermal energy to a supercritical CO2 stream that’s headed back to the combustor.
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IEEE Spectrum,
30 May 2018
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Further modifications typically include the development of fuel nozzles that let the machine run on natural gas rather than aviation fuel, and a combustor that minimizes the emission of nitrogen oxides, a major pollutant.
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IEEE Spectrum,
20 Oct. 2025
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This article was updated and corrected to include new information about the plant’s combustor, to correct the nature of the Brayton Cycle, and update the investment in NETL’s facility.
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IEEE Spectrum,
30 May 2018
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