AGNISUMUKH PATENTED RADIANT HEAT TECHNOLOGY

Thermal Mapping & Horizon:

HEAT – Dry Heat & Wet Heat in the form of steam, is the back bone of every society/economy. More than 80% of heat need through several applications are only between room temperature to 300°C & the balance 20% is usually for high heat format for melting metals to all other applications.

This is the market which is available to Agnisumukh innovation by ensuring energy efficiency anywhere between 30-70%. We have implemented projects with proven energy efficiency in commercial kitchen & industrial applications.

Thermal experts are aware that 10% energy efficiency itself has potential to disrupt the market. The buzz word across the world is SDG-7 (Affordable & Clean Energy as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal UN Agenda – 2030 “In transforming our world”). It is reliably learnt that the global forums are working sincerely for climate change so as to achieve the laudable goal of reducing the carbon emissions so that global temperature can be brought down by the year 2030 with a modest target of 1.5 °C. For this purpose, the global financial target spending in next 8 years is earmarked several billions of dollars towards low carbon impact projects. The globe is in search of low carbon impact projects which are:-

• Sustainable
• Energy efficient
• Clean energy reducing carbon foot print &
• Positive Impact on Climate Change

Agnisumukh innovation is one of the best fit for attaining above global aspirations as it meets all the criteria for the global aspiration for climate change as the project fulfills 15 out of 17 SDG of UN Agenda- 2030.

Agnisumukh Patented Radiant Heat Technology

Conventionally blue flame gas burners produce pressurized centric heat through conduction & convection mechanism with low thermal efficiency, while Agnisumukh burners produce conduction, convection & radiation mechanism emitting Far infrared rays (FIR) with better Heat Transfer Ratio.

While using the current blue flame technology, it is observed that the equipment emits carbon soot/emissions, increases the ambient heat and safety is an eternal concern due to the burners operating at high Gas Pressure. In commercial kitchen in order to maintain hygiene there is more need for the use of water & detergent to overcome the problem created by carbon soot. In industrial equipment, the layers of deposit of carbon soot acts as an insulator by reducing the heat efficiency of the equipment. At periodic intervals, the maintenance needs to be done to overcome this problem.

Under Agnisumukh technology we have two principle radiant heat technology

Surface Combustion Technology:

(AGNISUMUKH 1.0 – Is already a commercialized technology) As a natural property flame and heat tend to accumulate at the center.  We have innovated a mechanism in gas burners that regulates this natural tendency and spreads the flame evenly as a thin layer by turning into uniform radiant heat. The radiant heat producing surface area is a usually L X B x 1mm, at a very low gas pressure with high thermal efficiency.

Our innovation exactly addresses the challenges created by conventional blue flame gas burners. Agnisumukh burners are flameless, smokeless and noiseless which produces uniform radiant heat which is more thermally efficient and operates under low gas pressure.

The impact of our innovations are:

• Preserving nutrition in food
• Clean pot and pan
• Device is safer as it operates under low gas pressure
• Saving of water and detergent over 50%
• Saving of gas fuels over 30%
• Lower ambient heat in kitchen
• Faster cooking
• High thermal efficiency at 69% under IS: 14612
• No daily maintenance for cleaning the burner
• Heat can be given from top, down or any desired direction
• Increased productivity – user can do multi-tasking
• Healthier and tastier cooking
• Perfect for Sous vide cooking
• Amenable for automated control
• Potential to reduce more than 10 Million Tonnes of GHG in India alone by the application in cooking.

Our devices work efficiently on Biogas with differential purity. Biogas belongs to the Methane family, which has a specific gravity of 0.6 which is lighter than air. The flame length of methane is higher as it needs a more linear surface of oxygen for combustion resulting in low heat efficiency. Our expertise in energy efficiency will mitigate these challenges in Biogas platform. Our burners produce high surface temperature burning H2S and using its energy. Agnisumukh devices need low pressure and overcome sound pollution. We also ensure elimination of odor in biogas platform.

Volume Combustion Technology:

A Licensed technology from IIT-Guwahati under exclusive collaboration vide TLA (Technology Licensing Agreement) dated 16.05.2020 (AGNISUMUKH 2.0 – The volume combustion technology is neither flameless nor noiseless but heat transfer is based on conduction, convection & radiation with higher gas pressure compared to surface combustion but lower gas pressure compared to conventional technology.

The radiant heat producing surface area is usually volume dia of foam matrix & its thickness, at a higher gas pressure than Agnisumukh 1.0 but lower than conventional blue flame technology with high thermal efficiency.

Our Contribution To Combustion Science

AGNISUMUKH INNOVATION – REVERSING GAS FUEL MECHANISM

A comparative analysis of existing conventional system with Agnisumukh Innovation:-

The present gas fuel heating mechanism is based on centric heat, which has a linear vertical blue flame through conduction mechanism, operating at a high gas pressure. This results in low thermal efficiency, emission of carbon soot thereby leading to daily maintenance of burner and equipment.

Whereas, Agnisumukh innovation is about uniform, horizontal, linear flame-less radiant heat, through convection cum radiation mechanism, operating at a low gas pressure. This results in high thermal efficiency, zero emission of carbon soot without any daily maintenance of burner and equipment.

This is how our research team reversed the present gas fuel mechanism and has overcome all the problems of LPG, Natural Gas, Bio-Gas. We have developed commercial kitchen equipment’s ranging from Cookstove to Steam boilers.

GAS FUEL COMBUSTION FROM FORM TO FORMLESS

LERC and Agnisumukh joint research has findings of what happens when gas fuel

moves from form to formless. Every combustion process has to operate in the region of lower and upper explosive limits (LEL/UEL). In the conventional blue flame gas burner the flame has a form which is centric. It gets suspended and enveloped in open air and heat transfer happens through conduction. Some fuel goes beyond LEL zone losing potency to combust which results in generating carbon soot. This is precisely what we overcome on radiant heat platform through Agnisumukh innovation.

The combustion on Agnisumukh platform happens at the surface of the burner where temperature is intense and has wider area to burn every particle of gas fuel without generating carbon soot. As the pressure is lower the combustion happens at a slower rate thereby increasing safety and thermal efficiency.

Agnisumukh research finds a huge gap in gas fuel science and its applications on ground as there is no single institute across the globe which has either evolved combustion science integrating all gas fuel or applications based on combined combustible gas fuel. This reasons out what make our innocuous looking research team a precious knowledge bank on radiant heat technology across gas fuel.

Technology Comparision

In simple terms the following table will bring out the difference between the existing technology and our innovation.