ABSTRACT
A burner may be dened as an entrance gate for fuel and oxidizer into the combustion chamber. The burner as well as the gate have to meet certain requirements. These involve not only compliance with technology requirements, but also with more and more restrictive emission limits for individual groups of technologies. Investors’ demand for low operational costs is also very important and can be achieved by more efcient utilization of energy released during combustion. All these facts contribute to quite a large diversity of burners that
are custom designed for particular types of applications. The following text focuses on presenting testing of power burners combusting mainly gaseous and liquid fuels. These power burners are generally used in the local power supply and various industrial applications, such as chemical and petrochemical industries, incineration of waste coming from several types of industrial productions, and so on. This text does not explore development and testing of burners for industries such as metallurgical and glass that require special burners for direct and indirect heating.
