SEATTLE, Jan. 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- ClearSign
Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: CLIR) ("ClearSign" or the
"Company"), an emerging leader in industrial combustion and sensing
technologies that improve energy, operational efficiency and safety
while dramatically reducing emissions, provides updates on its
operations in China and the
demonstration project at the World Oil site in California.
With the continuing outbreak of the Corona virus, the Company
anticipates possible delays to the two boiler demonstration
projects in China. While at
present the Company anticipates that both projects will be
completed this year, the recent extension of the Chinese New Year
holiday period and the travel restrictions on the local work force
are impacting the project schedules. To date, based on ClearSign's
measurements, the modifications made this past year to the water
tube boiler project have performed well, achieving up to 95% of the
design capacity with NOx levels within the aggressive project
specification. The burner hardware is currently undergoing an
engineering modification to prepare it for final automation, formal
testing and ongoing operation. This will resume as soon as the
situation in China allows.
The testing of the fire tube boiler has been relocated to a
different site. The new site is not restricted by the schedule of
the heating season, and will allow for testing after the heating
season is over, if required. The testing will also now take place
in a boiler that is not in use for facility heating, which allows
more flexibility in the timing of the installation, optimization
and testing.
"At this time, given the performance we have observed of our
water tube burner technology and having found an alternative host
for our fire tube burner technology, we have planned for and intend
that both projects will be completed this season. However, the
situation in China does create
challenges, particularly to the water tube project that is
restricted to the Chinese heating season," said Jim Deller Ph.D.,
Chief Executive Officer of ClearSign. "We are continuing to monitor
the situation in China, balancing
the concern for safety of our employees with eagerness to proceed
and will adapt accordingly."
The initial test firing of the ClearSign burners at the World
Oil site in California was
undertaken this past week. The burners demonstrated an operating
range from below minimum to exceeding their design firing capacity
while consistently limiting NOx emissions to less that 4ppm based
on ClearSign measurements. In this initial testing some interaction
was experienced between the burners creating problematic flame
behavior that ultimately lead to a joint decision between World Oil
and ClearSign to remove the burners so that the anomaly could be
addressed without disrupting the production of the refinery through
the peak mid-year production season.
"While we would obviously have liked the burners to work
perfectly right out of the box, this is the first time we have had
the opportunity to install ClearSign Core burners in a multiburner
heater and both the operating flexibility and the NOx emissions
demonstrated are very encouraging. Given its unique physical
structure and operating demands this particular heater would be a
challenging application for any burner. Nevertheless, we
believe that we can not only demonstrate full production for the
World Oil refinery but do it in an easy-to-use manner. Given the
critical role of this heater to refinery operations the decision to
undertake further refinement of the burner technology outside of
the production restraints was prudent. We have every
intention that the installation will meet all requirements later
this year," said Jim Deller Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of
ClearSign. "The development of our burner technology for highly
fired multi burner heaters is part of our business development
plan, and we believe that what we learn from this installation and
the product improvements that will result will ultimately lead to a
more robust burner technology and to greater adoption of our
product in the market."
The purpose of the project with World Oil is to demonstrate
ClearSign Core™ process burner technology as a Best Available
Control Technology (BACT) candidate to achieve sub 5 ppm NOx
emissions levels in refinery process heaters and other types of
fired equipment. The project involves a retrofit installation
of five Plug & Play™ burners on a process heater within the
California refinery as a demonstration of the technology for
the South Coast Air Quality Management District and refiner World
Oil. Based on preliminary estimates, if successful, the project is
expected to result in a reduction of over 15 tons of NOx
emissions compared to current operations, without the utilization
of catalysts, chemicals, utility consumption or other inefficient
requirements of established technologies.
About ClearSign Technologies Corporation
ClearSign Technologies Corporation designs and develops products
and technologies for the purpose of improving key performance
characteristics of industrial and commercial systems,
including operational performance, energy efficiency, emission
reduction, safety and overall cost-effectiveness. Our patented
technologies, embedded in established OEM products as ClearSign
Core™, and ClearSign Eye™ and other sensing configurations,
enhance the performance of combustion systems and fuel safety
systems in a broad range of markets, including the energy (upstream
oil production and down-stream refining), commercial/industrial
boiler, chemical, petrochemical, transport and power industries.
For more information, please visit www.clearsign.com.
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