NORTH AMERICAN TEMPEST BURNERS

High-speed burners that improve energy efficiency and the performance of thermal processes.

What are Tempest Burners?

The Tempest burners from Fives North American are high-velocity industrial burners designed to deliver efficient combustion with low emissions.

Selecting Tempest burners for your operation can represent a solution that combines advanced combustion engineering with robust operational performance. As a result, they become a strategic investment for equipment modernization.

Helping manufacturers improve competitiveness through: increased energy efficiency, improved product quality and process consistency, reduced emissions and enhanced environmental compliance, greater operational reliability and better temperature uniformity and process control.

Key Features of Tempest Burners

Higher Thermal Efficiency
Tempest burners are designed as high-velocity burners that generate an intense jet of hot gases, promoting strong recirculation within the furnace. This enhanced gas movement improves heat transfer to the process load, allowing the furnace to reach the desired temperature with lower fuel consumption. As a result, energy costs per ton of processed material can be significantly reduced.
Improved Temperature Uniformity
The recirculation of hot gases also contributes to superior temperature uniformity throughout the furnace. More homogeneous heat distribution leads to more consistent thermal processing conditions, resulting in improved product quality and reduced process variability.
Proven Performance in Demanding Applications
The combination of high heat transfer, temperature uniformity, operational flexibility, and low emissions makes Tempest burners an ideal solution for heat treatment furnaces, forging furnaces, ceramic kilns, steel processing applications, and other demanding thermal processes.
More Stable Heating Rates
By improving heat transfer and temperature distribution, Tempest burners enable faster and more stable heating cycles without compromising product quality. This allows manufacturers to reduce cycle times, increase throughput, and maximize furnace utilization.
Reduced Emissions
Tempest burners are engineered to operate with low NOx emissions, helping facilities comply with increasingly stringent environmental regulations. In addition, they can be equipped with DMC (Diffuse Mode Combustion) technology, which operates with a flameless combustion principle. This further reduces NOx formation while improving temperature uniformity and overall combustion efficiency.

How Tempest Burners Work?

Their operation consists of mixing air and fuel, igniting this mixture through a spark, and generating a high-velocity flame. This flame promotes the recirculation of hot gases within the furnace, creating a stable and uniform heating environment.

Tempest burners have become one of the most widely used burner technologies in demanding thermal processing applications. Their principal applications include:
Heat treatment furnaces
Forging furnaces
Ceramic and refractory kilns
Continuous process lines for glass and steel production
Industrial dryers and drying systems

Brands and models that can be replaced with Tempest from Fives North American

ThermJet®- Eclipse

It is one of the burner models most comparable to the Tempest burner from FNA, making it one of its closest competitors in terms of performance and application range.

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