Hypermix ultra Burner testing 2,496 degf open flame temp 

Yes its industrial grade

Thanks for the input , you are correct . Im trying to get as hot as possible without breaking that $150 mark . I do have a pre heat air unit . It gives you a 50 degree temp increase . The pre heat burner cost $195 . Its called the baby godzilla

@@NOBOX7 I've seen your reheat designs but that's not what I mean. It takes heat from the burner's "light bulb" to preheat air. It probably helps with the combustion kinetics but doesn't really change the overall thermodynamics. (by the way, it should help if you insulate the glowing part. or put it in a "firebox" like you did in one of the demonstrations to preheat tertiary air) What I am talking about is increasing the starting energy of your fuel/ air by heating it up from some outside source before burning it. Sort of like a rocket with boosters. You need 8 KM/s to reach orbit. But a rocket that can reach 8 KM/s on it's own is impractical because it not only needs to lift it's payload but also the fuel to lift said payload. So you put a reasonably sized 5 KM/S rocket on a 3KM/S booster instead. The booster is cheap and low efficiency but brute force. Once it's empty you drop the empty weight and continue with the efficient main stage and minimal dead weight. Same concept for heat. For argument's sake, lets say propane and air at 0°C get releases enough energy to heat the reaction products (and N2/Humidity/other dead weight in the air) to 1900°C. That's your theoretical flame temperature. Now start with fresh fuel and air but preheated to 500°C from some separate energy source. The combustion releases roughly the same energy and the products are roughly the same so now you get 2400°C. I's an idealized example but that's the idea. Ideally you would get your energy for the preheat by passing the exhaust gasses from the furnace through some kind of counter current heat exchanger to recover your waste heat. This is very important in Industry. Look at cowper stoves/regenerators for blast furnaces or those fancy recuperator burners for radiant tubes for examples. For a simple test you can simply use a electric heat gun and use that as a blower for a simple propane torch. then compare at lowest and highest heat setting. Tough I doubt a 1KW heat gun is going to cut it for a 100KW burner. For reference, an eternity ago I saw one of those charcoal forge builds (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZzGeCy-btp4.html) where the guy accidentally melted the rebar he was trying to forge. Charcoal usually doesn't do that. It also doesn't glow that bright. Also, cost is of secondary concern to me as I am just a metallurgy student with a desire to turn crappy fireplace cement into slag in my backyard.

Very many but all well outside my budget. tens of thousands of dollars