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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120107751 | METHOD FOR SUPPRESSING ADHESION OF ASH AND DEVICE FOR SUPPRESSING ADHESION OF ASH IN BOILER In order to stably operate a boiler using several kinds of solid fuels including depleted ash as fuels, adhesion of ash is suppressed. A calculator (9) preliminarily collects properties of a solid fuel, such as the content rate of ash and the composition of an as... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20110302901 | ZONAL MAPPING FOR COMBUSTION OPTIMIZATION A method of optimizing operation of a furnace to control emission within a system. Each furnace zone inside of the furnace is associated with at least one exhaust zone. A signal indicative of an amount of byproduct exiting the furnace through at least one of the exhaust... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110271880 | Redundant Modulating Furnace Gas Valve Closure System and Method In a modulating furnace with an integrated furnace control (IFC) that may enter a lockout mode for any one or more of a variety of safety reasons, the IFC may be programmed to send a “home” signal to the regulator stepper motor to close the regulator seat thereby re... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110269081 | SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES FOR IMPROVED COMBUSTION CONTROL Combustion systems and processes are disclosed. A cross-limiting override control system is configured to transmit remote set points to flow controllers configured to control the flow rates of a primary firing fuel and air to a combustion apparatus. A temperature contro... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110197831 | Pulverized Coal Burning Boiler A pulverized coal burning boiler is provided, which reduces an air-excess ratio thereby to reduce the emission of unburned contents such as CO. The pulverized coal burning boiler includes a pulverized coal feed measuring device for measuring the feeding rates of the pul... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110174201 | FURNACE, A METHOD FOR OPERATING A FURNACE AND A FURNACE CONTROLLER CONFIGURED FOR THE SAME A controller for a gas furnace, a computer-usable medium for implementing a method and a gas furnace are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the controller includes: (1) an interface configured to receive a heating call and (2) a processor configured to enable an induc... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110113993 | Method of Operating a Furnace A method of operating a furnace having process tubes and multiple burners where it is desired to conform the temperatures of the process tubes to selected target temperature criterion. The present method provides a systematic and quantitative approach to determine how t... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110100271 | Device and Method for Controlling the Fuel-Air Ratio During the Combustion of Ground Coal in the Firing System of a Coal Power Plant A device and method for controlling fuel-air ratio during combustion of ground in a coal power plant, including pneumatic delivery of ground coal to the burners and feeding combustion air to burners while controlling the combustion air and the amount of carrier air. A h... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110061575 | COMBUSTION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD USING SPATIAL FEEDBACK AND ACOUSTIC FORCINGS OF JETS A system is provided that includes a combustion system having a plurality of jets; a spatial monitoring system with a plurality of sensors disposed in a spatial grid within or downstream from the combustion system; and a control system configured to adjust a forcing fre... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110017190 | HEATER BEING AUTOMATICALLY FED WITH UNIFORM GEOMETRY FUEL UNITS A heater being automatically fed with uniform geometry fuel units (2) whereby an improved combustion is obtained and it is adequate for domestic, commercial and industrial use; said heater comprises a supporting structure (16) and a combustion chamber (... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100326337 | CONTROL DEVICE OF COAL PULVERIZER There is provided a control device of a coal pulverizer which enables estimation of a coal output with a precision suited for a purpose. In a control device of a coal pulverizer which pulverizes coal by the coal pulverizer and estimates coal output by which the pulveriz... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100319592 | System and Method for Full Combustion Optimization For Pulverized Coal-Fired Steam Boilers A method and system for controlling a pulverized coal fired boiler wherein the flow of a coal/air mixture flowing to each burner is monitored and transmitted to a distributed control system. The distributed control system also monitors and controls the position of dampe... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100319594 | LOW COMBUSTION APPARATUS AND METHOD Clean combustion and equilibration equipment and methods are provided to progressively deliver, combust and equilibrate mixtures of fuel, oxidant and aqueous diluent in a plurality of combustion regions and in one or more equilibration regions to further progress oxidat... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100319593 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CLEANING HEAT EXCHANGE SURFACES OF A HEAT EXCHANGE SYSTEM Means for obtaining accurate knowledge of location and amount of fouling inside a heat exchange system, such as a boiler of a power plant, are provided. According to the invention this knowledge can be used to optimize cleaning of a heat exchange system. The system of t... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100316964 | SOLIDS FLOW METER FOR INTEGRATED BOILER CONTROL SYSTEM A combustion control system [100] for a combustion system [7] having a plurality of fuel pipes [5]. The combustion control system [100] including a plurality of flow meters [10], a controller [8], fuel flow controls [11] ... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100282139 | METHODS FOR INCINERATING SLUDGE IN A COMBUSTOR A method controls mass and heat loading of sludge feed into a fluidized bed combustor (FBC) controlled via regulation of a polymer dosage or a sludge feed rate including: continuously monitoring at least one performance characteristic of the FBC; producing an input sign... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100218591 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING RELATIVE COAL FLOW IN PIPES FROM A PULVERIZER Pulverizer coal flow pipes feed a mixture of air and coal to burners in electric utility coal fire facilities. A method and apparatus for sensing relative coal flow in the pipes uses acoustic emission (AE) sensors to detect flow in each pipe. Sensed relative flow in the... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100212555 | Oxyfuel Combustion Boiler Plant and Operating Method for the Same An oxyfuel combustion boiler plant having a first boiler and a second boiler for injecting gas including oxygen in higher concentration than that in the air, gas including carbon dioxide in higher concentration than that in the air, and fuel from a burner and generating... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100162930 | SOLID-FUEL BURNER, COMBUSTION DEVICE USING SOLID-FUEL BURNER, AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE COMBUSTION DEVICE Provided is a solid fuel burner (60) suitable for controlling a flame to be formed by combustion of fuel ejected from the burner (60) and a temperature distribution in a furnace, a combustion apparatus using the solid fuel burner (60), and a method ... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100092897 | Assisted flox® operation and burner therefor In a burner and method for the operation of such a burner which is provided with first fuel and air supply means for FLOX® operation and second fuel and air supply means for operation with flame combustion, a control unit is provided for controlling fuel and air supply... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100050912 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE OPERATION OF A ROTARY FURNACE BURNER In order, for operating the lance burner of a rotary tubular furnace for the production of cement clinker from calcined raw cement meal, to provide an automated regulation method which is optimized in terms of the configuration of the burner flame for all types and quan... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100037805 | Method of and Apparatus for Controlling the Temperature of a Fluidized Bed Reactor A method of and an apparatus for controlling the temperature of a fluidized bed reactor, comprising a separator for separating first solid particles from the fluidized bed reactor, a return duct for returning a first portion of the first solid particles to the fluidized... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20090293787 | INCINERATION PLANT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN INCINERATION PLANT The invention relates to an incineration plant with a furnace, a device for feeding back incineration residues into the furnace, a device for measuring at least one parameter of the incineration, and devices for controlling the incineration. Moreover, the invention rela... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090277363 | Oxyfuel Boiler System and Method of Retrofit of Air Fired Boiler to Oxyfuel Boiler An oxyfuel boiler system, comprising: an oxygen generator to separate oxygen from air; a coal supply unit to dry and pulverize coal; a burner having a fuel feed path for feeding pulverized coal supplied from the coal supply unit and an oxidizer feed path for feeding oxi... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090205544 | COAL ROPE LOCATOR An apparatus (100) operative for purposes of detecting the presence of a coal rope within a coal delivery pipe (200) is provided. The apparatus (100) includes a rod (105) that is operative to flex when struck by a coal rope that is present in... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090206500 | Pre-heated combustion air in treating ceramic components Systems and processes are disclosed to provide pre-heated air to a furnace configured to treat ceramic green bodies which are made of a particulate material and a combustible fugitive binder. In one embodiment the furnace includes a heater disposed within an intake cond... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090199747 | BIOMASS BURNER SYSTEM A biomass burner system includes a burner assembly, a fuel storage assembly coupled to the burner assembly, and a heat exchanger configured to receive the heat from the burner assembly. The biomass burner system includes a controller which is programmable to monitor var... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090078176 | Wood-Pellet Cogeneration Unit With Stirling Engine in Condensing Technology In a wood-pellet cogeneration unit comprising a pellet feed, a combustion chamber, an ash removal device and a stirling engine, in order to achieve an optimum efficiency, provision is made for an exhaust gas recuperator (11) to preheat combustion air (10) ... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090056603 | Control of CFB boiler utilizing accumulated char in bed inventory A boiler control method and system. A BFI (bed fuel inventory) value associated with a boiler can be estimated by detecting data from the boiler utilizing an inferential sensor. The bed fuel inventory value can then be stabilized at a particular value utilizing a feedba... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090050034 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC FEEDING OF FURNACES WITH LIQUID FUEL A device for automatic feeding liquid fuel (2) to a furnace with comprising a power system for igniting, extinguishing, and monitoring the level of liquid fuel (2) in the furnace (1), said power system comprising a main power switch (9), a co... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20080264310 | Combustion Method and System A method of combustion for pulverized hydro-carbonaceous fuel includes the steps of injecting an oxidant/fuel stream into a burner, causing a low-pressure zone; directing a flow of a high-temperature combustion gas from a combustion chamber into the low-pressure zone in... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080110380 | Renewable Fuel Source Burner for a Furnace A furnace comprising a housing defining a combustion chamber therein, a burner in the housing, the burner comprising a body defining a burning zone, a fuel feeder in communication with the burning zone adapted to feed a renewable fuel source therein, an air supplier in ... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20070251432 | Continuous real time heating value (BTU)/Coal flow balancing meter A method and an apparatus for continuous real time heating value/coal flow balancing of coal from a coal feeder to a burner. The apparatus includes a dual-energy Gamma Attenuation (DGA)/multi-energy Gamma Attenuation (MGA) device for measuring coal quality at a specific... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070000416 | Method and System for controlling coal flow A system for controlling coal flow in a coal-fired boiler including: a coal flow damper in operable communication with a burner pipe; a coal flow sensor in operable communication with the burner pipe which generates a coal flow signal; and a fuel trim controller in oper... | 01/04/2007 |
| 20050039647 | VERTICAL REFUSE INCINERATOR FOR INCINERATING WASTES AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME In a vertical refuse incinerator for incinerating wastes according to the present invention, an incinerator body 1 is made up of an upper cylindrical part CP and a lower funnel part FP covered by a cooling case, and an exhaust gas mixing device 4 promoting... | 02/24/2005 |
