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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8042498 | Superheated steam generator A superheated steam generator includes an introduction section for introducing saturated steam into hollow pipe members arranged as steam flow passages and acting as inductively heated elements, and a discharge section for discharging superheated steam from the flow... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7261149 | Heat exchanger with pipe coils and helical spreader ribs Addressed is a heat exchanger including a housing having an internal wall defining at least one internal chamber incorporating at least one core having a wall defining in the chamber, with the internal wall of the housing across from it, at least one exchange cavity... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7043147 | Superheated vapor generator system and method A superheated vapor generation system includes at least one vapor generator with a vapor generation space in its interior for generation of superheated vapor upon entry thereinto of liquid. At least one thermal element is disposed within the interior vapor generatio... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6672259 | Method for positioning superheaters in biomass burning steam generators, and steam generator A method for positioning superheaters (2, 3, 4, 5) in biomass burning steam generators, and a steam generator. The steam generator comprises a combustion chamber (1), a flue gas duct (6), a steam circuit (7), and the superheaters (2, 3, 4, 5) positioned f... | 01/06/2004 |
| 5568793 | Steam generator In a steam generator having a convective part arranged downstream of the furnace chamber and essentially consisting of final superheater (1), pre-superheater, evaporator and economizer connected in series on the flue-gas side, a further contact heat excha... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5247991 | Heat exchanger unit for heat recovery steam generator A tubular type heat exchanger unit which utilizes upper inlet and outlet headers which are each series connected to at least three lower parallel headers by multiple elongated vertically-oriented tubes. The lower headers are connected together by a plural... | 09/28/1993 |
| 4969084 | Superheater spray flow control for variable pressure operation A superheater spray water control system for variable pressure applications produces an output signal representative of expected superheater absorption as a function of measured steam flow, compensates the signal for temperature variations within the supe... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4838212 | Superheater unit of a steam generating system A tube assembly for superheater unit of a steam generating system comprising a bank of superheater tubes rigidly secured together and a screen tube adapted to be connected to a source of coolant disposed adjacent the length of and attached to an end tube ... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4772775 | Electric arc plasma steam generation An electric arc plasma steam generator includes a pair of electrodes for generating the arc plasma, and a housing for enclosing the arc plasma. Jets of water are directed into the arc plasma to convert the water into steam and to ionize the hydrogen and o... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4754725 | Supercritical sliding pressure operation boiler with rear gas duct A boiler having a furnace, a tunnel section and a rear gas duct is improved by the fact that a partition wall at right angles to side walls of the rear gas duct is disposed in the rear gas duct to divide it into two passages. A low-pressure reheater is di... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4739729 | Coal-fired steam generator A coal-fired steam generator that has a water-steam circulation and a low pressure-heat carrier-circulation which, via a heater that is disposed in the flue gas flow of the steam generator and that has at least one heat transfer surface, absorbs heat from... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4720263 | Transportable system for providing heat to flowing materials An apparatus for in-process removal of built-up paraffin and the like from the inner surface of oil pipelines and the like has a combustion section and a heat transfer section. The combustion section includes an air heater, a blower for causing air to flo... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4675963 | Method of assembly of a steam separator super-heater This steam separator superheater comprises a horizontal axis cylindrical shell (1) enclosing in its lower portion a steam and moisture separator and in its upper portion a two-stage steam superheater resting on running paths supported half way up the shel... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4526137 | Thermal sleeve for superheater nozzle to header connection A nozzle to header or pressure vessel connection includes a sleeve preferably of stainless steel extending within the bore of the nozzle and preferably cantilevered therefrom to extend into the aligned flow passage of the header. A portion of the sleeve p... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4412510 | Flexible tie for tangent tube construction Tie means employable for purposes of accomplishing the tying together of tubes of a superheater platen assembly. The subject tie means is particularly suited for use in those applications wherein a need exists to effect the tying together of tubes, which ... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4252087 | Rapid response steam generating apparatus and method Provided is a steam generating system effective to rapidly and momentarily respond to a drop in steam pressure when utilized in connection with a steam-operated device. Super-heated steam is passed from a heating unit to a vaporization chamber in which a ... | 02/24/1981 |
| 4063534 | Coal-fired steam generator with heating surfaces above the firing or combustion chamber A coal-fired steam generator has tubes forming heating surfaces that are suspended above a combustion chamber from support tubes that extend in a given direction and are mutually spaced apart, transversely to the axes of the tubes forming the heating surf... | 12/20/1977 |
| 4056079 | Apparatus and process for preheating main boiler superheater headers An apparatus and process for preventing thermal shock caused by the introtion of steam into a superheater header by preheating the header with an electrical heating element located on the header before boiler light-off and the introduction of any steam. ... | 11/01/1977 |
| 4041907 | Spacer arrangement for steam generator An arrangement for a steam cooled spacer tube which restrains movement of pendantly supported superheater division panels of a steam generator. A horizontal portion of the spacer engages the panel and a vertical portion engages a pair of bumped furnace wa... | 08/16/1977 |
| 4033297 | Protection of superheater tubes against corrosion This invention relates to panels comprising a rigidly interconnected set of metal tubes with a continuous sheet of a refractory lining material which has a satisfactory thermal conductivity and is chemically inert with respect to combustion products cover... | 07/05/1977 |
