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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7316563 | Combustor with integrated counter-flow heat exchanger A combustor includes a combustor head with an integrated counter-flow heat exchanger. The combustor head defines a combustion chamber and has a surface accessible for external delivery of thermal energy. The counter-flow heat exchanger has a fuel channel extending b... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7177535 | Apparatus for generating power and hybrid fuel vaporization system A hybrid fuel vaporization system and an apparatus for producing power from a source of liquid fuel. The hybrid fuel vaporizing system includes at least one capillary flow passage, the at least one capillary flow passage having an inlet end and an outlet end, the in... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7043921 | Tube cooled combustor An innovative cooling tube assembly is disclosed for use in cooling the liner of a combustor in a gas turbine engine. Each cooling tube has a serpentine shape that conforms to the contour of the liner as the tube extends from one end of the combustor to the other to... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7033166 | Valve having mechanism for diverting reverse gas flow The present invention is to provide a valve with a safety mechanism for diverting reverse gas flow being mountable in a gas lighter wherein a shoulder is formed around a mouth proximate a forward opening of a sleeve and is spaced apart from the forward opening by a ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6951456 | Microcombustor and combustion-based thermoelectric microgenerator A generally toroidal counterflow heat exchanger is the main element of a combustor that operates at a micro scale. The combustor includes a central combustion region with openings to a reactant gas channel and an exhaust gas channel. The reactant channel and exhaust... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6916172 | Burner apparatus A burner apparatus comprising housing defining a chamber and having an air inlet, a peripherally extending baffle disposed in the housing, a first peripherally extending flow passage being formed between the housing and the baffle, the first flow passage being in op... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6290487 | Fuel injection method and device to increase combustion dynamics and efficiency in combustion equipment operating with fluid hydro carbon fuel A method for providing fuel injection in combustion equipment by increasing the velocity of fuel flow delivered to an appliance incorporating a combustion zone and a burner therein, such as to increase ignition speed and flame speed during the combustion ... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6257875 | Torches and burners for flame cultivation and flaming The invention relates to an LPG combusting burner device for flaming and flame cultivation purposes and an improved hand-held torch that may incorporate such burner device. The burner device includes a primary burner (14) having at least one fuel delivery... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6089859 | Reduced carbon from under oxidized burner A burner apparatus for reducing carbon production, comprises a burner having a combustion chamber and a heat exchanger located within the combustion chamber. The heat exchanger has an inlet end where a mixture comprising air and fuel enters, a heat transf... | 07/18/2000 |
| 5735684 | Gas pistol with reverse flow heating device An improved gas pistol with reverse flow heating device including a base, a support device, a piezo electric device, an air control device, a reverse flow heating device, an ejection device and an outer tube. In use, an insert ring is coupled to a gas con... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5709542 | Device and method for the combustion of oxidizable constituents in a carrier gas which is to be cleaned The invention relates to a process and a device for burning oxidizable components in a vehicle gas to be purified, comprising a gas inlet (36), a burner (19) with an attached flame pipe (22) opening into a main combustion chamber (24) comprising a bottom ... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5601789 | Raw gas burner and process for burning oxygenic constituents in process gas Raw gas burner that maximizes fuel efficiency of the burner, minimizes residence time, and reduces or eliminates flame contact with the process air or gas in order to minimize NOx formation. Process air flow such as from the cold side of a heat exchanger ... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5546701 | Underoxidized burner utilizing improved injectors Injectors are disclosed for use in an underoxidized burner having a single or double stage internal combustion chamber for receiving gaseous or liquid fuel such as diesel for mixture with air or oxygen and subsequent ignition by a spark plug. The injector... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5529484 | Apparatus and method for decreasing nitrogen oxide emissions from internal combustion power sources Apparatus is disclosed herein for reducing engine nitrogen oxide emissions by mixing hydrogen prepared from a portion or all of engine fuel within a simple burner. The apparatus includes an insulated burner having an internal combustion chamber for receiv... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5468143 | Gas-fueled infrared heater An infrared heater, especially for construction purposes or for animal brooders in which the air duct passes through the reflector on the side of a glow body turned away from the surface to be irradiated so that the air duct is heated by the glow body. Wi... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5438834 | Close combustion gas generator The gas generator comprises an annular main porous piece, at least one calibration lining for defining a flow rate of a first liquid propellant component that is injected through the porous piece towards a combustion chamber that is delimited by one of th... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5306138 | Method and apparatus for incinerating combustibles carried by an air stream The incinerator has a closed housing (10) with high temperature insulation (17). A linear gas burner (50) is wholly within the bottom portion of the incineration chamber (22), producing a line of small flames (59). Polluted air, passing downwardly through... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5139415 | Radiation heater The invention relates to a radiation heater for air/gas admixtures which includes a double-wall housing of a generally trapezoidal transverse cross-section defined by a top wall and downwardly convering side walls. The housing includes a burner plate betw... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5127822 | Combustion apparatus with atomizer and method of controlling same Provided is an atomizer-equipped combustion apparatus including an atomizing device for atomizing a fuel, a spray chamber for mixing the fuel atomized by the atomizing device with air to form a mixture, and for moving the mixture downwardly toward an open... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5123401 | Combustion heating apparatus A combustion heating device for use for example with oil processing equipment defines a combustion chamber within which combustion wholly takes place. The combustion chamber consists solely of a sleeve and end plate defining a vertical cylinder and a laye... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5015173 | Burner for the combustion of liquids in the gaseous state A stationary gasifier (17) is located at a distance (49) from an air aperture plate (35). At the outlet (42) of the gasifier there is a stationary mixing head (29) having a deflector section (31) and lateral outlets (33). Fuel is supplied coaxially throug... | 05/14/1991 |
| 5002481 | Apparatus for generating a combustible gaseous mixture Production of oxides of nitrogen during combustion of liquid fuel can be reduced by burning at relatively low temperatures of about 1400° C., by first producing a special combustible gaseous mixture of superheated steam, fuel vapor, and combustion air. W... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4928605 | Oxygen heater, hot oxygen lance having an oxygen heater and pulverized solid fuel burner There is disclosed an oxygen heater, which uses a part of supplied oxygen as auxiliary combustion oxygen, a hot oxygen lance and a pulverized solid fuel burner, both having oxygen heaters. The oxygen heater (1) has a combustion chamber (4) for both mixing... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4850857 | Apparatus for the combustion of oxidizable substances suspended in a carrier gas An appliance for the combustion of oxidizable substances in a carrier gas is described, in which the carrier gas is fed through heat exchanger tubes having inlet ends which are bent outwardly adjacent an outlet for gas from which oxidizable substances hav... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4790744 | Burner with low emission of polluting gases This invention relates to a burner with low emission of polluting gases, comprising, in a conduit, an injector of fluid fuel which creates in the conduit, supplied with combustion-supporting air heated in an exchanger, a fuel/air mixture. The latter burns... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4720258 | Temperature control means for evaporators The invention relates to a method and apparatus for temperature control of a gas-heated evaporator according to DIN standard 30 696, which for attaining, keeping constant, and limiting a predetermined operating temperature is equipped with heating and con... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4684341 | Fuel vaporization apparatus for combustor A liquid fuel combustion apparatus including a housing defining a composite chamber; a perforate wall separating the composite chamber into a vaporization chamber and a combustion chamber and distributing the flow of vapor therebetween; an intake pipe pro... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4676736 | Combustion device for combustion of a gaseous fuel A combustion device for combustion of a gaseous fuel with air is provided with means for supplying gas automatically at a mass flow rate corresponding to a mass flow of air governed by the demand of heat. The gas is supplied at a pressure slightly above a... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4622811 | Burner and method for removal of accumulated soot on a soot filter in internal combustion engines A burner for cleaning accumulated soot from a soot filter associated with the exhaust of internal combustion engines, the burner is simple from a constructional viewpoint and especially effective with respect to initiation and maintenance of a soot-burnin... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4559007 | Fuel burning method in heating furnace The concentration of nitrogen oxides contained in exhaust combustion gases is decreased by feeding into the combustion system within a heating furnace the combination of an ammonium compound and a phenol compound, the combination of Fluid Catalytic Cracki... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4531904 | Low NOx level combustion method in a radiant tube burner and a burning apparatus used for the method A method of burning a fuel gas in a low NOx level in the exhaust gas is disclosed, wherein a radiant tube burner having concentrically arranged outer air flow nozzle, fuel gas nozzles arranged in a circle and inner air flow nozzle and having a ... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4519453 | Ignition system A burner having a pulsating mode of operation has a combustion chamber for the periodic burning of successive separate charges of combustible fuel continuously supplied from an inlet system. Upstream of the combustion chamber is an ignition chamber having... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4466250 | Air passageway to air injection valve for gas turbine engine A gas turbine engine in which the air compressed by a compressor provided therein is injected into a combustion chamber provided therein through an air injection valve after passing through a first air passageway formed integrally with the main housing an... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4443180 | Variable firing rate oil burner using aeration throttling A pressure atomizing liquid fuel burner having an improved turndown ratio is disclosed along with a method of increasing the turndown ratio in such burners. The burner includes means for adding an amount of gas to the liquid fuel prior to the injection of... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4389185 | Combustor for burning a volatile fuel with air A combustor in which fuel is premixed with rather large amounts of primary air in order to obtain a high temperature, rich mixture of volatized fuel and air prior to ignition is designed as a tubular vaporizer provided with a swirl inlet opening in a preh... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4373905 | Oil heater Oil heater for burning of waste oil or other like petroleum liquids through vaporization of the fuel resulting in total fuel burn and maximum BTU. Combustion air enters the center of a combustion chamber enclosure through a combustion air wand resulting i... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4364724 | Method and apparatus for dosing an air-fuel mixture in burners having evaporating tubes A method and an apparatus for dosing the air-fuel mixture in burners of the type which is formed with an evaporator tube (9) through which fuel and some amount of combustion air is introduced in the combustion chamber (1) and in said combustion chamber is... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4332547 | Thrust augmenter ejector combustion device A combustion device for use with pressurized and zero pressure hot air balloons or other hot air appliances, which comprises in general, a coanda-type inlet nozzle, a diffuser, a flame-arrestor screen, and a fuel preheater means for supplying required fue... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4213501 | Process and device for evaporating large quantities of low boiling liquefied gases Large amounts of low boiling liquefied gases are evaporated by heat transfer in a cylindrical combustion chamber without a convection component and a passage for the gas to be evaporated surrounds the combustion chamber so that the liquefied gas is expose... | 07/22/1980 |
| 4152107 | Preheating of secondary air from combustion chamber radiation In an oil fired boiler (with a combustion chamber and a burner which blows a flame into it) there is a J-shaped heat-exchange duct, built on the combustion chamber floor out of thermally ultra-conductive and non-corroding pipes and fittings. Because of th... | 05/01/1979 |
