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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7008219 | Boil-off gas processing system using electric heater A boil-off gas processing system for reliably burning a boil-off gas. The system processes a boil-off gas produced from a liquid hydrogen tank which is built in a hydrogen fueled vehicle. The system includes a mixing device for introducing air into a discharge passa... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6960798 | High-voltage semiconductor component A semiconductor component has a semiconductor body comprising a blocking pn junction, a source zone of a first conductivity type connected to a first electrode and bordering on a zone forming the blocking pn junction of a second conductivity type complementary to th... | 11/01/2005 |
| 5823763 | Combustion device and method for use in a thermal oxidation furnace A combustion device for use in an oxidation furnace, includes a nozzle providing H2, a nozzle providing O2, and an electrical heating coil placed in the H2 nozzle for heating the H2 to a temperature at which it ... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5080579 | Apparatus for preheating waste oil A preheater system for waste oil burners utilizes a primary preheater remote from the burner nozzle and a secondary preheater adjacent the burner nozzle. The primary preheater ordinarily provides heat to the waste oil when the burner is operating. The sec... | 01/14/1992 |
| 4934924 | Liquid fuel burner A liquid fuel burner is disclosed, comprising a cup-shaped housing having a fuel inlet; a plate enclosing the top of the housing, the plate having fuel passages therethrough; a wick on the outer surface of the plate communicating with the fuel passages; a... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4915615 | Device for controlling fuel combustion in a burner A device for controlling fuel combustion in a burner detects the temperature in the burner and controls, based on the detected temperature, electric power supplied to an atmozing glow plug of a fuel atomizer which heats and atomizes fuel.... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4892476 | Apparatus for controlling combustion in heater An apparatus for controlling the combustion in a heater detects the temperature in a burner and selects a re-ignition mode for fuel dependent on the temperature in the burner. The apparatus controls an atomizing device which atomizes fuel in the selected ... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4778377 | Device for controlling fuel combustion in a heater A device for controlling fuel combustion in a heater including a burner for combusting fuel heated and atomized by a fuel atomizer detects the condition of fuel combustion in the burner and controls the amount of heat energy applied to the fuel by the fue... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4616993 | Liquid fuel combustion apparatus In a circular vaporizing type liquid fuel combustion apparatus for reducing the quantity of tar accumulation therein, the inner wall of the metal vessel is coated with a film which consists essentially of 15.0 to 50.0 wt. % high-thermal conductive and hig... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4611984 | Temperature compensator for pressure operated fuel regulator A multi-pass ceramic recuperator includes a temperature compensator mounted within the gaseous flow of an intermediate pass. The compensator includes a bleed valve actuated by a temperature sensitive mechanism which is mounted outside the compensator body... | 09/16/1986 |
| 4533316 | Vaporizing type fuel combustion apparatus with tar removal device There is disclosed a combustion apparatus of a fuel vaporizing type wherein fuel is led to a fuel injector for vaporization and the vaporized fuel is fed to a burner via a gas nozzle for combustion. The combustion apparatus features the provision of a dev... | 08/06/1985 |
| 4480986 | Liquid fuel vaporizing burner A liquid fuel vaporizing burner comprising a combustion chamber, a fuel inlet, a primary air inlet, a secondary air inlet, and a microprocessor controller. The fuel inlet communicates with the combustion chamber. The primary air inlet communicates with th... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4472134 | Vaporizing fuel oil burner An atomizer injects fuel oil into one end of a heated tube. As the atomized fuel travels down the tube, it is vaporized. A nozzle at the other end of the tube assures that pressure is built up in the tube so that fuel oil vapor is applied as a steady cont... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4460328 | Process and apparatus for utilizing waste oil A heating system comprising the combination of storage vessels (10, 12) for conventional heating oil and waste oil, respectively, and in which the two storage vessels (10, 12) are effectively sealed apart, one from the other. At the initial stage of heati... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4447706 | Nozzle assembly with integrated PTC heater for prewarming fuel oil An oil burner system includes a burner nozzle connected to a supply of fuel oil by a nozzle assembly having integrated therein an electric heater for prewarming the oil fed to the nozzle. The nozzle assembly has first connector at one end directly connect... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4431401 | Control mechanism for vaporizing apparatus A vaporizing apparatus includes a vaporizing chamber for producing vapors from a hydrocarbon fuel which are drawn into a mixing chamber by pressurized air, and the mixture is delivered to a manifold where a portion is return to the vaporizing chamber and ... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4371778 | Electric heating device employing PTC heating element for preheating of heating oil A heating device for preheating heating oil flowing through a pipe has a heat conduction body to which a plate-shaped ceramic PTC resistance heating element is connected in heat exchange-relationship. The heating element has a thickness in the range of 0.... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4340354 | Oil burner Light fuel oil of low viscosity is supplied to a pressure atomizing oil burner. A flow heater which is positioned upstream of the pressure atomizing nozzle, preheats the fuel oil to a temperature of approximately 150° C. but not over the coking and crack... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4174943 | Fuel gas preheat for excess oxygen maintenance A system of preheating of gaseous fuels to a furnace in which the fuels have a wide range of molecular weights, and corresponding calorific values, and in which all of the combustion air is provided by inspiration, due to the flow energy of the fuel. The ... | 11/20/1979 |
| 4089638 | Apparatus for gassification, premixing and combustion of liquid fuels This invention relates to improvements in the art of liquid fuel combustion and, more particularly, concerns a method and apparatus for the controlled gassification of liquid fuels, the thorough premixing of the then gassified fuel with air and the subseq... | 05/16/1978 |
| 3982910 | Hydrogen-rich gas generator A process and apparatus are described for producing hydrogen-rich product gases by mixing a spray of liquid hydrocarbon with a stream of air in a startup procedure and the mixture is ignited for partial oxidation, then the stream of air is heated by the r... | 09/28/1976 |
| 3977823 | Method of burning residual fuel oil in distillate fuel oil burners This invention comprises a method whereby heated residual fuel oils can be successfully burned in existing conventional forced atomizing air type small capacity industrial oil burners.... | 08/31/1976 |
