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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8177547 | Method for starting a burner The invention relates to a method for starting a burner for combusting synthesis gases, wherein said burner comprises first and second fuel passages, the first fuel passage encompasses the second fuel passage in a substantially concentric manner and the gas transfer... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8070484 | Combination pulverized fuel burner with integrated pilot burner The invention comprises a combination burner for the gasification of pulverized fuels with an oxidation means containing free oxygen at ambient or higher pressures, as well as temperatures between 800-1800° C., with the ignition device of the pilot burner with flam... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7901205 | Gas burner with multiple concentric flame rings The invention concerns a gas burner (1) with multiple concentric flame rings, comprising: a central burner (2) with a central ring of flame orifices (5), and axial central gas injector (6) and convergent-divergent means (7) forming... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7422427 | Energy efficient low NOburner and method of operating same A burner for installation in a furnace having a combustion chamber defined by at least a furnace front wall, two side walls, a top wall and a bottom wall as well as heat transfer pipes through which a heat transfer medium flows and which are arranged on at least one... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7367798 | Tunneled multi-swirler for liquid fuel atomization An air swirler capable of liquid fuel atomization for a fuel fired burner in a furnace or boiler having a hollow guide pipe supporting several swirl blades at an end adjacent to the furnace. Openings connected by tunnels to the inside of the guide pipe are provided ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7320222 | Burner, method for operating a burner and gas turbine This invention relates to a burner, especially a gas turbine burner, wherein a Helmholtz resonator downstream of a fuel inlet position in directly linked with a burner channel. In this manner, combustion oscillations do not arrive at the fuel inlet position, thereby... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7291009 | Dual stacked gas burner and a venturi for improving burner operation A cooktop burner assembly is described. The cooktop burner assembly includes a main burner, and a simmer burner located below the main burner, where a diameter of the simmer burner is greater than a diameter of the main burner. The closer placement of the main burne... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7246493 | Gas turbine The invention relates to a gas turbine comprising a combustor that extends into a combustion chamber. The port of the combustor is surrounded in a ring-shaped manner by a Helmholtz resonator, whereby combustion oscillations are effectively suppressed due to close co... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7225746 | Low NOx combustion Combustion of hydrocarbon liquids and solids is achieved with less formation of NOx by feeding a small amount of oxygen into the fuel stream. ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7213348 | Gas burner and air heater assembly for a gas clothes dryer A burner for a gas dryer is made up of a mixing tube having an open end for admission of gas fuel into the mixing tube. At least one other opening proximate to the open end serves to admit air into the mixing tube for mixing the air and the gas fuel. A burner head i... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7189072 | Apparatus for controlling a flame An apparatus for producing a sustained flame, comprising: an inner wick with a hollow center; an outer wick disposed around the inner wick, wherein the region between the inner wick and the outer wick defines an inter-wick region, and wherein the region around the o... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7175423 | Air staged low-NOx burner An apparatus and method for using staged air combustion. The apparatus includes a burner body (10) secured to a port block (42), and a fuel passageway (12) extending through the burner body (10), terminating in a fuel nozzle (22), ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7140183 | Premixed exit ring pilot burner A burner (24) which is useful for operating a heat generator includes a first upstream swirl generator (17) capable of swirling a combustion air stream, a device for injecting at least one fuel into the combustion air stream from the upstream swirl gen... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7131571 | Alternative payment devices using electronic check processing as a payment mechanism The present invention includes a merchant system that recognizes virtually any payment device or technology that uses electronic check processing as a payment mechanism. For example, the merchant system associates presentation of the payment device with information ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7096671 | Catalytic combustion system and method Aspects according to the invention relate to a catalytic combustor system for a turbine engine and an associated method. Catalytic combustors are used in connection with turbine engines because they can minimize the formation of oxides of nitrogen during combustion.... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7093444 | Simultaneous combustion with premixed and non-premixed fuels and fuel injector for such combustion The present invention relates to a premixed fuel injector for low NOx emission and high heating load combustion. The premixed fuel injector of the present invention comprises a center nozzle and a plurality of outer nozzles arranged around the center nozzle, wherein... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7083123 | Internal flame gas burner with high compactness The invention relates to an internal flame gas burner comprising a gas injector (1), a vacuum tube (2), and an annular chamber (5) formed by a pot (3) covered by a cap (4), the chamber having an internal edge (51) perforated... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7077644 | Advanced commercial range burner A gas-fired burner including a cylindrical burner housing having a premixed fuel/air opening. Disposed within the cylindrical burner housing is a cylindrical burner ring which forms at least one row of a plurality of burner ports. The cylindrical burner ring is size... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7065972 | Fuel-air mixing apparatus for reducing gas turbine combustor exhaust emissions A fuel-air mixer for use in a combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine is provided. The fuel air mixing apparatus comprises an annular fuel injector having a plurality of discrete plain jet orifices, a first swirler wherein the first swirler is located upstream fr... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7021223 | Method and apparatus for injecting gasification medium into particle-loaded gasification spaces Method and apparatus for injecting gasification medium into particle-loaded gasification spaces of fixed-bed, fluidized-bed or entrained-bed gasifiers by means of gasification-medium nozzles, wherein the supply portion the isorate of the gasification medium in the g... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7003957 | Burner for synthesis gas The present invention relates to a burner, substantially comprising a swirl generator for a combustion air stream and means for introducing fuel into the combustion air stream, the swirl generator having combustion-air inlet openings for the combustion air stream th... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7005115 | Gas combustion treatment method and apparatus therefor A gas combustion treatment method for the combustion treatment of an ammonia-containing gas and a hydrogen sulfide-containing gas, the method comprising a first combustion treatment step in which the ammonia-containing gas, together with a fuel, is introduced and bu... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7001176 | Burner with internal separator The invention relates to a burner (1) for cookers, suitable for burning gas, comprising at least two gas crowns, of which one central one and at least one circumferential one, a mixing chamber (13) with Venturi effect, ducts for entry of the primary ai... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6979192 | Burner head and gas burning appliance provided with such a burner head Disclosed is a burner head capable of securing heat resistance and durability characteristics and improving the quality of machining at the same time, capable of easily and stably machining a material into a complicated shape. A second metal primary material of the ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978726 | Combustion with reduced carbon in the ash Combustion of coal in which oxygen is injected into the coal as it emerges from burner produces ash having reduced amounts of carbon. ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6969249 | Aggregate dryer burner with compressed air oil atomizer A swirl-type internal flame recirculation burner apparatus and method as used to fire asphalt plant aggregate dryers, air heaters and calcining kilns and method includes a compressed air oil atomizer assembly. The burning and swirling fuel and primary main combustio... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6960075 | Flare stack operating on Coanda principle A flare stack operating on the Coanda principle in which provision is made for cooling of a Coanda body terminating the gas flue by a flow of cooling fluid within the Coanda body. The pressure in the flare stack is held constant by a mechanism disposed outside of th... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6951454 | Dual fuel burner for a shortened flame and reduced pollutant emissions A dual fuel burner including an elongated supply pipe and a gas injector for a boiler furnace having a plurality of peripheral openings around a center opening. The peripheral openings are pitched radially away from the longitudinal axis of the gas injector and also... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6938835 | Liquid scanner nozzle and method A full coverage area spray device has an oscillation chamber. Chamber end plates have a diameter D and the distance between the inlet and outlet apertures is L and ratio L/D determines the spray pattern and is adapted to support a basic toroidal flow pattern that re... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6918759 | Premixed combustion gas burner having separated fire hole units A premixed combustion gas burner having separated fire hole units including a tube-shaped burner whose front face is opened and inner portion is of a hollow tubular shape so that the whole fire hole units of the burner can be separated to thus prevent deformation du... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6916175 | Combustion gas burner enabling multi-stage control A combustion gas burner enabling a multi-stage control including a main casing on the bottom surface of which an air blower is mounted so that air can be supplied from the air blower through an air inlet formed in the lower portion of the main casing, a tube-shaped ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6905328 | Low NOx radiant wall burner A low NOx burner nozzle assembly for a radiant wall burner includes an elongated hollow burner tube and a discharge nozzle. The burner tube defines a conduit for supplying a mixture of fuel and air to a radiant combustion area of a combustion zone that su... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6896510 | Apparatus and methods for controlling a flame An apparatus for producing a sustained flame, comprising: a first reservoir for containing a first flame-fueling liquid; a second reservoir for containing a second flame-fueling liquid; a first wick having a first end disposed within the first reservoir and a second... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6893255 | Spray burner for the thermal decomposition of sulphur-containing residues The aim of the invention is to produce a spray burner, starting from a conventional spray burner, for the atomisation and combustion of sulphur-containing residues, comprising a residue nozzle, for the introduction of sulphur-containing residue, which is surrounded ... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6883730 | Atomizing nozzle for a burner An atomizing nozzle for a burner, especially for a vehicle heater has a flow guide element (16), which provides a flow guide surface (28) and which has an atomizing lip (36) in an end area (34). A fuel feed device (52, 50) is provi... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6857868 | Burner with a modular flame retention plate system A burner assembly includes a generally cylindrical burner tube having a combustion chamber. The burner tube supplies combustion air and combustion gas to the combustion chamber. A burner head assembly is disposed in the burner tube upstream of the combustion chamber... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6796790 | High capacity/low NOx radiant wall burner A burner assembly for a radiant burner includes a burner tube structure in the form of an elongated burner conduit having spaced inlet and outlet ends. The conduit is adapted and arranged for directing a fuel lean gaseous mixture comprising a portion of the total fl... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6793483 | Combustion burner A combustion burner includes an air supply case connected to an air supply mouth a position at a position on the air supply case from a rear end part to a tip portion thereof, which supplies air from air supply equipment; a nozzle body attached so as to cover a tip ... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6780008 | Gas stove burner with simmer flame A gas stove burner has a base defining an axis and a ring assembly sitting on the base, forming therewith an annular outer compartment and a central inner compartment, and formed with an array of outwardly open lower passages open radially inward into the outer comp... | 08/24/2004 |
