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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8172566 | Liquid fuel combustion process and apparatus An apparatus for combustion of a liquid fuel, such as an atomizer or burner, and an associated method using the apparatus for combusting an atomized liquid fuel. The apparatus for combustion has an outer conduit, an inner conduit and a spray tip. The spray tip has a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8128399 | Method and apparatus for controlling gas flow patterns inside a heater chamber and equalizing radiant heat flux to a double fired coil A method and apparatus for controlling the flow of combustion air, fuel and products of combustion in a heater and equalizing radiant heat flux by providing a structure on one or more of the heater walls that attaches the boundary layer and main flow to the heater w... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128398 | Burner and pilot burner A burner for a heat generator comprises a swirl generator (1) for a combustion-air flow and means for injecting fuel for producing a main flow (6). A combustion chamber (2) is arranged downstream of the burner. A cavity (3) is arra... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8087926 | Oxy-fuel combustion with integrated pollution control An oxygen fueled integrated pollutant removal and combustion system includes a combustion system and an integrated pollutant removal system. The combustion system includes a furnace having at least one burner that is configured to substantially prevent the introduct... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8070480 | Method and device for combusting liquid fuels using hydrogen A method and device for combustion of liquid fuels is presented which uses a plurality of rotating hydrogen flames to blast atomize and ignite a mechanically dispersed stream of the liquid fuel. This combustion method and device are particularly suited for heavy oil... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8016590 | Combustion burner resulting in low oxides of nitrogen A combustion burner resulting in low oxides of nitrogen includes a primary combustion zone, for use as an ignition source. The primary combustion zone locating within a combustion chamber, and being separated from the base of the combustion chamber by a wall. A burn... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7963764 | Hybrid burner lance A lance for a hybrid burner of a combustor of a gas turbine, includes an inner passage for a liquid fuel, an outer passage coaxially enclosing the inner passage for a gaseous fuel, a plurality of star like arranged outer nozzles branching off radially from the outer... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7819656 | Heater and method of operation A furnace, firing pattern and method of operating a heater that employs a combination of hearth burners and wall burners for the cracking of hydrocarbons is described. The firing pattern leads to improvements in the uniformity of the coil metal temperatures and vert... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7686611 | Flame straightening in a furnace The present invention relates to a method and furnace for generating straightened flames in a steam methane reformer or ethylene cracking furnace where fuel-staged burners are used. Fuel staging may be used for reducing NOx emissions. Criteria for generating straigh... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7654819 | Tubular flame burner and method for controlling combustion A tubular flame burner, a combustion method, and combustion controller, are disclosed. Here, the tubular flame burner comprises: a tubular combustion chamber whose h one end is open; fuel-spraying nozzles and oxygen-containing-gas spraying nozzles. The respective no... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7549857 | Method and device for affecting thermoacoustic oscillations in combustion systems The present invention relates to a method and a device for affecting thermoacoustic oscillations in a combustion system (i) comprising at least one burner (2) and at least one combustor (3), modulated injection of fuel being carried out. In order to im... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7500849 | Emulsion atomizer nozzle, and burner, and method for oxy-fuel burner applications A method for oxy-fuel combustion, the method comprising the steps of: introducing a liquid fuel into an emulsion chamber through a liquid fuel conduit having an effective diameter, the emulsion chamber having a length that is 2 times or less than 2 times of said eff... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7497682 | Method of operating furnace to reduce emissions Emissions of NOx and CO are reduced from combustion devices such as coal-fired furnaces by increasing the stoichiometric ratio of burner(s) having a lower average temperature and increasing the stoichiometric ratio of burner(s) having a higher average temperature. | 03/03/2009 |
| 7430970 | Burner with center air jet A new burner apparatus and method of combusting fossils fuels for commercial and industrial application is provided wherein the new burner apparatus achieves low NOx emissions by supplying oxygen to the center of the burner flame in as manners so as to cr... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7402038 | Combustion method and apparatus A burner has a port facing into a combustion chamber along an axis. A secondary fuel injector structure has secondary fuel injection ports that face into the combustion chamber at locations spaced radially outward from the burner port. A tertiary fuel injector struc... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7384615 | Method oil shale pollutant sorption/NOreburning multi-pollutant control A method of decreasing pollutants produced in a combustion process. The method comprises combusting coal in a combustion chamber to produce at least one pollutant selected from the group consisting of a nitrogen-containing pollutant, sulfuric acid, sulfur trioxide, ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7357903 | Method for reducing NOx during combustion of coal in a burner An organically complexed nanocatalyst composition is applied to or mixed with coal prior to or upon introducing the coal into a coal burner in order to catalyze the removal of coal nitrogen from the coal and its conversion into nitrogen gas prior to combustion of th... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7335014 | Combustion NOx reduction method A method of extending the droplet half-life of water droplets in a combustion furnace by increasing the relative humidity in the droplets' environment; thereby reducing the evaporation rate of the water from the droplet and increasing the half-life of the droplets i... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7282171 | Method for oxy-fuel combustion An oxygen fueled combustion system includes a furnace having at least one burner, an oxygen supply for supplying oxygen having a predetermined purity, and a carbon based fuel supply for supplying a carbon based fuel. The oxygen and the carbon based fuel are fed into... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7270539 | Method and apparatus for destruction of vapors and waste streams using flash oxidation A burner assembly for the destruction of noxious vapors and other waste streams includes an inner burner element in the form of a sudden expansion burner and an outer burner element that encircles the inner burner element and forms an annular passageway between the ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7264466 | Method and apparatus for radiant tube combustion A method and apparatus provide combustion in a radiant tube in first, second and third stages, with flue gas recirculation that begins at the second stage. ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7261047 | Control of cyclone burner A method of operating a combustion process in a cyclone burner, after start-up thereof, is provided. A fuel and a combustion gas is fed into a combustion chamber of the cyclone burner. The velocity of the combustion gas is kept between a lower and an upper limiting ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7249946 | Thermal generator and combustion method for limiting nitrogen oxides emissions by re-combustion of fumes The invention relates to a thermal generator comprising a furnace tube (2) wherein a fuel is burnt, recombustion means (14, 15) for reducing the nitrogen oxides content present in said fumes and means (3) for recovering the heat of the fumes res... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7244119 | Compact low NOgas burner apparatus and methods Compact low NOx gas burner apparatus and methods for discharging fuel gas and air mixtures into furnace spaces wherein the mixture is burned in folded flame patterns and flue gases having low NOx content are formed are provided. A burner appara... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243496 | Electric flame control using corona discharge enhancement A method of operating a combustor (10), to provide intimately mixed hot combusted gas (44) for a gas turbine (46), includes feeding gaseous oxidant (12) and gaseous fuel (16) into the combustor (10) near a combustion flame (... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7241138 | Burner with stepped fuel injection In a burner (1) having an interior space (22) surrounded by at least one shell (8, 9) in which burner (1) fuel is injected through fuel nozzles (6) arranged at the burner shells (8, 9) into a combustion air stream (23... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7235217 | Method and apparatus for rapid heating of fuel reforming reactants Apparatus and method for rapidly heating one or more reactants for use in a fuel reformer. The apparatus includes a combustion section having an outer wall enclosing a combustion chamber and a catalyst disposed within the combustion chamber. A heat recovery section ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7229483 | Generation of an ultra-superheated steam composition and gasification therewith A method for gasifying carbonaceous materials to fuel gases comprises the formation of an ultra-superheated steam (USS) composition substantially containing water vapor, carbon dioxide and highly reactive free radicals thereof, at a temperature of about 2400° F. (1... | 06/12/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7204688 | Gas burner for dryer Gas burner for a dryer including a gas nozzle for receiving, and injecting gas, a mixing tube for mixing the gas injected from the gas nozzle and primary air, igniter fitted to an outlet of the mixing tube for igniting the gas mixed with the primary air coming out o... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7198482 | Compact low NOgas burner apparatus and methods Compact low NOx gas burner apparatus and methods for discharging fuel gas and air mixtures into furnace spaces wherein the mixture is burned in folded flame patterns and flue gases having low NOx content are formed are provided. A burner appara... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7189073 | Burner with staged fuel injection A burner with staged fuel injection includes at least two separate stages (4a, 4b) for fuel injection arranged along the swirl body (1). The burner is distinguished in that, between the first and the second stage (4a, | 03/13/2007 |
| 7185830 | Uniform droplet spray nozzle for liquids A liquid spray nozzle configured to provide a relatively uniform droplet size spray having a nozzle body, a flow passage disposed in the nozzle body, a turbulent flow mechanism in the flow passage, a flow separating mechanism in the flow passage and a converging mec... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7172733 | Device for injection of hydrocarbons into a fluidized chamber A device suitable for atomization and injection of a hydrocarbon batch into a reaction chamber comprises an admission and mixing chamber (5) for the liquid hydrocarbon batch introduced into the device by a tube (8) and for an atomization gas introduced... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7172412 | Pyrolysis heater A pyrolysis heater particularly for the cracking of hydrocarbons in the production of olefins has a burner arrangement in the firebox which includes staged combustion low NOx hearth burners firing upwardly in the firebox adjacent to the walls. Wall stabil... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7168947 | Methods and systems for operating combustion systems Methods and systems for reducing nitrogen oxides in combustion flue gas is provided. The method includes combusting a fuel in a main combustion zone such that a flow of combustion flue gas is generated wherein the combustion flue gas includes at least one nitrogen o... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7163392 | Three stage low NOburner and method The present invention is an air-staged low NOx burner for firing a gaseous fuel. The burner fires three stages, with the first stage of combustion taking place substantially within a burner cup section of a refractory baffle, the second stage of combustio... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161678 | Systems and methods for determining the existence of a visible plume from the chimney of a facility burning carbon-based fuels Excess oxygen in the combustion process of a facility that bums carbon-based fuels may cause a visible plume in the atmosphere at the stack of the facility. Traditional optical based opacity monitors may be unable to detect this plume or the plume may form at a loca... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7157069 | Apparatuses and processes for synthesis of carbon nanotubes using inverse diffusion flame Disclosed is an apparatus for the combustion synthesis of carbon nanotubes characterized with the combustor having an oxidizing agent inlet, a fuel inlet and an inert gas inlet, such that the inverse diffusion flame occurs within the combustor, thereby producing car... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7143967 | Method and system for cold gas spraying A cold gas spraying method and device, whereby the sprayed particles are accelerated in a gas flow. A powder tube and an outer nozzle body together form a Laval nozzle that produces high gas flow velocities. The injection of the sprayed particles occurs in the diver... | 12/05/2006 |
