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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6862899 | Method and apparatus for heating glass melting furnaces with fossil fuels During the heating of glass melting furnaces having a combustion chamber with regenerators for preheating oxidation gases, with port necks that open into the combustion chamber, with primary burners and with secondary burners that are installed in a cascade arrangem... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6813902 | Systems and methods for increasing production of spheroidal glass particles in vertical glass furnaces A retrofit technology for air-fuel fired, vertical glass furnace for oxygen firing or boosting to provide additional heat to the process to increase furnace production capacity. The additional firing using oxygen is strategically controlled to enable enhanced radiat... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6544029 | Methods and apparatus for combustion in high volatiles environments Methods and apparatus for combusting a fuel with an oxidant are described, the apparatus comprising a ceramic burner block, the burner block having a back face and a front face. The burner block has at least one oxidant cavity in an upper portion of the b... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6474984 | Air injection for nitrogen oxide reduction and improved product quality A calcining system is operated in a substoichiometric mode for reducing nitrogen oxide generation and removing sulfur from materials to be processed by creating an oxygen deficient atmosphere. The calcining system includes a rotary kiln rotating on a slig... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6350118 | Combustion assembly for a furnace and method of use Combustion assembly adapted to be placed in a wall of a furnace including an axis having at least one pair of burners with axes, one oxidant lance arranged between the burners of the pair and having a lance axis and a source of oxidant connected to the bu... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6203314 | Combustion assembly for a furnace and method of use Combustion assembly adapted to be placed in a wall of a furnace including an axis having at least one pair of burners with axes, one oxidant lance arranged between the burners of the pair and having a lance axis and a source of oxidant connected to the bu... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6159003 | Combustion process using separate injections of fuel and of oxidizer Combustion process in a furnace comprising a floor on which a charge to be heated is placed, and a roof lying above the charge, in which process the combustible fluid and the oxidizer fluid are injected separately between the surface of the charge and the... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6116898 | Oven having built-in gas biasing means An oven which has a floor, a side wall extending upwardly therefrom to define a combustion chamber, and a top having an opening for combustion gases, a fuel support member mounted in a lower part of the combustion chamber, the fuel support member having a... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6074197 | Combustion process and apparatus therefore containing separate injection of fuel and oxidant streams A burner assembly having improved flame length and shape control is presented, which includes in exemplary embodiments at least one fuel fluid inlet and at least one oxidant fluid inlet, means for transporting the fuel fluid from the fuel inlet to a plura... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6047565 | Method and device for reducing the NOx emission in a glass furnace A method and apparatus involving combustion for melting glass. The fuel and oxidizer of the combustion are both supplied in such a way as to spread out the fuel/oxidant contact over time and to increase the volume of the contact. This limits the temperatu... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6041622 | Method and apparatus for heating the change of a glass furnace A combustion assembly adapted for a furnace is provided. The assembly includes an axis comprising at least one pair of burners having axes. An oxidant lance is arranged between the burners of the pair and has a lance axis. A source of oxidant is connected... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5975886 | Combustion process and apparatus therefore containing separate injection of fuel and oxidant streams A burner assembly having improved flame length and shape control is presented, which includes in exemplary embodiments at least one fuel fluid inlet and at least one oxidant fluid inlet, means for transporting the fuel fluid from the fuel inlet to a plura... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5931664 | Non-mechanical leak-proof coupling A non-mechanical leak proof coupling for use on a gas carrying pipe having two pipe sections which are moveable relative to each other. The coupling includes a first pipe section having an upstream end in flow communication with a stationary gas source an... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5906119 | Process and device for melting glass A process and a device for melting glass. According to the invention, the melting of vitrifiable materials is performed in a melting compartment by at least one fuel burner, the combustive material being formed mainly by essentially pure oxygen, at least ... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5853448 | Method of heating the charge of a glass furnace Method of heating the charge of a glass furnace in which at least one burner is placed in a wall of a furnace so as to heat the bath of glass, characterized in that at least one assembly consisting of a first and a second burner which are fed with fuel ga... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5643348 | Oxygen/fuel fired furnaces having massive, low velocity, turbulent flame clouds An oxygen-fuel firing system for a furnace comprising separate, spread apart nozzles for introducing gaseous streams of oxygen and fuel into the furnace at spaced apart locations. The gaseous streams merge within the furnace away from the furnace walls an... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5383782 | Gas-lance apparatus and method A gas-lance apparatus and method for injecting a rate-enhancing gas between a flame and a thermal load to augment combustion of fuel undergoing combustion in the flame. A fan-shaped main jet is introduced between the flame for producing a low pressure fie... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5378144 | Method and apparatus for temperature uniformity and repeatable temperature and location specific emission control of kilns A method and apparatus for extracting impurities from the interior of a kiln, when in operation, and for creating a uniformly heated atmosphere within the kiln, which involves the introduction of air through an air passage opening through the top of the k... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5042964 | Flash smelting furnace A method and corresponding apparatus for improving the control and efficiency of a combustion reaction in a flash smelting furnace, having the steps of mixing a first oxidizing gas having a first oxygen concentration with solid particles consisting of at ... | 08/27/1991 |
| 4909733 | Method and apparatus for gas lancing A gas-injection lance, burner, and method for use in a high temperature heating system which provides a nonaxisymmetric flow of a reaction-rate enhancing gas in sufficient proximity to the flame of the system, which extends over the surface to be heated, ... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4744749 | Pipes having orientable nipples for furnaces for firing carbonaceous blocks The invention concerns an improvement in a suction or blowing pipe for a furnace having partition chambers intended for the firing of carbonaceous blocks. The pipe comprises a main body (3) provided with a plurality of nozzles (10) to which tubular nipple... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4675041 | Method and apparatus for furnace lid purging In a heating vessel wherein corrosive exhaust degrades exposed positions of the vessel, a high velocity gas jet injects gas between the corrosive exhaust and the exposed portions of the vessel. The gas minimizes contact between the exhaust and the exposed... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4668271 | Ablation melting with thermal protection In a method and apparatus for liquefying material such as glass batch, primary thermal protection for the vessel is provided by a lining of the batch material, with secondary protection being provided by forced cooling of a minor portion of the vessel in ... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4547146 | Ignition device for sintering machine This improved ignition device for a moving grate type sintering machine is an inexpensive, compact combustion device which can form a strip of flame extending uniformly and continuously over the width of the strand. This ignition device can provide a unif... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4444558 | System for heating broadwise-end portions of metal material System for heating the broadwise-end portions of a metal plate in conveyance. The system includes a pair of heater blocks spaced apart from each other with the conveyance line for the material located therebetween. The heater blocks each have a space to r... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4214866 | Burner for high temperature combustion air A burner within which there is a jet pump means. High pressure primary combustion air is fed to an inlet in the burner housing and then through the jet pump means. The high pressure air flowing through the jet pump means draws a secondary low pressure, hi... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4125364 | High velocity billet heater A billet is transported through an improved furnace by convention means and is heated in the furnace by an external burner unit in which fuel and air are combusted together and then injected at a high velocity into a semi-cylindrical chamber of the furnac... | 11/14/1978 |
| 3994670 | Furnace heating This invention relates to a U-fired soaking pit in which an auxiliary burner 4, e.g. a tunnel burner, is located below the main burner 3 to supplement the heat flow and heat transfer therefrom. The auxiliary burner is mounted between twin exhaust flue 5,6... | 11/30/1976 |
| 3969069 | Burner systems for ovens and methods of operating such systems Burners of an oven are operated to satisfy heat loads changeable between a high load and substantially smaller loads. At least under the smaller loads the burners are cyclically controlled in a cycle of time periods T-1 and T-2. During the periods T-1 the... | 07/13/1976 |
