| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 431207000 | HEATED LINE SECTION FEEDS FLAME HOLDER | 29 |
| 20080233524 | HEAT ACCUMULATING-TYPE BURNER - A heat accumulating-type burner that operates by alternately repeating heat accumulation and combustion where the heat accumulating element is heated by exhaust gas to accumulate heat therein, and combustion air is passed through the heat accumulating portion to preheat the combustion air by thermal exchange with the heat accumulating element that holds the heat accumulated therein, and the preheated combustion air is used to carry out, combustion. The cross-sectional area of the heat accumulating portion at the furnace-inner side is made to be smaller than the cross-sectional area of the heat accumulating portion at the air supply/discharge port side, and in addition, the thickness of the fireproof heat insulating member that covers the heat accumulating portion is made to be thick at the furnace-inner side of the heat accumulating portion, and is made to be thin at the air supply/discharge port side of the heat accumulating portion. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20100167221 | FUEL PREHEATING SYSTEM - The present invention provides fuel saving systems. Fuel consumption can be reduced by 5% to 40% or more by pre-combustion heating the fuels. The heat exhaust of a combustion chamber can be used to heat a heat transfer fluid, which exchanges heat with the incoming fuel stream. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100248172 | HIGH-EFFICIENCY BURNER - The invention relates generally to a fuel burner, and more particularly, but without limitation, to a high-efficiency gas burner with a gas pre-heat feature. Embodiments of the invention include a preheat tube that is coupled inline between a pressurized gas source and an orifice. The preheat tube may be formed into an elongated loop. An air/gas mixing tube extends inside the loop formed by the preheat tube from a proximal end near the orifice to a distal end away from the orifice. The distal end of the air/gas mixing tube is exposed to a portion of the preheat tube. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110059410 | COMBUSTION APPARATUS - Provided is a combustion apparatus ( | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110256491 | STEAM REFORMING FUEL PROCESSOR, BURNER ASSEMBLY, AND METHODS OF OPERATING THE SAME - Systems and methods for producing hydrogen gas with a fuel processing system that includes a hydrogen-producing region that produces hydrogen gas from a feed stream and a heating assembly that consumes a fuel stream to produce a heated exhaust stream for heating the hydrogen-producing region. In some embodiments, the heating assembly heats the hydrogen-producing region to at least a minimum hydrogen-producing temperature. In some embodiments, the rate at which an air stream is delivered to the heating assembly is controlled to selectively increase or decrease the temperature of the heated exhaust stream. In some embodiments, the feed stream and the fuel stream both contain a carbon-containing feedstock and at least 25 wt % water. In some embodiments, the feed and fuel streams have the same composition. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20140099584 | System and Method for Separating Fluids - A system includes a turbomachine including a first chamber configured to contain a first fluid and a second chamber configured to contain a second fluid. The turbomachine also includes a barrier disposed between the first and second chambers. The barrier is configured to separate the first fluid and the second fluid. Additionally, the barrier includes a first surface facing the first chamber and a second surface facing the second chamber. The turbomachine also includes an orifice extending from the first chamber to the second chamber. The orifice defines a fluid passageway. Additionally, the turbomachine includes a tube including a first end and a second end. The first end is coupled to the first surface and is disposed about a perimeter of the orifice. The tube is configured to at least partially contain the second fluid. | 04-10-2014 |
| 431208000 | Electrically heated section | 1 |
| 20090123885 | Catalytic Combustor And Method Thereof - A catalytic combustor ( | 05-14-2009 |
| 431210000 | Heated section supplied by separate diverse feeds, e.g., water and fuel, etc. | 1 |
| 431211000 | One feed heated before being fed to section | 1 |
| 20100248173 | COMBUSTION APPARATUS - To provide a combustion apparatus that has a vaporizer capable of vaporizing liquid fuel completely without complicating the structure of the combustion apparatus. The combustion apparatus has an evaporating part for heating and vaporizing the liquid fuel into combustion gas, and a premixed gas spout part for spouting out premixed gas in which the combustion gas is mixed with primary air, with an inflow port of the premixed gas spout part being provided at a position higher than the evaporating part. By configuring the combustion apparatus like this, a space for accumulating unvaporized liquid fuel is formed between the evaporating part and the inflow port, and sufficient time to completely vaporize the liquid fuel can be afforded. Therefore, unevaporated fuel in a liquid state can be prevented from flowing into the premixed gas spout part. | 09-30-2010 |
| 431215000 | Distinct exhaust products line heats feed line | 15 |
| 20080268389 | Insert Tube and a System of Insert Tubes - An insert tube is used for the repair or improvement of a pre-heating tube for air arranged in an exhaust gas pathway of a fuel burner. A pre-determined radial gap exists between the outer surface of the insert tube and the inner surface of the pre-heating tube for air such that the insert tube can be slid into the pre-heating tube for air. The insert tube is provided in the vicinity of each end with at least one groove that runs around its circumference. In the groove there is arranged at least one sealing ring of an elastic material. The sealing ring mounted in the groove has an external diameter that exceeds the internal diameter of the preheating tube for air. The sealing ring forms a seal against the inner surface of the pre-heating tube for air and prevents leakage through the sealing ring. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090286191 | Dispositif de combustion - A combustion device including a combustion chamber, a primary reactor and a suction and exhaust tube for gases wherein the gas suction and exhaust tube passes through the primary reactor. In a preferred embodiment, the primary reactor emerges into a post-combustion chamber whereby the post-combustion gases are discharged from the post-combustion chamber through the suction tube passing through the primary reactor. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20100112502 | Recuperator burner having flattened heat exchanger pipes - In a highly efficient recuperator burner, which comprises at least one combustion chamber for warm-up operation and is otherwise set up for FLOX® operation, and a recuperator for preheating combustion air by means of thermal exhaust gas energy in a counter-current heat exchange mode via heat exchanger pipes, each heat exchanger pipe has, in a heat exchange section thereof, a flattened gap cross-section and, at its end facing a volume to be heated, a nozzle cross-section, which differs from the flattened gap cross-section of the heat exchanger pipe. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100227287 | Apparatus for Burning Organic Substances - An apparatus is described for burning organic substances, comprising a horizontal combustion chamber ( | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100233641 | DEVICE FOR HEATING AIR DURING THE DUTY CYCLE OF A HEATING BOILER - Device for heating air during the duty cycle of a heating boiler fired in particular by solid fuel or biomass, composed of a conduit for supplying air to the furnace and a conduit for outflow the exhaust gas from the heating boiler into the flue. The device has the closed exhaust gas conduit ( | 09-16-2010 |
| 20110136068 | DEVICE FOR CONTINUOUSLY PREHEATING A MIXTURE OF BURNABLE GAS, MORE PARTICULARLY NATURAL GAS AND OXYGEN - The invention relates to a device for continuously preheating a mixture of burnable gas, particularly natural gas and oxygen, prior to the catalytic combustion thereof, wherein the combustion heat thereof can be used to heat fed-out natural gas, before or after the expansion thereof and supply to consumers, in order to compensate for the Joule-Thomson effect. The device is designed as a jet pump having a propelling nozzle and a diffuser aligned therewith. The propelling nozzle is the inlet for the mixture into a mixing chamber disposed in the pump housing, a suction line for the natural gas heated by means of catalytic combustion being connected to the chamber. The diffuser is part of an outlet of the mixing chamber of the jet pump. The propelling nozzle and the diffuser are disposed such that they can be moved relative to one another in the pump housing. An adjusting mechanism is provided for adjusting the distance between the propelling nozzle and the diffuser as a function of the temperature of the gas mixture flowing out of the mixing chamber through the outlet. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110143292 | BURNER WITH IMPROVED HEAT RECUPERATOR - A burner and an improved heat recuperator for a burner. The heat recuperator has a tubular body including a plurality of fins extending radially outward from the tubular body. The plurality of fins are disposed in a plurality of segments arranged longitudinally along the tubular body with the plurality of fins in each segment being disposed about a circumference of the tubular body. Adjacent segments of fins being circumferentially offset with one another. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110165528 | RECUPERATOR FOR A RADIATING TUBE BURNER - The invention relates to a heat recuperator (R) for a radiating tube burner having a burner pipe and an exhaust pipe ( | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110244409 | COMUBSTOR - A combustor comprises a fuel flow path ( | 10-06-2011 |
| 20120208140 | DEVICE FOR HEATING AIR DURING THE DUTY CYCLE OF A COMBUSTION FURNACE - An air heating device includes two closed conduits, one conduit for the flow of the air supply to a combustion furnace and the other for the flow of exhaust gas from a combustion furnace to a flue. The conduits pass through and around each other multiple times in an interweaving pattern such that the entirety of either conduit is almost completely surrounded by the other conduit, to maximize contact area and thermal energy transfer between the conduits relative to the device size and no use of small tubes or passageways. The shapes and pattern of the two conduits resembling the appearance of a sine wave and cosine wave drawn on the same x axis. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20150072296 | Natural Draft Combustion Mixer - A natural draft combustion mixer in which the primary air intake is positioned downstream from the point of fuel introduction and also consists of a heat return port for orifice freeze protection that is located adjacent to the orifice, as well as a removable orifice holder for ease of access to the orifice during maintenance and set-up of a combustion system. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150362214 | COMBUSTION APPARATUS HAVING INTAKE AIR/EXHAUST AIR HEAT EXCHANGER - The present invention relates to a combustion apparatus having an intake air/exhaust air heat exchanger. The combustion apparatus comprises: a burner for generating exhaust gas; a blower for supplying external air to the burner; a main heat exchanger for absorbing heat from the exhaust gas generated by the burner; an exhaust gas duct for discharging the exhaust gas having passed the main heat exchanger to the outside; an intake air duct for introducing external air to the blower; an intake air/exhaust air heat exchanger for exchanging heat between the external air introduced to the blower and the exhaust gas discharged through the exhaust gas duct using a thin film plate disposed therebetween; and an exhaust flue for discharging the exhaust gas having passed the intake air/exhaust air heat exchanger to the outside. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20160123583 | RECUPERATOR BURNER - A recuperator for a recuperator burner for preheating combustion air by means of exhaust gas heat in a recuperator burner is disclosed, wherein the recuperator is of a tubular shape with an inside and an outside, wherein a plurality of elevations or ribs and recesses are provided at least on the inside or on the outside thereof and wherein at least one cellular structure, preferably consisting of a cellular metal or an open-pored ceramic foam, is accommodated in one of the recesses, at least on the inside or on the outside. In this arrangement, the inlet air is preferably preheated twice in the burner head, namely, in a first inlet air duct section, by an exhaust duct coaxially surrounded thereby, using cocurrent flow, and additionally by a second inlet air duct section, which is coaxially surrounded by the exhaust duct, using counter-current flow. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160161116 | Unknown - A thermal post-combustion unit with a combustion chamber having a combustion space to which exhaust air can be supplied, having a burner for heating the combustion space, whereby clean air is produced, having an inlet for exhaust air and having an outlet for clean air. A flow path connects the inlet to the combustion space. Exhaust air can be heated by a heat-exchanger system. The flow path comprises a first, second and third flow section, wherein the first flow section is connected to the inlet and the exhaust air flows from the third flow section to the combustion space, wherein the flow sections connect to one another at diversion ends so that the exhaust air flows through two successive flow sections with different flow directions. Heat-exchanger pipes extend at least inside the first and the second flow section or at least the first and the second flow section extend inside heat-exchanger pipes. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160201901 | HEATER DEVICE FOR HEATING LIQUEFIED GAS | 07-14-2016 |
| 431238000 | Unheated fuel supply to flame holder | 1 |
| 431239000 | Heated feed aspirates or atomizes fuel | 1 |
| 20090075220 | Combustion Apparatus for Operation With a Liquid Fuel - A combustion apparatus for operation with a fuel which is liquid at room temperature, in particular with a vegetable oil, wherein the combustion apparatus includes an evaporator device for evaporating the liquid fuel and a nozzle for ejection and for flame ignition of the evaporated fuel. The evaporator device is disposed in fluid communication with a fuel tray for preheating the evaporator device for a start of operation. | 03-19-2009 |
| 431243000 | Flame enclosure comprises, or conducts heat to heated section | 3 |
| 20090176178 | Combustion Apparatus With Fuel Pre-Heating - A combustion apparatus such as a Diesel engine ( | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090202956 | COMBUSTION CHAMBER OF A COMBUSTION SYSTEM - A combustion chamber of a combustion system has a combustion space, a support structure, a support element, and a heat shield. The heat shield has at least two segments, and each segment includes a liner element facing the combustion space and has an edge region, a gap communicating with the combustion space being formed between edge regions of adjacent segments, and a retaining device. The retaining device fixes the respective liner element on the support structure via the support element and forms a flange region that fits over the edge region of the respective liner element. The retaining device forms a first cooling passage with the support element and has at least one through-opening in the flange region. A cooling gas flows through the through.opening from the first cooling passage to the edge region. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20130260326 | OIL PREMIX BURNER - An oil premix burner, having a burning element, a burner surface on the outer lateral surface, a distribution chamber below the burner surface, a central oil injection device, a combustion air duct connected to a fan situated upstream, and an air heat exchanger for preheating the combustion air in the area of the burner surface. The combustion quality and the robustness are optimized in an oil premix burner, in particular with respect to the modulation capability. It is provided that the air heat exchanger is composed of at least one double tube element including an inner tube, having inline throughflow, and an outer tube concentric to the inner tube. The air heat exchanger is situated above the burner surface and is composed of multiple parallel throughflow double tube elements symmetrically distributed over the circumference and which extend axis-parallel to the burning element at least over a portion of its length. | 10-03-2013 |
| 431245000 | Unheated oxidizer supply to line between heated section and feed discharger | 1 |
| 431246000 | Feed discharger wall cavity forms heated section | 1 |
| 20090170043 | Arrangement for Preparation of a Fuel for Combustion - The invention relates to an arrangement for preparation of a fuel for combustion including a burner, a combustion chamber associated with the burner and in which combustion of a fuel is to take place in use of the arrangement as well as means for supplying liquid fuel to the arrangement through an internal passage in the burner for said combustion, solid portions of the burner body being heated by said combustion in use of the arrangement, wherein said internal passage is located inside said solid portions of the burner body for receiving heat energy evaporating said fuel from these body portions, and that it comprises means for conveying vaporized fuel to the combustion chamber to take part in the combustion. | 07-02-2009 |
| 431247000 | Fuel conduit within flame or combustion products zone | 1 |
| 20090011378 | Apparatus and Method for Burning a Fuel - A novel device is described for combusting a liquid or powdered fuel having an atomizer nozzle ( | 01-08-2009 |
