Cooling Patents (Class 110/180)
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Patent number: 11619450Abstract: One or more embodiments of a burner panel for a metallurgical furnace is described herein. The burner panel has a body having a top surface, a bottom surface, a left surface, a right surface, and a front surface surrounding an interior burner area. A spray-cool system disposed in the interior area. A burner tube at least partially disposed in the interior burner area and extends into the front surface. The burner tube is configured to accept a burner.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Systems Spray-Cooled, Inc.Inventors: Scott A. Ferguson, Troy D. Ward
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Patent number: 10955135Abstract: One or more embodiments of a burner panel for a metallurgical furnace is described herein. One or more embodiments of a burner panel for a metallurgical furnace are described herein. The sidewall burner pockets have a burner panel therein. The burner panel has a body having an interior face with burner tube disposed therethrough. The burner tube has a first portion and a second portion coupled to the first portion. The burner panel additionally has an internal mounting flange extending along the periphery of the body and overlapping the sidewall, the sidewall and internal mounting flange compressed together by a coupling.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Systems Spray-Cooled, Inc.Inventors: Scott A. Ferguson, Troy D. Ward, Eric Chodl, Ron Coursey
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Patent number: 10739014Abstract: An appliance comprising a firebox, a first air duct and a room air chimney. During operation of the appliance heated room air adjacent to a viewing pane or the screen and heated room air from the first air duct is received within the chimney. The heated air within the chimney rises toward an open upper end causing the chimney to draw additional room air from adjacent to the viewing pane or screen.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Wolf Steel Ltd.Inventors: Wolfgang Schroeter, David Shulver, Richard Tjart, Clifford N. Lilley
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Publication number: 20140245935Abstract: A furnace is provided suitable for metallurgical processes, comprising at least one section comprised of refractory bricks with an outer shell plate adjacent to the refractory bricks, including exterior bricks whose external faces adjacent the shell plate define gaseous media cooling channels extending along the exterior of the refractory bricks between them and the shell plate. The furnace further comprises cooling plates within the cooling channels and joints between the successive courses of bricks. Advantageously, the conductivity of the cooling plates is at least 5 times the conductivity of the refractory lining into which it is inserted. Suitable materials include copper and copper-based alloys, brasses, bronzes, cast irons, aluminum alloys, silver, high-temperature steels, refractory metals and their alloys, graphite, silicon carbide, and aluminum nitride.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2012Publication date: September 4, 2014Inventors: Sean Southall, Bert Wasmund, Maciej Jastrzebski, Frank Stober, Michael Parravani, Robert Veenstra
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Patent number: 8268233Abstract: A cooling system comprises serpentine cooling fluid passages cast into a work piece with carefully controlled turning radii and profiles. Individual interdigitated baffles are contoured in the plane of coolant flow to have walls that thicken and then round off at their distal ends. The outside radii at these turns is similarly rounded and controlled such that the coolant flow will not be swirled into eddies.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2009Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Inventor: Allan J. MacRae
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Publication number: 20120073261Abstract: A combustor apparatus is provided, comprising a mixing arrangement for mixing a carbonaceous fuel with enriched oxygen and a working fluid to form a fuel mixture. A combustion chamber is at least partially defined by a porous perimetric transpiration member, at least partially surrounded by a pressure containment member. The combustion chamber has longitudinally spaced apart inlet and outlet portions. The fuel mixture is received by the inlet portion for combustion within the combustion chamber at a combustion temperature to form a combustion product. The combustion chamber directs the combustion product longitudinally toward the outlet portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Inventors: Miles R. Palmer, Rodney John Allam, Glenn William Brown, JR., Jeremy Eron Fetvedt
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Patent number: 7654259Abstract: A fireplace comprised of a burning chamber having an opening to a room and a vertically lifting door having a top edge, a bottom edge and opposing side edges. The door narrows in width from the top edge to the bottom edge to provide a keystone-shaped door. A frame is fitted in front of the burning chamber. The frame includes guide tracks configured to accept the edges of the door. A drive mechanism is provided to raise and lower the door within the guide tracks. The guide tracks may further incorporate a high temperature gasket to prevent airflow and promote energy efficiency when the door is closed.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2007Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Inventor: Lawrence Royce Allen
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Publication number: 20090205543Abstract: A cooling plate for an iron and steelmaking furnace includes a copper cooling plate body having at least one cooling duct for a cooling medium extending essentially parallel with the back of the cooling plate body. The cooling plate body further includes a preformed, externally accessible recess into which the cooling duct opens. A connection piece is utilized as a cooling medium connection on the back of the cooling plate body, while a formed piece fitted within the externally accessible recess forms a deflection surface for the cooling medium flowing from the connection piece into the cooling duct, or from the cooling duct into the connection piece.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2009Publication date: August 20, 2009Applicant: PAUL WURTH S.A.Inventors: Robert Schmeler, Marc Solvi, Roger Thill
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Publication number: 20090165684Abstract: A water-cooling jacket structure 10 for an inspection hole of a flash furnace 1 is arranged at the periphery of a concentrate burner 7 to inspect and clean the inside of the furnace and the concentrate burner 7, and formed in a cylindrical shape by combining a plurality of jacket plates 11, 12, 13, 14 cast internally with cooling tubes 21, 22, 23, 24 for circulating cooling-water, and configured to adjust its cooling capacity and amount of cooling-water by circulating cooling-water to a single or multiple systems of the respective cooling-water systems of each jacket 11, 12, 13, 14 depending on the heat-load of the flash furnace 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2008Publication date: July 2, 2009Inventors: Takayuki ARAKANE, Yoshiaki Suzuki
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Patent number: 7544059Abstract: Each one of the side edges (4a, 4b) of a door (3) is arranged to run inside and along a respective tube (5a, 5b) that has a longitudinal slit (6a, 6b) and extends vertically, in that each tube is fixed in relation to the furnace, in that the tubes (5a, 5b) are designed to spring back towards a respective position in which the slit (6a, 6b) is closed, and arranged to enclose the side edge (4a, 4b) of the door (3) along essentially the whole length of the side edge (4a, 4b) when the door (3) is in its closed position, and in that a liquid coolant is arranged to stream through the tubes (5a, 5b) and essentially fill up the whole space defined by the combination of the inner surfaces of each tube (5a, 5b) and the outer surfaces of the respective side part of the door (3).Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2007Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: AGA ABInventor: Mats Gartz
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Publication number: 20040129187Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling plate (1, 101) for a shaft furnace provided with a refractory lining. Said shaft furnace comprises a first laminated cooling plate element (2, 102) which is oriented towards the inside of the furnace (Oi), a second laminated rear cooling plate element (3, 103) which is welded to the first element, a cooling channel (7, 107) arranged between the first and second cooling plate elements, and tube sections (8, 9) to the cooling agent inlet or the cooling agent outlet. The aim of the invention is to improve the production, flow and cooling properties. To this end, the first cooling plate element (2, 102) is embodied in the form of a bloom having a plane front side (14) facing the inside of the furnace (O1), and the cross-sectional surface of the cooling channel is larger than in the central region (20; 120), in relation to the longitudinal extension of the cross-section in the end regions (18, 19; 118, 119). The invention also relates to a cooling plate system (33).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2003Publication date: July 8, 2004Inventors: Elmar Korbik, Peter Heinrich, Detlef Birnbach
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Patent number: 6415724Abstract: An access door for a boiler or furnace has a water-cooled jacket mounted on a door panel frame for use in high temperature regions of furnaces and boilers. The door is large enough to permit a stretcher to pass through unobstructed. The water-cooled jacket has a series of baffles which direct water in a serpentine path through the jacket. Plant water, as opposed to boiler quality water, may be used to cool the door. A viewing port may be provided in the door as well.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 1999Date of Patent: July 9, 2002Assignee: The Babcock & Wilcox CompanyInventors: Melvin J. Albrecht, James P. Aman, James L. Barkan, Doiuglas J. DeVault
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Patent number: 6276308Abstract: An improved boiler of the warm water or steam type includes a door with a water chamber to assist in cooling the boiler. Water moves from the boiler to the door chamber through a bottom pipe on the connected vessels principle. Water or steam exit the door through a top pipe and return to the boiler. In a warm water boiler, a circulating pump in the upper pipe maintains water flow through the door.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2000Date of Patent: August 21, 2001Assignee: International Combustion Systems, IncInventors: Zeljko Warga, Jurij Skorjanc
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Patent number: 6244197Abstract: Chimney-like cooling passages that have opposite outlet and inlet end regions open to ambient air also have central regions that extend through heated components of industrial furnaces. The passages preferably are defined by conduits that are oriented and configured in a manner that enables thermally induced flows of ambient air to self establish through the conduits to cool the furnace components once the furnace components become heated. The passages function like chimneys, with each having its outlet located higher than its inlet so that ambient air will effectively rise as it flows from the inlet to the outlet. The passages may provide increases in cross-sectional area somewhere along their lengths so that heated ambient air expanding in the passages is encouraged to discharge from the less restrictive, larger area outlets rather than from the smaller area inlets.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2000Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Inventor: Gary L. Coble
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Patent number: 5546927Abstract: The oven door comprises a frame on which two panes are mounted. These two panes are parallel and spaced apart from each other. The inside pane is hinge-mounted relative to the frame by means of a hinge piece and pivatable about a hinge axis at a lateral side of the frame. Rapid-action locking and unlocking closure means, that are point spacers, are situated remote from the hinge axis of the inside pane. The spacers enable the inside pane to be held in a closed position relative to the frame. The point spacers provide rapid-action locking and unlocking the closure, and keep a space between the inside pane and the inside face of the frame when the inside pane is closed. The hinge piece includes at least one plate. The inside pane is fixed at a distance from the plate by at least one fixing point spacer in such a manner that when the inside pane is in the closed position the plate engages and bears against the inside face of the frame.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 1995Date of Patent: August 20, 1996Assignee: Eurofours S.A.Inventor: Pierre Lancelot
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Patent number: 5230617Abstract: A system for cooling a single or plural zones of the exterior of a furnace or similar hot device, e.g., kiln, calciner, etc. Each zone is cooled by a respective cooling assembly. The operation of the assemblies is effected by a common control system. Each cooling assembly comprises a shroud, an induction cooler, e.g., an exhaust fan, and at least one atomizing spray nozzle. The shroud is in the form of a jacket disposed over the associated exterior zone of the furnace and is spaced therefrom to form a cooling chamber therebetween. The exhaust fan is coupled to the shroud for inducing the flow of cooling air through the cooling chamber so that it absorbs heat from furnace's exterior. The atomizing spray nozzle is also coupled to the shroud and to a water and an air supply for introducing atomized droplets of water into the chamber, whereupon the droplets vaporize to absorb heat from the furnace's exterior. The exhaust fan vents the air and steam from the shroud means.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 1991Date of Patent: July 27, 1993Inventors: Ernst G. Klein, Kerry A. Seitz
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Patent number: 5168818Abstract: A liquid-cooled boiler door for use with a boiler having a flooded liquid section and a storage liquid section. The liquid-cooled boiler door includes an interior wall having an interior surface and an exterior surface and an exterior wall having an interior surface and an exterior surface. The exterior wall is spaced from said interior wall to define a circulation space therebetween. A first connector fluidly connects the flooded liquid section of the boiler to the circulation space defined between the interior wall and the exterior wall of the liquid-cooled boiler door. A second connector fluidly connects the storage liquid section of the boiler to the circulation space defined between the interior wall and the exterior wall. Liquid contained within the boiler circulates from the flooded liquid section, through the circulation space defined between the interior wall and the exterior wall, and into the storage section of the boiler.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 1991Date of Patent: December 8, 1992Inventor: Eric J. Joffrion
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Patent number: 5158043Abstract: This invention comprises a door for gas-tight sealing engagement in an access opening in environments involving high temperature. In one embodiment, the door is a boiler access door provided through a waterwall in a boiler, and includes a tapered insulation plug for sealing engagement in a tapered opening in the waterwall. In a preferred embodiment, the tapered sides are stepped and the insulation comprises multiple layers, which may be of different grades of insulation material. The stepped insulation defines a plurality of linearly aligned contact surfaces for engagement with a plurality of cooling tubes defining the sides of the access opening. This contact with the cooling tubes not only impede flow of hot gas between the door and frame, protecting the seal and the outer portions of the door from the heat, but also result in cooling of the insulation plug.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1990Date of Patent: October 27, 1992Inventor: Jon Emsbo
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Patent number: 5022380Abstract: An oven with double door is disclosed formed of a rigid projecting frame which supports, through guide rods, an inner plate which is urged by springs. Closure is provided by the inner plate which slides with respect to the frame and supports a peripheral seal.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1989Date of Patent: June 11, 1991Assignee: Societe Cooperative de Production BourgeoisInventors: Jacques Faurel, Raymond Violi
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Patent number: 4966086Abstract: An incinerating device of metallic construction comprises a combustion chamber in which waste material is incinerated, a gas-scrubbing chamber in which the combustion gases are washed with water sprays to remove particulate material. The washed gases are vented to the atmosphere and the scrubbing water passes downwardly through a series of metallic mesh filter trays in a filter tower to remove particulate material from that water which is then recirculated to the scrubbing chamber. The walls and roof of the combustion chamber are formed as hollow metallic structures defined by inner and outer metallic members and cooling water flows continuously through those hollow structures to reduce thermal damage thereto.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1990Date of Patent: October 30, 1990Inventor: Clarence H. Houston
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Patent number: 4930965Abstract: An apparatus is provided for charging containerized fuel, particularly combustible hazardous waste homogenates, through a wall of a rotating kiln with minimal perturbation of mineral processing conditions. During kiln rotation fuel modules are loaded into the apparatus and charged into the kiln through a port in the kiln cylinder wall and onto the contained mineral bed. In a preferred embodiment the apparatus includes a device for actuating a port closure and a drop tube extending from the port into the kiln cylinder and positioned so that in-process mineral material does not contact the port closure during rotation of the kiln cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 1988Date of Patent: June 5, 1990Assignees: Cadence Chemical Resources, Inc., Ash Grove Cement CompanyInventors: Charles D. Peterson, James R. Tutt, John Cody
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Patent number: 4874313Abstract: A refractory clad lid for heating vessel is disclosed. The lid includes a plurality of refractory blocks supported from a hollow metal paney by an interlocking dovetailed joint configuration at the panel/block interface. Coolant is circulated through the panel to control lid temperature and reduce block water.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 1988Date of Patent: October 17, 1989Assignee: PPG Industries, Inc.Inventor: Ronald L. Schwenninger
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Patent number: 4833303Abstract: High temperature furnaces are described containing a movable viewing window that is heated so that the work charge can be scanned along the length of the furnace without creating a thermal disturbance. A system is also disclosed for controlling the operation of the furnace based on comparison of viewed images with stored sample images.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1987Date of Patent: May 23, 1989Inventor: Robert H. Mellen, Sr.
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Patent number: 4808205Abstract: A multilayered, cooled metal lid for a heating vessel has a main support plate fabricated from low carbon steel and a chromium steel overlay that is exposed to the hot interior portions of the vessel. The chromium steel overlay has a chromium content by weight of approximately 10 to 25 percent.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 1987Date of Patent: February 28, 1989Assignee: PPG Industries, Inc.Inventors: Gary N. Hughes, George A. Pecoraro
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Patent number: 4662526Abstract: A hoisting mechanism for handling the cover of an electric arc furnace comprises a pivotable gantry base and gantry arms connected thereto which extend over the furnace cover. Traverse bars overlay the gantry arms and are connected to the furnace cover by hoisting rods which pass through the gantry arms. Lifting mechanisms preferably in the form of hydraulic piston-cylinder arrangements are secured, on one end, to the gantry arms and, on the other end, to the lower side of the traverse bars. The mechanism is electrically insulated to eliminate deterioration of the equipment and the existence of electrical circuits and, in addition, the hoisting rods and the piston cylinder mechanisms are water-cooled.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 1985Date of Patent: May 5, 1987Assignee: Mannesmann AktiengesellschaftInventor: Hans-Ludwig Schaller
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Patent number: 4634331Abstract: Apparatus for programmably orienting a semiconductor wafer in an ion implantation system so as to limit channeling and to control the depth of penetration of impinging ions. The apparatus is associated with a processing chamber door and includes a rotatable vacuum chuck for engaging the wafer and a motor for rotating the vacuum chuck and the wafer through a preselected angular displacement. The apparatus further includes a programmable control assembly operative to deenergize the motor upon sensing rotation of the vacuum chuck through the preselected angular displacement. The wafer orientation apparatus is typically utilized in a system for the vertical transfer of wafers between a cassette and a processing chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1984Date of Patent: January 6, 1987Assignee: Varian Associates, Inc.Inventor: Richard J. Hertel
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Patent number: 4570550Abstract: A water cooled door (10) for a slagging furnace include a casing (16), an insulating layer (24) and a refractory layer (42). A tube panel (28) is embedded in the furnace side (12) of the refractory and carries studs (50), (52), and (54) on the furnace side of the tubes. Some of the studs (50), (54) of adjacent tubes are internested. Molten slags is solidified and retained by the studs to protect the refractory.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1985Date of Patent: February 18, 1986Assignee: Combustion Engineering, Inc.Inventor: Morgan L. Wilt
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Patent number: 4471724Abstract: This invention is a non-fossil fuel fired hot water system which allows a large amount of water or other liquid to be raised to a relatively high temperature, but below the boiling point, in a relatively short period of time. Due to a unique air circulation system, extremely high temperatures of the combustible material can be obtained with secondary burning eliminating all visible particulate material from the exhaust stack of the system. The unique firebox itself is disposed such that it is surrounded by water on all sides including the access closures for said firebox.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 1982Date of Patent: September 18, 1984Inventor: William T. Pope
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Patent number: 4437415Abstract: A burner block for an industrial furnace is resiliently seated in a hollow annular member, the latter being made of a metal such as stainless steel and the burner block being made of a refractory material. Because of the resilient mounting, the burner block is seated firmly in the annular member even though these two parts have different rates of thermal expansion. In addition, a cooling fluid is circulated within the interior of the annular member to cool the latter so that the furnace may operate at a temperature which is well above the temperature at which the annular member loses its structural integrity. All of this permits the burner block assembly to be mounted effectively on the metal outer shell of the furnace without relying upon the refractory lining of the furnace for support.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 1982Date of Patent: March 20, 1984Assignee: Eclipse, Inc.Inventor: Lyle S. Spielman
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Patent number: 4422436Abstract: A jacketed wood stove has a jacket forming an air space conformably surrounding the top, bottom, rear and sidewalls of the firebox, and a double-jacketed front access door. The periphery of the access door is slotted for internal convective cooling of the door. Ambient air enters the air space beneath the firebox, flows rearwardly, then upwardly behind the firebox and forwardly along the top and sidewalls of the firebox to progressively heat the air and to cool the outer jacket. A reflective intermediate baffle between the jacket and the side and rear walls of the firebox further cools the jacket. Heated air returns to the room via sidewardly-directed outlet slots along the upper and frontal margins of the jacket sidewalls. A pedestal supports the jacketed firebox above the floor. The pedestal contains a first conduit for introducing ambient air into the air space and second conduit for introducing outside combustion air into the firebox. The pedestal also houses a blower for blowing air into the air space.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 1982Date of Patent: December 27, 1983Inventor: Joseph G. Chamberlain
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Patent number: 4398701Abstract: This invention relates to a cooling installation for a blast furnace using stave coolers in which circulates a cooling fluid, these staves being arranged in successive superimposed rings along the internal wall of the shell of the blast furnace and being traversed by internal fluid circulation tubes, the internal tubes of two staves adjacent in a vertical plane being interconnected so as to define a network of vertical fluid circulation lines, wherein this network is connected at each of its extremities to an external circulation and fluid cooling circuit defining a pressurized forced closed circuit in which the cooling fluid is maintained in the liquid phase.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 1981Date of Patent: August 16, 1983Assignee: Union Siderurgique du Nord et de l'Est de la France "USINOR"Inventors: Jean Cordier, Pierre Rollot