Heat Transmitter Patents (Class 122/367.1)
  • Patent number: 11906158
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of a high pressure heating installation and in particular a waste incineration installation comprising an advanced panel design and cladding thereof. Said cladding relates to a cladding to a in particular at least partly curved surface of a membrane panel, which panel is used in a high temperature and high pressure incinerator, such as a waste incinerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: AMSTERDAM WASTE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANCY & TECHNOLOGY B.V.
    Inventors: Sietse Anne Agema, Marcellus Antonius Jozef Van Berlo
  • Patent number: 10767901
    Abstract: A combustion apparatus has a burner including a burner body and a combustion plate, as well as a combustion box. A combustion plate flange part projects outward beyond an inner rim of a body flange part and beyond an inner rim of a combustion box flange part. A packing has a portion interposed between the combustion plate flange part and the body flange part, and a portion interposed between the combustion box flange part and the body flange part outside an outer rim of the combustion plate flange part. A distribution plate having formed therein a multiplicity of distribution holes for introducing the air-fuel mixture toward an air-fuel mixture ejection part is provided with a distribution plate flange part so arranged as to come into direct contact with that portion of the combustion plate flange part which is positioned inside an inner rim of the packing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: RINNAI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Ono
  • Patent number: 10753642
    Abstract: A combustion apparatus has a burner including a burner body and a combustion plate, as well as a combustion box. A combustion plate flange part projects outward beyond an inner rim of a body flange part and beyond an inner rim of a combustion box flange part. The combustion box has, on a perimeter of one end, the combustion box flange part, adapted to be connected to the body flange part enclosing an open surface of the burner body. The combustion plate is provided with an inside projection which is erected, by bending, toward the body flange part so as to face the inner rim of the packing such that, in a state in which the combustion box flange part is connected to the body flange part, the outside projection and the inside projection are in contact with the body flange part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: RINNAI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Ono
  • Patent number: 10746436
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat exchanger enhancing heat exchange efficiency between a heating medium and combustion heat of a burner, the heat exchanger being provided with a heat exchange unit having heating medium flow channels through which a heating medium flows and combustion gas flow channels through which combustion gas combusted in the burner flows to be alternately formed and adjacent to each other in spaces between a plurality of plates, wherein the heat exchange unit comprises: a sensible heat unit which surrounds the outer side of a combustion chamber, is formed of one side area of the plates, and heats the heating medium by using sensible heat of combustion gas generated by the combustion of the burner; and a latent heat unit which is formed of the other side area of the plates, and heats the heating medium by using latent heat of water vapor included in combustion gas that has finished undergoing heat exchange in the sensible heat unit, wherein the heating medium flow channels of the se
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: KYUNGDONG NAVIEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Inchul Jeong
  • Patent number: 10690379
    Abstract: A heat exchanger according to the present invention comprises a heat exchange portion in which heating medium flow paths, where a heating medium flows through a space between a plurality of plates, and combustion gas flow paths through which a combustion gas combusted in a burner flows are adjacently and alternatingly formed, wherein the heat exchange portion comprises a sensible heat portion, which surrounds the outside of a combustion chamber and comprises an area on one side of the plates, for heating the heating medium using the sensible heat of the combustion gas generated by combustion of the burner, and a latent heat portion, which comprises an area on the other side of the plates, for heating the heating medium using the latent heat of water vapors in the combustion gas which has completed heat exchanging in the sensible heat portion, wherein a connection passage for the heating medium is formed between the sensible heat portion and the latent heat portion, the plates are formed in a vertical structur
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: KYUNGDONG NAVIEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Inchul Jeong
  • Patent number: 10641522
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat exchanger having a simplified assembly structure as well as a simplified structure for heat-insulating a combustion chamber, the heat exchanger being provided with a heat exchange unit having heating medium flow channels through which a heating medium flows and combustion gas flow channels through which combustion gas combusted in the burner flows to be alternately formed and adjacent to each other in spaces between a plurality of plates, wherein the heat exchange unit comprises: a sensible heat unit which surrounds the outer side of a combustion chamber, is formed of one side area of the plates, and heats the heating medium by using sensible heat of combustion gas generated by the combustion of the burner; and a latent heat unit which is formed of the other side area of the plates, and heats the heating medium by using latent heat of water vapor included in combustion gas that has finished undergoing heat exchange in the sensible heat unit, wherein the rear of the sens
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: KYUNGDONG NAVIEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Inchul Jeong
  • Patent number: 10598406
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat exchanger that can enhance thermal efficiency by enabling combustion heat of combustion gas generated by the combustion of a burner to be maximally returned to a heating medium, the heat exchanger being provided with a heat exchange unit having heating medium flow channels through which a heating medium flows and combustion gas flow channels through which combustion gas combusted in the burner flows to be alternately formed and adjacent to each other in spaces between a plurality of plates, wherein the heat exchange unit comprises: a sensible heat unit which surrounds the outer side of a combustion chamber, is formed of one side area of the plates, and heats the heating medium by using sensible heat of combustion gas generated by the combustion of the burner; and a latent heat unit which is formed of the other side area of the plates, and heats the heating medium by using latent heat of water vapor included in combustion gas that has finished undergoing heat exchange in
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: KYUNGDONG NAVIEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Inchul Jeong
  • Patent number: 10118147
    Abstract: A tubular waterwall structure in a fluidized bed reaction chamber includes horizontally adjacent first and second portions forming a corner structure and constituted by vertical tubes and fins centrally attached to the tubes and having a first width. The first wall portion has an outermost tube next to the corner, an upper portion defining an upper vertical plane in an upper level range and a lower portion defining a lower (outwards) vertical plane in a lower level range. The lower portion has a refractory lining. The second wall portion is vertical and has an outermost tube next to the corner. The outermost tube of the second wall portion is in the lower level region connected to the outermost tube of the first wall portion by a planar lower beveled corner fin having a refractory lining and a width that is larger than the first width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Sumitomo SHI FW Energia Oy
    Inventors: John Murphy, Pentti Lankinen
  • Patent number: 9829213
    Abstract: The present invention provides a large-scale water heater with a telescoping tower having a tower with a storage area proximal to the bottom of the tower; a portion of the tower that telescopes vertically that is pre-filled with a packing media; a nozzle designed to distribute a fluid that is located above the packing media; a firing chamber with a proximal end in fluid communication with the tower; and a burner in fluid communication with the distal end of the firing chamber for combusting fuels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: OIL, GAS AND INDUSTRIAL PROCESS EQUIPMENT
    Inventors: Scott S. Cook, Jose M. Pereira, Jeff K. Pruitt
  • Patent number: 9821420
    Abstract: A method of forming a refrigeration heat exchanger comprising a suction line and a capillary line includes juxtaposing at least a portion of the suction and capillary lines to form a juxtaposed portion, at least partially enveloping the juxtaposed portion with a metal material, and encapsulating the capillary line to the suction line along at least a portion of the juxtaposed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Steven J. Kuehl, Guolian Wu, Glenn Daehn
  • Patent number: 9739540
    Abstract: A heat conduction member includes: a cylindrical ceramic body, a metal pipe on the outer periphery side of the cylindrical ceramic body, and an intermediate member held between the cylindrical ceramic body and the metal pipe. The cylindrical ceramic body has passages passing through from one end face to the other end face and allowing the first fluid to flow therethrough. The intermediate member is made of material having at least a part having a Young's modulus of 150 Gpa or less. The first fluid is allowed to flow through the inside of the cylindrical ceramic body while the second fluid having lower temperature than that of the first fluid is allowed to flow on the outer peripheral face side of the metal pipe to perform heat exchange between the first fluid and the second fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Yoshida, Hironori Takahashi, Tatsuo Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 8967088
    Abstract: A steam generation boiler having a reaction chamber formed by a bottom portion in a lower portion, a roof portion at an upper portion, and walls extending vertically between the bottom portion and the roof portion. The walls include vertical end walls having a tapering wall section that tapers symmetrically with respect to its middle axis towards the bottom portion, in which (i) a first group of steam pipes in the tapering wall section including steam pipes on both sides of the middle axis, pass at an angle with respect to the middle axis in a wall plane of the tapering wall section, and from the wall plane into the reaction chamber, and (ii) a second group of steam pipes arranged to pass to the bottom portion along the wall plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Foster Wheeler Energia Oy
    Inventor: Pentti Lankinen
  • Patent number: 8770154
    Abstract: A multi-chamber conveyor type dishwasher uses a heat recovery unit (HRU) to heat water for a final rinse chamber during a preheat and/or dishwashing phase. The HRU heats water supplied by a low temperature water source using the dishwasher's hot vapor exhaust. An input supply of water for a downstream booster heater is varied based on a sensed temperature of the HRU's output water. If the temperature is acceptable, the HRU supplies input water to the booster heater for the rinse chamber. When the temperature drops below a threshold, the controller temporarily bypasses the HRU and supplies water to the booster heater from a high temperature water source. The HRU may be primed during a preheat phase using water from the high temperature water source. An amount of fan force used to pull the hot exhaust vapors through the HRU may vary based on the status of the dishwasher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Champion Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert C. Vroom
  • Patent number: 8757103
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is manufactured from a single piece of heat-conducting material and comprises fins for guiding a fluid and for transferring heat between the fluid and the heat exchanger, wherein between the fins are provided transverse fins which extend in a direction substantially transversely of the fins over a distance which is less than the distance between the fins and in a direction substantially transversely of the flow direction of the fluid, wherein the transverse fins are arranged alternately close to or on mutually adjacent fins in order to cause a fluid flowing between the fins to follow a meandering path between the fins, wherein the lateral direction lies substantially perpendicularly of the fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Inter-Gas Heating Assets B.V.
    Inventor: Peter Jan Cool
  • Publication number: 20140165930
    Abstract: Systems and methods relate to vaporizing water into steam, which may be utilized in applications such as bitumen production. The methods rely on indirect boiling of the water by contact with a substance such as solid particulate heated to a temperature sufficient to vaporize the water. Heating of the solid particulate may utilize pressure isolated heat exchanger units or a hot gas recirculation circuit at a pressure corresponding to that desired for the steam. Further, the water may form part of a mixture that contacts the solid particulate and includes a solvent for the bitumen in order to limit vaporization energy requirements and facilitate the production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
    Inventors: David W. LARKIN, Scott D. LOVE, Scott MACADAM, Peter N. SLATER
  • Publication number: 20140165928
    Abstract: Systems and methods relate to vaporizing water into steam, which may be utilized in applications such as bitumen production. The methods rely on indirect boiling of the water by contact with a substance such as solid particulate heated to a temperature sufficient to vaporize the water. Heating of the solid particulate may utilize pressure isolated heat exchanger units or a hot gas recirculation circuit at a pressure corresponding to that desired for the steam. Further, the water may form part of a mixture that contacts the solid particulate and includes a solvent for the bitumen in order to limit vaporization energy requirements and facilitate the production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
    Inventors: David W. LARKIN, Scott D. LOVE, Scott MACADAM, Peter N. SLATER, Edward G. LATIMER, Richard B. MILLER
  • Publication number: 20140165929
    Abstract: Systems and methods relate to vaporizing water into steam, which may be utilized in applications such as bitumen production. The methods rely on indirect boiling of the water by contact with a substance such as solid particulate heated to a temperature sufficient to vaporize the water. Heating of the solid particulate may utilize pressure isolated heat exchanger units or a hot gas recirculation circuit at a pressure corresponding to that desired for the steam. Further, the water may form part of a mixture that contacts the solid particulate and includes a solvent for the bitumen in order to limit vaporization energy requirements and facilitate the production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
    Inventor: David W. LARKIN
  • Patent number: 8726851
    Abstract: The present invention provides a new heat exchanger element comprising a premix burner with an outward curved or ridged burner surface. The heat exchanger element further comprises a combustion chamber. The combustion chamber is bound on one side by the burner and is further made up of water cooled metal walls which, starting from the burner and in downstream direction, first widen and thereafter narrow down to the width of a customary heat exchanger element. This creates enough space for a proper combustion, avoiding dead angles and recirculation or too early ending of the combustion reaction, thereby reaching low emissions of NOx and CO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Bekaert Combustion Technology B.V.
    Inventors: Frank Geelen, Paul Thijssen, Jan Van Peteghem
  • Patent number: 8677945
    Abstract: A boiler has an upper header, a lower header and a heat-transfer tube. The heat-transfer tube connects the upper header with the lower header. The hear-transfer tube is provided with projections such that a heat-transfer area per unit length of the heat-transfer tube is smaller in an upstream region than that in a downstream region of combustion gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Miura Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soji Sumi, Yukihiro Tokunaga
  • Publication number: 20130224104
    Abstract: A process and a device are described for producing high purity and high temperature steam from non-pure water which may be used in a variety of industrial processes that involve high temperature heat applications. The process and device may be used with technologies that generate steam using a variety of heat sources, such as, for example industrial furnaces, petrochemical plants, and emissions from incinerators. Of particular interest is the application in a thermochemical hydrogen production cycle such as the Cu—Cl Cycle. Non-pure water is used as the feedstock in the thermochemical hydrogen production cycle, with no need to adopt additional and conventional water pre-treatment and purification processes. The non-pure water may be selected from brackish water, saline water, seawater, used water, effluent treated water, tailings water, and other forms of water that is generally believed to be unusable as a direct feedstock of industrial processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventors: Greg Naterer, Zhaolin Wang, Edward Secnik
  • Publication number: 20130092106
    Abstract: A tube and shell steam generator having an anti-clogging heat exchange tube bundle wherein the tube support plates within the tube bundle are designed with varying degrees of porosity thereby regulating local secondary side fluid conditions (velocity, quality, superheat, void fraction, etc.) in a manner to reduce the potential for clogging of the tube support plate lobes that are more prone to clogging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Robert M. Wepfer, James R. Schwall, Christopher A. Weindorf, John R. Balavage
  • Publication number: 20130044853
    Abstract: A feed water and steam header equipped to a feed water nozzle or a steam nozzle of a reactor vessel in a steam generator for an integrated nuclear reactor is provided. The feed water and steam header may include a nozzle connection portion connected to a steam nozzle or a feed water nozzle of a reactor vessel, a header flange protruded outward from a lower part of the nozzle connection portion, and a tube connection portion disposed on two pipelines branched from the nozzle connection portion and connected to a tube of the steam generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Dong Ok KIM, Shun CHOI, Tae Wan KIM, Gyu Mahn LEE, In Su HAN, Ki Jong JANG, Hyun Jin PARK
  • Publication number: 20130014710
    Abstract: A method and system for generating high pressure superheated steam on demand that uses nano-sized aluminum particles to allow oxidation and heat generation using photonic initiation. This invention uses the unique properties of nano-sized aluminum either alone or with other energetics to provide the needed heat to quickly vaporize and superheat water directly in either a flowing water or static water environment to produce steam as needed. Due to its compact design it can be used in new or existing steam applications. This steam use may be any application that needs an on demand high pressure steam supply. Applications include steam catapults, boost steam for turbines, steam cleaners, surge power for powerplant turbines and any other use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: FOI Group, LLC
    Inventor: David Murray Munson, JR.
  • Publication number: 20120312254
    Abstract: A steam generation boiler includes a bottom portion and a roof portion, as well as walls that extend vertically between the bottom portion and the roof portion, thus forming a reaction chamber of the steam generation boiler, the walls of which reaction chamber embody a structure that includes steam generator pipes. The steam generation boiler includes, in its lower portion, at least one wall section tapering towards the bottom portion. A first group of steam pipes in the tapering wall section is arranged to pass from the wall plane into the reaction chamber and to extend from the wall plane to the bottom portion of the steam generation boiler on the side of the reaction chamber forming a wall in the reaction chamber, and a second group of steam pipes is arranged to pass to the bottom portion along the wall plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: Foster Wheeler Energia OY
    Inventor: Pentti Lankinen
  • Publication number: 20120160188
    Abstract: A system for heating a primary air stream in a steam generating process comprising at least one primary air heat exchanger to exchange heat between the primary air stream in the primary air heat exchanger(s) and a process fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventors: Chao Hui Chen, Meng Li, Michael Smith
  • Publication number: 20120138149
    Abstract: A hot water supply system including a water heater that includes a storage unit storing at least device information of another water heater, and performs hot water supply control by which the water heater cooperates with the other water heater, these water heaters being able to supply hot water according to a hot water supply request; one or a plurality of the other water heater that is connected to the water heater in parallel, and supplies hot water according to the hot water supply control by the water heater; communication connection means that communicably connects the water heater and the other water heater; water supply means that supplies water to the water heater and the other water heater; and hot water supply means that supplies hot water heated by the water heater and the other water heater to a hot water supply destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: TAKAGI INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Hatada, Kazuhiko Nakagawa, Katumi Naitoh
  • Publication number: 20120090563
    Abstract: The invention relates to sand casting and more specifically to sand casting of a heat exchanger element with pins and/or fins. The invention provides a core box for sand casting of workpieces comprising pins and/or fins. The core box molding surface comprises at least one air vent and pins and/or fins. The at least one air vent is integrated in at least one pin or fin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Inventors: Paul Thijssen, Jan Van Peteghem
  • Patent number: 8122856
    Abstract: Disclosed is a steam generator pipe which can be produced in a simple and economical manner and which has a particularly good heat transitional behavior having a large band width with various operational conditions. According to the invention, at least one insert is arranged in the inner chamber of the pipe in order to form a swirl-generating inner profile. The insert comprises a plurality of wires which wind, in a screw-like manner, along the inner wall of the pipe in the form of a multi-path thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joachim Franke, Oliver Herbst, Holger Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20120031349
    Abstract: New designs, methods and processes are described that in which laminated devices and configured in a style named the “ortho” style. To form a device in the ortho style, plates or sheets are machined to have apertures and then stacked together such that the apertures connect and fluid can flow through the device in a direction that is substantially parallel to the direction of sheet thickness. Various laminated devices and processes using them are also described. For example, devices in which non-rectangular microchannels conform around reaction chambers or other bodies that need to be heated or cooled, are described. Features that separate or trip boundary layer and enhance heat transfer are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Anna Lee Tonkovich, Gary Roberts, Sean P. Fitzgerald, Paul W. Neagle, Dongming Qiu, Matthew Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8091515
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes at least one exchanger module, including a combustion chamber for the generation of an exchange fluid, a slotted wall for the passage of the exchange fluid and an expulsion chamber for the exchange fluid provided with a discharge flue. Said exchanger module is formed by a pair of basic elements, each of which contributes to form a part of said combustion chamber, a part of said slotted wall and a part of said expulsion chamber. The basic elements are reciprocally connected in facing position so as to form a single block. The present invention facilitates the assembly operations for a heat exchanger, to obtain modular exchangers and to reduce the structural elements of the exchangers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Inventor: Angelo Rigamonti
  • Publication number: 20110232286
    Abstract: A boiler apparatus is provided that generates a heat source capable of efficiently regenerating absorbing liquid while maintaining steam turbine efficiency to a maximum extent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi MISHIMA, Takashi Sugiura, Tetsuya Kosaka
  • Patent number: 7954459
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for vaporizing liquid are provided which employ a plurality of rods disposed within a storage vessel that serve as the heat transfer element. While the plurality of rods are generally submerged by the liquid fuel to facilitate heat transfer and vaporization of the liquid fuel, the rods may be packed closely together such that the liquid inventory required to maintain the rods in a submerged state is substantially less than required by conventional fuel supply systems, thereby permitting the weight of a fuel supply system that incorporates the apparatus and method to be reduced while still permitting effective vaporization of the fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Alan Z. Ullman, Albert D. Tomassian, Brian L. Wherley, Clyde D. Newman
  • Publication number: 20110048342
    Abstract: A multi-chamber conveyor type dishwasher uses a heat recovery unit (HRU) to heat water for a final rinse chamber during a preheat and/or dishwashing phase. The HRU heats water supplied by a low temperature water source using the dishwasher's hot vapor exhaust. An input supply of water for a downstream booster heater is varied based on a sensed temperature of the HRU's output water. If the temperature is acceptable, the HRU supplies input water to the booster heater for the rinse chamber. When the temperature drops below a threshold, the controller temporarily bypasses the HRU and supplies water to the booster heater from a high temperature water source. The HRU may be primed during a preheat phase using water from the high temperature water source. An amount of fan force used to pull the hot exhaust vapors through the HRU may vary based on the status of the dishwasher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: Champion Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert C. Vroom
  • Publication number: 20110048343
    Abstract: The steam boiler has a circulation system for boiler water that has water pipes arranged to circulate boiler water and steam through the water pipes with a cooled device arranged to cool a selected, exposed part of the steam boiler. The cooled device has an outer tube and an inner tube arranged in the outer tube. The outer tube, at an upper end thereof, has an open connection to one of the water pipes in which water pipe a flow is established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Lennart Nordh, Karl-Erik Brink
  • Publication number: 20100319634
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is provided an evaporator/calciner in which hazardous materials, such as radioactive liquids, are converted into chemically stable, solid forms by evaporating, drying and calcination within a single vessel, that can then be sealed and used for long term storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenneth James FRANKLIN, Andrew Donald Kettner, Bruce Wayne Hildebrandt, Howard Charles Jessup, JR.
  • Publication number: 20100263606
    Abstract: A thermal store system for a water heating system comprising a primary thermal store containing a primary volume of water adapted to be heated by a primary heating means, said primary thermal store being in thermal communication with a central heating supply flow and a central heating return flow, a secondary water heat exchanger in thermal communication with the primary volume of water, the secondary water heat exchanger having a water feed flow and a water outlet flow for supplying hot water, at least one of said central heating return flow and/or said water feed flow being in thermal communication with at least one further thermal store, upstream of said primary thermal store, said at least one further thermal store containing a medium adapted to be heated by at least one supplementary heating means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: HOTHOUSE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Nicholas David Beckett
  • Publication number: 20100242863
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a co-cast heat exchanger element intended for a central heating boiler, which heat exchanger element is made from substantially aluminum, the heat exchanger element being provided with walls which enclose a water carrying channel, and with at least one wall which encloses at least one flue gas draft to which a burner can be connected, at least one wall which encloses the at least one flue gas draft being water-cooled in that it also forms a boundary of the water-carrying channel, while one of the water-cooled walls is provided with heat exchanging surface enlarging pins and/or fins which extend in the respective flue gas draft and is also provided with other heat exchanging surface enlarging metallic porous structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: BEKAERT COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGY B.V.
    Inventors: Karel Hubau, Johannes Beukers, Paul Thijssen, Jan Van Peteghem, Frank Geelen
  • Patent number: 7784434
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchange element intended for a central heating boiler, which heat exchange element is designed as a monocasting from substantially aluminum, the heat exchange element being provided with walls which bound a water-carrying channel, and with at least one wall which bounds at least one flue gas draft to which a burner can be connected, at least one wall which bounds the at least one flue gas draft being water-cooled in that it also forms a boundary of the water-carrying channel, while one said at least one water-cooled wall is provided with heat exchanging surface enlarging pins and/or fins which extend in the respective flue gas draft, wherein the cross-sectional surface of a said pin and/or fin is smaller than 25 mm2. The invention also relates to a central heating boiler provided with such a heat exchange element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Remeha B.V.
    Inventor: Pouwel Jelte Gelderloos
  • Patent number: 7770544
    Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a first vessel for holding a mixture of steam and water is disclosed. At least one first manifold is in fluid communication with the first vessel, the at least one first manifold is for receiving water from the first vessel. At least one second manifold is in fluid communication with the first vessel and in parallel spaced relation to the first manifold, the at least one second manifold is for returning a mixture of steam and water to the first vessel. At least one tube is in fluid communication with the at least one first manifold and the at least one second manifold, and a plurality of fins extends radially outward from an outer surface of the at least one tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Victory Energy Operations LLC
    Inventor: John C. Viskup, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20100162967
    Abstract: The invention relates to heat exchangers used in high efficiency condensing boilers, in particular condensing gas boilers, and a method of manufacturing such heat exchangers. The heat exchanger comprises means to promote unidirectional flue gas flow before entering the primary part. This provides advantages in efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Inventor: Stephen Taylor
  • Publication number: 20100139579
    Abstract: A water heater especially for bathroom includes a hair filter (1), a water self pumping pump (2), a heat exchanger (3), a water valve (5), a controller (6), an operator (7), three water flow resistance amplifiers (8) and a waste water tank (9). The heat exchanger can recover the heat from the waste water during bathing and preheat cold water. The waste water tank can reuse the waste bath water for flushing toilets. Said parts are assembled by pipes and electric circuits and arranged on the proper position in the bathroom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Shaohua Su, Qing Tan
  • Publication number: 20100116226
    Abstract: An embodiment of a boiler comprises a fan, an air-gas premixing burner, a combustion chamber faced by a combustion head of the burner and a heat exchanger comprising a plurality of tubes in which the water of a heating system runs. The heat exchanger comprises cooling tubes arranged in contact either directly or with the interposition of an element formed by high heat conducting material, with a diffuser of the burner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: GAS POINT S.R.L.
    Inventors: Nicola Lovascio, Raffaello Rastelli, Claudio Zatti
  • Publication number: 20100000474
    Abstract: A method for reducing corrosion of a superheater of a steam boiler. The superheater includes a superheater piping. The superheating piping includes a steam pipe where the steam to be superheated is directed. The steam pipe is separated by a protective shell having a surface settling in the flue gas space has a temperature that rises above an upper critical temperature, above which temperature in the flue gas space the compounds from the fuel are substantially in a gaseous form. A superheater of a steam boiler and a circulating fluidized bed boiler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: KVAERNER POWER OY
    Inventors: Pertti Petänen, Kari Mäkelä, Kari Kuukkanen, Ari Kokko
  • Patent number: 7578669
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a hybrid combustor, such as an anode tailgas oxidizer (ATO), for fuel processing applications which combines both flame and catalytic type burners. The hybrid combustor of the present invention combines the advantages of both flame and catalytic type burners. The flame burner component of the hybrid combustor is used during start-up for the preheating of the catalytic burner component. As soon as the catalytic burner bed is preheated or lit off, the flame burner will be shut off. Optionally, the hybrid combustor may also include an integrated heat recovery unit located downstream of the catalytic burner for steam generation and for the preheating of the feed for a reformer, such as an autothermal reformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Yunquan Liu, Curtis L. Krause, Kevin H. Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20090173292
    Abstract: A steam boiler (15) comprising a fuel burning device (16) disposed in a combustion chamber and adapted to burn a fuel to form combustion gases (19), a passage (30) extending between a water inlet (20) and a steam outlet (23), the passage having a water space (31) and a steam space (32), a flue passage (33) extending between the combustion chamber and a flue outlet (24) and having a gas heat transfer space (34), a heat exchange element (43) between the gas heat transfer space and the water and steam spaces, the heat exchange element having a gas-side surface (35) that absorbs heat from the combustion gases and an opposed water-side surface (38) that radiates heat, the water-side surface having a first portion (39) adjacent to the water space and a second portion (40) adjacent to the steam space, the gas-side surface having a first portion (36) opposite the water-side first portion and a second portion (37) opposite the water-side second portion, the water-side first portion having a surface area and the water
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Inventor: David M. Christie
  • Publication number: 20090056647
    Abstract: The invention relates to a boiler comprising a combustion chamber which is surrounded at least in part by a combustion gas flue that is embodied as a primary heat exchanger. The combustion gas flue is enclosed at least in part by a water-conducting housing while a water-conducting secondary heat exchanger that is hydraulically connected to the housing is mounted downstream of the combustion gas flue. According to the invention, the combustion chamber is surrounded at least in part by the secondary heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: VIESSMANN WERKE GMBH & CO., KG
    Inventors: Werner Klausmann, Gunthard Gorge, Roger Donges
  • Patent number: 7490580
    Abstract: A vaporizer generates vapor by vaporizing a liquid. In particular, a vaporizer generates fuel vapor that is used for reforming fuel by vaporizing a liquid fuel that contains a hydrocarbon. This vaporizer includes a heating gas direct movement flow path along which a heating gas flows by moving directly in a horizontal direction; vaporization flow paths that are positioned such that they can exchange heat with the heating gas direct movement flow path, and that vaporizes liquid fuel; a fuel supply pipe that supplies the liquid fuel to the vaporization flow paths; and a vapor flow path that is positioned in an upstream portion on the heating gas direct movement flow path from the vaporization flow paths and that heat fuel vapor that is discharged from the vaporization flow paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hanai, Kiyoshi Kasahara, Yuuji Asano
  • Publication number: 20090000572
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for vaporizing liquid are provided which employ a plurality of rods disposed within a storage vessel that serve as the heat transfer element. While the plurality of rods are generally submerged by the liquid fuel to facilitate heat transfer and vaporization of the liquid fuel, the rods may be packed closely together such that the liquid inventory required to maintain the rods in a submerged state is substantially less than required by conventional fuel supply systems, thereby permitting the weight of a fuel supply system that incorporates the apparatus and method to be reduced while still permitting effective vaporization of the fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Inventors: Alan Z. Ullman, Albert D. Tomassian, Brian L. Wherley, Clyde D. Newman
  • Patent number: 7431225
    Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to a vaporizer with positive liquid shut-off. In one illustrative embodiment, the vaporizer is comprised of a body, a liquid inlet and a carrier gas inlet coupled to the body, a nozzle positioned within the body, the nozzle having at least one opening formed therethrough that defines a vaporized liquid exit, and a positive shut-off valve, a portion of which is adapted to engage the vaporized liquid exit of the nozzle. In another illustrative embodiment, the vaporizer is comprised of a body, a liquid inlet and a carrier gas inlet coupled to-the body and a plurality of peltier cells coupled to the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ross S. Dando, Allen P. Mardian, Raynald B. Cantin, Gurtej S. Sandhu
  • Publication number: 20080134993
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a vaporizer runner structure, wherein the body is concaved to form a runner used to heat a liquid flowing therethrough; a plurality of extension portions is extended from two side walls of the runner to increase the contact area between the liquid and the runner; besides, a cover is used to hood the body and airtight the runner. In the present invention, the extension portions effectively increase the surface area of the runner. Thus, the heating efficiency of the vaporizer is greatly promoted, and steam is output faster. Thereby, the size of the vaporizer can be reduced to benefit product design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventor: Samson Tsen