Abstract: Burners operating with combustion air as the combustion-sustaining gas and a fuel, generally a vaporizable liquid fuel, have at least one ceramic body formed with passages for these two fluids allowing heat exchange through the walls separating these passages. According to the invention, these walls are porous so that fuel in the fuel passage can traverse the wall into an adjoining air passage by evaporization on the surface. The combustion air can be heated by recuperative heat exchange from exhaust gases of the combustion chamber. Burner heads of this type can be paired in mirror-symmetrical relationship.

Abstract: A ceramic recuperator for the heating of combustion air, e.g. for an oil-fired burner or boiler, which prepares at least the air in the formation of a fuel-air mixture which is ignitable at the burner. According to the invention the recuperator is provided with means, especially electrically operated for heating the ceramic body so that the initial combustion air can be heated before firing of the burner and the further heating of the recuperator by combustion products.

Abstract: A burner head of ceramic materials through which the fuel (combustible) and the oxidizing agent (oxygen or oxygen-containing gas such as air) are passed from an inlet side to an outlet side, combustion being effected at the outlet side. According to the invention, the gas passages for the fuel and the oxidizing medium are of elongated cross section and parallel to one another, being offset in pairs so that indirect heat exchange is effected between the two mediums through the separating ceramic wall. The passages can be formed as rectangular-section channels which are closed at the top and bottom by ceramic plates.

Abstract: A core energy plant with closed working gas circuit, in which within an or safety container there are arranged a reactor core of pre-stressed concrete for heating the working gas, a working gas driven turbo-set with generator, and other components of the working gas circuit such as heat exchanger and gas storage means. The reactor core is separated from the turbo-set and other components and is arranged in a separate reactor chamber with walls of pre-stressed concrete, while the other components are respectively arranged in separate chambers, within an inner concrete container which has chambers for receiving the turbo-set with generator and the remaining components of the working gas circuit and which has its outer wall arranged adjacent the vertical inner wall of the outer safety container there is provided a recess for a pre-stressed concrete container for receiving the reactor core.

Abstract: A burner system in which an ignitable mixture is formed from vaporized liquid fuel and preheated air which is heated by recuperative heat exchange with a furnace exhaust gas from the combustion chamber in which the mixture burns. According to the invention, a feed line for the fuel opens into a closed chamber provided with porous walls permeable to the fuel and with a flow passage traversed by the preheated air, the wall of this flow passage in turn serving for indirect heat exchange of the air by the combustion gases of the furnace.

Abstract: A nuclear energy plant with a closed circuit for the working gas, in which nuclear reactor operable to heat up the working gas, is through a plurality of gas conduits arranged in parallel, connected to a plurality of turbo-sets for generating electric energy and to circuit components following the turbo-sets. One turbo-set each and the respective circuit components associated therewith are respectively arranged in common structural units which are radially arranged around the nuclear reactor. Each of the structural units comprises a first connection for a hot gas conduit withdrawing the heated working gas from the reactor and a second connection for a cold gas conduit for conveying the working gas to the nuclear reactor after the working gas has passed through the respective circuit components.