Three Or More Fluids Patents (Class 239/400)
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Patent number: 9284933Abstract: A fuel nozzle includes an axial fuel circuit having a converging front surface with an axial fuel outlet formed therein, an air swirler surrounding the axial fuel circuit and having a converging front wall, a swirl chamber bounded by the converging front surface of the axial fuel circuit and the converging front wall of the air swirler, and an air cap surrounding the air swirler, such that an air circuit is defined between the air cap and the air swirler. A plurality of circumferentially disposed discrete jet passages extend through the converging front wall of the air swirler for directing atomizing air from the air circuit to the swirl chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2013Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: Delavan IncInventor: Steven Jay Myers
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Patent number: 9278326Abstract: In certain embodiments, a feed injector system includes an inner channel configured to convey at least one of a solid fuel feed or a liquid reactant or moderator to a reaction zone. A first oxidizer channel extends around the inner channel, wherein the first oxidizer channel is configured to convey a first oxidizer stream to the reaction zone. A second oxidizer channel extends around the first oxidizer channel, wherein the second oxidizer channel is configured to convey a second oxidizer stream to the reaction zone. Additionally, a third channel extends around the inner channel and the first and second oxidizer channels, wherein the third channel is configured to convey at least one of the solid fuel feed or the liquid reactant or moderator to the reaction zone.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Ali Ergut
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Patent number: 9091444Abstract: A fuel mixture is fed to a gas turbine combustor by an injection assembly, which has an outer body with combustion-supporting air inlets; a conical tubular portion housed inside the outer body and partly defining an inner conduit and an outer annular conduit; and a first and second feed circuit for feeding liquid fuel to the inner conduit and outer annular conduit respectively; the first circuit having a ring of conduits with respective axes parallel to a generating line of an outer surface of the conical tubular portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2011Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: AVIO S.p.A.Inventors: Fabio Turrini, Antonio Peschiulli, Marco Motta
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Patent number: 8960571Abstract: A pressurized air assisted liquid spray nozzle assembly having a liquid spray nozzle having a downstream discharge orifice for discharging a solid stream of liquid, an air guide mounted in surrounding relation to a downstream end of said liquid spray nozzle, and an outer nozzle body disposed in surrounding relation to said air guide. The air guide defines a first plurality of air passages for directing pressurized atomizing air transversely to liquid discharging from said liquid spray nozzle for atomizing the discharging liquid and a second plurality of air passages for directing shaping air tangentially to liquid discharging from said liquid spray nozzle for shaping the atomized liquid particles into a predetermined conical spray pattern.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2012Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Spraying Systems Co.Inventor: James Haruch
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Publication number: 20140367494Abstract: A fuel injector for a gas turbine engine is disclosed that includes a nozzle tip assembly having a nozzle body substantially monolithically formed by additive manufacturing and having at least one fuel circuit defined therein and at least one air circuit defined therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2013Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventor: Matthew Raymond Donovan
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Patent number: 8820047Abstract: A combustion burner 10A according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: a fuel nozzle 110; a burner tube 120 forming the air passage 111 between the burner tube 120 and the fuel nozzle 110; swirler vanes (swirler vanes) 130 arranged in a plurality of positions in the circumferential direction on the external circumferential surface of the fuel nozzle 110, each extending along the axial direction of the fuel nozzle 110, and gradually curving from upstream toward downstream; and a liquid fuel injecting hole 133A from which a liquid fuel is injected to a surface of each of the swirler vanes 130. The combustion burner 10A also includes multi-purpose injecting holes 11-1 to 11-3 as a cooling unit that cools a part of a vane pressure surface 132a of the swirler vane 130 on which the liquid fuel LF hits.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2008Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Toshihiko Saito, Koichi Ishizaka, Satoshi Tanimura
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Patent number: 8821805Abstract: This application provides a process unit for the production of alkylate gasoline, comprising: a) a nozzle having an orifice that dispenses one or more recirculated streams comprising ionic liquid catalyst into a chamber in the nozzle, b) a conduit for introducing a hydrocarbon feed stream comprising an olefin to the orifice at a close distance from the orifice; and c) a throat connecting the chamber in the nozzle to an alkylation zone. The process unit can have multiple Venturi nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.Inventors: Huping Luo, Moinuddin Ahmed, Krishniah Parimi, Bong-Kyu Chang
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Patent number: 8795602Abstract: In certain embodiments, a feed injector system includes an inner channel configured to convey at least one of a solid fuel feed or a liquid reactant or moderator to a reaction zone. A first oxidizer channel extends around the inner channel, wherein the first oxidizer channel is configured to convey a first oxidizer stream to the reaction zone. A second oxidizer channel extends around the first oxidizer channel, wherein the second oxidizer channel is configured to convey a second oxidizer stream to the reaction zone. Additionally, a third channel extends around the inner channel and the first and second oxidizer channels, wherein the third channel is configured to convey at least one of the solid fuel feed or the liquid reactant or moderator to the reaction zone.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2011Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Ali Ergut
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Patent number: 8640463Abstract: A swirler for fuel injection in a gas turbine engine includes a frustoconical swirler body. A first and a second air flow path direct air in generally opposed circumferential directions into the swirler. These air paths intermix and create turbulence. As this turbulence encounters fuel droplets, the fuel is atomized, and uniformly distributed within the air flow. A shear layer is created adjacent an inner surface of the swirler body. In a separate feature, a third air flow path is directed into the air.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventor: Albert K. Cheung
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Patent number: 8616468Abstract: A spray assembly for dispensing a mixture is provided. The spray assembly includes a connector configured for operable engagement with a first and a second source of component and a source of pressurized fluid, and a tip operably connected to the connector. The tip includes an opening and defines a mixing chamber between the connector and the opening of the tip, and an insert member configured to be received in the mixing chamber. The insert member includes a plurality of radially extending slots on at least one end of the insert. The plurality of radially extending slots is configured to mix the first and second components prior to the mixture exiting the opening in the tip.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2012Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Les Hull, Jason Fortier
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Publication number: 20130134232Abstract: An injector for co-feeding liquid and solid fuels into a gasifier is provided. The injector includes a body, a first member, and a second member. The body comprises a first channel for conveying a liquid fuel. The first member surrounds the body to define a second channel for pneumatically conveying a solid fuel. The second member surrounds the first member to define a third channel for conveying a fluid stream for dispersing the solid fuel. The liquid fuel is atomized before being mixed with the solid fuel. A method for co-feeding liquid and solid fuels is also presented.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2010Publication date: May 30, 2013Inventors: Xiangqi Wang, Wei Chen, Ke Liu, Lishun Hu, Zhe Cui, Xianglong Zhao
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Publication number: 20130087636Abstract: The invention relates to a spray nozzle for addition of substances into a reactive mixture, comprising a housing (12), a connection (14) provided on the housing (12) and having an inlet (16) for the reactive mixture, wherein the connection (14) can be connected to a mixing head, and the inlet leads to a mixing chamber (30), and a material outlet opening (28) at the downstream end of the mixing chamber (30). In order to add pressure-sensitive substances, it is proposed to provide at least one supply (18) for the substance to be added, which has a channel (20) that is connected to the mixing chamber (30) via at least one inlet opening, and at least one air supply (22) which feeds into the mixing chamber (30) in flow direction downstream of the inlet opening via at least one air supply opening (26).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2011Publication date: April 11, 2013Applicant: KraussMaffei Technologies GmbHInventor: Ernst Scheidt
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Publication number: 20120266604Abstract: A fuel nozzle and a method for operating a combustor are disclosed. The method includes flowing a fuel and an oxidizer through a fuel nozzle, the fuel nozzle comprising an inner tube, an intermediate tube, and an outer tube each configured for flowing one of the fuel or the oxidizer therethrough. At least one of the inner tube, the intermediate tube, or the outer tube includes a plurality of swirler vanes. The method further includes imparting a swirl to the fuel and the oxidizer in the fuel nozzle, and exhausting the fuel and the oxidizer from the fuel nozzle into a combustion zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2012Publication date: October 25, 2012Inventors: Predrag Popovic, Gilbert Otto Kraemer, William Thomas Ross, Vladimir Belvaev
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Publication number: 20120248220Abstract: A spray assembly for dispensing a mixture is provided. The spray assembly includes a connector configured for operable engagement with a first and a second source of component and a source of pressurized fluid, and a tip operably connected to the connector. The tip includes an opening and defines a mixing chamber between the connector and the opening of the tip, and an insert member configured to be received in the mixing chamber. The insert member includes a plurality of radially extending slots on at least one end of the insert. The plurality of radially extending slots is configured to mix the first and second components prior to the mixture exiting the opening in the tip.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: CONFLUENT SURGICAL, INC.Inventors: Les Hull, Jason Fortier
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Patent number: 8210453Abstract: A spray assembly for dispensing a mixture is provided. The spray assembly includes a connector configured for operable engagement with a first and a second source of component and a source of pressurized fluid, and a tip operably connected to the connector. The tip includes an opening and defines a mixing chamber between the connector and the opening of the tip, and an insert member configured to be received in the mixing chamber. The insert member includes a plurality of radially extending slots on at least one end of the insert. The plurality of radially extending slots is configured to mix the first and second components prior to the mixture exiting the opening in the tip.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2009Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Confluent Surgical, Inc.Inventors: Les Hull, Jason Fortier
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Patent number: 7905428Abstract: A sprayer has a sprayer outlet and a pressurizable reservoir adapted to contain a fluid. The reservoir has an air-pressure outlet and a reservoir outlet, the reservoir outlet being in fluid connection with the sprayer outlet. Detachable, pressurizable tanks are adapted to contain a chemical, each tank having a chemical outlet and an air-pressure inlet. Each air-pressure inlet is in fluid connection with the air-pressure outlet of the reservoir for equalizing air pressure between the reservoir and each tank. A switch is adjustable between a plurality of settings for causing at least one of the chemical outlets to be in fluid connection with the sprayer outlet. A ratio valve is provided for selecting a fluid flow rate out of the selected outlet. Fluids flowing into the sprayer outlet from the outlets are mixed together prior to discharge from the sprayer outlet.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2005Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Inventor: Max A. Probasco
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Patent number: 7703288Abstract: A fuel nozzle for a turbine engine is disclosed. The fuel nozzle has a common axis, a body portion disposed about the common axis, a barrel portion located radially outward from the body portion. The fuel nozzle also has at least one swirler vane disposed between the body portion and the barrel portion and a liquid fuel jet disposed within the at least one swirler vane. The at least one swirler vane is configured to radially redirect an axial flow of air. The liquid fuel jet is configured to inject liquid fuel in a radial direction relative to the common axis.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2005Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Solar Turbines Inc.Inventor: Thomas John Chipman Rogers
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Publication number: 20090050713Abstract: Improvements to a triple helical flow vortex reactor add an inner wall (103) having at least one transition point (121) between the fuel inlet end (101) and the gas outlet end (102) and a circumferential flow apparatus (120) operating at each transition point (121). A restrictor at each transition point (121) is optionally added to reduce aerodynamic resistance to the various fluid flows. A vortex swirler is optionally added through the fuel inlet end, which preferably surrounds an inlet nozzle combined with a plasma torch. The fuel inlet end is optionally equipped with cooling channels in which a coolant can flow isolated from the reaction chamber. An optional coaxial cylindrical wall extends through the reaction chamber and creates a toroidal volume for reactions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2007Publication date: February 26, 2009Inventor: Igor Matveev
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Patent number: 7318554Abstract: A method and system are provided for injecting a color component into a plural component coating dispensing system. Base, cure and color components are pumped from respective containers at metered volume. The color component, which is preferably a low-viscosity automotive paint is injected into the either the base or cure stream at a point immediately prior to mixing all components in a dispensing device for dispensing the resulting colored fluid mixture onto a surface to be coated. The mixture may be dispensed by pouring or spraying onto the surface. The method and system are particularly useful for mixing and dispensing colored polyurethane or polyurea coatings, such as for spray-on truck bed liners.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2004Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Inventor: Gary D. Langeman
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Patent number: 7217342Abstract: A process that can utilize current paper manufacturing facilities by adding consecutive spray apparatuses that can make and/or enhance the manufacture of a multitude of specific paper products on-line, or improve the properties of already formed paper products with consequent spraying steps on-line or off-line.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2003Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Inventors: Martti Y. O. Kangas, Marjatta F. Kangas
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Patent number: 7124833Abstract: This invention relates to an improved portable system for the delivery of a breathable, fire extinguishing gas mixture to a fire zone. The gas mixture comprises a normally gaseous inert material, such as nitrogen, helium or argon; an oxygen containing gas; and carbon dioxide. The system includes a means for storing or generating the inert material, means for storing the carbon dioxide, means for generating or introducing the oxygen containing gas, and means for mixing the components. The system also includes means for heating, vaporizing and controlling the temperature and proportions of the components.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2004Date of Patent: October 24, 2006Inventor: Joseph Germano Sant'Angelo
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Patent number: 7093777Abstract: A jet clean nozzle having multiple spray openings which increase the scan density of pressurized water sprayed against the surface of a semiconductor wafer. The jet clean nozzle includes a nozzle body for attachment to a nozzle adaptor that communicates with a water jet pump. Multiple spray chambers extend into the nozzle body, and a spray opening communicates with each spray chamber. In use, pressurized water is forced through the respective spray openings and ejected from the spray chambers as multiple water jets.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2004Date of Patent: August 22, 2006Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chih Lung Lan, An Shen Hwang
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Patent number: 7025286Abstract: A method and system are provided for dispensing a colored polymerizing composition. Two reactive components and one color component are pumped from respective containers at a metered volume. The color component, which is preferably a low-viscosity automotive paint is injected into either the first or second stream of reactive component at a point immediately prior to mixing all components in a dispensing device for dispensing the resulting colored fluid mixture onto a surface to be coated. The mixture may be dispensed by pouring or spraying onto the surface. The method and system are particularly useful for mixing and dispensing colored polyurethane or polyurea coatings, such as for spray-on truck bed liners.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2004Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Inventor: Gary D. Langeman
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Patent number: 7007864Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel nozzle for use in an engine such as a gas turbine engine. The fuel nozzle includes a fuel injector for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of the engine and a plurality of rows of holes surrounding the fuel injector for eliminating recirculation of hot gas products onto a face of the fuel nozzle. The holes eject air primarily in an axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2002Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Timothy S. Snyder, James B. Hoke
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Patent number: 7004408Abstract: Burner (1) comprising a head (2) with two groups of holes (4?, 4?) for the passage of fuel and comburent arranged in circles concentric to the burner axis, in which the various groups (5) of holes are separated by circular sectors without holes and the axes of the holes are oblique compared with the burner axis (X) to create special forms of flame.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2003Date of Patent: February 28, 2006Assignee: Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche S.p.A.Inventors: Fabio Vecchiet, Milorad Pavlicevic, Alfredo Poloni
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Patent number: 6969012Abstract: An atomizer for difficult to disperse solutions such as sizing and paper coatings comprising three nozzles defining three channels respectively two of the nozzles comprising fluid-emitting nozzles and the third nozzle comprising a treatment-emitting nozzle. Alternatively, the atomizer comprises two channels respectively comprising a fluid-emitting nozzle and a treatment emitting nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2002Date of Patent: November 29, 2005Inventors: Martti Y. O. Kangas, Manfred Diebel
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Patent number: 6962296Abstract: An apparatus and method to use steam to atomize water to produce a mixture of moisture and heat for application to the web of a paper machine for both production improvement and paper quality control. The method allows independent droplet size and heat control in the mixture, resulting in flexibility that can not be offered by conventional steam showers or water spray systems individually. In one embodiment the apparatus consists of a plurality of actuator nozzle modules which control the water volume flow feeding the nozzle through a pneumatic pressure signal. Pressurized steam feeding the nozzle is used to break the water into fine droplets. The resulting nozzle spray is a mixture of moisture in fine water droplets and steam vapor, and heat stored in the steam. Alternatively, a plurality of steam valves can be used to regulate the steam volume flow feeding each atomizing nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2002Date of Patent: November 8, 2005Assignee: ABB Ltd.Inventors: Robert G. Hamel, Geoffrey Arthur Jones, Shizhong Duan
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Patent number: 6886757Abstract: A nozzle assembly for a HVOF thermal metallic spray coating system includes an inner tube, a middle tube and an outer tube which are concentrically arranged about an axis of the nozzle assembly and are spaced to provide annular, concentric gas flow passages for oxygen and gaseous fuel along with a central wire feed passage in an efficient, compact arrangement. A slotted nib and plug are fitted to the discharge end at the assembly and defined, together with the middle tube, an annular premix chamber for the combustible gases, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced mixing slots and a downstream mix end portion of the nib where complete mixing of the gases occurs prior to entry into the combustion chamber provided in an air cap. An annular passage between the air cap and outer tube communicates with a high pressure air source for establishing an envelope of air against the inside surface of the air cap to serve as a protective barrier layer from the atomized metal.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2002Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignees: General Motors Corporation, Sandia National LaboratoriesInventors: Larry Edward Byrnes, Leslie K. Sumner, Peter J. Toth, Martin Stephen Kramer, William L. Oberkampf, Richard Earl Teets, Charles D. Valerius, II
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Patent number: 6866207Abstract: A swirling gas atomizer for dispersing liquids and highly viscous or otherwise difficult to disperse solutions of liquids and solids to a mist with desired properties. The pressurized high speed rotating gas in this apparatus can disintegrate most chemical solutions all the way to the finest mist as theorized by Lord Rayleigh in 1882.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2003Date of Patent: March 15, 2005Inventors: Martti Y. O. Kangas, Miikka M. Kangas
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Patent number: 6745951Abstract: A detonation gun for thermal spraying formed by a combustion chamber (1) and a barrel (2), with entrances for fuel (5) and for oxidizer (4), one or more spark plugs (6) for detonating the fuel-oxidizer mixture and one or more injectors (7) for the introduction of the product into the barrel, the gun in the invention centers its characteristics on the incorporation of a direct injection system of the fuel and oxidizer gases into the explosion chamber, producing explosive mixtures of different compositions according to the various zones in the explosion chamber, with a constrained volume existing in this explosion chamber in which only fuel is injected in such a way that it can generate high-energy explosions, maintaining the cyclic operation of the gun.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2002Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: Aerostar Coatings, S.L.Inventors: Georgy Yur'evich Barykin, Iñaki Fagoaga Altuna
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Patent number: 6682342Abstract: A combustor for waste gas treatment having a flame stabilizing zone 15 surrounded by a peripheral wall 13 and closed with a bottom wall 14. The flame stabilizing zone 15 is provided to face a combustion chamber 11. Burner ports 23 for auxiliary combustible gas are provided in the peripheral wall 13 to inject an auxiliary combustible gas B into the flame stabilizing zone 15 so as to produce swirling flows. Burner ports 22 for waste gas are provided in the bottom wall 14 to inject a waste gas A into the flame stabilizing zone 15.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2002Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Assignee: Ebara CorporationInventors: Yoshiro Takemura, Kohtaro Kawamura, Yuji Shirao, Rikiya Nakamura
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Publication number: 20030136861Abstract: An atomizer for difficult to disperse solutions such as sizing and paper coatings comprising three nozzles defining three channels respectively two of the nozzles comprising fluid-emitting nozzles and the third nozzle comprising a treatment-emitting nozzle. Alternatively, the atomizer comprises two channels respectively comprising a fluid-emitting nozzle and a treatment emitting nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventors: Martti Y.O. Kangas, Manfred Diebel
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Publication number: 20030089507Abstract: A fire fighting apparatus comprising a container with two tanks therein, one holding a quantity of water and another holding a quantity of foaming agent, a pump operated by a gasoline engine, several hoses for directing a water/foam mixture at a fire and for refilling the water tank with water from a source, and a valve system for directing the water/foam mixture through two different hoses at the fire while water from a source is used either directly on the fire or for replacing water taken from the tank. The apparatus is held within a container mounted on casters so that it can be conveniently wheeled about. The unit is adapted for use in areas remote from fire departments.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2002Publication date: May 15, 2003Inventors: Brian E. Carrier, Bonnie Carrier, Pamela Baughman
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Patent number: 6524097Abstract: Method and apparatus for continuation of combustion with an oxy-fuel combustion system when the supply of oxygen is temporally reduced or stopped. Air or oxygen enriched air and fuel are introduced into the device being heated in place of the oxy-fuel mixture to effect combustion and maintain the heating level in the furnace. Water cooling of the furnace gases is used to reduce the volume of exhaust gases when operating in the air or oxygen enriched air mode.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2001Date of Patent: February 25, 2003Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Bryan Clair Hoke, Jr., Aleksandar Georgi Slavejkov, Mark Daniel D'Agostini, Kevin Alan Lievre, Joseph Michael Pietrantonio
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Patent number: 6494711Abstract: A combustor for waste gas treatment having a flame stabilizing zone 15 surrounded by a peripheral wall 13 and closed with a bottom wall 14. The flame stabilizing zone 15 is provided to face a combustion chamber 11. Burner ports 23 for auxiliary combustible gas are provided in the peripheral wall 13 to inject an auxiliary combustible gas B into the flame stabilizing zone 15 so as to produce swirling flows. Burner ports 22 for waste gas are provided in the bottom wall 14 to inject a waste gas A into the flame stabilizing zone 15.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2000Date of Patent: December 17, 2002Assignee: Ebara CorporationInventors: Yoshiro Takemura, Kohtaro Kawamura, Yuji Shirao, Rikiya Nakamura
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Patent number: 6315551Abstract: The technical field of the invention is making a burner capable of using one or more fuels, optionally simultaneously, together with particular features for the gas feed ducts. Such a burner comprises at least four substantially concentric ducts for feeding fuel and primary combustion air, including a duct for axial air and a duct for rotary air disposed outside any fuel outlet opening, and a central stabilizer placed at the outlet of a central primary air delivery duct opening out through orifices of said stabilizer, which stabilizer projects radially relative to any opening of a tube placed inside said central primary air duct and inside which a fuel pipe opens out. According to the invention, said burner has at least one additional gas feed opening out into said stabilizer and disposed around said opening having any diameter lying between the tube within which the fuel pipe opens out and the outer tube defining the central primary air delivery duct.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2000Date of Patent: November 13, 2001Assignee: Entreprise Generale de Chauffage Industriel PillardInventors: Patrick Salzsieder, Gerhard Endres, Roland Guiot
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Patent number: 6240731Abstract: A method of combusting fuel in the combustor of a gas turbine engine is disclosed which includes injecting fuel and a first predetermined amount of airflow into the combustion chamber to form a fuel-rich, highly mixed, uniform distribution fuel-air spray pattern flowing downstream in the combustion chamber and introducing a second predetermined amount of airflow into the fuel air spray pattern from combustor air inlets positioned at a first predetermined distance downstream from the combustor dome with the first predetermined distance being greater than 0.75 times the dome height and said second predetermined amount of airflow being sufficient to cause rapid mixing and quenching of the rich fuel-air mixture to a lean fuel-air mixture.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 1997Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: James B. Hoke, Irving Segalman, Kenneth S. Siskind, Reid D. C. Smith
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Patent number: 6189320Abstract: A burner, in particular for a gas turbine, in which combustion air is subjected to a vorticity by a vortex element, admits fuel to the vortical combustion air. At the same time, a pressure loss produced by the vortex element is small. A low NOx emission at virtually the same efficiency is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1999Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Gerwig Poeschl, Stefan Hoffmann, Ingo Ganzmann
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Patent number: 6141954Abstract: A premixing fuel injector for an industrial gas turbine engine includes an axially extending centerbody (58) and a pair of radially offset scrolls (18) bounding a mixing chamber (24). The leading end (28) of each scroll cooperates with the trailing end (34) of the neighboring scroll to define an intake slot (42) for admitting a stream of primary combustion air (44) tangentially into the mixing chamber. Fuel injection passages extend along each intake slot for injecting jets (76a, 76b) of primary fuel into the incoming airstream (44). The injector is operable in a prescribed or normal state, and in a degraded state associated with the presence of undesirable combustion inside the mixing chamber. The fuel injection passages are oriented and positioned so that the fuel jets issuing therefrom are ineffective at sustaining the undesirable combustion for more than a limited interval of time.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1998Date of Patent: November 7, 2000Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: William A. Sowa, Donald W. Kendrick, Louis M. Chiappetta
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Patent number: 6123273Abstract: The dual-fuel nozzle for a gas turbine and combustor includes a liquid fuel nozzle surrounded by a gas fuel nozzle. A converging sleeve surrounds the converging outer wall of the combined liquid fuel and gaseous nozzle to form a duct of decreasing cross-sectional area in a downstream direction whereby air flow through the duct accelerates toward the conical droplet spray pattern emerging from the liquid fuel nozzle. An inside swirler is located upstream of the liquid fuel tip to swirl the air flowing through the duct. An outer swirler is provided about the downstream end of the sleeve, likewise to swirl air. The accelerated swirling air flow through the duct and outer swirling air flow preclude impingement of oil spray droplets onto metal surfaces of the nozzle and hence prevent carbon deposition thereon which would otherwise be deleterious to the liquid fuel and gaseous nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1997Date of Patent: September 26, 2000Assignee: General Electric Co.Inventors: Anthony J. Loprinzo, James R. Maughan, H. Lindsay Morton, Stephen Hugh Black, Anthony John Dean, William Theodore Bechtel, II, Andrew Luts
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Patent number: 6021635Abstract: A fuel nozzle of a variety for dispensing an atomized fluid spray into the combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine. The nozzle includes a first fluid conduit extending along a longitudinal central axis from an upstream end to a downstream end portion terminating to define a primary discharge orifice, a second fluid conduit which is received coaxially over the first fluid conduit as extending along the central axis from an upstream end to a downstream end portion terminating to define a secondary discharge orifice disposed generally concentrically with said primary discharge orifice, and a third fluid conduit which is received coaxially over the second fluid conduit as extending along the central axis from an upstream first end to a downstream second end. The outer surface of the downstream end portion of the first fluid conduit and the inner surface of the downstream end portion of the third fluid conduit define therebetween a generally annular, internal mixing chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 1997Date of Patent: February 8, 2000Assignee: Parker-Hannifin CorporationInventors: John H. Gaag, Raman Ras
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Patent number: 6021961Abstract: An anti-crossover nozzle with two principle pieces that snap together, having a forward end portion with a dispensing opening, a rear end portion which includes at least a pair of inlets. Each inlet has a center passage, therethrough and at least two valve leaflets biased by their own inherent resiliency to a normally closed position covering openings in the passages. There is at least one point of attachment formed between an interior surface of the rear end portion and the valve leaflets. The leaflets are displaced from their normally closed position by the force of incoming liquid foam components.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 1998Date of Patent: February 8, 2000Assignee: Flexible Products CompanyInventor: Daniel P. Brown
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Patent number: 5979798Abstract: Many industries such as construction and aerospace industries use high build coatings for various purposes. Spray system for applying high build coatings allow thick coating to be applied relatively quickly as opposed to manual methods. The present application provides for a spray system including a spray apparatus having a conveyance device which provides a motive force created by a vacuum for delivering a dry material to the nozzle of the apparatus, the conveyance device including an array of bores for separating the dry material to provide substantially uniform wetting of the dry material when the dry material enters the nozzle. The conveyance device is particularly useful in applying plaster and stucco. The present apparatus eliminates concerns of pot-life, waste and product uniformity by wetting the dry material close to the nozzle outlet.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 1998Date of Patent: November 9, 1999Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Terry L. Hall, Stephen K. Bishop, Terry C. McGugin
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Patent number: 5966937Abstract: The fuel injector for a combustor of a gas turbine engine of the high shear design type is configured to include two swirlers with passages where the vanes in the inner swirler of the inner swirler in the passage which is closest to the centerline of the fuel nozzle includes a judiciously located twist and together with the proper flow ratio between the two swirl passages and the proper swirl angle of the flow stream in each of the passages provide an enhanced fuel injector with improved lean blowout and high altitude relight characteristics while assuring a stable recirculation region in the combustion zone.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1997Date of Patent: October 19, 1999Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventor: Charles B. Graves
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Patent number: 5542608Abstract: An air aspirating nozzle for propelling a stream of foam or a slurry of solid particulates to a target surface includes a stream shaping member within the nozzle to form a rotating, columnar stream of liquid and air that maintains a high degree of coherence over a considerable throw distance. The stream shaping member includes a cylindrical body portion held axially in place within the nozzle body by a plurality of vanes extending between the body portion and the inner nozzle wall. The vanes are arranged in a forward-raked attitude, and the vane surfaces are configured to impart a rotation to a fluid column passing through the nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1994Date of Patent: August 6, 1996Assignee: Valkyrie Scientific Proprietary, L.C.Inventor: Joseph B. Kaylor
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Patent number: 5529245Abstract: A mixing and dispensing gun with a valve body containing a pair of liquid inlets, a pair of separate liquid outlets, a gas outlet and a removable mixing and dispensing nozzle. The nozzle contains the ingredients while they are being mixed and a gas outlet is positioned within the nozzle so as to propel the mixed ingredients to the application area. The nozzles and gun body include cooperating inlet and outlet ports such as nipples and recesses to permit alignment and sealing when the nozzle is positioned for use. The gas valve is arranged so that it may be operated simultaneously or in sequence with the liquid valves.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 1994Date of Patent: June 25, 1996Assignee: Insta-Foam ProductsInventor: Daniel P. Brown
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Patent number: 5467926Abstract: Past fuel injection nozzles have attempted to provide a structure to reduce tip temperatures. Such nozzles have failed to attain adequate reduction of tip temperatures without increasing the quantity of cooling air required. The present fuel injector structure has resulted in reduced tip temperatures without increasing the quantity of cooling air required. The structure includes a shell having an inner member positioned therein forming a first chamber therebetween, an end piece forming a second chamber between the inner member and the end piece. An inner body has a plurality of first angled passages formed therein and communicates between the second chamber and a passage. A flow of combustor air through the second chamber contacts an air side of the end piece resulting in a combustor side being cooled. The unique structure of the fuel injector nozzle provides improved tip cooling without increasing the quality of cooling air and improves the efficiency of the gas turbine engine.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1994Date of Patent: November 21, 1995Assignee: Solar Turbines IncorporatedInventors: Dennis D. Idleman, Douglas C. Rawlins, Virendra M. Sood
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Patent number: 5456596Abstract: A multivortex device is provided comprising a series of adjacent plates with specially designed grooves and perforations which, when mounted transversely of a uniform fluid flow in a duct, results in the formation of numerous small adjacent flow vortices either all rotating in the same direction (co-vortices) or adjacent vortices rotating in opposite direction (countervortices). The fluid at the peripheries of adjacent co-vortices move in opposite directions and friction converts their rotational kinetic energy into turbulence within a few vortex diameters downstream from the multivortex device. The fluid at the peripheries of adjacent counter-rotating vortices move in the same direction, such that they roll upon one another substantially without friction and persist for many vortex diameters downstream from the multivortex device. The adjacent plates of the multivortex device can be provided with additional grooves and passageways which allow a second and/or third fluid to be introduced within each vortex.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 1994Date of Patent: October 10, 1995Assignee: Energy Innovations, Inc.Inventor: Meredith Gourdine
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Patent number: 5441703Abstract: A gas inlet for different reactant gases which flow into reaction vessels with high flow velocity. The cross sections of the gas inlet supply lines are substantially smaller than that of the reaction vessel.The gas inlet has a part with a conicoidal interior contour, the cross section of which is adapted to the cross section of the reaction vessel and which is arranged at one end of the reaction vessel through which flow occurs. The individual supply lines end at approximately the focal point of the part having the conicoidal interior contour. The gas exit openings of the supply lines are directed at the vertex of the part having the conicoidal interior contour.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 1994Date of Patent: August 15, 1995Assignee: Aixtron GmbHInventor: Holger Jurgensen
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Patent number: 5404711Abstract: Fuel injection nozzles used for reducing NOx in gas turbine engines have incorporated a variety of expensive and complicated techniques. For example, systems use schemes for introducing more air into the primary combustion zone, recirculating cooled exhaust products into the combustion zone and injecting water spray into the combustion zone. The present dual fuel injector reduces the formation of carbon monoxide, unburned hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides within the combustion zone by providing a series of premixing chambers being in serially aligned relationship one to another. During operation of the dual fuel injector the premixing chambers have a liquid fluid and air or water and air being further mixed with additional air or a gaseous fluid and air. The liquid fluid and the gaseous fluid can be use simultaneously or individually depending on the availability of fluids.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1993Date of Patent: April 11, 1995Assignee: Solar Turbines IncorporatedInventor: Amjad P. Rajput