Abstract: A burner surface and creation method are provided. The burner surface includes a frame with a compact layer of unsintered metal and ceramic fibers that have been vacuum cast to a surface of the frame. The layer of unsintered metal and ceramic fibers is not greater than 0.5 inches, and is created without using substantial amounts of polymer pore forming or binding agents. The frame and compact layer additionally include a plurality of apertures that form holes through the burner surface plate.

Abstract: A combustor for oxidizing a combustion fuel and pre-heating one or more reactants for fuel reforming. The combustor includes an elongated housing having an inlet for receiving a combustion fuel and an outlet for exhausting combustion products. The elongated housing further includes a cylindrical side wall, a bottom wall, and a top wall. Inert particles are disposed within the housing adjacent the inlet. A combustion catalyst bed is disposed within the housing above the inert particles that is a mixture of inert particles and combustion catalyst. The inert particles and the combustion catalyst preferably have a volumetric ratio of inert particles to catalyst between about 2:1 and about 4:1. The combustor has at least one heat exchanger within the combustion catalyst bed for heating a reformer reactant and generating steam. Preferably, the combustor includes at least two heat exchangers within the combustion catalyst bed, the heat exchanging elements have different surface areas.

Abstract: The invention relates to a burner, in particular a radiant burner, for the combustion of a gas mixture of fuel gas and an oxygen carrier gas, with a burner plate with passage channels for the throughflow of the gas mixture from a mixing chamber side to a combustion side, wherein, on the combustion side, combustion channels with an enlarged cross-section compared with the passage channels connect to the passage channels, wherein flow obstacles for a contact with the combustion flame are arranged in the combustion channels and the flow obstacles are made of a material which has a higher thermal conductivity than the material of the burner plate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a gas burner, preferably a premix burner, comprising a support having a central gas inlet port for supply of gas into a gas supply chamber. The gas supply chamber is enclosed by a first metal burner membrane at its side and an end cap opposite to said gas inlet port. The end cap is connected to the top of the first burner membrane. The burner membrane is connected at the bottom to the support through its base section. The end cap is formed by a second burner membrane. The exterior surface of the first burner membrane and the end cap is made of perforated heat-resistant sheet metal plate.

Abstract: An oven that uses both impinging air ducts and infrared burners to heat food products is provided. Heating and cooking with both types of burners leads to a significantly improved efficiency over currently available systems. The infrared burner comprises a matrix of metal fibers that allows for the combustion flame to remain stable even when subject to the currents of nearby impinging air ducts within the oven cavity.

Abstract: A catalytic combustor (1) is provided for combustion of gaseous and liquid fuels, which combustor comprises a housing (2) having an inlet (3) and an outlet (4) through which an airflow is directed, and a fuel injector (10) for injecting fuel in the airflow. The combustor also comprises at least one catalytic element (12, 14, 15) for combusting the mixture of air and fuel. A fuel-evaporating device (7) is arranged for evaporating a liquid fuel, which device is heated by the catalytic element (12), either through combustion therein or by means of an electrical heating element (13) arranged adjacent thereto.

Abstract: A finial/torch assembly for mounting atop a hollow post portion of a fence or railing and a fence/railing assembly including the same includes a base adapted to be fitted securely atop the post, a burner including a fuel reservoir and a wick extending into the fuel reservoir, and a removable cover adapted to be fitted over the base to at least partially conceal the burner and to protect the burner from weather. The burner is secured to the base and the fuel reservoir extends from beneath the base and is adapted to be fitted substantially within an upper portion of the hollow post.

Abstract: The invention relates to a radiant gas burner device comprising a first cylindrical chamber (1) and a first injector (2) for feeding the first chamber with a combustible gas mixture, the first chamber (1) comprising an external peripheral heating surface (10). The device of the invention further comprises a second cylindrical and hollow second chamber, and a second injector (4) for feeding the second chamber with a combustible gas mixture, the second chamber being positioned inside the first chamber (1), separated from the first chamber by a sealed wall, and having an internal heating surface (30), and the first and second injectors (2, 4) being designed for separately feeding the first and second chambers, independently of each other.

Abstract: A combustion apparatus with an air supply chamber in a lower part partitioned by a partition plate from an arrangement section of a burner unit and a primary air chamber in a front part stands from a front end of the air supply chamber are provided in a combustion housing incorporating the burner unit. Air from a combustion fan connected to an air supply port of the air supply chamber flows to the primary air chamber through the air supply chamber. Primary air is supplied from the primary air chamber to burners of the burner unit. Projected rims extend from the periphery of a portion of the partition plate opposed to the air supply port to a front edge of the partition plate are provided on a lower surface of the partition plate. The height of a downward projection of the projected rims is reduced toward the air supply port.

Abstract: A radiant burner (1) which comprises at least one radiant burner plate (2) and at least two layers of radiant screens (3) enclosed by a peripheral band (4) associated with a body (6) defining a premixing chamber for said burner. The peripheral band (4) comprises an upper flange (5). The radiant burner further comprises an insulation (7) lying under and extending downwardly from said upper flange of said peripheral band. The insulation (7) has an internal peripheral structure permitting limited movement of the layers of radiant screens (3). The insulation is a multilayer structure wherein each insulation layer engages and supports at least one screenlayer (3).

Abstract: A burning device is provided for fuel cell to be run under high temperature. The burning device uses a specific-designed fuel spraying device having porous medium. The burning device can be used under different statuses of flow in the fuel cell. With the burning device, the fuel cell has improved efficiency by enhancing recycling of system heat and pollution of discharged waste gas is reduced.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a portable apparatus for warming biocompatible fluids for use in the treatment of injured patients and a method of heating a biocompatible fluid to treat a patient experiencing hypothermia. The present invention may be used to warm intravenous fluids for trauma resuscitation or to warm air from a ventilator circuit. The portable nature of the present invention makes it highly suitable for field applications, such as a forward surgical hospital near a combat zone.

Abstract: An appliance for providing air and gas to a gas burner includes a gas tube and an air tube. The gas tube comprises an aperture for providing gas inwards to the air tube. The air tube comprises a first aperture for receiving a back tube of the gas burner. The gas tube is provided with a first part of a detachable connection device, for receiving a second part of the detachable connection device provided on the back tube for allowing gas from the gas tube to enter the back tube. The back tube has an orifice for allowing air from the air tube to enter inside the back tube.

Abstract: A wire mesh burner plate for use in large, gas burners for large ovens is comprised of spaced-apart wire mesh plates. The spacing between the wire mesh plates defines an air/fuel mixture space. The fuel passes through the lower or first mesh, experiences a pressure drop, mixes with air and passes through a second wire mesh. The gas combusts after passing through the second wire mesh. The fine gauge of the mesh prevents combustion from flowing backwardly into the fuel/air mixture space. Several individual wire mesh burner plates can be flexibly attached to each other such that a very wide space can be covered. Thermal stresses are reduced by being distributed across multiple burners.

Abstract: A burner apparatus utilizes a reticulated member to promote mixing of a fuel and oxidizer mixture. A plurality of exit ports, disposed on a wall or surface encapsulating the reticulated member, defines exit streams of the mixture that produces flames upon combustion. The burner apparatus have high heating rates and turndown ratios of at least about 18:1.

Abstract: A wall structure for bordering a combustion chamber of a burner has a top plate that is exposed to the combustion chamber and a bottom plate in contact with the top plate in contact zones on a side facing away from the combustion chamber. The top plate and/or the bottom plate are shaped so that a channel system is created between the top plate and the bottom plate. The top plate contains first openings which communicate with the channel system. In addition, the top plate and the bottom plate have joint second openings in the contact zones communicating with a feed space which is arranged on a side of the bottom plate facing away from the combustion chamber.

Abstract: A device which is cooperable with a heat apparatus and which is effected by heat for rendering the heat apparatus to be ignited in a faster manner includes a catalytic member and a sleeve including a peripheral wall enclosing and contacting with an outer circumferential edge of the catalytic member.

Abstract: The present invention provides a gas burner, preferably a premix burner, comprising a support having a central gas inlet port for supply of gas into a gas supply chamber. The gas supply chamber is enclosed by a first metal burner membrane at its side and an end cap opposite to said gas inlet port. The end cap is connected to the top of the first burner membrane. The burner membrane is connected at the bottom to the support through its base section. The end cap is formed by a second burner membrane. The exterior surface of the first burner membrane and the end cap is made of perforated heat-resistant sheet metal plate.

Abstract: A burner tube to provide combustible materials to a combustor is provided and includes an annular shroud and a center body, having a cavity defined therein, disposed within the annular shroud to form an annular passage, the annular passage being communicable with a combustion zone of the combustor at an aft portion thereof and including a fore portion in which fuel is injected into the annular passage. The center body includes a surface having a passage defined therein through which air is to be supplied to the annular passage from the cavity at a position, which is downstream from the fuel injection and upstream from the combustion zone. Also provided is a contouring of the centerbody.

Abstract: Device for supplying mixed gas to gas burners of radiant heating type including a plurality of burner assemblies (310) in the housing (301) for combustion of the mixed gas therein, each with a burner chamber (312) for supplying mixed gas of fuel gas and air thereto, a glass plate (302) placed on top of the housing (301), a plurality of mixing tubes (321) respectively in communication with the burner chamber (312) for supplying the fuel gas and the air thereto, a plurality of gas nozzles (322) for respectively spraying the fuel gas into the mixing tubes (321), a plurality of air supply tubes (323) for respectively spraying the fuel gas into the mixing tubes (321), a plurality of air supply tubes (323) each spaced a distance away from the other end of one of the mixing tubes (321), for supplying air toward the one of the mixing tubes (321), and a fan unit (330) connected to an end of one of the air supply tubes (323) for supplying air thereto.

Abstract: Water in a fuel cell accumulator is kept above freezing by a hydrogen/oxygen catalytic combustor fed hydrogen through a mechanical thermostatic valve in thermal communication with the container and connected to a hydrogen supply. The system includes an ejector hydrogen/oxygen combustor and a diffusion hydrogen/oxygen combustor for warming a medium within a container such as water in the accumulator of a fuel cell in response to a mechanic hydrostatic valve which conducts hydrogen to a combustor responsive to the temperature of the container.

Abstract: A gas-fired burner unit for providing combustion and infrared radiation includes at least one plenum for receiving at least the gas, and at least one perforated metal plate mounted for receiving at least the gas from the plenum and supplying at least the gas to the combustion so that the combustion is proximate the perforated metal plate.

Abstract: Hydrocarbon transformations through radical reaction are carried out in presence of: a carbon nano/meso precursor, an aluminium containing support, and a lanthanide catalyst deposited on said aluminium containing support.

Abstract: A gas radiation burner includes a gas supply member for injecting a gas; at least one mixing pipe producing a mixed gas by sucking air together with the gas injected by the gas supply member, the at least one mixing pipe uniformly injecting the mixed gas; a burner pot having a lateral side opening connected to the at least one mixing pipe to accommodate the mixed gas supplied by the at least one mixing pipe; a burner mat provided over the burner pot to emit radiant heat generated by combustion of the mixed gas supplied by the burner pot; and a burner housing provided on the burner mat to provide a combustion room.

Abstract: A gas radiation burner for improving the efficiency of burning by promoting mixing of fuel gas and air is disclosed. The gas radiation burner includes a gas supply member for injecting gas, at least one mixing pipe for suctioning air along with the gas injected from the gas supply member to produce mixture gas and injecting the produced mixture gas, a burner pot for receiving the mixture gas supplied from the mixing pipe, a burner mat mounted at a top of the burner pot and adapted to emit radiation heat that is generated as the mixture gas supplied from the burner pot burns on the burner mat, and a burner housing located on a top of the burner mat and defining a burning chamber therein. The mixing pipe is connected to a predetermined position of a lateral portion of the burner pot such that the mixture gas supplied from the mixing pipe flows along an inner peripheral surface of the burner pot.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hybrid burner (1) for a combustor (7), in particular of a power plant, comprising a housing (2), in which a full oxidation catalyst (9) and a partial oxidation catalyst (10) are arranged. An inlet side of the housing (2) is connected to at least one oxidizer supply (3) and to at least one fuel supply (4, 5). An outlet side of the housing (2) is connected to a combustion chamber (7).

Abstract: A catalytic combustor is configured to accelerate the combustion processing of anode off gas in the combustor to reduce the amount of unburned hydrogen discharged to the outside of the combustor. Anode off gas and cathode off gas discharged from the fuel cell are fed into the catalytic combustor and combusted with a catalyst. Ventilation air is supplied from inside of the fuel cell is also supplied to the catalytic combustor. A portion of the catalytic combustor located upstream of the catalyst inside is divided into an upper flow path and a lower flow path by a partitioning plate and a gas flow passage is provided upstream of the upper and lower flow paths. The cathode off gas is supplied to the gas flow passage.

Abstract: The gas-fired heating unit has an atmospheric gas burner including a mixing chamber and a burner medium covering the mixing chamber, a combustion chamber in which the atmospheric gas burner is arranged, a fuel gas/air supply system that has respective inlets for fuel gas and combustion air and an ignition device having at least one pilot flame and supply pipe for pilot flame gas associated the mixing chamber. In order to reduce NOx emissions and reduce ignition noise, the ignition device has an upwardly open mixing space arranged in the mixing chamber and immediately under the burner medium, the supply pipe for the pilot flame gas is connected to the mixing space and the mixing space is provided with an inlet for primary air.

Abstract: A water heating apparatus uses a low range blower assembly and a high range blower assembly, each providing a variable flow of premixed fuel and air to a burner assembly. Appropriate choice of the operating ranges of the blower assemblies can provide a high turndown ratio approximately equal to the product of the turndown ratios of each of the individual blower assemblies. Turndown ratios as high as 25:1 are achievable.

Abstract: A burner for burning a gaseous fuel containing hydrogen with a gaseous oxidizer containing oxygen, having a combustion chamber in which the combustion reaction takes place during operation of the burner and having a wall structure which seals off the combustion chamber on the input end and which has multiple fuel openings through which the fuel is introduced into the combustion chamber during operation of the burner and has multiple oxidizer openings through which the oxidizer is introduced into the combustion chamber during operation of the burner.

Abstract: Burner for gas oven comprising a device for retaining a flame of the burner, separating the flame from a mixing chamber capable of receiving a flow of primary air and gas to form a gaseous mixture. The flame retention device is provided with a mesh comprising metal threads, capable of allowing said gaseous mixture to pass through the mesh, said mesh comprising at least one main zone and a pilot zone which are adjacent. The pilot zone having, according to a main direction of the flame of the burner, a thickness greater than the thickness of the main zone, capable of slowing down the gaseous mixture passing through the pilot zone relative to the mixture passing through the main zone. The burner comprises at least one orifice capable of receiving a secondary air flow.

Abstract: A gas burner for a gas fired heating appliance, such as a water heater. The gas burner is located within a combustion chamber and includes an inlet conduit through which combustible gas and primary air are received. An air scoop shrouds the inlet conduit and at least partially defines a flow path of primary air, substantially isolated from the combustion chamber and which extends from the inlet end of the inlet conduit to a primary air port that communicates with a source of primary air located outside the combustion chamber. The combustion chamber also includes at least one port through which secondary combustion air is admitted into the combustion chamber. A flow path transition member is located within the combustion chamber and is in fluid communication with the primary air port. The transition member also forms part of the isolated primary air flow path and sealingly engages the air scoop when the burner is installed into the combustion chamber.

Abstract: A portable heat transfer apparatus comprises a mixture forming/supply device for producing a mixture of fuel gas and air, a heating unit including a heat collection casing, and a burner installed in the casing and formed with a combustion chamber having a flat surface. The burner includes a large number of holes formed on an upstream side thereof to extend up to the flat surface to allow the mixture injected into the chamber therethrough to combust in the chamber, and a porous solid radiant-heat conversion component to partly convert heat energy of exhaust gas from the combustion in the chamber into radiant heat energy. The conversion component defines at least a surface region of the chamber located opposite to a flame front produced close to the flat surface. The apparatus includes a heat-driven pump joined to the casing and receiving heat generated by the combustion, through the heat collection casing.

Abstract: The invention relates to a burner arrangement (1) in particular for heating or keeping warm, in particular casting stream protection devices and/or immersion casting devices of a continuous casting plant, comprising a reservoir (5) that can receive, in particular a shroud tube or an immersion tube, said reservoir comprising a base (6) and a cover (7). The wall (8) of the reservoir (5) is formed by at least one porous burner.

Abstract: Disclosure is made of methods, systems, and apparatus for changing characteristics of noise of premixed flames supported on burners by heating burner passageways by an amount that attenuates combustion noises arising from premixed flames.

Abstract: A highly efficient radiant burner assembly (100) for use in a patio heater or the like in areas where people prefer or require low NOX emissions. The efficiencies are created through the use of a spherical burner element (116) that is either formed of a high temperature steel wire mesh or stamping containing apertures of a predetermined size to allow combustion to remain within the burner element and to not cause the temperature of the burner element to exceed the temperature at which NOX are developed. Coating the burner with a catalyst also aids the low emission combustion process. Additional efficiencies are provided by atomizing the fuel before it is mixed with air and by the use of a laminar flow heat exchanger (940) that utilizes a fluid media flowing in a helical coil condenser unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooking top (1), in particular adapted to be used in a household environment, comprising at least one gas burner (40) which can be used with at least one fuel gas. The cooking top also comprises flame divider means (9) associated with the gas burner (40) and comprising at least one semi-permeable element (90), which is permeable to gaseous substances and substantially impermeable to liquid substances. The semi-permeable element (90) may be a micro-perforated sheet, a fibrous membrane, or a porous membrane.

Abstract: An adjustable grill apparatus having a movable radiant gas burner unit. The adjustable grill apparatus is supported on the top cooking surface of a conventional outdoor grill. The movable radiant gas burner unit is supported on a support assembly having side panels and support panels for pivoting adjustable positioning between a substantially vertical position supported on the grill and substantially horizontal positions supported on the support assembly. The movable radiant burner unit is operable at a constant or variable operating temperature between high and low temperatures to obtain the desired cooking rate for the food item to be cooked.

Abstract: A radiant gas burner is provided having a casing adapted for connection with an air-gas mixing and supply system including a flux dissector and a mixer. The burner further includes a metallic mesh emitter inside the casing having lower and upper meshes. The lower mesh and the upper mesh each have porous openings. Each of the lower and upper meshes having a radius of curvature wherein the lower mesh is spaced apart from the upper mesh.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a gas burner capable of bringing artificial “fuel” disposed thereon to incandescence, known as a “living-flames” gas burner, for use in a single-heating appliance, comprising a multi-panel element made of rigid gel-cast molded ceramic fibers or of bio-soluble ceramic fibers.

Abstract: Burner (5) for a gas burning hand tool (1), of the type comprising an elongated burner body (21), associated at opposite ends of the body with a gas injection zone (17) and a gas combustion zone (19). The gas injection zone (17) comprises at least one outlet orifice (35) terminating flush on the outside of the periphery (25) of the burner body (21), this periphery (25) promoting the circulation of the gas outside the burner body (21) to the combustion zone (19). Gas burning hand tool equipped with a burner of this type.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for generating steam, comprising oxidizing a fuel to generate heat via a flameless reaction; and using the heat generated via the reaction to convert water to steam. In an embodiment, the amount of NOx present is flue gas from the reaction is less than about 10 PPMv. In an embodiment, the reaction temperature is less than about 2600° F. (1430° C.). In an embodiment, the method further comprises controlling the reaction temperature to minimize the formation of NOx. In an embodiment, controlling the reaction temperature further comprises sensing one or more process variables and adjusting a process controller in response to the sensed process variable. Also disclosed herein is a steam generator comprising a reaction zone wherein fuel is oxidized to generate heat via a flameless reaction and a heating zone wherein water is converted to steam via heat from the reaction.

Abstract: A patio heater is disclosed comprising a cylindrical catalytic heating chamber mounted on a base. The patio heater of the present invention comprises a base to physically support a cylindrical catalytic heater chamber which is mounted inside a fuel vapor cavity. The catalytic heater chamber provides a cylindrical heating zone capable of heating a nearby human form the knee to the face. The fuel vapor chamber surrounds the catalytic heating chamber and acts to accumulate sufficient fuel and air mixture to ignite to provide uniform and sufficient heat to the catalyst surface to attain catalytic ignition on start up. The base offers physical stability for the assembly and storage space for a fuel tank and houses the fuel deliver system and ignitor controls.

Abstract: A radiant tube heater with a burner assembly, a radiant tube assembly and a combustion air pre-heater; wherein the burner assembly comprises: a burner fuel nozzle; a plenum chamber and a pre-mixer chamber; the plenum chamber having a combustion air inlet; wherein in use: combustion air flows from said plenum chamber through an orifice to said pre-mixer where said air is mixed with burner fuel entering said pre-mixer through said nozzle prior to being combusted at a burner head; said pre-mixer being at least partly located within said radiant tube assembly; and where in use at least part of the combustion air supplied to said plenum is preheated in said air pre-heater using residual sensible heat of the hot combustion gas products of the heater.

Abstract: An improved radiant gas burner unit is provided having a shallow base with long walls and shorter walls. The shallow base supports a radiant gas burner plate or plates having openings therethrough, and forming an external surface of the base for emitting high temperature gas radiation. At least three mixing tubes are provided aligned with the shorter wall, and having two open ends. The first open end is positioned within the base and the second open end is positioned adjacent corresponding openings formed through the long wall of the base. A gas supply line extends along the long wall and has gas outlets for ejecting gas across an open air gap positioned intermediate the gas outlet and the second open end of the mixing tubes. The ejected gas is mixed with air as it crosses the air gap, and is provided to the openings of the radiant gas burner plate for combustion which produces high temperature radiation on the radiant gas burner plate and external surface of the base.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a ceramic burner plate for infrared radiators which includes a lithium silicate as a main constituent. The burner plates according to the invention can have a content of lithium oxide within the range of 0.63% by weight to 7.6% by weight and they exhibit a high temperature resistance and are extremely durable.

Abstract: Catalytic system combining an aluminium or iron containing catalytic support, a rare earth containing porous deposit, carbon nanoparticles and a carbon containing structure making bonds between carbon nanoparticles.

Abstract: In a fuel cell power plant, carbon monoxide contained in reformate gas which is produced by a reformer (3) by means of a catalytic fuel reaction is removed by the respective catalytic reactions of a shift converter (4) and a preferential oxidation reactor (5). During start up of the fuel cell power plant, a burner (6) burns fuel to produce combustion gas and the combustion gas is supplied individually to the reformer (3), shift converter (4) and preferential oxidation reactor (5) through combustion gas supply passages (71-73) thereby simultaneously completing warming up of these catalytic reactors (3-5).

Abstract: A device and a method for flame stabilization in a burner (10), includes a burner housing at least partially enclosing a burner volume, into which may be introduced via at least one fuel line, fuel, and via at least one air feed means, air, forming an air/fuel mixture spreading in a preferred flow direction, which may be ignited in a combustion chamber (11) connecting downstream of the burner housing to form a stationary flame (13). Upstream of the flame (13), a catalyst arrangement (1) is provided through which an air/pilot fuel mixture (4), separate from the air/fuel mixture, is flowable.

Abstract: An improved radiant burner which is particularly useful at low flow rates. The radiant burner has a reticulated metal foam with a first face and a second face and a density sufficient for combustion fuel to pass there through. The first face is adapted to be the initial contact for the combustion fuel passing through the reticulated metal foam. The second face is adapted to radiate after the combustion fuel has been ignited.