Mixer And Flame Holder Patents (Class 431/354)
  • Patent number: 7614877
    Abstract: A gas range having a cook top and a gas burner assembly connected to a source of gas having a variable flow rate. The burner assembly is positioned in the cook top. The gas burner assembly has a burner body with a gas input, the gas input is in a first flow communication with a first chamber and a second flow communication with a second chamber. Each chamber has at least one port in an exterior wall for flow communication to an area external of the burner body for combustion of the gas. The second flow communication has a tripping pin to deflect flow during high flow conditions and to not deflect flow during low flow conditions. A burner cap is positioned on the burner body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Paul E. McCrorey, Paul Bryan Cadima, Shree Kumar
  • Publication number: 20090274985
    Abstract: The burner preferably exclusively burns substantially explosible solid fuels and preferably has instant ON-OFF thermostat control, wastes no energy preheating the enclosure or external air supply, achieves stable combustion the moment the powder-air mix is ignited in our burner, is used in the upward vertical mode except for oil burner retrofits, burns a solid fuel in a single-phase regime as if it were a vaporized liquid or gas, is designed to complete combustion within the burner housing itself rather than in a large, high temperature furnace enclosure which it feeds, has an ultra-short residence time requirement, is a recycle consuming burner with self-contained management of initially unburned particles, is much smaller, simpler and lower cost, has a wider dynamic range/turndown ratio, is more efficient in combustion completeness and thermal efficiency, and operates with air-fuel mix approximately at the flame speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventors: James K. McKnight, Edward Bacorn, Ken W. White
  • Patent number: 7611351
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Chemical Physics Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrei V. Krauklis, Pawel S. Laptsevich, Vitali A. Zhdanok
  • Patent number: 7607914
    Abstract: A combustion type waste gas treatment system capable of oxidatively decomposing a hazardous combustible waste gas while heating efficiently with a structure which allows the waste gas to mix with an auxiliary burning gas efficiently without the occurrence of backfire in a waste gas inlet pipe. The combustion type waste gas treatment system has a burner part and a combustion chamber. Combustion flames are formed to extend from the burner part toward the combustion chamber, and a combustible waste gas is introduced into the combustion flames from waste gas inlet pipes thereby oxidatively decomposing the waste gas. A flow velocity accelerating device makes the flow velocity of the combustible waste gas flowing through the waste gas inlet pipe higher than the burning velocity of the combustible waste gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Komai, Kohtaro Kawamura, Takeshi Tsuji, Rikiya Nakamura, Kazutaka Okuda, Keiichi Ishikawa, Tomonori Ohashi, Yoshiro Takemura, Yasutaka Muroga, Tadakazu Nishikawa, Yuji Shirao
  • Publication number: 20090263757
    Abstract: A wall structure (21) for a burner (19), with a first wall (40), which has elevations (41) and which defines a first supply chamber (22), and with a second wall (43), which has recesses (44) cooperating with end sections (42) of the elevations (41) and which defines a reaction chamber (20). The first wall (40) has first openings (34), which connect the first supply chamber (23) to the reaction chamber (20). The second wall (43) has second openings (37), which connect a second supply chamber (24) located between the walls (40, 43) to the reaction chamber (20). The first openings (34) are arranged in first rows (35) and the second openings (37) in second rows (38). The mixture formation or homogenization of the gases in the reaction chamber (20) can be improved if at least one second opening (37) is arranged within the first row (35) between two openings (34).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Inventor: Andreas KAUPERT
  • Publication number: 20090249789
    Abstract: A burner for use in a gas turbine engine includes a burner tube having an inlet end and an outlet end; a plurality of slots formed in the burner tube and configured to introduce air flows tangentially into the burner tube and impart swirl to the air flows; a plurality of fuel passages extending axially along the burner tube; and a plurality of fuel injection holes provided to each fuel passage. At least one of the fuel injection holes of each fuel passage is configured to inject a fuel flow tangentially into the burner tube between air flows of adjacent slots to form a fuel and air co-flow. A method of mixing air and fuel in a burner of a gas turbine is provided. The burner includes a burner tube including a plurality of slots formed in the burner tube. The method includes introducing air flows tangentially into the burner tube through the slots and imparting swirl to the air flows; and injecting fuel between air flows of adjacent slots to form fuel and air co-flows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Inventors: Baifang Zuo, Abdul Rafey Khan, Christian X. Stevenson
  • Patent number: 7594812
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a double burner for gas cookers, of the type provided with multiple concentric flame crowns (FE, FC), which comprises two gas inlet (3, 4) that reach the centre of the body (1) at a slightly different height, so that communication can be provided between the gas inlets, if necessary, by simply drilling a hole (15) with vertical axis from the upper inlet (3) to the lower inlet (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: SO. M. I Press - Societa′ Metalli Iniettati, SpA
    Inventor: Piero Armanni
  • Patent number: 7591648
    Abstract: A burner assembly includes a fuel nozzle and an air-fuel mixing cone coupled to the fuel nozzle. Fuel is discharged from the fuel nozzle into a mixing chamber formed in the air-fuel mixing cone. Air passes into the mixing chamber through openings formed in the air-fuel mixing chamber and mixes with fuel to form a combustible air-fuel mixture in the air-fuel mixing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Maxon Corporation
    Inventor: Pawel Mosiewicz
  • Publication number: 20090226852
    Abstract: A burner assembly for lean, low NOx combustion may include a gaseous fuel manifold, counter-swirl vanes, and a converging nozzle with bluff body flame anchors. A cooling air tube optionally extends from the air inlet to the nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Inventors: James J. Feese, Bruce A. Wartluft, Jacob W. Mattern
  • Publication number: 20090226854
    Abstract: Provided is a combustion apparatus capable of preventing a heat loss from a combustion cabinet without deteriorating a combustion performance thereof. According to the present invention, a part of an inner side surface of a combustion cabinet (1), which encloses a combustion chamber where a mixture gas erupted from a combustion plate (22) is combusted, is covered with a cover (7) made of an insulation material; and the cover (7) is provided with a concave portion (7a) at an outer side surface thereof having contact with the inner side surface of the combustion cabinet (1), and an insulation air layer (7b) is defined by the concave portion (7a).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: RINNAI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Ojiro
  • Publication number: 20090220900
    Abstract: Heating provided by a burner that combusts hydrocarbon fuel can be provided at a sequence of different heat transfer rates by adjusting the total oxygen concentration of oxidant streams fed to the burner. A burner with which the method can be practiced is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventors: WILLIAM THORU KOBAYASHI, ABILIO TASCA, FRANCISCO DOMINQUES ALVES DE SOUSA
  • Publication number: 20090220899
    Abstract: A method for burning gas in a burner, including leading the gas through an inner fuel tube (13) and introduction of combustion air through an annular space surrounding the inner fuel tube. This space forms of an outer tube (11) terminated by a conically converging section, wherein the end of the inner fuel tube forms a burner head (15). The major part of the primary gas is introduced into the upstream end of the burner head, to go into the combustion air that flows past the burner head, whereas a smaller part of a secondary gas is introduced into the free end of the burner head (15) and into the constricted part of the annular channel that surrounds the burner head. The gas flow is accelerated past the burner head due to the reducing cross section and is burned downstream in relation to the burning head, wherein the mixture has properties that reduces the formation of Nox at the same time as the combustion becomes complete. It is also described a burner for performing this method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: NTNU TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AS
    Inventors: Øystein Spangelo, Otto Kristian Sonju, Torbjorn Slungaard, Mario Ditaranto
  • Publication number: 20090214998
    Abstract: A burner for fabricating an optical fiber preform, which can suppress the adhesion and deposition of glass particles to the front end of the burner without enlarging the burner diameter, is provided. The burner has a first tube, a second tube and a third tube coaxially arranged and define a glass raw material gas port, a sealing gas port, and a burnable gas port by the front end portions thereof, and a plurality of small diameter nozzles arranged between the second tube and the third tube, each of the nozzles arranged on a concentric circle relative to the glass raw material gas port and defines a combustion assisting gas port by the front end portion thereof, the front end portion of the second tube protrudes ahead of that of the first tube, and the front end portion of the third tube protrudes ahead of those of the second tube and each of the nozzles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 7578225
    Abstract: An improved system and operating method for a smoke generator machine and control room to be enclosed into a single trailer for the training of personnel in the art of visible smoke opacity compliance monitoring of industrial smoke discharge from smoke stacks by distinguishing the variations of smoke opacity emission based on the requirements set forth by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA said smoke generator is principally used for production of white and black smoke for simulating smoke discharge from industrial smoke stacks by heating various fuels to the flash point in burn boxes to create white or black smoke and venting said smoke through a duct system to a smoke stack by creating a artificial draft by a speed control fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Inventors: Garrett Eugene Bosch, Gary Eugene Bosch
  • Publication number: 20090205631
    Abstract: A gas burner head used for a gas stove and being provided with a kindling pipe, the kindling pipe is fixed on a burner head, the lower end of the kindling pipe is an gas intake port, while the higher end of the kindling pipe is an gas out take port, the gas intake port is aimed at fire holes of the burner head; and the gas out take port is aligned with the ignitor the kindling pipe, by a return flame of the kindling pipe, the present invention can get an object that the high level ignitor kindles the burner head at the low level through the kindling pipe; a consumer can thus change the position of the burner head at a low level to a position that can accept the function of ignition of the high level ignitor by himself according to his habit or requirement; such a process of operation needs no tool, and thus has the advantage of simplicity of operation and convenience of use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventor: Kao Hsung Tsung
  • Publication number: 20090188447
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing a condensing side-arm water heater with improved efficiency. The condensing side-arm element recirculates exhaust gases into heating the cooler part of a water heater tank by the thermosiphon (or buoyancy) effect in a counterflow configuration, thus increasing efficiency of the water heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Inventor: James D. Lutz
  • Patent number: 7566218
    Abstract: A burner assembly has a burner head and a deflector plate extending radially therefrom and across a firetube housing for supporting the burner assembly therein. The deflector plate has a plurality of angled vanes for re-directing secondary combustion air flowing through the housing. Secondary air is deflected away from a nozzle tip at the burner head to minimize lifting of the flame by the deflector plate or by a low pressure ring formed around the nozzle tip above the deflector plate for creating an area of low pressure. Preferably, a combination of the deflector plate and low pressure ring provides a stable flame positioned at the nozzle tip under low-fire and high-fire conditions enabling use of a pilotless ignition and flame sensing system which is consistent under low and high fire conditions. More preferably, the deflector plate supports the igniter and optionally a heat return tube for heat tracing of the freeze-prone burner assembly components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: ACL Manufacturing Inc.
    Inventor: Chris Aldrich
  • Patent number: 7566217
    Abstract: A variable orifice combustor unit 10 comprises an annular combustion chamber 12 extending about a central axis 14 and ending in a discharge nozzle 16. Charging of the chamber 12 takes place from combustion fuel and air supply chambers 18 and 20 via a fuel charging orifice array 22 and an air charging orifice array 24. The orifices 28.1, 28.2 of the orifice arrays 22, 24 are positioned and slanted at the same forward angle in the direction of the nozzle 16 to the effect of their central axes 38, 40 cutting along the longitudinal centre of the combustion chamber 12. The cross sectional sizes of the orifices 28 are adjustable by means of an orificed displaceably mounted cyndrically shaped covering body 44 for the fuel charging side and an orificed cylindrical body 58 for the air charging side both being displaceable in the direction of the axis 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Inventor: Johann Carl Mörsner
  • Patent number: 7566220
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a modular propane gas log burner for use in fireplaces that were originally designed as wood burning fireplaces. The present burner is designed for clean burning of propane fuel and is modular so that more than one burner can be used in combination in order to create a burner configuration for wider single-sided gas log sets, for deeper single-sided gas log sets, and for two-sided or see-through gas log sets. The burner is provided with means for adjusting the fuel-to-air ratio and for adjusting the position of the flames to allow the user to achieve realistic and clean burning flames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: Hargrove Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew A. Thompson
  • Publication number: 20090173075
    Abstract: A burner is provided that has high flame stability and reduces NOx emissions. In the burner, air holes of an air hole member have a central axis inclined relative to a burner central axis. The leading end portion of a first fuel nozzle is configured to be able to suppress turbulence of air-flow flowing on the outer circumference side of the first fuel nozzle. The tip of the first fuel nozzle is located on a fuel jetting-out directional downstream side of the inlet of the fuel hole. The tip of the second fuel nozzle is located on a fuel jetting-out directional downstream side of the air hole inlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Inventors: Keisuke MIURA, Hiroshi INOUE, Kazuhito KOYAMA, Takeo SAITO, Satoshi DODO
  • Publication number: 20090142719
    Abstract: A venturi housing assembly having a horizontal wall that is cast as part of the venturi housing assembly. A plurality of gas/air release openings are cast into the horizontal wall that gradually provide a balanced mix of gas and air to one or more burner heads and release the gas and air mixture in order to provide an even heat pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Inventors: Joseph Felix Scheuring, III, Paulo Jorge Rosa, David Popowich
  • Patent number: 7527495
    Abstract: A multiple gas burner assembly has two burners spaced apart by a bridge burner. An axis extending through the first and third burner intersects the perimeter of the bridging second burner. The second burner provides a means for providing a substantially continuous flame perimeter and continuous heating intermediate the first burner and third burner when the three burners are lit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Burner Systems International, Inc.
    Inventors: Siu Hun P. Yam, William M. Pryor, Bernard Dane
  • Publication number: 20090100837
    Abstract: A lean premix burner for a gas-turbine engine includes an annular center body (3) with a conically flaring fuel film applicator (11) supplied with fuel via an annular distributor chamber (14) and fuel channels (12) as well as air ducts (7, 9) with swirler elements (8, 10) provided on the outer and inner circumference. A fuel prefilmer lip (15) is attached to the fuel film applicator (11), with a flow area of a portion of the annular air ducts (7, 9) downstream of the swirler elements (8, 10) decreasing to accelerate the air swirled in correspondence with the airflow direction. By this, the fuel is transported positively without interim separation and without the occurrence of compressive oscillation—to a defined flow break-away edge (16), providing for a good mixture, high combustion efficiency and reduced formation of nitrogen oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventor: Ralf Sebastian Von Der Bank
  • Patent number: 7520745
    Abstract: A premix burner, for example for a gas turbine, having a conical swirl generator (1) and a cylindrical mixing section (2) which follows it in the direction of flow, includes a high-pressure atomizer nozzle (10) with one or more fuel feed passages. The high-pressure atomizer nozzle (10) includes at least two outlet passages, through which liquid fuel enters the swirl generator (1), these passages being arranged off-center with respect to the longitudinal axis of the nozzle and being configured in such a way that the spray cone (11) of the fuel is oriented at an angle (?) with respect to the longitudinal axis of the swirl generator (1) which is smaller than the cone half-angle (?) of the swirl generator (1). The outlet passages in particular have an internal geometry with a conically narrowed section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Gijsbertus Oomens, Bettina Paikert, Peter Flohr, Christian Steinbach
  • Publication number: 20090087805
    Abstract: Tertiary nozzle of port for gas injection into furnace includes a contracted flow producing channel provided obliquely toward central axis from the upstream side of gas flow so that the gas flow has a velocity component heading from the outer circumferential side of the port toward the central axis and a velocity component heading along the central axis toward the interior of the furnace, and including louver disposed for guiding so that the gas flows along the surface of throat wall of enlarged pipe configuration wherein the gas channel is enlarged at a furnace wall opening disposed at an outlet area of the contracted flow producing channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: BABCOCK-HITACHI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Ochi, Akira Baba, Kouji Kuramashi, Hirofumi Okazaki, Masayuki Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 7510395
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for mixing and/or introducing gases and/or liquids into a hot reaction space, said device comprising a metal tube and not being equipped with water cooling means. The metal tube is surrounded by a heat insulation made of refractory material to enable the device to be used even at high reaction space temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Linde Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Tautz Hanno
  • Patent number: 7506645
    Abstract: The invention relates to a burner comprising two half shells, one of which is perforated, that are tightly joined together along at least a portion of their edges, so as to form a tubular body communicating with a venturi tube. At least two corresponding ends of the two half shells have a truncated profile, providing the tubular body has at least one truncated end. The invention also relates to a venturi tube for said burner that is composed of two half shells The invention further relates to a mounting for a thermocouple and for an igniter of said burner, the mounting having coupling means that cause mutual contact surfaces to be oriented in at least three non-parallel planes and that prevent mounting rotation, so that the position thereof is accurately defined. The invention also relates to a process for fabricating said burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Castifutura S.p.A.
    Inventor: Giorgio Offredi
  • Publication number: 20090068609
    Abstract: A burner arrangement is disclosed with a conical swirler in the form of a double cone which is arranged concentric to a burner axis and which encloses a swirl chamber, and with a central fuel lance which lies in the burner axis and projects from the cone point of the swirler into the swirl chamber, wherein a first stage is provided for injecting premix fuel, in which the premix fuel is injected radially outwards into the swirl chamber through injection openings which are arranged on the fuel lance, and wherein a second stage is provided for injecting premix fuel, in which the premix fuel is injected into an air flow, which is guided in the double cone, through injection openings in the double cone. With such a burner arrangement, the gas pressure which is required in the first stage is reduced by the entire premix fuel being injected into the swirl chamber in the first stage through two oppositely-disposed injection openings with increased opening diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Adnan Eroglu, Rudolf Lachner, Martin Zajadatz, James Robertson
  • Publication number: 20090061374
    Abstract: The invention comprises a burner comprising a burner head and supply openings for a fuel and an oxygen containing gas, a central tubular passage for the oxygen containing gas and a radially outward positioned passage for the fuel. The passage for fuel is fluidly connected to one or more fuel discharge openings at the burner head wherein the fuel discharge openings are directed inwardly such that in use, the fuel is injected into the stream of oxygen containing gas. The central passage is provided with an obstruction located between the supply opening for oxygen containing gas and the fuel discharge openings. The invention is also directed to a process using said burner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventor: Johannes Cornelis DE JONG
  • Publication number: 20090061365
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for operating a burner for fluid fuels. According to said method, the fluid fuel is mixed with an oxidizer before the fluid fuel is burned. The inventive method is characterized in that a liquid fuel that is used as a fluid fuel is mixed with a gaseous or vaporous carrier flow before being mixed with the oxidizer while the carrier flow containing the liquid fuel is mixed with the oxidizer in order to mix the liquid fuel with the oxidizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2005
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventor: Bernd Prade
  • Publication number: 20090047611
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a double burner for gas cookers with multiple concentric flames, characterized by high power and compact height, which comprises five Venturi mixing chambers, i.e. one central chamber (5a) with vertical axis that feeds the central burner and four regularly spaced chambers (6a) with inclined axis that feed the external annular burner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventor: Piero Armanni
  • Patent number: 7491056
    Abstract: A premix burner for a heat generator has partial cone shells (5) which make up a vortex generator, and which encompass a conically widening vortex chamber (6) and mutually define tangential air inlet slots (7), and also with feeds for gaseous and/or liquid fuel, of which at least one is arranged along the air inlet slots (7) on the partial cone shells (5), and at least one other is arranged along a burner axis (A) which centrally passes through the vortex chamber (6). At least n partial cone shells (5) encompass the vortex chamber (6), and define n air inlet slots (7), with n?3, preferably n?5, the n air inlet slots (7) each have at least a maximum slot width (10) which is equal to or larger than that slot width (10) which a generic type premix burner (1) of the same size and dimensioning with m?2 partial cone shells (5) and m air inlet slots (7) has.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.
    Inventor: Hans Peter Knoepfel
  • Patent number: 7488171
    Abstract: A micro gas burner is provided that generates a stable, pre-mixed flame that produces little to no soot or unburned hydrocarbons. The gas burner includes a fuel inlet, nozzle, oxygenation chamber with at least one air inlet, a mixing chamber having a frustoconical inner wall, at least one permeable barrier and a flame holder. The gas burner thoroughly mixes fuel and entrained air to form a nearly stoichiometric mixture prior to combustion. The gas burner mixes the fuel and air so thoroughly that it requires a lower fuel flow rate than would otherwise be necessary to produce a stable, pre-mixed flame. The gas burner may include an optional flame tube with an optional exhaust port in which a flame is contained and sequestered from diffusing air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    Inventors: Frank Kelley St. Charles, Kayyani C. Adiga
  • Publication number: 20090017407
    Abstract: A burner suppliable with a mixture of air and fuel comprises a body of the burner provided with a diffuser in the surface of which openings are made for the exit of said mixture delivered into the body of the burner, and a distributing device inserted inside said body of the burner. The distributing device comprises a regulating element provided with further openings for the transit of the mixture, the regulating element being movable within the body of the burner. The body of the burner can be subdivided into a plurality of sectors, each one of which is independently suppliable by the other sectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: WORGAS BRUCIATORI S.R.L.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Fogliani, Wenzel Mach, Massimo Dotti, Massimo Gilioli, Stephanus Wijkmans
  • Publication number: 20080268393
    Abstract: The object is to provide a burner capable of taking in sufficient primary air even though the size thereof is compact, and capable of being used as an all-primary air burner. A burner includes a mixing pipe to which a fuel gas and combustion air are supplied, a burner main body having a mixing chamber at a top end on a downstream side of the mixing pipe, and a burner head which is provided at an upper part of the burner main body while communicating with the mixing chamber and has first and second burner ports for ejecting mixed gas of the fuel gas and air for combustion mixed in the mixing chamber. The burner further includes an extension pipe in the burner main body protruding inside the mixing chamber being formed by extending the mixing pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: Paloma Industries, Limited
    Inventor: Hiroshi Oda
  • Publication number: 20080268394
    Abstract: A burner including a burner main body having a mixing pipe to which a fuel gas and combustion air are supplied and a mixing chamber provided at a top end on the downstream side of the mixing pipe, and a burner head, which is provided at an upper part of the burner main body. The burner head communicates with the mixing chamber and ejects the mixed gas of the fuel gas and air mixed in the mixing chamber. The burner head has a cylindrical shape and is provided right above the mixing chamber of the burner main body. The burner head has several first and second burner ports bored around almost an entire periphery of a side face thereof. The mixing pipe extends in a direction where the mixing pipe is crossed with an axis line of the burner head at substantially right angles to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: Paloma Industries, Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Oda, Hideo Chikazawa
  • Publication number: 20080261163
    Abstract: The invention relates to a duct burner (1), particularly for a fuel cell system (2), in which two media are brought together, mixed and combusted to generate heat. To this end, the duct burner (1) has a number of nozzles (9), which are distributed over a surface and via which the media are fed to a burn-out chamber (8). Before feeding to the nozzles (9), the first medium in a first distributing chamber (5) and the second medium in a separate second distributing chamber (7) are each distributed onto a surface that corresponds approximately to the surface (F) of the burn-out chamber (8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Martin Brenner, Herbert Damsohn, Thomas Heckenberger, Klaus Luz, Conrad Pfender
  • Publication number: 20080254399
    Abstract: A combustion apparatus is disclosed that improves oxidation efficiency without increasing either combustion apparatus size or residence time, where the apparatus includes a combustion zone having a static mixing zone along a length of the combustion zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventor: Franek Olstowski
  • Publication number: 20080241777
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gas burner (10) including: a distributor means (50) having at least one distribution chamber to distribute an air gas mixture around said distributor (50), said burner (10) including a plurality of flame ports (70) through which said gas mixture can pass and be ignited; at least one injector (39) associated with said distributor (50), said at least one injector (39) being positioned to inject gas into said at least distribution chamber via a venture formed of a vertically directed passage and transition port (64) and at least one venturi extension extending away from said transition port (64).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: AKTIEBOLAGET ELECTROLUX
    Inventors: Carlo Antonio Rossi, Marco Rossi, Steven McIntyre, Keith Joseph Borg, George Brock-Nannestad
  • Patent number: 7428817
    Abstract: A premix burner is disclosed, with a swirl generator which delimits a conical swirl space and provides at least two conical part shells which are arranged, offset to one another, along a burner axis, mutually enclose in each case air inlet slits running longitudinally with respect to the burner axis and have in combination a conically widening premix burner outer contour having a maximum outside diameter which narrows axially into a region with a minimum outside diameter. At least one conical part shell provides, in the region between the maximum and the minimum outside diameter, a reception unit which deviates from the conically widening premix burner outer contour and locally elevates the premix burner outer contour radially outward and which has a maximum radial extent which is dimensioned smaller than half the maximum outside diameter of the premix burner outer contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Philipp Brunner, Jaan Hellat, Christian Oliver Paschereit
  • Publication number: 20080226955
    Abstract: A multistage combustor is configured for starting a fuel cell system, and includes a partial oxidation (POX) burner having an inlet for receiving a flow of a fuel/oxidant mixture, the POX burner being configured to partially oxidize fuel in the fuel/oxidant mixture to yield a partially oxidized gas; a first output coupled to the fuel cell system and configured to provide a first amount of the partially oxidized gas as first output gas to a first fuel cell system component; a second burner coupled to the POX burner, the second burner being configured to receive a second amount of the partially oxidized gas from the POX burner and to oxidize at least some remaining fuel to yield a second output gas different from the first output gas; and a second output coupled to a second fuel cell system component and configured to provide the second output gas to the second fuel cell system component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventor: Mark Vincent Scotto
  • Publication number: 20080227045
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, an apparatus includes a burner. The apparatus can also include an intake valve that includes an input for receiving fuel from either a first fuel source at a first pressure or a second fuel source at a second pressure. The intake valve can include a first output for directing fuel received from the first fuel source and a second output for directing fuel received from the second fuel source. The intake valve can include an actuator configured to permit fluid communication between the input and the first output or between the input and the second output. The apparatus can include a pressure regulator that can include a first inlet for receiving fuel from the first output of the intake valve and a second inlet for receiving fuel from the second output of the intake valve. The regulator can also include an outlet for directing fuel from the pressure regulator toward the burner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventor: David Deng
  • Publication number: 20080210216
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cooking gas burner assembly including a distributor (30), a gas manifold (50) and a cup (40), said cup (40) being located between said gas manifold (50) and said distributor (30). The invention also provides a method of assembling a distributor (30) and a cup (40) in a cooking gas burner assembly, said method including the steps of providing: said distributor (30) with downwardly extending spigots (32), providing said cup (40) with recesses (48) to receive said spigots (32), said recesses (48) including a base surface (246), said recesses (48) being sized and or shaped whereby thermal expansion of said distributor (30) results in substantially no increase in the contact surface between said cup (40) and distributor (30), when said distributor (30) is hot compared to when it is cold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Applicant: AKTIEBOLAGET ELECTROLUX
    Inventors: Carlo Rossi, Marco Rossi
  • Publication number: 20080210217
    Abstract: The invention relates to an oven or grill burner composed of a flat body delimiting an inner chamber and having fastening protrusions, wherein fastening members are composed of at least a tab made of one piece with a flat body wall or walls. In one embodiment, the burner of the present invention includes mountings for fastening a thermocouple and/or igniter and/or a venturi tube that supplies an air and gas mixture, all included as integral members of the burner. The burner of the present invention is shaped such to increase the even distribution of the air/gas mixture to outlet holes and further includes such constructive characteristics that provide for a reduction in the thickness of the metal sheet used for making the burner without compromising burner strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Applicant: CASTFUTURA SPA
    Inventor: Giorgio Offredi
  • Publication number: 20080202494
    Abstract: For cooking appliances, a gas burner presenting externally at least one annular portion (50), characterised by presenting two gas inlets (3, 10), with which at least two injectors (4, 11) are associated respectively; the first gas inlet (3) supplying the air/gas mixture to a first annular chamber (55) provided in said annular portion (50) and communicating with a series of main ports (24) through which said mixture leaves to form at least one main flame ring (43) in the outer circumference of the annular portion (50); the second gas inlet (10) supplying the air/gas mixture to a second annular chamber (55) provided in said annular portion (50) and feeding a flame ring (27) which constitutes the only flame ignited in the burner when this is operating at minimum power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2006
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventor: Carlo Paesani
  • Publication number: 20080202496
    Abstract: Cooking appliance (1A,1B) having an external and control panel (2,2?) equipped with one or more regulating valves, where the rotary regulator organ (6) is equipped with various peripheral openings (16-19) for supplying a flow Q. According to two embodiments (1A, 1B) of the cooking appliance, for the supply of one or another type of gas, NG or LPG, either the control knob (9) or a bezel disk (22) in the external panel (2) are interchangeable on the appliance, being chosen between two different available units, one and the other permitting two different angular position limits A2, A3 of the regulator organ (6) for the supply of a constant flow Qmin through one or another opening (18,19) with calibrated sections, respectively for NG or LP gas. An appendix (14) in the control knob (9) guided in a slide groove (20) on the control panel (2) of the appliance, or a tongue (24) on the bezel disk stopping the rotation of the control knob, determines the travel limit A2 for the supply of Qmin of NG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventor: Inigo Albizuri
  • Publication number: 20080202495
    Abstract: A burner for range covers or similar, to allow a broad range of calorific capacities, and a better burner distribution in the cover, with a generally semi-rectangular form, and containing a plurality of ports and a plurality of manners to ignite it, wherein the burner is capable of interacting with other burners at determined length and height distances, creating discontinuous flames between the burners.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: VICTOR GERARDO CALOCA GALINDO, Jose Arturo Lona Santoyo, Roberto Cabrera Botello
  • Patent number: 7407381
    Abstract: A combustion apparatus is disclosed that improves oxidation efficiency without increasing either combustion apparatus size or residence time, where the apparatus includes a combustion zone having a static mixing zone along a length of the combustion zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: PAC, LP
    Inventor: Franek Olstowski
  • Patent number: 7402039
    Abstract: A high velocity pressure burner system burns air and gas thereby creating a flue gas. The system comprises a blower for pressurizing the air; a control for adjusting the pressure of the pressurized air; a combustion chamber having a flue gas outlet; and a burner disposed on the combustion chamber. The burner includes an air orifice for receiving the pressurized air; a gas orifice for receiving the gas; the air orifice causing the pressured air to flow over the gas orifice to form an air/gas mixture; at least one spinner vane disposed upstream of the gas orifice creating turbulence in the air/gas mixture; and a retender disposed downstream of the gas orifice creating turbulence in the air/gas mixture. The flue gas outlet is sized to create a back pressure on the burning air/gas mixture. The flue gas from the combustion of the air/gas mixture in the combustion chamber increases in velocity as the flue gas passes through the flue gas exit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Inventor: James G. McElroy
  • Publication number: 20080160469
    Abstract: The invention relates to an appliance for providing air and gas to a gas burner (2) comprising a back tube (13) for receiving air and gas to be combusted. The appliance comprising a gas tube (10) and an air tube (11), the gas tube comprising an aperture (9) for providing gas inwards to the air tube. The air tube comprises a first aperture (18) for receiving the back tube of a gas burner. The appliance is characterized in that the aperture of the gas tube is provided with a first part (25) of a detachable connection device, for receiving a second part (28) of the detachable connection device provided to the back tube for allowing gas from the gas tube to enter the back tube. The gas burner comprising a radiant panel (14), and a back tube for providing air and gas to the radiant panel. The back tube has an orifice (20) for allowing air from the air tube to enter inside the back tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2005
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventor: Patrick Lenoir