Abstract:
An economizer compartment for shell and tube vapor generators is disclosed having a baffle plate separating the compartment into two fluidly distinct sections. Separate nozzles deliver feedwater to each compartment and control means are provided to regulate the rate of feedwater flow delivered to each in order to enhance the operating efficiency of the vapor generator.
Abstract:
A shakeout and crushing apparatus for reducing foundry sand to a condition for classification and reuse. The device comprises a shakeout chamber which is caused to orbitally vibrate. The chamber has an upper shakeout deck, a second disintegration deck supporting a plurality of metal balls, and a third wire screen deck. The sand is successively passed and progressively classified through the three decks. Material remaining on the wire screen deck is recycled to a disintegration chamber on the second deck which assures crushing of friable material and the removal of any tramp metal which may be present in the sand.
Abstract:
A protection circuit for an ionic flame monitor to insure that high voltage AC signals appearing across the flame electrodes and arising from sources other than a flame will not be effective to provide a false output indication of flame presence. The flame monitor is sensitive to AC signals above a certain frequency or above a certain voltage to indicate flame presence. Non-flame AC signals having voltages above or below the certain frequency, but above the certain voltage are prevented from indicating flame presence if their voltage is above a second certain level which is above that of most flame signal voltages. A voltage level detection circuit clamps the monitor output circuitry to a ''''no-flame'''' condition whenever the AC signal voltage is above the second certain level.
Abstract:
A nozzle tip for a liquid fuel atomizing burner is provided with an annular aperture within which the fuel and atomizing medium are mixed and from which the mixture is discharged as an atomized spray. The nozzle tip of the invention provides a more effective spray distribution which requires reduced fuel pressures. The effects of plugging of one or more of the ports through which the atomizing medium is conducted are minimized.
Abstract:
The steam drum of a high pressure steam generating unit, and particularly one subject to frequent thermal cycling, is divided into compartments. Each compartment is, to a large extent, fluidly isolated from the others. Furnace wall steam-water mixture is admitted to an intermediate compartment which is spaced from the inner surface of the drum wall by an annular outer compartment extending about substantially the entire inner circumference of the drum. The majority of the steam-water mixture is conducted, via the intermediate compartment, through steam separators and into an inner compartment. A small part of the mixture may be allowed to pass from the intermediate compartment into the outer compartment and then into the downcomer to avoid the formation of a water level in the outer compartment.
Abstract:
A cylindrical intersection contour generator having an adjustable cutting torch which is particularly controlled in the rise and fall, thereof by a rotating crank, as the torch moves relatively about the circumference of one of the cylindrical shaped objects. The initial positioning of the cutting torch as to its radius, vertical height and cutting angle, the particular throw of the crank, and the settings for controlling the rise and fall and the cutting angle of the cutting torch during relative rotation are predetermined on the basis of the diameter and wall thickness of the cylindrical shapes to be joined and the ratio of their respective diameters.
Abstract:
Method and apparatus are disclosed that are useful in the operation of a system in which combustion gases from a steam generator are cleansed of their sulfurous and particulate impurities by wet scrubbing prior to being discharged to the atmosphere. Some of the processed gas is recycled through the scrubber under conditions of low load in order that the effectiveness of the scrubber will not be impeded by reduced gas flow.
Abstract:
A hot top securing system for securing preformed sideboards within an ingot mold. The securing system employs end adjacent side boards having grooves therein which form downwardly convergent wedge receiving grooves at each corner of the mold. Each groove comprises a protective liner secured to the sideboard and so formed and oriented that the required downward convergency results. Wedge means, preferably U-shaped spring rods, are inserted base side down between pairs of grooves at each corner to provide the required securing force.
Abstract:
A safeguard system for a nuclear power plant is disclosed that incorporates means for containing the effects of a reactor accident to protect the environs of the plant against the release of harmful contaminants. The system includes particular containment structure housing the plant and a vapor suppression pool for condensing vaporous elements released from the plant. Various core cooling apparatus are integrated into the system to provide immediate and long term cooling of the reactor following a serious accident.
Abstract:
A chemical recovery unit in which black liquor from a pulping process is burned including a direct contact evaporator for concentrating the black liquor prior to its introduction into a furnace. Preheated air is used as the heating medium in the direct contact evaporator. The moisture laden air leaving the evaporator is used as secondary combustion air in the furnace.