Abstract:
A high-efficiency hot-water boiler for a heating system of a building is provided. The boiler includes a boiler enclosure that contains a furnace area compartment within an insulated sealed casing, a first watertube compartment within a sealed casing, a second watertube compartment within a sealed casing, and an air-to-air preheat exchanger within a sealed casing. A plurality of separate, closely-spaced watertubes extends within each of the compartments and provides paths for working fluid to flow through the compartments for purposes of transferring heat to the working fluid. A burner is located within the furnace area compartment for combusting an air/gas mixture. The casings include openings for directing the passage of the products of combustion to make a first pass through the furnace area compartment, a second pass through the first watertube compartment and a third pass through the second watertube compartment and then through the air-to-air preheat exchanger to preheat fresh combustion air before being exhausted from the enclosure via the flue. An air/gas mixer and a burner ignition system are also disclosed.
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 gas burner for an infrared oven provides fast and controllable infrared energy, the emitted spectrum of which varies continuously over a wide spectrum. The burner is assembled from an elongated fuel distribution chamber having an open top and into which a gaseous fuel and combustion air is introduced. As the fuel mixture is delivered into the fuel distribution chamber, it eventually fills the chamber and thereafter flow through a double-layer wire mesh burner plate set over the fuel distribution chamber. The fuel combusts above the wire mesh burner plates to heat a screen wire above the burner plates. The screen wire is heated to a temperature at which the screen wire emits IR. The emitted IR wavelength can be controlled by controlling the gas supply to turn the combustion on and off according to the amount of IR heated needed.
Abstract:
A fully premixed duct burner is provided that receives exhaust gas from a power generating device, such as a gas turbine or reciprocating engine. The burner may include a burner surface adapted to combust the mixture on or above the surface in blue-flame mode. Substantially all exhaust gas passes through the burner with the exception of some small fraction of exhaust gas that passes through cooling holes or slots. The burner assembly can also include an array of burner modules that receive substantially all of the exhaust gas and fully premixes the exhaust gas with burner fuel prior to combusting the mixture on or above an array of burner surfaces.
Abstract:
A gas fired infrared radiation emitter that contains a frame, a screen assembly attached to the frame, and a device for locking the screen assembly to the frame. The screen assembly contains a support rod structure and at least four attachment rings attached to a screen. Each of the attachment rings is contiguous with a portion of the screen and, at the point at which each such attachment ring is contiguous with the screen, forms a screen contact point. The distance between any one screen contact point and the closest adjacent screen contact point does not exceed 75 millimeters.
Abstract:
The disclosure relates to a pore burner, especially for cooking appliances, including a housing provided with at least one inlet for a gas/air mixture as a fuel and/or at least one inlet for air and/or at least one inlet for gas and/or at least one outlet for air and/or gas and/or waste gases. The housing includes at least one dimensionally stable, porous molded body formed of sintered metallic powder and/or pressed metallic wire mesh, on the surface of which and/or in the pore spaces of which are reaction zones for the flame development for forming a surface burner. The disclosure also relates to a pore burner including at least one distribution device for the targeted orientation of part of the gas and/or air flow and/or part of the gas/air mixture flow, said distribution device being at least partially arranged and/or molded in the hollow body in such a way that part of the air and/or gas flow or part of the gas/air mixture flow can be distributed such that the inner wall of the hollow body, especially in the region of the distribution device, has a non-homogeneous pressure distribution.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a metal fiber sintered body for combustion used for combustion media of gas burners. The sintered body comprises a plurality of circular though-holes, each having a diameter of 0.5˜2 mm, formed in a regular pattern therein. The sintered body has a metal fiber density in the range of 0.5˜4 kg/m2, and a total area of the through-holes is less than 5% of a total surface area of the metal fiber sintered body. The metal fibers may comprise Fe—Cr—Al-based alloys, and further comprise trace elements. When the sintered body is applied to the combustion media, the fuel gas is prevented from being concentrated on the center of the through holes and leaked therethrough, while the length of combustion flames is reduced, thereby enabling complete combustion as well as allowing the combustion chamber to be manufactured at a reduced scale.
Abstract:
A compact endothermic catalytic reaction apparatus for converting hydrocarbon feedstock and methanol to useful gases, such as hydrogen and carbon monoxide, comprising a tubular endothermic catalytic reactor, a radiant combustion chamber and an annular convection section. Thus tubular endothermic catalytic reactor receives radiant energy from a metal fiber burner that is disposed within the radiant combustion chamber. Combustion products from the radiant chamber enter an annular convection section wherein heat is transferred by forced convection to the tubular endothermic catalytic reactor. The combination of radiant and convective heat transfer results in a compact design of high thermal efficiency.
Abstract:
A heating unit has a cartridge that constitutes a single component, which can be readily removed and replaced with a new cartridge. The cartridge is a plurality of non-flammable layers bound together in a border. The layers include a stainless steel mesh located above a layer of ceramic wool. With the cartridge, replacement can be accomplished in approximately fifty minutes compared to a downtown of a week or more previously.
Abstract:
A gas burner membrane is provided. The membrane comprises a textile woven, braided or knitted fabric. This membrane further comprises different combustion zones on its burner surface. A method to provide such gas burner membrane is described.