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8091336 Method to initiate multiple chamber detonation wave combustors  
A pulse detonation wave engine (PDWE) detonation system provides for optical ignition. The detonation system has a plurality of detonation banks, where each detonation bank has a plurality of...
7871262 Method and device for burning hydrogen in a premix burner  
A method and a device for combusting gaseous fuel which contains hydrogen or consists of hydrogen, includes a burner which provides a swirl generator (1) into which liquid fuel is feedable...
7770552 Laser igniter having integral pre-combustion chamber  
An igniter for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The igniter may have a body, and a pre-combustion chamber integral with the body and having at least one orifice. The igniter may further...
7758334 Valveless pulsed detonation combustor  
Pulse detonation combustors of valveless construction. One valveless pulse detonation combustor, having a tube with a closed end and an open end, is constructed with a flame accelerator within the...
7661401 Laser type engine ignition device  
A laser type ignition device for an internal combustion engine includes a laser oscillator mounted in the internal combustion engine so as to focus its laser beam on an air-fuel mixture supplied...
7568349 Method for controlling combustion device dynamics  
A method for controlling a combustion dynamics level within a combustion device includes defining a high dynamics operating state at a first fuel split ratio. The first fuel split ratio is a ratio...
7531014 Fluid bed reactor having a pulse combustor-type heat transfer module separated from the compartment of a reaction vessel  
A fluid bed reactor is configured to process a reactive material to form one or more products. The reactor includes a reaction vessel defining a compartment configured to receive the reactive...
7513117 Method for operating a furnace  
A method for operating a furnace with a multi-burner system for generating a hot gas is provided. The furnace has a combustion chamber with a plurality of burners, each having a fuel feed. The...
7491300 Apparatus and method for initiating a combustion reaction with solid state solid fuel  
A method is provided for initiating and sustaining a combustive reaction in a solid fuel. The method includes generating at least one pulsed optical signal and directing the pulsed optical signal...
7473094 Multiple plate combustor  
The invention consists of a pulse combustor, comprising two spaced apart outer plates, the outer plates having flat outer regions, conical regions inside of the flat regions and central hubs, where...
7442034 Detonative cleaning apparatus  
An apparatus for cleaning a surface within a vessel has an elongate combustion conduit extending from an upstream end to a downstream end. The downstream end is associated with an aperture in the...
7101514 Control devices for evaporative chemical mixing/reaction  
An improved chemical mixing micro-device with features on the micro- and nano-scale. The micro-device is comprised of at least one chemical inlet port and one chemical outlet port, a...
6964171 Method and apparatus using jets to initiate detonations  
This invention pertains to apparatus and method for initiating detonation in a chamber of tubular or other shapes, which can be a combustor for a propulsion engine, such as a pulse detonation...
6922612 Combustion vibration estimating apparatus, plant and gas turbine plant  
The combustion vibration estimating apparatus comprises an inputting unit for inputting limiting values of plant data, weather data and internal pressure variation, an internal pressure variation...
6877310 Shock wave reflector and detonation chamber  
A shock wave reflector includes a number of reflective units positioned along a longitudinal direction and separated by a gap G. Each reflective unit has a length L. The length L and the gap G are...
6802290 Apparatus for igniting a fuel/air mixture  
A device for igniting a fuel/air mixture in the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, particularly a stationary gas engine, with at least one light source, an optical transmission...
6679278 Controllable valve particularly for delivering a pulsed flow of fluid  
The invention relates to a controllable valve, particularly for delivering a pulsed flow of fluid. It comprises a valve body (10); a valve seat (12) dividing the inside of the body into an inlet...
6676402 Laser ignition  
Sequenced pulses of light from an excitation laser with at least two resonator cavities with separate output couplers are directed through a light modulator and a first polarzing analyzer. A...
6665950 Gas-heated infrared radiator for an infrared drying unit  
Known gas-heated infrared radiators for infrared drying units have a radiator housing (1) that is subdivided by a gas-permeable burner plate (5) in a distribution chamber (6) for the gas-air...
6595002 Vibration reduction in a combustion chamber  
A combustion chamber according to the invention has a number b0 of annularly arranged burners, of which a number k of modulatable burners have means for modulating a fuel mass flow, k being k
6584774 High frequency pulsed fuel injector  
A high frequency pulsed fuel injector is disclosed. The fuel injector incorporates a resonance tube in outlet fluid communication with a fuel nozzle. During operation the resonance tube provides a...
6554607 Combustion-driven jet actuator  
The present disclosure relates to a flow control system, comprising a controller, an ignition device whose activation is controlled by the controller, a combustion-driven jet actuator, and a fuel...
6537058 Gas appliances  
A gas appliance such as a gas burner or gas fire, has means to vary the factors producing flames in the appliance in a substantially random or pseudo-random manner. This means can take several...
6464489 Method and apparatus for controlling thermoacoustic vibrations in a combustion system  
In a method of controlling thermoacoustic vibrations in a combustion system having a combustion chamber and a burner, the fluid shear layer forming in the region of the burner is acoustically...
6464490 Circular pulsating combustors  
A pulsating combustor has a plurality of annular plate elements (12), which are stacked in spaced vertical alignment so as to define a central space (14). There is a plurality of slot-like passages...
6446426 Miniature pulsed heat source  
A miniature heat source capable of being used in a hand-held device for delivering a metered pulse of fuel to a combustion chamber where it is converted into a pulsed amount of heat. For example,...
6375454 Controllable combustion device  
A combustion device for providing a stream of combustion products. In particular, there is a combustion device, utilizing micro-sized combustion tubes, that can 1) control firing profiles of an...
6354192 Fryer  
A discrepancy in the model setting between controllers is definitely detected. When it is judged at S4 that the setting is a split vat model, the procedure then goes to S5 for determining the...
6343927 Method for active suppression of hydrodynamic instabilities in a combustion system and a combustion system for carrying out the method  
A method for active suppression of hydrodynamic instabilities in a combustion system in which liquid or gaseous fuel is premixed with combustion air and the fuel/air mixture is then burnt. The mass...
6336806 Method for combustion of a liquid fuel in a combustion system, and a combustion system for carrying out the method  
In a method for burning a liquid fuel in a combustion system (10) which comprises a combustion chamber (11) and at least one injection nozzle (13) through which liquid fuel is injected into the...
6325616 Pulsating combustion unit with interior having constant cross-section  
A pulsating combustion unit includes an elongate combustion chamber having an interior cross-section, an intake end and an exhaust end and sides which are parallel from the intake end to the...
6312250 Premix burner with firing rate control  
A premix burner apparatus includes a burner structure and a firing rate control system. The burner structure defines a premix reaction zone configured to communicate with a process chamber. The...
6302682 Laser controlled flame stabilization  
A method and apparatus is provided for initiating and stabilizing fuel combustion in applications such as gas turbine electrical power generating engines and jet turbine engines where it is desired...
6210149 Pulse combustion system and method  
A pulse combustion system having at least one combustion chamber, having an outlet end of a generally coaxial air conduit, a fuel nozzle, and an ignitor arranged generally in a first section of the...
6196119 Deep fat fryer  
A deep fat fryer is provided including a frypot of which the welded joints avoid the generation of flaws or cracks. The frypot (10) is a particular form of container made of metal sheets and having...
6161506 Pulsed air combustion high capacity boiler  
A pulsed combustion high capacity boiler has air inlet flapper valves at an inlet air decoupler toward a combustion chamber, with a fuel supply and an ignitor upstream of the combustion chamber...
6162045 Wave flame control  
A burner system is provided which creates standing waves in the gas/air flow within the burner so as to vary the pressure distribution along the length of the burner and thus the heights of the...
6163077 RMS energy conversion  
An energy conversion device comprises an acoustic resonator, a pulse combustion device for creating a standing wave within said resonator, and an electric alternator. The alternate is coupled to...
H001890 Indirect modulation method for activity controlled waste incinerator afterburner  
This invention involves an improved technique for the modulation of waste an actively controlled compact waste incinerator afterburner. This improved technique utilizes acoustic driving to affect...
6085437 Water-removing apparatus for papermaking process  
A process and an apparatus for removing water from a fibrous web are disclosed. The process comprises providing a fibrous web having a moisture content from about 10% to about 90%; providing an...
6077068 Pulsated combustion apparatus and a method for controlling such a pulsated combustion apparatus  
A direct ignition type pulsated combustion apparatus including a burner provided in a combustion furnace, a combustion air line connected to the burner for feeding combustion air to the burner, a...
6059560 Periodic equivalence ratio modulation method and apparatus for controlling combustion instability  
The periodic equivalence ratio modulation (PERM) method and apparatus significantly reduces and/or eliminates unstable conditions within a combustion chamber. The method involves modulating the...
6058709 Dynamically balanced fuel nozzle and method of operation  
An apparatus and method of operation designed to reduce undesirably high pressure oscillations in lean premix combustion systems burning hydrocarbon fuels are provided. Natural combustion and...
6035810 Pulse combustor and boiler for same  
A boiler having a combustor for combusting an air/gas fuel mixture, the combustor including a heat exchanger which conducts coolant therethrough surrounding the combustion chamber and a fan coupled...
6004127 Oil burner  
A heating system with a combustion chamber into which fuel is fed via a fuel feed unit in the form of an injection device which operates on the energy-storage principle and has a pump and a nozzle...
5944502 Weapon stimulator  
A weapon simulator comprising a combustion chamber (1), means (2) for admitting fuel gas to the combustion chamber, an inlet valve (9) for admitting air to the combustion chamber, the inlet valve...
5938421 Flame movement method and system  
A method and system to generate or provide a moving flame such as to create a varied flame pattern are provided. One or more flow switching devices joined in parallel are utilized to alter the...
5937635 Pulse detonation igniter for pulse detonation chambers  
A pulse detonation engine has a pulse ignition system, a plurality of detonation chambers (15), an oxygen source (33), and a fuel source (35). The oxygen source and the fuel source supply oxygen...
5921765 Periodic, on-demand pressurized gas power source and method of providing same  
Periodic, on-demand supply of heated and pressurized gas for use as a power source is provided by a device having a storage compartment storing pressurized, liquified, combustible gas, a pressure...
5890485 Dancing flame control system for gas fireplaces  
A novel control system for altering a fixed pattern of gas flames in a fireplace having artificial logs comprises a log set having a burner system and the burner system having a gas valve control...
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