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7966803 Pulse detonation combustor with folded flow path  
A pulsed detonation combustor (PDC) is described. The PDC includes an outer casing defining a first hollow chamber configured to receive a flow and an inner liner. The inner liner includes at least...
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...
6983586 Two-stage pulse detonation system  
A two-stage pulse detonation system includes a pre-combustor and a geometric resonator connected via a converging-diverging nozzle to the pre-combustor to create a high temperature and high...
6976351 Methods and apparatus for monitoring gas turbine combustion dynamics  
A method for monitoring and diagnosing the combustion dynamics of a gas turbine engine system includes mounting at least one sensor on an external surface of at least one combustor can, receiving a...
6553752 High pressure gas cycle and power plant  
Provided is a combustion chamber for producing a pressurized gas containing: a wall structure defining an interior chamber;a first reflecting surface for reflecting a pressure wave within said...
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...
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...
6167693 High pressure gas cycle and powder plant  
Provided is a combustion chamber for producing a pressurized gas containing: a wall structure defining an interior chamber; an explosion chamber disposed within the interior chamber and arranged...
5983624 Power plant having a U-shaped combustion chamber with first and second reflecting surfaces  
Provided is a combustion chamber for producing a pressurized gas containing: a wall structure defining an interior chamber; a first reflecting surface for reflecting a pressure wave within the...
5800153 Repetitive detonation generator  
An apparatus and a method for generating repetitive planar detonation waves at varying and controllable frequencies are provided. The apparatus utilizes the over-pressure associated with each...
5327716 System and method for tailoring rotor tip bleed air  
A rotor tip bleed air tailoring system in which a rotor blade is located upstream from an outer stator vane and an inner stator vane. The inner stator vane and outer stator vane are separated by a...
5287696 Pulse-jet atomizer mechanism for sprinkling chemicals  
An atomizer mechanism includes a pulse-jet engine for atomizing chemicals, an air-fuel mixture supply unit, and an engine starter. The air-fuel mixture supply unit includes a precombustion chamber...
5249952 Exhaust fume energy source and waste combustion apparatus  
A three-chambered combustion burner is provided with a seed fuel under pressure to burn simultaneously injected waste products such as incompletely combusted exhaust fumes or air entrained...
5020987 Pulse combustion device  
In a pulse combination device including a housing forming therein a combustion chamber, a cylindrical support member joined to the housing to form a mixing chamber in open communication with the...
4968244 Pulse combustor  
A pulse combustor having a casing defining a combustion chamber and an exhaust region encircling the combustion chamber. A carburetor is coupled to the casing with an injector for injecting a fuel...
4962641 Pulse jet engine  
Combustion supporting air in the resonator tube of a pulse jet engine is cyclically compressed by combustion and discharged through a decelerating passage of a diffuser in a tail section of the...
4917596 Pulsating combustion system and method of starting the system  
A pulsating combustion system comprising a pair of pulsating combustors of the same structure connected in parallel between an air-intake chamber and an exhaust chamber and having an air-intake...
4884963 Pulse combustor  
A pulse combustor having a combined mixing and ignition chamber in communication with a fuel inlet tube and an air inlet tube. The fuel inlet tube and air inlet tube inject fuel and air,...
4863370 Combustion chamber for a pulse combustion apparatus  
A combustion chamber for a pulse combustion apparatus has a generally circular cross section as viewed from a direction which is perpendicular, in a horizontal plane, to a direction of flow of an...
4856981 Mixing rate controlled pulse combustion burner  
A pulse combustion burner is disclosed having a combustion chamber and a passageway for delivering a combustible gaseous mixture of air and fuel gas to the chamber. A self-feeding flapper valve and...
4840558 Pulsating combustion system  
A pair of pulsating combustors are parallelly connected to each other between an air intake chamber and an exhaust chamber. Aerodynamic valves having a forward flow coefficient higher than their...
4708635 Pulse combustion apparatus and method  
The pulsed combustion gases of a primary burner having a low fuel input rate are combined with those of a main burner having a high fuel input rate to provide an integrated combustion process...
4671056 Pulse-sonic jet nozzle  
An improved valveless pulse jet combustor having an air inlet pipe connected to a combustion chamber having ignition means and fuel supply means is disclosed. The combustion chamber is further...
4650413 Method and apparatus for activating fluids  
The invention relates to method and apparatus for the combustion of fluidal fuels. The fuel is dispersed in combustion air and, in order to improve the combustion rate and efficiency, is exposed to...
4556383 Resonant burner and starting mechanism therefor  
In the disclosed resonant burner a common battery energizes the ignition and an air jump. The latter drives fuel, delivered to a reservoir from a fuel tank, to a carburetor nozzle. The reservoir is...
4484885 Pulse combustion burner  
A burner for a pulse combustion apparatus according to this invention comprises a plurality of small diameter air passages distributed in cross-sectional directions of a combustion air feed duct....
4409787 Acoustically tuned combustor  
A stationary gas turbine combustor having a fuel nozzle and a combustion chamber receiving the fuel nozzle also contains a pressure wave interference element fixed within the interior of the...
4314444 Heating apparatus  
In a two-stage apparatus for burning a fuel and a combustion-sustaining gas such as air, the first stage (12) comprises pulse combustors (16) supplied with an excess of fuel. The excess fuel is...
4260361 Resonant or pulsating combustion heating apparatus  
A resonant or pulsating combustion heating apparatus of the present invention provides a high thermal efficiency heater with low concentrations of carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides in the exhaust...
4175380 Low noise gas turbine  
At least two gas combustion tubes disposed in an end-to-end relationship provide an elongate combustion chamber closed at both ends. A fuel mixture admitted alternatively into each closed end is...
4033120 Thrust augmenting fluid rectifier for a pulsed combustor  
A thrust augmenting fluid rectifier for a pulsed combustor comprising ducting having a converging inlet section, a flow redirecting section and a diffuser section, the inlet of the ducting being...
3954380 Method and apparatus for intermittent combustion  
A pulse-action detonation combustion chamber enables the speed-, temperature- and pressure-modulated flow of the combustion products at a peak temperature of up to 4000°C, pressure up to 30 atm ...
3938327 Gas generator  
A gas generator comprises a combustion chamber, a gas storage chamber, a venturi tube joining the chambers, mechanism for supplying fuel to the combustion chamber via the venturi tube, a fuel...
3925981 Gas generator  
A gas generator for a simulated gas turbine engine and an engine containing such a gas generator and having a subsonic and supersonic capability. The gas generator includes a pulse jet unit or a...
3857240 PRIME MOVERS  
The disclosure is of certain possible modifications of the prime mover described in the Specification of United Kingdom Patent No. 1,232,171, which is a particular form of prime mover of the kind...
3855148 SPRAYING AND SMOKE-LAYING APPARATUS  
An apparatus for injecting a flowable medium such as a liquid while simultaneously breaking up or vaporizing the medium in which a pulsating burner is provided with a resonating tube with the...
3848408 COUNTER-WAVE PULSE JET ENGINE  
A pulse jet engine having a housing forming a longitudinal, enclosed resonance chamber with spaced end walls functioning as reflecting walls and an exit port arranged substantially midway between...
3823554 HIGH SPEED VALVELESS RESONANT PULSE JET ENGINE  
A valveless resonent pulse jet engine particularly adapted to power target vehicles or pilotless aircraft at speeds of Mach 0.5 to Mach 1. This invention is an improved high-speed adaptation of my...
3817681 OSCILLATING BURNER DEVICE  
A burner device having an oscillatable resonator tube with a discharge at one end and having a carburetor connected to the other end via a burner pipe. A tank is provided containing liquid to be...
3768926 PULSE JET ROTOR DRIVE FOR HELICOPTER  
A pulse-jet system for driving rotary wing aircraft. In a first embodiment the tips of the rotors of a rotary wing aircraft are provided with "U"-shaped valveless pulse jet engines having an...
3738290 DUAL PULSE-JET SYSTEM FOR THE COMBUSTION OF HIGH ASH FUEL  
Coal is burned in vertically oriented, dual opposed pulse-jets. Each jet's combustion chamber upwardly discharges combustion gases through a vertical tailpipe bent at its upper end in the direction...
3733820 COMBUSTION GAS GENERATOR  
A combustible mixture of air and fuel is provided to a chamber formed in a housing; the combustion chamber is of a specific shape, so arranged that, in longitudinal section, it has approximately...
3690807 BURNER  
A burner and process which carries the burning of a hydrocarbon by a chain reaction to a point of substantial completion wherein relatively few parts of unreacted hydrocarbon remain. The burner and...
3545211 RESONANT PULSE ROCKET  
3533239 COMBINED PULSE JET AND VARIABLE RAM JET ENGINE  
3517510 SELF-STARTING VALVELESS RESONANT PULSE-JET ENGINE AND METHOD  
3516253 COMBUSTION SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING HIGH TEMPERATURE AND HIGH PRESSURE GAS  
3508397 RESONANT COMBUSTOR WITH REVERSE BEND EXHAUST PASSAGEWAYS  
3508398 RESONANT COMBUSTOR WITH SPIRAL EXHAUST PASSAGEWAYS  
3674409 BURNERS HAVING A PULSATING MODE OF OPERATION  
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