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Combustion May archived by USPTO category 05/12

20120135359 - Candle with non-consuming / reusable wick: A non consuming/reusable candle includes a wick that is a made of a porous sintered metal or alloy or of ceramic. The wick is conducive to wicking, via capillary action, any candle fuel for the purpose of combustion. The wick shape may be of any multiple geometrical shapes, and may... Agent: The Yankee Candle Company, Inc.

20120135360 - Premix flashback control: An apparatus includes a furnace structure defining a combustion zone, and a tube that discharges fuel-oxidant premix into the combustion zone through an outlet from the tube. A reactant supply system provides the tube with unmixed fuel and oxidant for forming the premix. A flashback control means inhibits or extinguishes... Agent: Fives North American Combustion, Inc.

20120129109 - Method and device for reducing hazardous emissions in internal combustion systems: A method for reducing pollutant emissions uses a two-stage primary combustion process for a solid-containing fuel including a primary furnace having a combustion chamber, a solid fuel burnout zone and a primary flue-gas post combustion chamber, and a separate secondary combustion train. The fuel is burned in the primary combustion... Agent: Karlsruher Institut Fuer Technologie

20120129110 - Method and system for energy efficient conversion of a carbon containing fuel to co2 and h2o: Methods and systems for conversion of a carbon containing fuel to CO2 and H2O. An air stream is fed to a first ion transport membrane unit obtaining a pure oxygen stream from a permeate side and an air stream with a reduced oxygen content from a retentate side. The air... Agent: Nebb Engineering As

20120129111 - Premix for non-gaseous fuel delivery: A method of combusting non-gaseous fuel to heat a load in a process chamber includes the steps of injecting reactant streams into a combustion chamber. The combustion chamber does not contain a load to be heated, but communicates with the process chamber through a burner port. A first reactant stream... Agent: Fives North America Combustion, Inc.

20120129112 - Method of and a system for combusting fuel in an oxyfuel combustion boiler: A method of and a system for combusting fuel in an oxyfuel combustion boiler. Fuel is fed to a furnace of the boiler. Oxidant gas that includes a mixture of substantially pure oxygen and recycled flue gas is fed to the furnace, prior to the feeding of the oxidant gas.... Agent: Foster Wheeler North America Corp.

20120129113 - System and method of managing energy utilized in a flue gas processing system: A method for managing an amount of energy utilized by a carbon dioxide capture system that includes providing a fuel and a feed stream including oxygen to a combustion system. The feed stream includes a portion of a flue gas stream generated upon combustion of the fuel in the combustion... Agent: Alstom Technology Ltd.

20120129114 - Candle wick system: This invention relates to a candle wick system for use with a container, in particular, a system including a candle wick, a wick dip, utilized alone and in combination thereof; wherein the candle wick system is for use with a container populated by a fuel having a wick with a... Agent:

20120122039 - Pulse detonation combustor: A pulse detonation combustor including a plurality of nozzles engaged with one another via mating surfaces to support a gas discharge annulus in a circumferential direction. The pulse detonation combustor also including multiple pulse detonation tubes extending for the nozzles and a plurality of thermal expansion control joints coupled to... Agent: General Electric Company

20120122041 - Fire safety closure system for candle holders: A fire safety system to prevent fire from a candle includes first and second closure halves; a loop extending from the first closure half; a catch extending from the second closure half; a trigger pin having a first end coupled to the loop and a second end coupled to the... Agent:

20120122040 - Methods and systems for analyzing combustion system operation: Systems and methods for analyzing combustion system operation are provided. According to one embodiment, a method can include receiving multiple CO measurements from respective CO sensors distributed within a combustion system; receiving multiple O2 measurements from respective O2 sensors distributed within the combustion system; and determining at least one operating... Agent: General Electric Company

20120122043 - Combustion chamber and method for damping pulsations: A combustion chamber is provided and includes a combustion device and a supply circuit arranged to feed fuel at a plurality of locations of the combustion device. The supply circuit includes manifolds collecting fuel to be distributed among at least some of the locations, ducts extending from the manifolds and... Agent: Alstom Technology Ltd

20120122042 - Method and assembly for improving the dynamic behavior of a coal-fired power plant: The invention relates to a method for improving the dynamic behavior of a coal-fired power plant for primary and/or secondary requirements of the power grid operator with respect to the current output into the grid, wherein the power plant has a nominal output (RC) and is operated by way of... Agent:

20120122044 - Gas lighter and a disposable gas reservoir and gas flow control mechanism: A gas lighter that includes an external housing, a first compartment for receiving a disposable gas reservoir and a second compartment for receiving a group of flints.... Agent:

20120122045 - Seal arrangement: A seal arrangement for a silo combustor includes a first casing and a second casing each forming a passageway for a gas, an end portion of the first casing being disposed radially inside an end portion of the second casing such that the first and the second casing form an... Agent: Alstom Technology Ltd

20120115092 - Fire ignition system: Fire ignition systems, combustible ignition structures, and methods of manufacturing and using such systems and devices are disclosed herein. In various embodiments, a fire ignition system may include a combustible container and a combustible ignition structure removably insertable into an interior of the combustible container. In various embodiments, the combustible... Agent:

20120115093 - Combustion apparatus and method for combustion control thereof: A combustion apparatus. Combustion means (burner) generates flame by combustion. Air supply means (intake fan) supplies air to the combustion means. Flame current detecting means (FRB) is set at a certain detection position and detects a flame current value included in the flame which is generated by the combustion means.... Agent: Takagi Industrial Co., Ltd.

20120115095 - Combustion blower control for modulating furnace: A furnace includes a combustion blower and one or more pressure switches. In some cases, the one or more pressure switches may be used to calculate one or more operating points for the combustion blower. Additional operating points may be calculated by interpolation and/or extrapolation, as appropriate. The furnace may... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20120115094 - Combustion system of a steam generator designed for oxyfuel operation: For a steam generator comprising a combustion chamber fired with a fossil fuel and/or with particulate fuel containing carbon and at least one burner level comprising several burners (1) and/or at least one level comprising nozzles in the form of upper air nozzles and/or side wall nozzles, each having connected... Agent: Hitachi Power Europe Gmbh

20120115096 - Device for controlling gas supply to a burner: A gas supply control device for an apparatus, particularly a coking apparatus, includes timing means (20) and a first command means (12) for manually setting a an opening time interval of a safety valve of a gas tap (1), equipped with a second command means (6). In an installed condition... Agent:

20120115097 - Multi-gas burner head with sucked or blown air: The finding concerns a multi-gas burner head with sucked or blown air, from which the mixture of fuel gas and comburent air comes out and the combustion occurs. Such a head is made from a metallic sheet in which there is at least one row of aligned slits (2), substantially... Agent:

20120115098 - Whirlwind-type oxidation combustion apparatus for processing semiconductor fabrication exhaust gas: A whirlwind-type oxidation combustion apparatus for processing semiconductor fabrication exhaust gas is disclosed. An inlet head is set on the top of an exhaust gas processing tank. An exhaust gas passage is set inside the inlet head and connected to an external exhaust gas supply terminal and the exhaust gas... Agent: Orient Service Co., Ltd.

20120107750 - System and method for igniting a combustor: An ignition system for a combustor includes an access port through a wall of the combustor and a laser outside the combustor and aligned with the access port to generate a beam along a path. A lens in the path of the beam focuses the beam at a focal point... Agent: General Electric Company

20120107751 - Method for suppressing adhesion of ash and device for suppressing adhesion of ash in boiler: In order to stably operate a boiler using several kinds of solid fuels including depleted ash as fuels, adhesion of ash is suppressed. A calculator (9) preliminarily collects properties of a solid fuel, such as the content rate of ash and the composition of an ash constituent, as data (8).... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (kobe Steel, Ltd.)

20120107753 - Burner control systems and methods of operating a burner: Burner control systems and methods of operating a burner are for a large boiler such as might be used in hospitals, hotels, offices or other large commercial or domestic premises.... Agent: Autoflame Engineering Limited

20120107752 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for determining airflow through a burner: Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems, methods, and apparatus for determining airflow through a burner. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for determining airflow through a burner. The method includes installing a first end of an inlet pressure transmission tube in an... Agent: Yokogawa Corporation Of America

20120107754 - Combustor configurations: The present specification generally relates to improvements to combustors such as burners and engines. In one aspect, the specification presents an acoustically enhanced ejector system which can be used as part of an intake system for a combustor. In another aspect, the specification teaches the use of a combustor combustion... Agent:

20120107755 - Burner apparatus: This burner apparatus (S1) includes: an ignition system (7) including a heating portion (7a, 7c) which heats air-fuel mixture to its ignition temperature or more; and a windbreak device (10) placed around the heating portion (7a, 7c) apart from the heating portion (7a, 7c), and configured to reduce a flow... Agent:

20120107756 - Survival light: Survival light consisting of a disk with wick installed on the top floating on the surface of a combustible fluid that can reach and be sucked up by the wick through vertical holes penetrating the disk and through horizontal channels leading the combustible fluid from the periphery of the disk... Agent: