Liquid heaters and vaporizers inventions 01/09

20090025658 - Black plant steam furnace injection: A system and method for quickly cooling and de-pressurizing a boiler arrangement in the event of a plant power loss, a.k.a. a black plant condition. A steam discharge system injects steam from the steam/water circuit into the furnace, thereby both cooling components of the boiler arrangement and reducing pressure in... Agent: Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. Patent Department - Bvcb2k

20090025653 - Water heater and a method of operating same: A water heater (10) including a tank (12) adapted for mounting with its longitudinal axis substantially vertical and a duct (32) adapted for mounting with its longitudinal axis substantially vertical. The duct (32) is positioned within the tank (12) and extends through at least most of the height of the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090025654 - Automatically controlled outdoor pelletized bio-fuel-burning hydronic heater: A heating system has a heating unit with a combustion chamber for burning wood pellets or other pelletized fuel. The heating unit is controlled by a process control module that automatically keeps all operating functions within predetermined limits for safe, efficient and easy operation. The unit also includes a combustion... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090025655 - Boiler: First, an emission amount of nitrogen oxide can be decreased to zero as much as possible and, an emission amount of carbon monoxide is decreased to a permissible range. Second, energy saving by combustion at a low air ratio close to 1.0 is realized. Third, air ratio control is performed... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090025656 - Return temperature stabilizer assembly: A return temperature stabilizer assembly or metering means is provided for a boiler that facilitates the mixing of cooler, inlet return fluid with the heated fluid within the boiler chamber whereby the temperature striations within the boiler chamber are reduced or eliminated, and wherein the temperature stabilizer assembly is modular... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20090025657 - Apparatus for generating steam: An apparatus for generating high temperature steam according to the present invention comprises a high pressure container including a hollow body having a certain volume and sealed shape and a vapor outlet formed at an upper or lower portion of the body for discharging vapor generated therein; a heat supply... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20090025659 - Boiler: Provided is a boiler including: a plurality of heat transfer tubes arranged to form a cylindrical shape between an upper header and a lower header to constitute a heat transfer tube row; and a plurality of longitudinal fins provided to close gaps between the heat transfer tubes without connecting the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090013941 - Tri-sector regenerative oxidant preheater for oxy-fired pulverized coal combustion: A tri-sector regenerative oxidant preheater apparatus, method and arrangement for utilization with oxy-fired pulverized coal combustion power plants. The preheater includes a stationary housing and a rotor rotatably mounted in the housing. Sector plates are located at the axial ends of the rotor and divide the preheater into a flue... Agent: The Babcock & Wilcox Company

20090013940 - Steam generator system: A steam generator includes a submersible burner compartment with at least one burner subassembly and an associated submersible primary ignition means. The burner subassembly also has an associated infrared primary flame monitoring subassembly. The primary flame monitoring system and primary ignition means are all housed within the burner compartment whereby... Agent: Robert C. Curfiss

20090000571 - Liquid heater and steam boiler: This invention consists of a demountable heat recovery device, which can turn any tube into an efficient heat recovery, for applications in fire tube liquid heaters and steam boilers; the present heat recovery device is comprised by a tube, which may be cylindrical or square, inside which a gas diffuser... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090000572 - Method and apparatus for vaporizing liquid: An apparatus and method for vaporizing liquid are provided which employ a plurality of rods disposed within a storage vessel that serve as the heat transfer element. While the plurality of rods are generally submerged by the liquid fuel to facilitate heat transfer and vaporization of the liquid fuel, the... Agent: Alston & Bird, LLP

20090000573 - Water heater sediment drain system and method: A sediment drain system used in a hot water heater having a tank with a top and a bottom, includes a hot water outlet in vicinity of the top of the tank, and a sediment removal tube having a tube inlet opening in vicinity of the bottom of the tank... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP