Liquid heaters and vaporizers inventions 05/09

20090133643 - Method and apparatus for steam generation: A method, apparatus, and system and operation of surface equipment to generate steam while reducing the quantity of boiler blowdown and thereby increasing the amount of feedwater that is re-used or re-cycled in generating said steam. The present invention teaches that, on a sustained basis, the blowdown stream at the... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090133641 - Device for preventing initial hot water supplying in concentric tube type heat exchanger and its control method: Disclosed are a device for preventing initial hot water from being discharged from a double pipe heat exchanger and a method of controlling the same, which can temporarily mix cold water with hot water so as to decrease the temperature of the discharged hot water when the high temperature water... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090133642 - Latent heat recovery-type water heater: So as to provide a latent heat recovery-type water heater capable of certainly preventing drain generated by heat exchange from being discharged out of an exhaust portion through an outlet with entrained by a flow of combustion gas, an exhaust portion 9 is formed by an exhaust portion constituting-body 25... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090133644 - Boiler: Provided is a boiler equipped with a burner capable of realizing a reduction in emission of harmful substances using a liquid fuel such as kerosene or A-type heavy oil. A burner (20) is equipped with a nozzle part (22) spraying a liquid fuel into a combustion chamber (16) in a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090133645 - Steam jetting device: A steam ejection device including a steam generator for generating steam by heating water; a steam eject port for discharging the steam generated in the steam generator; and a steam-guiding portion for delivering the steam from the steam generator to the steam eject port, and the steam ejection device further... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090126652 - Water heater and method of customizing the water heater: A water heater including a vessel, a heating fixture (e.g., an electric-resistance heating element, a gas burner) having a rated maximum heating output, and a controller. The controller includes an interface and a temperature sensor. The controller can control the heating output of the heating element based on a sensed... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090126653 - Firebox boiler with reduced temperature variation: A boiler firebox comprises arcuate front and rear end water walls connected respectively to front and rear ends of right and left side water walls. The end walls curve outward from respective ends of one side water wall and then inward to the respective ends of the other side water... Agent: Stites & Harbison, PLLC

20090126654 - Device for generating the superheated steam: The present invention relates to a device for generating superheated steam, comprising: a housing (10) having a cylindrical body and a combustion chamber with a hollow space portion formed in the cylindrical body, the housing having a discharge outlet (13) formed at a bottom end thereof so as to allow... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090120384 - Low bed pressure drop circulating fluidized bed boiler and combustion process: A method, system and apparatus for a low bed pressure drop circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler associated with fast bed CFB combustion are disclosed. The CFB boiler may be operated according to the following set of conditions. In an upper area of a combustor of the boiler, a flow pattern... Agent: Intellevate

20090120379 - Boiler having an integrated oxygen producing device: A system is described wherein a boiler 10 is integrated with an oxygen producing device 12. Combustion heat generated in the boiler 10 is used to generate steam in the boiler and is also applied to at least one of a sweep gas stream 13 and a feed gas stream... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - Alstom Power

20090120380 - Temperature control system for a water heater: A system for detecting stacking and controlling temperature in a water heater. A controller with a connection to a temperature sensor and heating element in a water tank of the heater may be designed to limit stacking and its effects. The controller may use a sensing and calculation technique to... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090120381 - Water heater with ionized ignition and electronic control of temperature: A water heater is controlled by an electronic system that initiates the operation of the heater when a flow detector sends a demand signal for hot water flow to the electronic card, which ignites a burner as function of a temperature programmed by the user. The burner is lit gradually... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20090120382 - Method for maximum efficiency of non-condensing boiler: Provided is a method for operating a non-condensing boiler at maximum non-condensation efficiency, and more particularly a method for operating a non-condensing boiler, capable of supplying an appropriate amount of excess air for combustion of a burner, avoiding damaging a heat exchanger due to the condensed water generated at the... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090120383 - Pipe assembly: The invention relates to a pipe assembly (102) for use in a boiler. The pipe assembly (102) comprises a pipe (104) having an outer wall (106) adapted for heat exchange. The pipe (104) having heat sensing means (116) located in a recess section of the outer wall (106) thereof, wherein... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP