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Liquid heaters and vaporizers August inventions list 08/10

20100212603 - Boiler: An amount of scale adhering onto inner surfaces of water tubes in any one of various boilers including a steam boiler, a hot water boiler, a waste heat boiler, and an exhaust gas boiler is accurately known by providing a temperature sensor at an appropriate position of the boiler. A... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20100212602 - Valve shank mount assembly for a water heater: A shank mount assembly for a water heater that includes an annular nipple having an opening, the nipple configured to removably attach to an opening in a water heater tank. The shank mount assembly further includes an annular shank mount having an opening, the shank mount configured to removably attach... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren P.C.

20100212606 - Energy recovery apparatus: An energy recovery apparatus for heating or industrial systems that entail the combustion of products, comprises a tubular element, which is arranged at a portion of a stack or flue and is provided with a delivery for feeding water for scrubbing exhaust gases. The tubular element has an outlet for... Agent: Modiano & Associati

20100212607 - Energy recovery device: An energy recovery device particularly for heating or industrial systems that entail the combustion of products, comprising a tubular element, which is arranged at a flue or stack and has a coil which is perforated along its extension. The coil is connected to a delivery tube for the treatment water... Agent: Modiano & Associati

20100212604 - Hot water supplying system: The present invention relates to a hot water supplying system that includes a preheating-circulating system, which heats water to maximally reduce the time to attain a temperature set by a user, and is designed to use a portion of preheating energy for heating, preventing pipelines from being frozen to burst... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100212605 - Steam generator: A steam generator is provided in which the total heat transfer efficiency can be improved by suppressing a reduction in the amount of heat exchange at an inlet side of heat transfer tubes while maintaining the effect of increasing the amount of heat exchange at an outlet side thereof. A... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20100212608 - Retractable articulating robotic sootblower: A sootblower is provided having a multidirectional cleaning range for directing a cleaning medium against heated surfaces in a heat exchanger. The sootblower includes a rotatable lance tube that is selectively advanced and withdrawn along a longitudinal axis from an interior volume of the heat exchanger. The lance tube includes... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/ann Arbor

20100212609 - Systems and methods for controlling the operation of sootblowers: Examples described herein include methods and systems for operating a sootblower for removing deposits from heat transfer surfaces of a boiler. A temperature change of a boiler fluid at one location on its flow path may be calculated during no more than substantially one stroke of the sootblower. The sootblower... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100212610 - Heat recovery system and method: A system providing for heat recovery from exhausted flue gas in a steam generator is described comprising a flue gas outlet conduit defining a flow path for flue gas from a flue gas outlet of a steam generator to a flue gas conduit junction point; a flue gas primary conduit... Agent: Epstein & Gerken

20100206248 - System for generating brown gas and uses thereof: A system for the generation, storage and use of Brown's gas comprising at least one Brown's gas generator, in communication with an electricity supply and water supply; at least one first storage chamber, in fluid communication with the generator, for storing the Brown's gas generated from said generator; and Brown's... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20100199929 - Steam generator thermal venting: The present invention provides a method of removing sludge deposits from steam generator/boiler tube support plates (TSP) using a combination of thermal stress and intermittent pressure pulses wherein the steam generator/boiler is drained to a water level just above a TSP identified as having excessive sludge deposits and/or particularly nonporous... Agent: Vytas R. Matas

20100199930 - Sootblower having a nozzle with deep reaching jets and edge cleaning jets: A sootblower having a nozzle that includes one or more deep reaching jets aligned with its respective platen bank to clean slag deposits inset from the leading edge of the platen bank. The nozzle also includes one or more edge cleaning jets substantially angled with respect to the platen bank... Agent: Mehrman Law Office, P.C.

20100192877 - Sustainable waste heat management system: A self-contained waste heat recovery system for a commercial oven provides circulating an energy source to an oven heating system. The oven heating system recovers heat from an oven stack or downstream of oxidizer if used and distributes the heat to bakery systems such as proofers, tray washers, process water... Agent: The Law Firm Of Andrea Hence Evans, LLC

20100192873 - Burner flashback detection and system shutdown apparatus: A fuel-fired water heater is provided with a premixing type main burner and an associated pilot burner for igniting it. A specially designed protective system is operative to detect a flame flashback burning condition in the main burner and responsively shut down the water heater. In one embodiment thereof, the... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20100192872 - Flow control: Apparatus for controlling the flow of heated water from a boiler to a water outlet comprising: a main housing, an inlet, an outlet, a variable opening, a permanent opening and a temperature sensitive adjustment mechanism configured to adjust the variable opening between a fully closed position and an open position.... Agent: James C Wray

20100192874 - Pulse combustion system for a water heater: A water heater. The water heater includes a water circuit adapted to conduct water to be heated, a combustion system operable to produce products of combustion and operable to provide the products of combustion to heat water in the water circuit, and a fuel train assembly configured to provide fuel... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20100192875 - Method and apparatus for concentrating and evaporating fluid: A system and method are provided for heating, concentrating and/or evaporating a fluid by heating the fluid in a heating subsystem comprising a rotary heating device, such as a water brake dynamometer, and then evaporating all or a portion of the fluid in an evaporation subsystem and/or concentrating the fluid... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20100192876 - Boiler and method for adjusting temperature of steam output from boiler: A boiler according to the present invention is a boiler configured to make combustion gas originating from combustion in a burner (101) flow from a furnace (102) and pass through a super heater (SH) (104) and an evaporation tube bank (105). The boiler includes a downstream shield plate (11A) that... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP