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US 11,499,711 B2Granted
Liquefied fuel combustor with integrated evaporator device and associated method
Assignee8801541 Canada Inc.
InventorLuc Laforest
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Abstract
The method can include injecting fuel from a liquefied fuel source into a combustion chamber having a combustion path, by circulating the fuel out from an inlet conduit into an evaporator housing, along the evaporator housing in a direction opposite the combustion path and across an evaporator element receiving fuel in the liquid state and exposing a multiplied surface of the liquid fuel to heat from the combustion path to evaporate the liquid fuel, and conveying the evaporated fuel into the combustion chamber and into the combustion path.
Claims7
A liquefied fuel combustor comprising:
- a combustion chamber having an intake, an exhaust, and a combustion path therebetween;
- an evaporation and injection device having:
- an evaporator housing provided inside the combustion chamber and extending along a portion of the combustion path and at least one evaporator outlet aperture to allow fuel out from the evaporator housing into the combustion chamber;
- an inlet conduit having an inlet end connectable to a liquefied fuel source outside the combustion chamber, an outlet end protruding inside the evaporator housing, and at least one evaporator inlet aperture associated to the outlet end, to allow fuel out from the inlet conduit into the evaporator housing;
- an evaporation path extending from the evaporator inlet aperture to the evaporator outlet aperture in a counter-current flow direction opposite to the combustion path aperture along at least a portion of the length of the housing;
- and
- an evaporation element positioned in the evaporation path, to receive fuel in the liquid state from the evaporator inlet aperture, and to expose a multiplied surface of the liquid fuel to heat from the combustion path for evaporation;
- wherein the evaporation element includes a plurality of elongated metal strands;
- and
- wherein the elongated metal strands are in the form of at least one helical spring stretched along the length of the evaporator housing.
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A liquefied fuel combustor comprising:
- a combustion chamber having an intake, an exhaust, and a combustion path therebetween;
- an evaporation and injection device having:
- an evaporator housing provided inside the combustion chamber and extending along a portion of the combustion path and at least one evaporator outlet aperture to allow fuel out from the evaporator housing into the combustion chamber;
- an inlet conduit having an inlet end connectable to a liquefied fuel source outside the combustion chamber, an outlet end protruding inside the evaporator housing, and at least one evaporator inlet aperture associated to the outlet end, to allow fuel out from the inlet conduit into the evaporator housing;
- an evaporation path extending from the evaporator inlet aperture to the evaporator outlet aperture in a counter-current flow direction opposite to the combustion path aperture along at least a portion of the length of the housing;
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- an evaporation element positioned in the evaporation path, to receive fuel in the liquid state from the evaporator inlet aperture, and to expose a multiplied surface of the liquid fuel to heat from the combustion path for evaporation;
- wherein the evaporator housing is elongated and concentric to the combustion chamber;
- wherein the inlet conduit is elongated and concentric to the evaporator housing;
- wherein the at least one evaporator inlet aperture includes a plurality of apertures oriented radially across the outlet end of the inlet conduit;
- wherein the at least one evaporator outlet aperture includes a plurality of apertures oriented radially across the evaporator housing;
- wherein the evaporation element includes a plurality of elongated metal strands;
- and
- wherein the elongated metal strands are in the form of at least one helical spring stretched along the length of the evaporator housing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.