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US 12,117,170 B2Granted
Gas incinerator system
OwnerJohn Joseph Sutherland, Audrey Mascarenhasinventors
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Abstract
An incinerator comprising a cylindrical housing and a plurality of burners is provided. Each burner is oriented to emit gas at an upward and radially inward angle such that the burners collectively generate an upward, helical gas flow. A method for incinerating gas in a cylindrical housing is provided. Flowing gas through a first burner, oriented at an angle, generates an upward, helical gas flow within the cylindrical housing and draws a gas flow through a second burner.
Claims16
An incinerator comprising:
- a cylindrical housing extending generally vertically and defining an air intake section, a combustion section above the air intake section, a stack section above the combustion section, a center axis defined as extending through the air intake section and the stack section and a horizontal plane orthogonal to the center axis;
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- a burner assembly in the combustion section, the burner assembly including a manifold with a plurality of conduits extending substantially vertically therefrom to a burner outlet at a distal end thereof, wherein each of the burner outlets are located at a common horizontal plane across the cylindrical housing, and
- wherein each of the burner outlets are radially arranged about the central axis and oriented to emit gas
- (i) at an upward angle greater than horizontal and less than vertical from an orthogonal plane of the incinerator and
- (ii) between a tangential and radially inward direction from an radius of the cylindrical housing, such that the plurality of burners in the burner assembly collectively generate an upward, helical gas flow.
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An incinerator comprising:
- a cylindrical housing extending generally vertically and defining an air intake section, a combustion section above the air intake section, a stack section above the combustion section, a center axis defined as extending through the air intake section and the stack section and a horizontal plane orthogonal to the center axis;
- a first burner assembly in the combustion section, the first burner assembly including a plurality of first burners on a first manifold connected to a first intake pipe, wherein each of the plurality of first burners has a gas emitting orifice with an axis oriented (i) at an upward angle of between 30° and 55° from an orthogonal plane of the incinerator and (ii) at a sideways angle of between 45° and 70° from a radius of the cylindrical housing, such that the plurality of first burners in the first burner assembly collectively generate an upward, helical gas flow;
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- a dependent burner assembly in the combustion section, the dependent burner assembly including a plurality of dependent burners on a second manifold connected to a second intake pipe, the plurality of dependent burners being positioned radially inward of the plurality of first burners and the plurality of dependent burners being oriented to emit gas upwardly away from the horizontal plane towards the stack section at an angle of between 30° and 55° from an orthogonal plane of the incinerator;
- and sideways at an angle of between 45° and 70° from a radius of the cylindrical housing.
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A method for incinerating gas comprising:
- providing a cylindrical housing, and a first burner assembly and a dependent burner assembly within the cylindrical housing, the first burner assembly including a manifold with a plurality of conduits extending substantially vertically therefrom to a burner outlet at a distal end thereof wherein each of the burner outlets are located at a common horizontal plane across the cylindrical housing, and wherein each of the burner outlets are radially arranged about the central axis and oriented at an upward angle from an orthogonal plane of the cylindrical housing and at a sideways angle from a radius of the cylindrical housing;
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- flowing gas through the first burner assembly, thereby generating an upward, helical gas flow within the cylindrical housing, and drawing a gas flow through the dependent burner assembly.
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