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US 2006/0266267 A1Published application
Integrated air foil and diamond flow vane
AssigneeThe Babcock & Wilcox Company
InventorsMelvin Albrecht, Steven Burge
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Abstract
A flow enhancing arrangement for ducts such as rectangular flue ducts wherein a series of tear shaped foils are spacedly mounted in the duct extending from top to bottom thereof and where a series of diamond shaped vanes also extending from the top to the bottom of the duct are spacedly mounted between the tear shaped foils to provide a more uniform flow distribution and to lower the pressure thereby. A series of baffles extending from both the tear shaped foils and the diamond shaped vanes may also be used.
Claims7
A flow enhancing arrangement for ducts having fluid flow therein comprising:
- a series of tear-shaped foils spacedly extending across the duct;
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- a series of diamond shaped vanes shapedly extending between said series of tear-shaped foils.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.