Device to improve effectiveness of pulse detonation cleaning
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsRobert Warren Taylor, David Chapin, Terry Farmer, James Easel Roberts
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Abstract
A system and associated method for removing accumulated debris from a surface of a vessel. The system includes an impulse cleaning device defining a combustion chamber in which combustible fuel and air are mixed and ignited to produce combustion that is directed at the surface to be cleaned within the vessel, and an eductor assembly surrounding a downstream end of the chamber for inducting surrounding atmosphere into the combustion to widen the area being cleaned.
Claims15
A system for removing accumulated debris from a surface of a vessel, the system including:
- an impulse cleaning device defining a combustion chamber in which combustible fuel and air are mixed and ignited to produce combustion that is directed at the surface to be cleaned within the vessel;
- and
- an eductor assembly surrounding a downstream end of the chamber for inducting surrounding atmosphere into the combustion to widen the area being cleaned.
A method for removing accumulated debris from a surface within a vessel, the method including:
- providing an impulse cleaning device defining a combustion chamber;
- delivering a flow of combustible fuel into the flow of air in the combustion chamber;
- mixing the combustible fuel and air within the combustion chamber;
- igniting the fuel and air mixture to produce combustion;
- directing the combustion at the surface to be cleaned to loosen and remove accumulated debris from the surface of the vessel;
- and
- inducting surrounding atmosphere into the supersonic combustion via an eductor assembly surrounding a downstream end of the chamber to widen the area being cleaned.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.