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US 2013/0256299 A1Published application
Gas heating apparatus
AssigneeThermoceramix Inc.
InventorRichard ABBOTT
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Abstract
A thermally sprayed gas heater comprises a gas flow apparatus that propels a gas through a housing; and a thermally sprayed heater bonded to a surface of the apparatus, the heater positioned to heat the gas flow in the housing. In other aspects, a heater system for a turbulent flow gas duct comprises a duct having a gas flow channel, the channel having a shaped surface providing turbulent gas flow in the channel, and a thermally sprayed heater positioned to heat the gas flow in the channel.
Claims21
A thermally sprayed gas heater comprising:
- a gas flow apparatus that propels a gas through a housing;
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- a thermally sprayed heater bonded to a surface of the apparatus, the heater positioned to heat the gas flow in the housing, the thermally sprayed heater including a resistive heating layer having s substantially lamellar structure, the resistive heating layer including a first material and a second material, the first material being an electrically conducting material including a metallic material and the second material being an electrically insulating material including a reaction product of the metallic material, the reaction product comprising at least one of an oxide, a nitride, a carbide and a boride.
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