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US 2014/0360194 A1Published application
Toroidal heat exchanger
AssigneePower Generation Technologies Development Fund, L.P.
InventorErnst BERGEN
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Abstract
A toroidal combustion chamber and a plurality of plates are disposed with respect to one another such that their labyrinthine walls are juxtaposed and form labyrinthine conduits leading from an exhaust outlet of the toroidal combustion chamber to an exit perpendicular to the exhaust outlet.
Claims20
A device, comprising:
- a toroidal combustion chamber having an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein the inner surface of the toroidal combustion chamber comprises a plurality of combustible fluid inlets, and the outer surface comprises an exhaust outlet;
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- at least one plate disposed adjacent to the outer surface of the toroidal combustion chamber, the at least one plate comprising a labyrinthine wall circumscribing the exhaust outlet and in combination with the outer surface of the toroidal combustion chamber forms a labyrinthine conduit between the exhaust outlet and an opening on the perimeter of the at least one plate that is perpendicular to the exhaust outlet.
A device, comprising:
- a toroidal combustion chamber having a labyrinthine wall on its outer surface;
- a plurality of plates disposed over the labyrinthine wall of the toroidal combustion chamber creating at least one axial conduit and a plurality of perpendicular conduits extending from an exhaust outlet of the toroidal combustion chamber,
- wherein at least one of the plurality of plates has at least one labyrinthine wall on a surface facing the toroidal combustion chamber and aligned with the labyrinthine wall of the toroidal combustion chamber to form one of the plurality of perpendicular conduits from the exhaust outlet, wherein at least one plate terminates the axial conduit from the exhaust outlet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.