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US 2023/0417264 A1Published application
Vortex Chamber
AssigneeUniversiteit Antwerpen
InventorsGeorgi TRENCHEV, Annemie BOGAERTS
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AssigneeUniversiteit Antwerpen
InventorsGeorgi TRENCHEV, Annemie BOGAERTS
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The present disclosure relates to a vortex chamber comprising a cavity elongating along a central axis and a swirl generator. The swirl generator comprises a plurality of swirl channels configured for introducing a gas flow into the cavity as a vortex flow about the central axis, each swirl channel comprising a channel entrance and a channel exit. The swirl generator further comprises a gas redistribution chamber comprising one or more main gas supply inlets for receiving a gas, a distribution channel configured for distributing the gas received from the one or more main gas supply inlets to the channel entrances of the swirl channels, and one or more blocking walls configured for blocking and unblocking one or more entrances of the plurality of swirl channels. The vortex chamber is further configured for relatively rotating the channel entrances of the swirl channels with respect to the one or more blocking walls from a first angular position to at least a second angular position and vice versa, and wherein when in the second angular position the one or more blocking walls block a larger number of channel entrances than when in the first angular position.
A vortex chamber comprising a cavity elongating along a central axis and a swirl generator, said swirl generator comprising:
The vortex chamber according to claim wherein the cavity is axially delimited by a cavity axial wall and wherein each of the swirl channels is traversing the cavity axial wall from the channel entrance at an outer side of the cavity axial wall to the channel exit at an inner side of the cavity axial wall, and
The vortex chamber according to claim wherein said gas redistribution chamber comprises an axial side facing said outer side of the cavity axial wall, and wherein one or more wall portions of said axial side of the gas redistribution chamber are forming said one or more blocking walls.
The vortex chamber according to claim wherein said axial side of the gas redistribution chamber comprises two or more wall openings configured for supplying the gas to the entrances of the swirl channels, and wherein said one or more wall portions forming the one or more blocking walls correspond to the wall portions of the axial side of the gas redistribution chamber separating the two or more wall openings from each other.
The vortex chamber according to claim wherein said plurality of swirl channels are grouped into groups of said swirl channels wherein #B=#G, with #G being the number of groups, each group comprising two or more of said swirl channels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.