Stand alone copper burner panel for a metallurgical furnace
AssigneeSystems Spray-Cooled, Inc.
InventorsScott A. FERGUSON, Troy D. WARD
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Abstract
One or more embodiments of a burner panel for a metallurgical furnace is described herein. The burner panel has a body having a top surface, a bottom surface, a left surface, a right surface, and a front surface surrounding an interior burner area. A spray-cool system disposed in the interior area. A burner tube at least partially disposed in the interior burner area and extends into the front surface. The burner tube is configured to accept a burner.
Claims17
A method operating a metallurgical furnace having a burner panel, the method comprising:
- melting material in an interior volume of the metallurgical furnace, the interior volume surrounded by a sidewall that includes a burner panel disposed in sidewall burner pocket, the burner panel having a front surface separating an interior burner area from the interior volume, the front surface facing away from the interior volume, the burner panel having a burner disposed through a burner tube;
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- spraying cooling fluid from a first spray-cool system on the front surface of the burner panel while melting the material.
A method operating a metallurgical furnace having a burner panel, the method comprising:
- melting material in an interior volume of the metallurgical furnace, the interior volume surrounded by a sidewall that includes a burner panel disposed in sidewall burner pocket, the burner panel having a front surface separating an interior burner area from the interior volume, the front surface facing away from the interior volume, the burner panel having a burner disposed through a burner tube;
- spraying cooling fluid from a first spray-cool system on the front surface of the burner panel while melting the material;
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- spraying cooling fluid from a second spray-cool system on an inner volume of the sidewall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.