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US 4,071,322 AGranted
Apparatus for producing an inert gas
AssigneeSmit Nijmegen B.V.
InventorJohannes W. Graat
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Abstract
Apparatus for the production of an inert gas wherein liquid of gaseous hydrocarbons are burnt within a combustion chamber with air, possibly with the admixture of a gaseous atomizing agent, especially steam, inert gas or air, whereby a first shock-like cooling is performed, which is followed by a second cooling step and a scrubbing with water or an aqueous solution of a temperature in the vicinity of the freezing point, and the gas treatment is finished with an adsorption drying.
Claims8
In an apparatus for producing an inert gas of the type wherein liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons are burnt with air, comprising:
- an elongated chamber having a combustion portion including one end of the chamber and a contiguous cooling portion including the other end of the chamber, an inlet at the combustion end for receiving fuel and air to be burned and an outlet at the cooling end thereof, said chamber comprising inner and outer walls defining a water jacket therebetween along the entire length and periphery of the chamber for receiving cooling water at the combustion end, and a plurality of spray nozzles disposed along the length of the cooling portion and around the periphery thereof, said spray nozzles receptive of water from the water jacket for spraying into the cooling portion of the chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.