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US 6,881,056 B2Granted
Combustion heater
AssigneeThermal Dynamics Corporation
InventorEdward L. Simonds
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Abstract
A combustion heater comprising an induction chamber provided with an inlet, a combustion chamber in fluid communication with the inlet of the induction chamber, means for moving an oxydizer from the inlet of the induction chamber to the combustion chamber, a fuel reservoir, a frame defining a fuel passageway, means for moving a fuel from the fuel reservoir through the fuel passageway to the combustion chamber, means in fluid communication with the fuel passageway for shearing a fuel prior to combustion, means in fluid communication with the fuel passageway for heating the fuel prior to combustion, and means for combusting a fuel oxydizer mixture within the combustion chamber.
Claims22
A heater comprising:
- (a) an induction chamber provided with an inlet;
- (b) a combustion chamber in fluid communication with said inlet of said induction chamber;
- (c) means for moving an oxidizer from said inlet of said induction chamber to said combustion chamber;
- (d) a fuel reservoir;
- (e) a frame defining a fuel passageway;
- (f) means for moving a fuel from said fuel reservoir through said fuel passageway to said combustion chamber;
- (g) means in fluid communication with said fuel passageway for shearing a fuel prior to combustion;
- (h) means in fluid communication with said fuel passageway for heating a fuel prior to combustion;
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- (i) means for combusting a fuel oxidizer mixture within said combustion chamber;
- (j) means for maintaining an oxidizer afay from a fuel as said fuel is heated with said hearing means;
- (k) wherein said hearing means is a shell in fluid communications with said fuel passageway and provided with means for allowing a heated fuel to excape from said shell;
- (l) means for rotating said shell;
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- (m) a propeller secured to said shell.
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A heater comprising:
- (a) an induction chamber provided with an inlet;
- (b) a combustion chamber in fluid communication with said inlet of said induction chamber;
- (c) means for moving an oxidizer from said inlet of said induction chamber to said combustion chamber;
- (d) a fuel reservoir;
- (e) a frame defining a fuel passageway;
- (f) means for moving a fuel from a said fuel reservoir through said fuel passageway to said combustion chamber;
- (g) means in fluid communication with said fuel passageway for shearing a fuel prior to combustion;
- (h) wherein said shearing means is a shear and means coupled to said shear for directing said shear across a first concentration of fuel having a first surface area in a manner which divides said first concentration of fuel into a second concentration of fuel having a second surface area, and a third concentration of fuel having a third surface area, wherein the total surface area of said second surface area and said third surface area is greater than said first surface area
- (i) means in fluid communication with said fuel passageway for hearing a fuel prior to combustion;
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- (j) means for combusting a fuel oxidizer mixture within said combustion chamber.
8 more elements
A heater comprising:
- (a) an induction chamber provided with an inlet;
- (b) a combustion chamber in fluid communication with said inlet of said induction chamber;
- (c) means for moving an oxidizer from said inlet of said induction chamber to said combustion chamber;
- (d) a fuel reservoir;
- (e) a frame defining a fuel passageway;
- (f) means for moving a fuel from said fuel reservoir through said fuel passageway to said combustion chamber;
- (g) means in fluid communication with said fuel passageway for shearing a fuel prior to combustion;
- (h) means in fluid communication with said fuel passageway for heating a fuel prior to combustion;
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- (i) means for combusting a fuel oxidizer mixture within said combustion chamber;
- (j) a hollow heat exchanger, secured for rotatable movement around an outlet of said fuel passageway;
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- (k) means provided within said heat exchanger for dividing waste material into particles sufficiently small to pass through an exhaust port of said heat exchanger.
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A heater comprising:
- (a) an induction chamber having an inlet and an outlet;
- (b) a combustion chamber having an inlet in fluid communication with said outlet of said induction chamber, said combustion chamber also being provided with an outlet;
- (c) a heat exchanger comprising:
- (i) an exterior shell defining an interior and an outlet;
- (ii) means provided on said shell for shearing fuel;
- (iii) means coupled to said exterior shell for propelling fluid as said heat exchanger is rotated;
- (d) a fuel reservoir;
- (e) a quill having a first end in fluid communication with said fluid reservoir, and a second end in fluid communication with said interior of said exterior shell of said heat exchanger;
- (f) means coupled to said quill for regulating a flow of fuel through said quill;
- (g) means for producing a back pressure within said combustion chamber;
- (h) means for rotating said heat exchanger at a sufficient speed to draw a fluid into said induction chamber and into said combustion chamber;
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- (i) means for combusting a fuel within said combustion chamber.
10 more elements
A combustion heating system comprising:
- (a) an induction chamber having an inlet and an outlet;
- (b) means for controlling a flow of fluid through said induction chamber;
- (c) a combustion chamber having an inlet in fluid communication with said outlet of said induction chamber, said combustion chamber also being provided with an outlet;
- (d) a diffuser secured over at least a portion of said outlet of said combustion chamber,
- (e) a turbine provided at least partially within said combustion chamber, said turbine comprising:
- (i) a wall defining an interior cavity and provided with a sidewall defining an aperture through said wall and in fluid communication with said interior cavity;
- (ii) a propeller secured to said wall,
- (f) a quill having an outlet in fluid communication with said interior cavity of said turbine, said quill also being provided with an inlet;
- (g) a fuel reservoir in fluid communication with said inlet of said quill;
- (h) means for regulating a flow of fluid through said quill;
- (i) means for rotating said turbine at a sufficient speed to draw a fluid from said induction chamber into said combustion chamber, and to cause said sidewall of said wall of said turbine to shear a fuel exiting said turbine through said aperture;
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- (j) means in fluid communication with said combustion chamber for combusting a fluid oxidizer mixture within said combustion chamber.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.