Method and apparatus for the production of energy
AssigneeAdvanced Combustion Energy Systems, Inc.
InventorJames Andrew Prentice, III
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Abstract
The invention provides processes and apparatuses for safely, rapidly, cost-effectively and efficiently producing a superheated steam. These processes and apparatuses involve the combustion of one or more fuels containing the element hydrogen, the element carbon or the elements hydrogen and carbon. One or more of the combustion reactions are incomplete combustion reactions, and another combustion is a complete combustion reaction. Water that circulates around one or more combustion chambers and areas, but that does not enter into the combustion chambers or areas becomes converted into a high purity superheated steam product or dry saturated steam product containing superheated steam.
Claims41
An apparatus for use as a hydrocarbon combustion gas generator comprising:
- a first combustion chamber in which a first combustion of fuel and oxidizer can be performed to produce an incomplete combustion product, the first combustion chamber having an inlet end and an outlet end;
- control and metering means for separately metering a fuel and an oxidizer into the first combustion chamber to achieve an incomplete combustion of the fuel in the first chamber;
- a second combustion chamber in which a second combustion of fuel and additional oxidizer can be performed to produce a second combustion product, the second combustion chamber having an inlet end and an outlet end, wherein the inlet end of the second combustion chamber is in fluid communication with the outlet end of the first combustion chamber;
- control and metering means for metering additional oxidizer into the second chamber combustion chamber to further combust fuel in the second chamber;
- a means for metering into the second combustion chamber the incomplete combustion product produced in the first combustion chamber;
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- a heat exchanger means for cooling the first and second combustion chambers and for optionally converting cooling water to steam, wherein the cooling water and steam are maintained separate from combustion gases produced by the first and second combustions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.