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US 7,137,808 B2Granted
Method and device for influencing combustion processes involving combustibles
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsDavid Walter Branston, Günter Lins, Jobst Verleger
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Abstract
A method and device are for influencing combustion processes, and include an electrical device. The electrical device engages with the flame front so that the electrical field thus produced, only penetrates areas of the flame front in which a stabilizing and harmful-substance-reducing effect is produced. The electrodes of the burner are arranged outside the region of the flame in the associated device.
Claims7
A device for influencing a combustion operation, comprising:
- field-generating electrodes for generating an electric field which is adapted to influence a flame by exerting an electric force on charge carriers produced by the flame during a combustion operation, the electrodes being arranged outside an area of the flame and being arranged on a side of a burner opening which is remote from the flame, wherein there is no straight connecting line between electrodes of opposite polarity which passes through the flame, further comprising an annular electrode directly on the burner, on the side of the burner opening which is remote from the flame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.