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| 20090004611 | LOW VELOCITY STAGED COMBUSTION FOR FURNACE ATMOSPHERE CONTROL - An improved staged combustion method useful with oxy-fuel combustion and in a furnace which contains a charge, wherein substoichiometric combustion and low velocity injection of fuel and primary and secondary oxidant are carried out in an orientation which forms a reducing atmosphere proximate the charge surface. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090084139 | HEATING GLASSMAKING MATERIALS WITH RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER - Heat in a stream of combustion products obtained from a glassmelting furnace heated by oxy-fuel combustion is passed to incoming glassmaking materials in a heat exchanger without requiring reduction of the temperature of the stream yet without causing softening of the glassmaking material. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090084140 | GLASS FURNACE FLUE GAS TO HEAT GLASSMAKING MATERIAL AND OXIDANT - Heat in a stream of combustion products obtained from a glassmelting furnace heated by oxy-fuel combustion is passed to incoming glassmaking materials in a heat exchanger without requiring reduction of the temperature of the stream yet without causing softening of the glassmaking material. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20100081103 | FURNACE WITH MULTIPLE HEAT RECOVERY SYSTEMS - In a furnace such as a glassmelting furnace, a portion of the combustion products formed by combustion of fuel with gaseous oxidant within the furnace are passed through a recuperative or regenerative heat exchanger system to heat a portion of the incoming gaseous oxidant, and a portion of the combustion products are passed instead through a secondary heat exchanger system, wherein the hot combustion products and oxidant which are passed through said first heat exchanger are passed at a heat capacity rate ratio of combustion products to oxidant of less than 1.3. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100104990 | WIDE FLAME BURNER - A burner comprises a refractory nozzle body enclosing a cavity and having a plurality of conduits each extending from said cavity to openings in the exterior of said nozzle body, wherein the axes of all said conduits lie in a common plane and the axes of any two of said conduits are either parallel to each other or form an angle diverging from said nozzle body, the nozzle body also having a passageway extending from said cavity to an opening in said nozzle body located on the opposite side of said cavity from said conduits; and a reactant distributor, made of metal, comprising a plurality of feeders each comprising a first tube and a second tube surrounding and coaxial with the first tube and defining an annular space between said tubes, there being one feeder in each of said conduits, wherein the distance from the ends of the first and second tubes of each feeder to the opening of the conduit in which the feeder is located is at least 1.5 times the diameter of said opening, and an inlet for oxidant and an inlet for fuel, wherein each first tube is connected in fluid communication with one of said inlets and each of said annular spaces is connected in fluid communication with said inlet for oxidant, wherein said distributor is releasably sealably engaged in said passageway with said inlets accessible outside said nozzle body, and wherein said distributor is removable out of said nozzle body through said passageway. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100212362 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREHEATING GLASSMAKING MATERIALS - Heat in a stream of combustion products obtained from a glassmelting furnace heated by oxy-fuel combustion is passed to incoming glassmaking materials in a heat exchanger without requiring reduction of the temperature of the stream yet without causing softening of the glassmaking material. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100275825 | MODIFYING TRANSPORT AIR TO CONTROL NOX - Using oxygen-lean gas as the transport medium in which pulverized fuel solids are conveyed to the burner of a combustion system permits combustion at levels of combustion rate and NOx production under circumstances under which those levels would not be attainable if the transport medium were air. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20110061361 | ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION APPARATUS - An apparatus for generating electrical power in which a synthesis gas stream generated in a gasifier is partially oxidized, expanded and thereafter, is combusted in an oxygen transport membrane system of a boiler. The combustion generates heat to raise steam to in turn generate electricity by a generator coupled to a steam turbine. The resultant flue gas can be purified to produce a carbon dioxide product. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110185769 | REDUCING CROWN CORROSION IN A GLASSMELTING FURNACE - Corrosion of the inner surface of the crown of a glassmelting furnace is reduced or avoided by directing at low velocity along that surface a gaseous stream comprising water vapor, or comprising the combustion products of an oxy-fuel burner operated at a stoichiometric ratio of at least 1.0, or the combustion products of a burner operated at a stoichiometric ratio less than 1.0, or by injecting into the furnace interior a gaseous reactant which reacts with alkali species in said space. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110192196 | REDUCING CROWN CORROSION IN A GLASSMELTING FURNACE - Corrosion of the inner surface of the crown of a glassmelting furnace is reduced or avoided by directing at low velocity along that surface a gaseous stream comprising water vapor, or comprising the combustion products of an oxy-fuel burner operated at a stoichiometric ratio of at least 1.0, or the combustion products of a burner operated at a stoichiometric ratio less than 1.0, or by injecting into the furnace interior a gaseous reactant which reacts with alkali species in said space. | 08-11-2011 |
