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Fluid-heating apparatus

US4391227A · kind A · utility

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13Claims

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Assignee

Kernforschungsanlage Lulich Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung · DE

Inventors

Siegfried Forster · Alsdorf, DE
Peter Quell · Aachen, DE
Huber Jaegers · Jülich, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 13, 1981
Grant date	Jul 5, 1983
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 13, 2001

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02E20/34
WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A fluid-heating apparatus comprises a ceramic burner head formed with narrow passages which alternate with one another for fuel and a combustion sustaining medium such as air, the slit-like passages opening into a combustion chamber at which combustion of the fuel/air mixture occurs. Downstream of this combustion chamber is a ceramic recuperator likewise formed with slit-like passages, the hot combustion gases traversing some of these recuperator passages while the fluid medium to be heated is passed through others of these passages so that heat exchange is effected through the thin ceramic walls supporting the slit-like passages of the ceramic recuperator.

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