Laminar flow burner

US5597298A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Praxair Technology, Inc. · US

Inventors

• William J. Snyder · White Plains, US
• Maynard Guotsuen Ding · Yorktown, US
• Richard Thomas Semenza · Shrub Oak, US
• Johnny Dean Jackson · Sandy Hook, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 13, 1994
• Grant date: Jan 28, 1997
• Expiry date: Dec 13, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F23D14/22
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An oxidant injector for a burner having a nozzle with a surface prescribing a continuous function enabling laminar flow of secondary oxidant over the nozzle surface which functions simultaneously to take heat off, and to prevent exothermic free radical recombinations from occurring proximate, the nozzle surface.