Catalytic combuster

US6709264B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Motors LLC · US

Inventors

• Ingo Hermann · Mainz, DE
• Axel Junge · Mainz, DE
• Martin Stadie · Langen, DE
• Andre Mack-Gardner · Katzenelnbogen, DE
• Philip Klaus · Hochheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 20, 2001
• Grant date: Mar 23, 2004
• Expiry date: Dec 9, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F23D14/62
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A catalytic combuster having a mixing section upstream of a combustion section. The mixing section includes a multi-port injector for injecting a first reactant gas into the mixing section in a plurality of directions perpendicular the direction or flow of a second reactant gas.