Dynamic control of lance utilizing counterflow fluidic techniques

US8323558B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude · FR

Inventors

• Vivek Gautam · Bear, US
• Nicolas Docquier · Philadelphia, US
• Michael G. K. Grant · Chicago, US
• Farrukh Alvi · Tallahassee, US
• Taekyu Kang · Newark, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 30, 2009
• Grant date: Dec 4, 2012
• Expiry date: Oct 15, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P10/20
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A jet of gas injected from a lance is fluidically deviated with a gas flowing in either the same or opposite direction as the jet of gas. The gas used to fluidically deviate the jet is the same as or different from the gas in the jet.