Dynamic lances utilizing fluidic techniques

US8377372B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

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

Inventors

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

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 30, 2009
• Grant date: Feb 19, 2013
• Expiry date: Sep 5, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P10/20
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

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.