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Pulse detonation cleaning system

US8651066B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

BHA Altair. LLC · US

Inventors

Tian Xuan Zhang · Overland Park, US
David Michael Chapin · Gresham, US
Robert Warren Taylor · Cohuna, AU

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 28, 2010
Grant date	Feb 18, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 30, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB08B7/0007
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A pulse detonation cleaning system is provided and includes a common tube, which is fluidly coupled to a vessel, a first array, including a plurality of elongate detonation tubes arrayed about a common axis, each of the plurality of the detonation tubes being disposed upstream from and fluidly coupled to an interior of the common tube and a second array, including a plurality of detonators arrayed about the common axis, each of the plurality of the detonators being disposed upstream from and operably coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of the detonation tubes such that actuation of each of the plurality of the detonators leads to combustion in the corresponding one of the plurality of the detonation tubes.

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