Maxon Corporation

Tadeusz Karabin

William P Coppin

Willim P Coppin

The improved incinerator apparatus of the present invention is particularly applicable in the purification of air contaminated with volatilized solvents, and functions through the use of a venturi within the assembly which imposes a low pressure drop while simultaneously obtaining a high degree of turbulence and mixing of the primary fuel with the effluent waste gas being incinerated. The incinerator apparatus of the present invention comprises a solvent vapor conduit for directing a stream of air containing solvent vapors in a first longitudinal direction to be redirected into a venturi. The venturi is preferably disposed within the solvent vapor conduit. A supplemental fuel injector is disposed within the central bore of the venturi to provide gaseous fuel through the central bore to comingle with the solvent vapor containing air for ignition, to provide a sustainable flame for burning the volatilized solvent in the air and thereby to provide air free of such solvent vapors. In preferred embodiments, the sustainable flame also serves to preheat the solvent vapor conduit to provide a preheated stream of solvent containing air for greater efficiency of burning. The net result of the incinerator apparatus of the present invention is to provide sufficient time, temperature and turbulence for removing the volatiles from the air by means of incineration, while simultaneously imposing a low pressure drop upon the apparatus.

Incinerator burner assembly

The improved burner unit of the present invention is designed for use in relatively lower oxygen and/or lower pressure drop environments. The improved burner unit of the present invention comprises a burner base disposed at the bottom of the burner trough. A pair of mixing plates having aeration openings therein are attached on opposite sides of the burner base. The mixing plates include a lower flange for attachment to the burner base and a mixing plate body extending upwardly from such lower flange. The mixing plate body forms the sides of the burner trough and includes an outwardly protruding bulge at the center of the mixing plate. The burner unit also includes side flanges disposed on and extending from the sides of the mixing plate for engagement with like side flanges on like mixing plates to form a burner of the desired length. In preferred embodiments, the bulge in the side of the mixing plate body is generally parabolic in shape as viewed from the trough of the burner.

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Muncie, IN, United States of America

Tadeusz Karabin