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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2020
Fulton Group N.a., Inc., Pulaski, NY (US);
Carl Nicholas Nett, Sandisfield, MA (US);
Alireza Bahrami, Cicero, NY (US);
Keith Richard Waltz, Sandy Creek, NY (US);
FULTON GROUP N.A., INC., Pulaski, NY (US);
Abstract
An inward-firing combustion burner, includes a burner casing configured to receive a fuel-air mixture at a burner inlet and to provide hot combustion gas at a burner output, a combustion substrate disposed within the burner casing, the substrate having a shape comprising at least a semi-cone or a flat surface or equivalent shape, having a substrate porosity defined by a plurality of pores, and having a substrate inner surface and a substrate outer surface, the substrate configured to receive the fuel-air mixture at the outer surface of the substrate, the fuel-air mixture passing through the pores at a mixture flow rate from the substrate outer surface toward the substrate inner surface, and the burner configured such that, in operation, the fuel-air mixture ignites near the plurality of pores to form a respective plurality of flamelets, each flamelet corresponding to one of the pores.