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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 1979
Filed:
May. 24, 1977
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert M Kendall, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
John P Kesselring, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Acurex Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
431-7 ; 431328 ;
Abstract
Combustion process and apparatus which includes a monolith bed through which a mixture of fuel and oxidizer reactants is directed. The initial segment of the bed is formed with cells of an optimum size for causing the reactants to undergo heterogeneous combustion without blowout. One or more downstream segments of the bed are formed with cells of a size smaller than the upstream cells to achieve substantially complete combustion in a bed of relatively compact dimensions. High mass flow rates are obtained under stable combustion conditions with high combustion efficiency and low emissions.