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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:
Aug. 04, 1987
Filed:
Jan. 02, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ralph K Johnson, Highland Heights, OH (US);
Azmi Kaya, Akron, OH (US);
Marion A Keyes, IV, Chagrin Falls, OH (US);
William H Moss, Kingwood, TX (US);
Assignee:
The Babcock & Wilcox Company, New Orleans, LA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ; F23N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364551 ; 60665 ; 236 / ; 431 76 ;
Abstract
A system for the automatic and continuous determination of the efficiency of a fossil fuel-fired vapor generator for utilization by an automatic load control (88) to control the distribution of the system load among a plurality of generators, wherein various heat losses from various combustion sources are separately determined, the individual losses summed (80) and subtracted (86) from 100 percent to obtain a measure of the vapor generator efficiency.