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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2002
Applicants:
Adrian Robin Richardson, Silchester, GB;
Heather Allderidge, Derby, GB;
Inventors:
Adrian Robin Richardson, Silchester, GB;
Heather Allderidge, Derby, GB;
Assignee:
MicroGen Energy Limited, , GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01N029/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A DCHP unit with a Stirling engine (), a burner () and a supplementary burner (). Water is heated by exhaust gas from the Stirling engine and from the supplementary burner. If a sensor () detects that the water temperature has risen indicating that there is insufficient demand for the heat in the exhaust gas, a fan (), () which normally provides the flow of air to the supplementary burner is operated without firing the burner to generate a flow of cool air to cool the water.