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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2005
Jong-soo Park, Daejeon, KR;
Wang-lai Yoon, Daejeon, KR;
Ho-tae Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Heon Jung, Daejeon, KR;
Sung-ho Cho, Daejeon, KR;
Shin-kun Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Kun-hoo Lee, Seoul, KR;
Seung-hoon Choi, Daejeon, KR;
Jong-Soo Park, Daejeon, KR;
Wang-Lai Yoon, Daejeon, KR;
Ho-Tae Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Heon Jung, Daejeon, KR;
Sung-Ho Cho, Daejeon, KR;
Shin-Kun Lee, Daejeon, KR;
Kun-Hoo Lee, Seoul, KR;
Seung-Hoon Choi, Daejeon, KR;
Korea Institute of Energy Research, Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
A heater has microchannels for uniform heating, and includes an upper plate having an inlet of material to be heated, a fuel inlet and an oxidant inlet. A lower plate has a heated material outlet and an exhaust gas outlet. A plurality of combustion thin plates and a plurality of heat transfer thin plates are alternately layered between the upper and lower plates. Each of the combustion thin plates and the heat transfer thin plates has an inlet hole of material to be heated, a heated material outlet hole, an oxidant hole, an exhaust gas hole, a fuel hole, and microchannels formed at respective corresponding positions. The upper plate is aligned with the combustion thin plate contacting the lower surface thereof, and the lower plate is aligned with the heat transfer thin plate contacting the upper surface thereof.