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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2007
Razi Nalim, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Pezhman Akbari, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Razi Nalim, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Pezhman Akbari, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Indiana University Research and Technology Corp., Indianapolis, IN (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and methods for combustion of fuel. Some embodiments of the inventions include a fuel nozzle which injects fuel into a combustion channel of a wave rotor combustor or a pulse detonation combustor In some embodiments the combustion process includes a backward-propagating detonation wave within a substantially closed channel which compresses discrete quantities of combustible and noncombustible mixture. Yet other embodiments include a precombustion chamber integrated into the wave rotor, the outlet stator or both.