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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2010
Tian Xuan Zhang, Overland Park, KS (US);
David Michael Chapin, Overland, KS (US);
Robert Warren Taylor, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (US);
Tian Xuan Zhang, Overland Park, KS (US);
David Michael Chapin, Overland, KS (US);
Robert Warren Taylor, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (US);
BHA Altair, LLC, Franklin, TN (US);
Abstract
A pulse detonation cleaning system is provided and includes a common tube, which is fluidly coupled to a vessel, a first array, including a plurality of elongate detonation tubes arrayed about a common axis, each of the plurality of the detonation tubes being disposed upstream from and fluidly coupled to an interior of the common tube and a second array, including a plurality of detonators arrayed about the common axis, each of the plurality of the detonators being disposed upstream from and operably coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of the detonation tubes such that actuation of each of the plurality of the detonators leads to combustion in the corresponding one of the plurality of the detonation tubes.