Combustion – Process of combustion or burner operation – Controlling or proportioning feed
Patent
1991-01-31
1992-06-09
Price, Carl D.
Combustion
Process of combustion or burner operation
Controlling or proportioning feed
431 75, 431 76, 431 78, F23N 516
Patent
active
051202140
ABSTRACT:
An acoustically operated burner control system for optimally controlling a flow of air and fuel into a flame producing combustion burner throughout a range of firing rates is disclosed. The system includes separate valve assemblies for modulating the flow of air and fuel into a burner, a microphone for generating an electrical signal indicative of the intensity of all sounds generated by the combustion flame having a frequency in excess of about 10 Khz, and a controller including a programmable microprocessor electrically connected to both the air and fuel valve assemblies and the microphone. The system further includes a wave guide for remotely acoustically coupling the microphone to the combustion flame in order to isolate the microphone from both heat and corrosive combustion products. Prior to the operation of the system, empirically-derived sound intensities associated with optimum stoichiometric combustion and minimum pollution are entered into the memory of the microprocessor. During operation, the microprocessor equates the sound intensity sensed by the microphone with the optimum sound intensity in its memory by regulating the position of the air and fuel valve assemblies.
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Carlyle John M.
Shefet David A.
West John S.
Control Techtronics, Inc.
Price Carl D.
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