Electric heating – Heating devices – Combined with container – enclosure – or support for material...
Patent
1986-10-08
1988-12-27
Pellinen, A.D.
Electric heating
Heating devices
Combined with container, enclosure, or support for material...
210184, 210222, 210748, 219 1075, 219307, 219381, 219553, 422189, 422199, F24H 100, H05B 610, B01D 3518, B01J 1908
Patent
active
047942266
ABSTRACT:
A self-regulating porous heater device regulates the temperature of fluid passing through it. This device includes at least one layer of a porous material which has a magnetic permeability inversely related to temperature over a given range. Due to conductor skin effects, changes in permeability cause changes in the depth of penetration of a.c. current passing through the magnetic layer. Changes in the depth of penetration, in turn, result in changes in resistance--the less the depth the greater resistance--and in I.sup.2 R Joule heat. The combined result of these effects is to provide more heat where the temperature of the fluid and the layer through which the fluid flows is below a specified temperature which is related to the Curie temperature of the layer. The device can have a laminate structure including a porous magnetic layer and at least one other magnetic layer or at least one low resistance nonmagnetic layer or a combination thereof, which may or may not be porous. By properly defining pore dimensions, the heater device can filter contaminants from a fluid as it flows therethrough. Switching between a normal operating temperature and an elevated temperature for vaporizing or burning off contaminants at the pores is provided. In a preferred mode, a porous heater device is included in a chemical reaction chamber for exothermic reactions.
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Evans Geoffrey S.
Metcal Inc.
Pellinen A.D.
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