Spray burn floating combustible material burner

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1990-07-17

1991-10-15

Jones, Larry

Combustion

Structural installation

431 5, 431 9, 431117, 431 8, 210923, F23D 1100

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050570048

ABSTRACT:
A spray burn floating combustible material burner apparatus is disclosed herein used to remove a floating layer of combustible material, such as oil, from a body of water. The apparatus includes a support frame attached to a buoyancy system, an air nozzle, an air nozzle adjustment means, drop-catching means, a deflection plate, a stabilization plate, and an ignition source. The air nozzle is attached to the air nozzle adjustment means, which adjusts the vertical position of the air nozzle with respect to the surface of the floating layer, and to an adjustible supply of compressed air which, during operation, vertically lifts and atomized the floating layer into droplets in the apparatus' combustion region. The ignition source located in the combustion region destroys the atomized droplets by combustion. The drop-catching means is positioned above the combustible material and prevents any ignited droplets from falling into the surrounding layer of combustible material. A deflection plate is attached to the drop-catching means. During operation, the compressed air from the air nozzle passes through the deflection plates's lower circular opening which induces the air current between the deflection plate and the surface of the floating layer towards the lower circular opening. The induced air current, in turn, induces the floating layer towards the air nozzle so that combustion continues. The stabilization plate, in response to wave action, stabilizes and also induces the flow of the floating layer into the apparatus.

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