Catalytic unit for gas phase catalysis, more especially for use with wood- and other solid fuel-burning stoves

Patent · Tue Apr 22 04:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:5750554

Fernbach, E A; Guerriere, R A

This patent describes in combination: a solid fuel burning stove having a firebox and a flue aperture; a heat exchanger jacket connected to the flue aperture and having a tubular inner wall and a tubular outer wall spaced outwardly therefrom and defining an air space therewith; a catalytic combustor unit disposed in the heat exchanger jacket comprising means for maintaining approximately true pyrolysis in the firebox, including a first catalytic unit and a second catalytic unit spaced longitudinally downstream from the first unit and defining therewith a chamber bounded by an intermediate portion of the inner wall of the heat exchanger jacket, each catalytic unit comprising longitudinally extending walls defining a multitude of small tubular flow passages extending generally longitudinally of the heat exchanger jacket and supporting a catalyst for promoting cracking of hydrocarbons and combustion of carbon monoxide and carbon particles, an air inlet conduit communicating between the surroundings and the air space in the heat exchanger jacket, for introducing secondary combustion air into the air space; and air inlet ports through the portion of the inner wall of the heat exchanger jacket, the ports directing the secondary combustion air non-radially into the chamber.

• Assignee: NOV; NOV-85-013599; EDB-86-115721
• Patent Number(s): US 4584177
• OSTI ID: 5750554
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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AIR POLLUTION ABATEMENT
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FLUE GAS
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GASEOUS WASTES
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HEAT TRANSFER
HYDROCARBONS
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