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Device for conversion of liquid fuel into fuel vapor and microscopic liquid droplets

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6195801
A device is described for converting a combustible liquid fuel from macroscopic droplets into converted fuel in the form of a mixture of microscopic liquid droplets and vaporized fuel and supplying the converted fuel to a combustion chamber, said device comprising: a vacuum chamber including a cylindrical housing, having a first longitudinal axis, with an inlet in said housing wall and an outlet in said housing wall offset from said inlet; an eccentrically mounted cylindrical rotor within said housing wall for rotation about a second longitudinal axis offset from said first axis; a plurality of radial slots in said rotor; and a generally rectangular vane slidably received in each of said slots, said vanes being urged outwardly against said housing wall when said rotor is rotated.
Assignee:
MicroFuels, Inc., Wheat Ridge, CO (United States)
Patent Number(s):
US 5226400; A
Application Number:
PPN: US 7-958006
OSTI ID:
6195801
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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