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Method and system for controlling the supply of fuel and air to a furnace

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6723490
This patent describes a method for providing fuel and air to a furnace through a burner assemblies, each burner assembly including a combustion air register, each combustion air register including a combustion air passageway that produces a discrete air flow path of combustion air, an air valve for controlling the flow of combustion air through the burner assembly, and an air flow meter located exclusively in that combustion air register for measuring the air flow through the discrete air flow path downstream of the air valve. It comprises: sensing a combustion characteristic produced by each separate burner assembly; sensing the air flow through each separate burner assembly by taking a separate measurement exclusively of the air flow through the discrete air flow path of each combustion air register downstream of the air valve, each such separate measurement being taken with the air flow meter for the combustion air register in which the measurement is being taken.
Assignee:
Eagleair, Inc., Bethlehem, PA (USA)
Patent Number(s):
US 4927351; A
Application Number:
PPN: US 7-393150A
OSTI ID:
6723490
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English