Title:
【発明の名称】亜臨界水-燃料組成物および燃焼システム
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2003520866
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
There is provided a water-hydrocarbon mixture. In one example, the mixture includes liquid hydrocarbon and between about 5% and about 70% water. The mixture is at a pressure that is below the critical pressure characteristic of the mixture and is at a temperature that is at least the greater of about 250° C. and about the boiling point temperature of water at the mixture pressure. The mixture provides a local environment of water molecules, tending to limit hydrocarbon polymerization and other undesirable side reactions and keeping the hydrocarbon from precipitating from the mixture. This provides for a faster, more complete combustion cycle that is characterized by lower emissions of carbon monoxide, unburned hydrocarbons, and volatile organic and polyaromatic hydrocarbons. The hydrocarbon preferably includes hydrocarbon micro-droplets of a diameter of no more than about 1 mum. The water in the mixture is preferably in a gaseous state, and one or more hydrocarbon constituents in the mixture are also preferably in a gaseous state. In one embodiment, both the water and the hydrocarbon of the mixture are in a gaseous state.
Inventors:
Ahern, Bryan, Es.
Haldeman, Charles, W.
Preston, John, Tee.
Haldeman, Charles, W.
Preston, John, Tee.
Application Number:
JP2001512814A
Publication Date:
July 08, 2003
Filing Date:
July 21, 2000
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Super Critical Combastion Corporation
International Classes:
C10L1/12; C10L1/32; C10L3/00; F02M25/022; F23C99/00; F23R3/00; F23K5/04; F23K5/10; (IPC1-7): C10L1/32; C10L1/12; C10L3/00; F23C11/00; F23R3/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yoshinori Hosoda