DOSING DEVICE

• Main Authors: FAYE, IAN, MILLER, FRANK
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 05.12.2007
• Subjects: APPLYING LIQUIDS OR OTHER FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL; ATOMISING APPARATUS; BLASTING; BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; BURNERS; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION ENGINES; COMBUSTION PROCESSES; COMPOUNDS THEREOF; DISPENSING, DELIVERING OR TRANSFERRING LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNALCOMBUSTION ENGINES; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES ORENGINES IN GENERAL; HEATING; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS; INORGANIC CHEMISTRY; LIGHTING; LIQUID HANDLING; MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; METALLURGY; NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS; NOZZLES; OPENING, CLOSING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; SPRAYING APPARATUS; SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES; SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL, WITH COMBUSTIBLEMIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; TRANSPORTING; WEAPONS

A dosing device ( 1 ) for liquid fuels, in particular for input into a chemical reformer in order to recover hydrogen, having at least one metering device ( 2 ) for metering fuel into a metering conduit ( 12 ) and having a nozzle body ( 7 ), adjoining the metering conduit ( 12 ), having spray discharge openings ( 6 ) which open into a metering chamber ( 10 ), the nozzle body ( 7 ) projecting with a spherical portion at the spray-discharge end into the metering chamber ( 10 ), and the spray discharge openings ( 6 ) being distributed over the spherical portion of the nozzle body ( 7 ).