Patent ID: 9726433
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: F24D,F24H,F28D,F28F

Claim:
1. A heating apparatus arranged to heat a uranium material container, comprising: a heating chamber in which a heater is configured to heat a heating liquid; a heat exchanger configured to receive the heating liquid from the heating chamber and to transfer heat energy from the heating liquid to a separate heating fluid; a separate uranium material heating chamber having a uranium material container situated therein, wherein the apparatus is configured to direct heated heating fluid from an exit of the heat exchanger to an entrance of the uranium material heating chamber and to heat the uranium material container with the heated heating fluid; and a pressure regulator configured to control a pressure inside the heating chamber, wherein the regulator is coupled at a first side to a pressure in the heating chamber and at a second side to atmospheric pressure outside the apparatus, wherein the pressure regulator comprises: wherein the heater is positioned above the pressure regulator inlet and the apparatus is configured so that evaporation of the heating liquid in the heating chamber pushes heating liquid into the U-bend and lowers a surface of the heating liquid in the heating chamber below the heater.