Patent ID: 9052116
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: F01D,F02C,F02K,F23R

Abstract:
1. A device, comprising: a toroidal combustion chamber having an outer surface and further comprising a plurality of combustible fluid inlets; an exhaust outlet located at a center of the toroidal combustion chamber and through which passes an axis coplanar with a cross-section of the toroidal combustion chamber and which does not intersect the cross-section of the toroidal combustion chamber; a first plate disposed along the axis and bounding a labyrinthine conduit between the first plate and the outer surface, wherein the labyrinthine conduit circumscribes the axis in a plane perpendicular to the axis, the labyrinthine conduit in fluid communication with the exhaust outlet and extending from the exhaust outlet to an opening on a surface of the first plate, wherein the surface of the first plate is the one most distal to the axis.