Patent ID: 8651066

Claim:
A pulse detonation cleaning system, comprising: a common tube, which is fluidly coupled to a vessel; a first array, including a plurality of elongate detonation tubes arrayed about a common axis, each of the plurality of the detonation tubes being disposed upstream from and fluidly coupled to an interior of the common tube; a second array, including a plurality of detonators arrayed about the common axis, each of the plurality of the detonators being disposed upstream from and operably coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of the detonation tubes such that actuation of each of the plurality of the detonators leads to combustion in the corresponding one of the plurality of the detonation tubes; and wherein the common tube is straight and has a correspondingly straight longitudinal axis, and wherein longitudinal axes of the plurality of the detonation tubes and the plurality of the detonators are transversely non-parallel with respect to the longitudinal axis of the common tube.