Patent ID: 7824604

Claim:
A method for cooling a tapered furnace burner panel housing at least one apparatus, said tapered burner panel having a plurality of surfaces comprising a mounting surface, an upper surface, an underside surface, a front side surface (smaller in surface area), and a plurality of side surfaces, wherein said upper surface of said burner panel comprises a plurality of v-shaped grooves and said burner panel extends away from a furnace wall in such a manner as to allow the front side surface of the burner panel to extend below the lower portion of the mounting surface and to extend to at least a split line of said furnace and is designed for injecting thermal energy into said furnace from said apparatus, said method comprising the steps of: a. positioning a conduit within the burner panel, said conduit formed in a serpentine manner just beneath and along a portion of at least one surface of said burner panel, wherein said conduit removes heat from said burner panel when a cooling fluid is flowing through said conduit and wherein said serpentine manner has a minimum radius; and b. coupling said conduit to a cooling system connection, wherein said cooling system connection is located interior to said furnace wall.