Patent ID: 6851299

Claim:
An apparatus for determining the nature of at least one liquid organic compound by analyzing an outlet gas, which is a combustion product of said at least one liquid organic compound, said apparatus comprising: means for mixing said at least one liquid organic compound with water to form a liquid mixture of said at least one liquid organic compound and water; a combustion furnace for combusting said at least one organic compound in said liquid mixture of at least one organic compound and water, said combustion furnace having an upper section and a lower section; a liquid test sample inlet nozzle to said combustion furnace, through which said liquid mixture of said at least one liquid organic compound and water is introduced into said combustion furnace; means for introducing an oxygen-containing gas into said combustion furnace; and a protective pipe, positioned around an outside of said liquid test sample inlet nozzle, such that a tip of said liquid test sample inlet nozzle is in abutting communication with an inner circumferential surface of said protective pipe, said protective pipe having a tip extending from said liquid test sample inlet nozzle at an acute angle thereto.