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Behrouz Chehroudi0
Ghanshyam L. Vaghjiani0
Andrew David Ketsdever0
Date of Patent
February 23, 2010
0Patent Application Number
114927280
Date Filed
July 25, 2006
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
An apparatus for distributed ignition is disclosed wherein a combustion fuel and an ignition mixture are combined where the ignition mixture comprises ignition agents and fuel and where ignition agents can be nano-metallic particles in combination with single-walled carbon nano-tubes (SWCNTs). The combination of ignition mixture and combustion fuel in the presence of oxygen are exposed to light causing heating of the ignition agents and combustion of the fuel within which the ignition agents are interspersed. A system for igniting fuels using the method is also disclosed.
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