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Advanced Burner for Field Kitchen Appliances
Title: Principal Investigator
Phone: (603) 643-3800
Email: dak@creare.com
Title: President
Phone: (603) 643-3800
Email: contractsmgr@creare.com
The Marines and other military branches are seeking to develop more efficient, more reliable, and safer logistics fuel (JP-8) burners needed for field kitchen cooking appliances. Existing appliances that operate on logistics fuel have a number of significant shortcomings. In some cases, existing burners involve open flames which are inherently inefficient and vent both heat and potentially hazardous combustion products into the kitchen atmosphere. In other cases, the burners have low combustion efficiency, are relatively complex, and have a variety of reliability and maintenance issues. To improve efficiency, comfort, maintainability, reliability, and safety, on this project we will develop an advanced, fully enclosed, premixed JP-8 fuel burner technology that can be mated with a variety of field kitchen appliances, including tray ration heaters. This project will build on an ongoing Army burner development effort at Creare that is focused on griddles. In Phase I, we will adapt our burner technology to the tray ration heater application and develop a half-scale tray ration heater prototype. During Phase II, we will optimize the burner for a full-scale tray ration heater, develop a manufacturing design, and adapt the burner concept to other kitchen appliances.
* Information listed above is at the time of submission. *