Appeal No. 2000-01345
Application 09/097,176
positions of the appellants and the examiner with regard to
the merits of these rejections. 2
DISCUSSION
Pfefferle, the examiner’s primary reference, discloses
“ultra-low emission combustors using available catalysts and
catalyst support materials, combustors which are capable of
operating not only at the low combustion temperatures of
conventional catalytic but also of operating at the high
combustor outlet temperatures required for full power
operation of modern gas turbines” (column 2, lines 40 through
45). As explained in the reference,
a radial flow catalyst element can be
integrated into an aerodynamically
stabilized burner to provide a
catalytically reacted fuel-air mixture for
enhanced flame stabilization with catalyst
temperature maintained by recirculation of
2As a result of the amendments subsequent to final
rejection (see n.1, supra), the examiner has withdrawn the 35
U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, rejection of claims 1 through
3 and 6 which was set forth in the final rejection (see the
advisory action dated November 24, 1999, Paper No. 9).
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