1. A tapered burner panel apparatus mounted within a furnace, the burner panel apparatus comprising:
a water-cooled tapered burner panel disposed within an opening in a wall of the furnace, the furnace wall opening having a bottom surface upon which the water-cooled tapered burner panel rests, the water-cooled tapered burner panel having a vertically oriented mounting surface, a downwardly sloping tapered upper surface that extends into the furnace, a first tapered sidewall surface that extends into the furnace, a second tapered sidewall surface that extends into the furnace, a downwardly sloping tapered underside surface that extends into the furnace, a front side surface that is disposed within the furnace, and shaped grooves, wherein:
the mounting surface having top, bottom, and first and second side edges; and
the upper, underside, and first and second sidewall surfaces extending from the top, bottom, and first and second side edges of the mounting surface, respectively; and
at least one apparatus aperture positioned in the front side surface; and
at least one apparatus positioned within the at least one apparatus aperture,
wherein the at least one aperture extends to below the bottom surface of the furnace wall opening; and wherein the apparatus is at least one of an auxiliary thermal energy source, a particulate injector, or an oxygen injector.
2. The tapered burner panel apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one apparatus comprises first and second apparatuses.
3. The tapered burner panel apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one apparatus aperture comprises first and second apparatus apertures and the at least one apparatus comprises first and second apparatuses that are positioned within the first and second apparatus apertures, respectively.
4. The tapered burner panel apparatus of claim 1, wherein:
said tapered burner panel apparatus further comprises a plurality of surfaces exposed to an interior of the furnace;
the plurality of surfaces comprises the upper, underside, front side, and first and second sidewall surfaces, and wherein a substantial portion of said plurality of surfaces is other than orthogonal to the furnace’s metal line.
5. The tapered burner panel apparatus of claim 4, wherein only the mounting surface and the first and second sidewall surfaces of said plurality of surfaces are orthogonal to the furnace’s metal line.
6. The tapered burner panel apparatus of claim 1, wherein the shaped groove is on the upper surface of the burner panel.
7. The tapered burner panel apparatus of claim 1, wherein the burner panel apparatus is a plug and use burner panel apparatus.
8. The tapered burner panel apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first and second tapered sidewall surfaces taper inwardly.
9. The tapered burner panel apparatus of claim 1, wherein at least one of the at least one aperture extends to a split line of the furnace.
10. A tapered burner panel apparatus disposed within an opening in a wall of a furnace, the furnace wall opening having a bottom surface upon which the water-cooled tapered burner panel rests, the burner panel apparatus comprising:
a vertically oriented mounting surface having upper, lower, and first and second side edges, the mounting surface configured to be mounted in an opening of a furnace wall;
an upper surface having rear, front and first and second side edges, the upper surface extending from the upper edge of the mounting surface at the rear side edge thereof;
an underside surface having rear, front and first and second side edges, the underside surface extending from the lower edge of the mounting surface at the rear side edge thereof;
a first tapered sidewall surface having upper, lower, rear, and front edges, the first tapered sidewall surface extending from the first side edge of the mounting surface and between the first side edges of the upper and underside surfaces;
a second tapered sidewall surface having upper, lower, rear, and front edges, the second tapered sidewall surface extending from the second side edge of the mounting surface and between the second side edges of the upper and underside surfaces;
a front surface having upper, lower, and first and second side edges, the front surface extending between the front edges of the upper, underside, and first and second tapered sidewall surfaces;
an apparatus aperture disposed within the front surface; and an apparatus positioned within the apparatus aperture, wherein the apparatus is at least one of an auxiliary thermal energy source, a particulate injector, or an oxygen injector, wherein:
the upper surface slopes downwardly away from the upper edge of the mounting surface at an acute angle with respect to horizontal;
the lower surface slopes downwardly away from the lower edge of the mounting surface at an obtuse angle with respect to horizontal; and
the apparatus aperture extends to below the bottom surface of the furnace wall opening.
11. The tapered burner panel apparatus of claim 10, wherein the front surface slopes downwardly toward the mounting surface.
12. The tapered burner panel apparatus of claim 10, wherein the front surface has a smaller surface area than a surface area defined by the upper, lower, and first and second side edges of the mounting surface.
13. The tapered burner panel apparatus of claim 11, wherein, out of all of the upper, underside, front, and first and second sidewall surfaces, only the first and second sidewall surfaces are oriented perpendicular to that of the mounting surface.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A place-shifting IP streaming system using an RIA-based moving image playback method, comprising:
a remote terminal equipped with a client module on which a Flash player or a Silverlight runtime has been installed;
an STBPVR equipped with an IP streaming server module for compressively encoding analog signals, received from a broadcasting station, into digital signals in a form determined by Flash or Silverlight on the remote terminal, and streaming the digital signals to the remote terminal via an Internet in an IP manner; and
a service platform for performing communication setting and authentication between the IP streaming server module and the client module, installing a player UI on the remote terminal, and performing XML-based control and metadata transmission.
2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the player UI is implemented in a form of an swf file obtained by compiling MXMLActionScript code or an xap file obtained by compiling XAMLdll code.
3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the IP streaming server module, if the remote terminal supports the Flash player, adjusts the digital signals to desired format by packaging an H.264AAC video and sound codec in MPEG 4 format.
4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the IP streaming server module, if the remote terminal supports the Silverlight, adjusts the digital signals to a WMVWMA codec and sends them.
5. The system according to claim 4, wherein the IP streaming server module is configured to implement the digital compressive encoding using a hardware chip and a server function for performing streaming using internal software, so that multimedia packets are stored in a virtual drive file and these stored packets are successively sent, thereby performing a real-time streaming function.
6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the STBPVR further comprises an XML module connected to one side of the IP streaming server module so as to send and receive XML control signals with respect to the remote terminal.
7. The system according to claim 1, wherein, as a control UI module of the player UI displayed on the remote terminal operates, the service platform creates an XML command tag and sends the XML command tag to the IP streaming server module, so that the IP streaming server module executes a relevant command using internal or RS232 communication with any one of an IR blaster, the STB and the PVR in response to the command tag and a corresponding moving image stream is displayed on the player UI.
8. The system according to claim 2, wherein the content is provided by the IP streaming server module, the swf file obtained by compiling the RIA-based FlashFlex MXMLActionScript code or the xap file obtained by compiling the Silverlight XAMLdll code is created by the service platform and provided to the client module of the remote terminal in the event of service access, so that only the content streaming is performed in a single direction from the IP streaming server module to the client module of the remote terminal and functions other than the content streaming are performed in both directions through the service platform.
9. The system according to claim 2, wherein the content is provided by the IP streaming server module, the swf file obtained by compiling the RIA-based FlashFlex MXMLActionScript code or the xap file obtained by compiling the Silverlight XAMLdll code is created by the service platform and previously installed in a Flash Air or WPF file in a desktop application form in the client module of the remote terminal, so that the IP streaming server module directly sends control signals, other than a content stream, to the client module of the remote terminal using bidirectional communication.
10. The system according to claim 7, wherein the service platform enables a broadcasting channel banner to be displayed in slide form at a lower end of the player on the player UI, and, when the desired channel banner is clicked or dragged and dropped on the screen, sends a control command or XML tag linked to the channel banner to the IP streaming server module and enables a relevant command to be executed.
11. The system according to claim 7, wherein the service platform enables EPG information to be provided on the player UI, thereby executing commands to control the IP streaming server module on the EPG screen.
12. The system according to claim 7, wherein the service platform performs at least one function selected from the group consisting of trailer screen connection, PIP screen connection, real-time subscription service connection, recorded information connection, program recommendation function connection and community connection on the player UI.
13. The system according to claim 7, wherein the service platform performs a function of additionally displaying open content information related to IP streamed content in connection with an open content sharing website on the player UI and facilitating operation in conjunction with the open content information.
14. The system according to claim 3, wherein the IP streaming server module is configured to implement the digital compressive encoding using a hardware chip and a server function for performing streaming using internal software, so that multimedia packets are stored in a virtual drive file and these stored packets are successively sent, thereby performing a real-time streaming function.