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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4389950 | Process for burning retorted oil shale and improved combustor Combustor and process for burning particularized oil shale by preburning separate fine and coarse particle feedstreams prior to mixing in the main combustion zone.... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4379433 | Incinerator An incinerator having a generally cylindrical, horizontally disposed shell enclosed at its ends by vertical end plates and defining a combustion chamber. The upper sector of the shell is provided with a feed opening for introducing combustible waste into ... | 04/12/1983 |
| 4377116 | Furnace for burning husk A husk burning furnace having a husk smoke-burning chamber formed by an inner peripheral perforated wall defining a pot-shaped primary gas burning chamber and an outer peripheral perforated wall surrounding the inner peripheral perforated wall. Means are ... | 03/22/1983 |
| 4376373 | Energy recovery system Scrap automobiles are loaded onto carts which move along rails into a two-stage incinerator. Combustible waste is shredded, dried, and loaded onto a transporter which moves along the rails into the incinerator. The automobiles and combustibles are inciner... | 03/15/1983 |
| 4372226 | Liquid waste feeding system for an incinerator A liquid waste feeding system to be used in conjunction with a solid waste, pyrolytic incinerator. The liquid waste is atomized and injected into the upper end portion of the pyrolysis chamber of the incinerator through a retractable nozzle assembly. The ... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4346661 | Furnace for treating industrial wastes A furnace for treating sewage sludge, ash from municipal incinerators or other industrial wastes by melting the waste with a high-temperature bed formed from a combustible carbonaceous material for the reuse of the resulting molten product, for example, a... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4346660 | Self-supporting incinerator and expandable shield therefor An improved, self-supporting incinerator having a combustion chamber for burning sulfur containing compounds therein and adapted to eliminate plume formation resulting from the combustion of such compounds. The incinerator includes a vertically disposed h... | 08/31/1982 |
| 4341167 | Energy conserving heating and cooling system for printing plant A low-cost energy-conserving system for heating and cooling the equipment and environment of a manufacturing installation, and more particularly, a printing plant, including an incinerator for burning waste paper generated as a result of the printing proc... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4337711 | Method for combustion of petroleum and solid wastes A method and apparatus for the combustion of semi-solid and liquid petroleum wastes are disclosed. The petroleum wastes such as crankcase oil are mixed with particulate combustible solids such as wood chips and shavings in a ratio in the range of, by volu... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4320709 | Hazardous materials incineration system A hazardous materials incineration system is disclosed which includes a solid waste combustor of the inclined, oscillating or rocking type and a liquid waste combustor suitable to incinerate wastes in liquid form. The combustion products from both the sol... | 03/23/1982 |
| 4291633 | Incinerator An incinerator having a generally cylindrical, horizontally disposed shell enclosed at its ends by vertical end plates and defining a combustion chamber. The upper sector of the shell is provided with a feed opening for introducing combustible waste into ... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4291634 | Solid refuse disposal apparatus Apparatus for disposing of pelletized refuse by conversion into useful gaseous products and inert solid residue, comprising a vertical shaft and an enlarged hearth beneath the shaft, with a multiplicity of tuyeres for feeding oxygen-containing gas into th... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4279208 | Method and apparatus for heat treatment of industrial wastes A method and apparatus for the heat treatment of industrial wastes wherein at least some of the constituent materials of the wastes are subjected to combustion and/or to pyrolysis to produce flue gases and, in some applications, a residue. The supply of a... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4246850 | Incinerator An incinerator for burning garbage has a combustion chamber and an after-burner chamber. The top wall of the combustion chamber has an open loading aperture therein. An air curtain of over-fire combustion air is provided below the loading aperture, to pre... | 01/27/1981 |
| 4241671 | Air-curtain incinerator for energetic materials An air-curtain incinerator for burning energetic materials. Both the volume f air and the angle at which air enters the fire box are remotely controllable. The combustion process is monitored, and the air volume and angle at which air enters the fire box a... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4237780 | Hydrocarbon fume disposal system particularly for use in paint spray booths A prefilter and a filter are made from wood chips, and carbonized wood chips respectively, and the filters are employed to remove hydrocarbon fumes generated in paint spray booths. The filters are subsequently incinerated and the heat of incineration may ... | 12/09/1980 |
| 4232614 | Process of incineration with predrying of moist feed using hot inert particulates Moist combustible matter is burned in a combustion zone following a drying treatment in which the combustible matter is brought into contact with hot, inert particulates circulated from the combustion zone. The water in the combustible matter is evaporate... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4183307 | Pollution controlled incineration system A pollution controlled incinerator system comprises an elongated combustion products duct system having a series of spaced incineration station inlets positioned above ground level and a permanently installed pollution control apparatus. The branch combus... | 01/15/1980 |
| 4145278 | Method and apparatus for sewage treatment plants This invention relates to a method and apparatus for use in a sewage treatment plant, and is characterized by a centrifuge for receiving material precipitated by lime in the plant and for discharging a regenerable lime sludge, the centrifuge having a cent... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4109590 | Apparatus and method for producing gas Continuously flowing solid material, such as municipal waste, is pretreated in an air-starved hot moving grate carbonizer furnace to drive off low temperature volatiles, and then further devolatized in a shaft furnace wherein limited amounts of air are le... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4080909 | Pollution free multi-chambered burner A multi-chambered combuster apparatus for the controlled burning of all forms of light combustible organic material and the generation of steam or dry heat energy, resulting in essentially pollution free combustion as atmospheric emissions have zero opaci... | 03/28/1978 |
| 4077337 | Method and installation for continuous combustion of combustibles Method and installation (apparatus) for continuous combustion of combustibles effecting combustion in a closed room into which a controlled quantity of substantially pure oxygen is introduced. The gases emitted by the combustible combined with oxygen to p... | 03/07/1978 |
| 4077338 | Shaft furnace for pyrolysis of refuse with bed support structure A vertical shaft furnace for the pyrolysis of pelletized refuse, having a hearth in the base provided with a refuse bed support structure comprising a plurality of cooled, refractory support members, extending radially inward from the wall toward the axis... | 03/07/1978 |
| 4059061 | Waste burner overfire draft system An overfire draft system for a waste burner is disclosed. Such system comprises air vents arranged circumferentially around the base of the burner for communicating the interior of the burner to the atmosphere and a draft modulated damper plate located in... | 11/22/1977 |
| 4019445 | Studded hearth A furnace, particularly for use in a slagging pyrolysis system for the disposal of solid waste, includes a metal hearth portion, unprotected by refractory material, the hearth portion having a plurality of heat conducting studs affixed to the inner wall o... | 04/26/1977 |
| 3974784 | Solid-liquid waste incinerator utilizing liquid catalysts A solid-liquid waste incinerator is disclosed which provides a novel thermodynamic interaction between a liquid catalyst, which is employed for cleansing the exhaust gases from the incinerator, and a combustion stage in which the solid-liquid wastes are b... | 08/17/1976 |
