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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4631133 | Waste treatment device and method using microwaves A method and device for separating most of the waste material from sewage effluent, which incinerates a large portion of the waste to dispose of the waste in an environmentally safe manner. After separation, the aqueous by-product from the sewage effluent... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4608944 | Ignition device for fluidized bed boiler The present invention concerns an ignition device for igniting fuel within a heating boiler having a combustion section operating according to the fluidized bed principle. The ignition device comprises a jacket-like body portion with a surface facing away... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4606283 | System for extracting contaminants and hydrocarbons from cuttings waste in oil well drilling A system wherein the contaminated cuttings are fed into the system for eventual incineration. The principal apparatus of the system comprises a plurality, preferably three, of horizontally disposed cylindrical drying chambers mounted onto a skid for recei... | 08/19/1986 |
| 4602574 | Destruction of toxic organic chemicals Toxic chemicals such as polychlorinated biphenyls and other organic wastes are destroyed by injecting them, together with oxygen, into a metal or slag bath such as is utilized in a steelmaking facility. The metal bath may be melted initially by induction ... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4582004 | Electric arc heater process and apparatus for the decomposition of hazardous materials This invention relates to an electric arc heater process and apparatus for the essentially complete decomposition of hazardous materials including polychlorinated biphenyls. Finely divided liquid or gaseous hazardous material is injected into a primary ga... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4574714 | Destruction of toxic chemicals Toxic chemicals such as polychlorinated biphenyls and other organic wastes are destroyed, optionally together with inorganic wastes, by injecting them, together with oxygen, into a molten bath such as is utilized in a steelmaking facility. The bath may be... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4499832 | Apparatus and method for material disposal An apparatus and method for the environmentally safe disposal of material by combustion using a hot body having a plurality of open pores.... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4495873 | Incinerator for burning odor forming materials The incinerator is made up of an inner housing located within an outer housing and which have spaced apart walls forming an interior space therebetween. The inner and outer housings have aligned upper openings with insulated closure members. A central cha... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4489665 | Mobile, sorbent-pad disposal system A movable incineration system for the disposal of used sorbent pads utilized in the cleanup of oil or hydrocarbon spills in marine environments. The portable incineration system of the present invention comprises an incinerator, a wringer, an auxiliary po... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4398472 | Electric burner for oxidizing oven A recirculating oven in which air and oxidized gases from a burner tube are directed to evaporation zone outlets at the bottom of the oven and curing zone outlets at the top and fed into a pair of wire work chambers, the gas streams mixing between the zon... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4280417 | Incineration plant A combustion process and a plant therefor, said process comprising the steps of introducing combustion material into a first chamber included in the plant and burning said combustion material therein, and finally burning out and treating in a second chamb... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4259910 | Electric controlled air incinerator for radioactive wastes A two-stage incinerator is provided which includes a primary combustion chamber and an afterburner chamber for off-gases. The latter is formed by a plurality of vertical tubes in combination with associated manifolds which connect the tubes together to fo... | 04/07/1981 |
| 4202282 | Method of incineration A method and apparatus for incineration of combustible material including the processing of sewage sludge from wastewater treating plants and the initial activation and regeneration of activated carbon granules or powder used for adsorption in wastewater ... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4181504 | Method for the gasification of carbonaceous matter by plasma arc pyrolysis Apparatus and method for gasification of carbonaceous matter by plasma arc pyrolysis are disclosed. In one embodiment, a refractory-lined furnace is provided with a depression along its base for holding a pool of molten metal which acts as the external el... | 01/01/1980 |
| 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 |
| 4050900 | Incineration apparatus An apparatus for carrying out various methods of material incineration includes an elongated combustion chamber housing a continuous conveyor belt supported beneath infrared heating units, air flow means to the combustion chamber and to the heating units ... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4036152 | Refuse compactor-incinerator disposer A solid refuse compactor-incinerator disposer which includes a cabinet housing with a refractory bottom wall and a ram mounted in the housing for vertical reciprocal movement. A drawer, with a refuse receiving container, is slidable into and out of the ho... | 07/19/1977 |
| 3986955 | Effluent waste treatment process and apparatus A self-contained process for the treatment of liquid waste from a unit source which involves a flow of liquid waste purified in a heating zone, preferably an electrode boiler, by direct passage of an electric current through the raw waste, the water conte... | 10/19/1976 |
