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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4546711 | Apparatus and method for incinerating waste material with a converted preheater-type lime kiln Apparatus and method for incinerating toxic and non-toxic waste using a modified preheater-type lime kiln is disclosed wherein the kiln is modified to incinerate waste and the preheater section is modified to provide an incineration processing aid such as... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4545306 | High temperature furnace An improved high temperature furnace is disclosed for consuming various fuels and organic waste materials while generating usable energy. The furnace has a high pressure aeration system in its combustion chamber to increase combustion efficiency. One set ... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4530289 | Solid fuel furnace The disclosure herein describes a furnace for consuming solid fuel, such as wood, which comprises a gravitational feed chute for feeding the solid fuel in a combustion chamber; the chute has an open lower feed end adjoining the combustion chamber, the fee... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4509434 | Procedure and equipment for destroying waste by plasma technique Fluid waste material is completely atomized and decomposed in a burner wherein the material to be decomposed and an oxidizing agent are maintained at a suitable relative ratio at every point in the burner so that waste transforms into a stable combustion ... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4509437 | Process for cleaning of flue gases of a power plant with the aid of a coal dust burning flame and apparatus for carrying out the process In the process for cleaning of flue gases of a power plant boiler, the flue gases are dust filtered at first and then wet desulfurized. By the wet desulfurization the flue gases are cooled down and have to be reheated before they are fed to the stack of t... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4470358 | Continuous solid fuel-bed degasification burner apparatus In a combustion chamber (20) the biomass to be degasified is placed via a conveyor screw (11) on to a trough (24). In the degasification chamber (20) there prevails a high temperature due to the vicinity of the flame chamber (27), so that the biomass is b... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4444153 | Grateless furnace for solid fuel A grateless furnace has a combustion chamber, means to introduce solid fuel into the combustion chamber and to permit said fuel to form a fire bed in the bottom thereof, the combustion chamber being of such configuration that slag formed during combustion... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4438756 | Apparatus and method for accomplishing efficient burning of biomass fuel materials An apparatus and method accomplishes the burning of biomass fuel materials with up to 80 percent efficiency. The inventive method and apparatus utilize a catalytic converter in communication with a combustion chamber to combust more completely combustion ... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4438706 | Procedure and equipment for destroying waste by plasma technique Material is comletely atomized, and converted into a plasma state by directing the feeding of the burner so that the material to be decomposed and an oxidizing agent (oxygen, air, etc.,) are in a suitable ratio at every point of the equipment so that the ... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4430951 | Process for cleaning of flue gases of a power plant with the aid of a coal dust burning flame and apparatus for carrying out the process In the process for cleaning of flue gases of a power plant boiler, the flue gases are dust filtered at first and then wet desulfurized. By the wet desulfurization the flue gases are cooled down and have to be reheated before they are fed to the stack of t... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4416325 | Heat exchanger A combustion air preheater for heating combustion air with heat energy provided from flue gas includes both a heat pipe type heat exchanger for effecting low temperature heat transfer between the flue gas and the combustion air and a tube-and-shell type h... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4395956 | Bio-mass burner with grate therefor and method of operation A bio-mass burner having a continuous feed on demand to a first combustion chamber that contains a hollow grate structure. The novel method of operation includes the use of at least one venturi tube which is in fluid communication with the hollow grate st... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4377117 | Particulate waste wood firing system A furnace for burning dry or wet wood waste products such as hogged bark and the like is provided with a grating therein comprised of aligned rows of bricks resting on supporting cross beams, with at least some of the rows of bricks maintained a uniform d... | 03/22/1983 |
| 4377115 | Furnace for burning particulate wood waste material A furnace for burning dry or wet wood waste products such as hogged bark and the like is provided with a grating therein comprised of aligned rows of bricks resting on supporting cross beams, with at least some of the rows of bricks maintained a uniform d... | 03/22/1983 |
| 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 |
| 4338870 | High temperature oxygen hazardous waste incinerator The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for incinerating hazardous wastes through the use of a high temperature incineration process. According to the method of the present invention, substantially pure oxygen is preheated by partial c... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4300460 | Method for generating heat from waste fuel A combustion method in which heat is generated from particulate laden combustible gas containing mineral matter created from gasifying waste wood, coke or other combustible material in which the waste is fed into a pile, under-fire combustion air dries an... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4299561 | Recovery of heat from flue gas A system for recovering heat from combustion flue gas, which transfers heat from the flue gas into combustion-supporting air, which is then used to burn a fuel in a combustion zone in a furnace or the like, so that useful heat is generated and a hot combu... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4280416 | Rotary valve for a regenerative thermal reactor An apparatus for the elimination of fumes and odors from exhaust gases simultaneously with the recovery of heat from such gases and, in particular, a rotating control means for controlling the flow of such gases, in sequence, through heat exchange chamber... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4223640 | Fuel firing An apparatus and method to permit the burning of high and varying moisture content fuels without requiring supplemental fuel (oil or gas) firing. The invention provides in-situ drying of the high and varying moisture content fuels by modulating the temper... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4213404 | Solid refuse furnace A new furnace is provided which employs a forced draft to efficiently and cleanly burn a wide variety of fuels such as wood and refuse. The furnace is designed to internally and continuously pyrolyze (gasify) fuel prior to the burning phase which is condu... | 07/22/1980 |
| 4177740 | Apparatus for generating heat from waste fuel A combustion apparatus having primary and secondary combustion chambers burns waste wood with an optional third chamber. The third chamber is used to blend the combustion products down to the desired process temperature. High pressure swirl air is admitte... | 12/11/1979 |
| 4167146 | Trash incinerating oven The combustion chamber of the oven is bounded at the top by a lid which can be swung open and at the bottom by a grating. The grating has one or more sections which pivot about an axis to dump slag. A hollow interior of the grating forms a section of the ... | 09/11/1979 |
| 4145979 | Afterburner assembly A burner assembly for combusting pyrolysis gases includes a chamber, a first cone-shaped conduit connected at its larger end to the chamber and a second conduit mounted to extend through the smaller end of the first conduit to have an open end positioned ... | 03/27/1979 |
| 4123979 | Incinerator The present invention comprises an improved after burner for a multi-chamber incinerator including a pair of successive gas flow tubes having arcuate surfaces disposed one over the other such that the said one is an arcuate surface having a radius to a lo... | 11/07/1978 |
| 4117786 | Inlet air preheating for pyrolysis system The air entering the reactor in a pyrolysis system is preheated by burning a part of the process gas from the reactor in the entering air, thereby maintaining an inlet temperature to prevent solidifying of the slag in the furnace, to maintain the pyrolyti... | 10/03/1978 |
| 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 |
| 4102279 | Furnace plant A charging shaft in a furnace housing, communicating at its bottom with an adjoining combustion chamber, is topped by a sloping lid having an air-intake opening near its lower end, that opening registering with an underlying baffle defining with that lid ... | 07/25/1978 |
| 4092935 | Process and apparatus for the incineration of solid fuel material A process and apparatus for the thermal destruction of solid fuel material in a gravity-type multiple hearth furnace having groups of two or more superimposed hearths. Solid fuel is fed to the upper hearth of each group of hearths. Auxiliary fuel is selec... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4038930 | Furnace for incinerating refuse The present device is a refuse incinerator and includes a combustion chamber, a primary source of air disposed to provide first air to said chamber to effect a first combustion therein; an escape orifice for combustion gases, resulting from the combustion... | 08/02/1977 |
| 4037543 | Pollution free combination carbonization apparatus and furnace A combination carbonization apparatus and furnace for alternatively reducing cellulosic waste such as wood chips and the like to charcoal, or burning said waste completely to produce furnace heat and ash, from which potash may be produced, as desired, the... | 07/26/1977 |
| 3976018 | Dryer system A fuel dryer system for waste fuel boilers, such as for example those in the sugar cane processing industry where bagasse is used as a primary fuel, in which the dryer comprises an assembled, enclosed, vertical dryer structure of basically cylindrical sha... | 08/24/1976 |
| 3970011 | Combustion with fluidizable bed A furnace for carrying out combustion of refuse or for reclaiming particles contaminated with combustible material comprises a bed of particles which is fluidized by feeding air and gaseous fuel into the bed. The refuse or contaminated material is fed int... | 07/20/1976 |
| 3961587 | Combustion equipment in which humid combustible excreta and disposed materials such as livestock excreta, paper sludge can be burnt spontaneously A furnace for the combustion of moist waste materials having an axial combustion chamber surrounded in part by two communicating air jackets between which air jackets the waste combustible material is disposed, air being forced through the air jackets int... | 06/08/1976 |
| 3955512 | Refuse incinerator A combustion chamber is arranged above a burner grate, and a fragmentizing device fragmentizes refuse and forwards it to the combustion chamber in form a mix composed of lighter and heavier refuse particles. The lighter refuse particles become combusted i... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3941065 | Fluidized bed furnace for burning partly dehydrated sludge and method of burning sludge in a fluidized bed furnace A fluidized bed furnace, particularly for burning partly dehydrated sludge, comprises a furnace housing which has a bottom for supporting a fluidized bed and it includes a plurality of nozzles directed to discharge upwardly through the bottom wall into th... | 03/02/1976 |
