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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7017371 | Method for producing a glass Glass produced on basis of a raw material in form of a mixture of mainly mineral-containing components comprising sludge from e.g. purification plants and waste products from the industry, and having a determined chemical composition adjusted on basis of knowledge o... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6149425 | Static furnace for the thermal decomposition of solids at high temperatures by thermal radiation A furnace for the thermal decomposition of solids by thermal radiation having an inlet for admitting the solids at an upper part with the solids dropping by gravity in the furnace. There is at least one heated radiator body within the furnace below the in... | 11/21/2000 |
| 5927215 | Preheater and incineration system having the preheater A preheater in an incineration system consists of: a first opening through which refuse is input; a second opening which is formed under the first opening and communicates with an incinerator; a heat flow passageway which is formed between the first and s... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5913273 | Incinerator including vibrator and incinerator including drying chamber A waste incinerator including separate burning-, blower-, chimney- and ash-receiving chambers. A suction-discharge port is provided in a wall between the burning chamber and the chimney chamber for discharging gases from the burning chamber through a chim... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5771819 | Incinerating furnace A hearth particle bed incineration furnace is provided in which the hearth particles form a sloped layer bed which moves in the incinerating furnace without being fluidized. The furnace is structured so that the combustion gas is prevented from flowing up... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5678494 | Biomass-fueled furnace A biomass-fueled furnace for residential or institutional space and hot water heating. Wood chips, the preferred fuel, are purchased "green and/or wet" and are stored in a dryer/storage assembly which uses waste clean exhaust gases produced by the furnace... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5505145 | Process and apparatus for waste incineration The invention relates to a process for burning waste with simultaneous regeneration of a usable gas and an inert solid residue in which the waste is fed into the upper part of an upright shaft furnace, an oxygen-containing gas is fed into the lower part o... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5421275 | Method and apparatus for reducing mixed waste The present invention is a method and apparatus for in-can waste reduction. The method is mixing waste with combustible material prior to placing the waste into a waste reduction vessel. The combustible portion is ignited, thereby reducing combustible mat... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5415110 | Refuse incinerator A refuse incinerator includes an installation with two covered hoppers connected at their lower ends by a movable plate to a combustion chamber. A series of plates have been placed in the combustion chamber and have a cadenced movement for moving and oxyg... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5388537 | System for burning refuse-derived fuel A system for disposing of refuse-derived fuel ("RDF") and converting the refuse-derived fuel into a fuel gas is described. The system includes a positive pressure combustion chamber and a feed system for feeding the RDF into the combustion chamber at high... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5311828 | Incinerator An incinerator includes a furnace body which confines a combustion chamber for receiving refuse therein and which has a bottom wall formed with a central opening, an ash release gate mounted pivotally to the bottom wall at the central opening, a stack whi... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5311830 | Method of energetic and material utilization of waste goods of all kind and device for implementing said method Methods and suitable devices for the intermediate storage, transport and preparation as well as utilization of waste goods of all kinds are described, said waste goods being compacted down to a plurality of its original volume while maintaining their mixe... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5307748 | Cyclonic thermal treatment and stabilization of industrial wastes A process and apparatus for thermal treatment and stabilization of waste materials in which waste material is introduced into an uppermost first combustion zone of a vertically oriented combustion chamber and a fuel and an oxidant are tangentially injecte... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5307747 | Horizontal furnace A low lying horizontal furnace comprising a fireproof enclosure sealed by a top burns solid fuels which are gravity fed through a vertical feed chamber positioned over a feed aperture in the top of the furnace. An exhaust stack is placed over an exhaust a... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5195449 | Dry distillation type incinerator A distillation type incinerator generates gas containing much combustible gas owing to restricted air introduction at feeding the combustible matters thereto and minimum necessary supply of air for combustion and dry distillation, and generates residue wh... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5186112 | Method and apparatus for melting materials containing inorganic material fibers by the supply of oxygen rich gas For melting an inorganic fiber which is mixed with an organic substance, the inorganic fiber material and organic substance are heated in a furnace to a temperature sufficient for the organic material to combust, and sufficient oxygen enriched gas to fed ... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5179902 | Method and apparatus for melting materials containing inorganic material fibers by the supply of oxygen rich gas For melting an inorganic fiber which is mixed with an organic substance, the inorganic fiber material and organic substance are heated in a furnace to a temperature sufficient for the organic material to combust, and sufficient oxygen enriched gas is fed ... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5127344 | Incinerator and incinerating method employing the same An incinerator for combustion of general refuse and industrial wastes having a pair of ash discharge plates and a pair of refuse supporting plates. The ash discharge plates are disposed at the bottom of a furnace in such a manner that it can be freely ope... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5063860 | Method and apparatus for melting materials containing inorganic material fibers by the supply of oxygen rich gas For melting an inorganic fiber which is mixed with an organic substance, the inorganic fiber material and organic substance are heated in a furnace to a temperature sufficient for the organic material to combust, and sufficient oxygen enriched gas is fed ... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5020453 | Vertical incinerator A vertical incinerator for burning general refuses and industrial wastes which comprises a plurality of sets of grates disposed at different levels within a furnace to divide the furnace into a plurality of combustion chambers in such a manner that the re... | 06/04/1991 |
| 5010828 | Gasification reactor for combustible solid material A gasification shaft in the reactor collects a loose heap of solid waste matter on a support at the bottom of the shaft in the form of a triangular hollow prism having longitudinal edges leaving gaps between it and the walls of the shaft. The support can ... | 04/30/1991 |
| 4998486 | Process and apparatus for treatment of excavated landfill material in a plasma fired cupola Excavatged landfill material is treated in a plasma fired cupola in a process wherein hazardous material such as PCB's are volatilized and consumed in an afterburner above the cupola and hazardous materials containing heavy metals are fixed in vitreous ma... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4991519 | Incinerating furnace An incinerating furnace which utilizes mineral particles as a hearth bed. Hearth particles are supplied and automatically flow down by gravity into the combustion chamber and onto a movable plane member, such as a rotary table, disposed at the bottom of t... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4976208 | Water cooled incinerator An incinerator having a horizontal burn disk which is rotatably supported within the lower portion of a firebox with a portion of the firebox containing water tubes connected to a water circulation system including a header and a steam drum. Compacted mat... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4941824 | Method of and apparatus for cooling and cleaning the roof and environs of a coke oven Coking emissions in the regions of the roof of the coke oven and adjoining lateral wall regions are removed by removing jets of fresh air from one longitudinal side to the other longitudinal side where the air, entraining the contaminant, is collected. Th... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4850289 | Incinerator The incinerator is made of a loading member, a burning chamber, a combustion chamber and a duct member having a restricted dimension for connecting the burning and the combustion chambers. The loading member is an upstanding cylinder for receiving the was... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4836115 | Vertical furnace A down-draft, gravity fed, bio-mass, solid fuel burning stove or furnace comprises an upright cylindrical housing having a top cover and a fire resistant openable air-tight floor. Fuel drops onto the center of the floor through a central feed tube where i... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4787321 | Solid waste conversion plant The present invention is directed to a solid waste conversion plan for the conversion of such solid waste as old tires to a gas or liquid hydrocarbon product, wherein the partial pyrolysis of the solid waste is carried out in a reactor having a grate in t... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4774896 | Slide dampers for a vertical type of apparatus for continuously heat-treating solid waste The present invention relates to a slide damper system used for a vertical type of furnace for continuously heat-treating charged solid matters. This slide damper system comprises at least two slide damper means disposed vertically apart from each other i... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4766824 | Burner especially for burning biomass A burner particularly for burning biomass. The burner comprises a combustion chamber (6) whereinto the fuel is fed, an ash pit (8) which is located below the combustion chamber (6), and an automatic stoker (4) which is connected to the combustion chamber ... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4732091 | Pyrolysis and combustion process and system A process which comprises the steps of introducing combustible solid material into an upper section of a pyrolysis chamber, moving the material downwardly at a controlled rate through multiple stage zones in the pyrolysis chamber, passing hot gaseous prod... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4732092 | Pyrolysis and combustion apparatus A system for pyrolysis and combustion of combustible solid material, such as waste, which comprises a pyrolysis chamber having a series of spaced vertically disposed movable grates, forming a plurality of stages in the pyrolysis chamber and permitting dow... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4728081 | Incinerating and melting apparatus Disclosed is an incinerating and melting apparatus for processing materials such as organic matters, inorganic matters and metals, which apparatus has a cylindrical or polygonal horizontal furnace body provided with a material charging port and a melt dis... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4694947 | Dump chute assembly A dump chute assembly includes an outer radially-shaped housing having an access door and an inner pivotally movable radially-shaped chute member. The inner chute member includes a sealing panel which seals the assembly from the incinerator chimney. Contr... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4688495 | Hazardous waste reactor system A thermal decomposition reactor accepts solid, liquid or gaseous waste products of industrial processes or the like and rapidly reduces same to substances such as carbon dioxide, water and glassified non-leachable ash without limitation by materials that ... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4646637 | Method and apparatus for fluidized bed combustion A method and apparatus for fluidized bed construction in which the fluidized bed is confined in an annular combustion chamber and fuel is injected into the lower portion of the fluidized bed by a centrally located whirling disk having vanes thereon for im... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4643109 | Gasification of coal A fixed bed dry bottom coal gasifier has a cylindrical wall providing a gasification chamber for gasifying coal to produce synthesis gas. It also has a coal lock above the chamber. The coal lock has a coal discharge opening leading into the chamber. A gas... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4635569 | Incinerator system arrangement with dual scrubbing chambers An incinerator arrangement particularly for a multi-floor building includes a main housing located at the lowest level in the building, and a chute-flue which rises from the main housing to the roof of the building. Waste is burned in a main combustion ch... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4635573 | Method for destroying refuse The invention relates to a method of destroying and vaporizing refuse, primarily household waste. The material is fed into a shaft furnace, in which the material is subjected to a vaporization and combustion process in at least three zones, said zones bei... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4619210 | Solid and liquid waste incinerator system A solid and liquid waste incinerator system is disclosed which utilizes the heat produced by the furnace to transform water into steam, the steam powering a steam turbine generator to produce electricity. Solid waste is automatically fed by conveyor belts... | 10/28/1986 |
