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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7225643 | Recirculation bubbler for glass melter apparatus A gas bubbler device provides enhanced recirculation of molten glass within a glass melter apparatus. The bubbler device includes a tube member disposed within a pool of molten glass contained in the melter. The tube member includes a lower opening through which the... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7220165 | Blasting materials and method of blasting It is an object of the present invention to provide a blasting method and a shot material, which are very practical both in the cost and the treatment performance. (a) A shot material containing a styrene ion-exchange resin or a waste material caused therefro... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7220396 | Processes for treating halogen-containing gases There are disclosed various processes, apparatuses and systems for treating a halogen-containing gas such as F2 that involve generating a plasma in order to reduce chemically the halogen-containing gas into products that are more environmentally manageabl... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7132584 | Method of using high temperature plasma to disintegrate waste containing titanyl phthalocyanine A method of using high temperature plasma to disintegrate waste containing titanyl phthalocyanine (TiOPc) comprises heating a mixture of titanyl phthalocyanine (TiOPc), a vitrifying material and optionally selected waste soil to a temperature of 1,220° C. to 10,000... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7073353 | Production of mineral wool The invention relates to a method for producing mineral wool, whereby a cracking catalyst having an aluminum oxide content of at least 35% by weight is used as a base material or aggregate. Said catalyst materials produce waste products which are difficult to elimin... | 07/11/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6789396 | Method and system for feeding and burning a pulverized fuel in a glass melting furnace, and burner for use in the same A method and system for feeding and burning pulverized fuel, such as petroleum coke, in a glass melting furnace, which includes a glass melting and a plurality of burners associated with a pair of sealed regenerative chambers disposed side-by-side which act as heat ... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6763280 | Automated process for recycling batches of mixed color cullet into amber, green, or flint glass with selected properties An automated method for recycling mixed colored cullet glass (i.e., broken pieces of glass of mixed colors and types) into new glass products. A computer controlled process identifies the virgin glass raw materials, the desired target glass properties, the compositi... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6698245 | Production of vitreous fibres using high halogen mineral waste as an ingredient Rock fibres are made from a melt formed from a blend of low and high halogen waste materials. 80 to 98% are low halogen materials (containing less than 0.5 wt. % halogen) and 2 to 20% are high halogen materials (containing at least 1 wt. % halogen).... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6622523 | Method of converting halogenated compounds to glass The present invention provides a two stage process of thermal separation of CFCs and HCFCs followed by vitrification of the waste into a commercially viable glass. In the first stage, the hydrogenated compounds are reacted at elevated temperature with wat... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6615612 | Electrostatic batch preheater and method of using the same A method and apparatus is taught for preheating of glass batch materials by direct contact with glass furnace exhaust gases. Furnace gases 15 flow through a batch hopper 1 in horizontal tunnels formed by open bottom tubes 6, with a free surface of batch f... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6576807 | Method and apparatus for incinerating and vitrifying of waste, in particular radioactive waste The present invention provides a method of processing organic waste (D) in divided solid and/or liquid form, the method being implemented in a single reactor (1) containing a bath of molten gas (V) surmounted by a gas phase (G), the method comprising inci... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6568215 | Method and apparatus for melting a particulate material Apparatus suitable for vitrifying nuclear waste comprises a tunable microwave cavity connected by a first wave guide to a source of microwave energy; cooling coils for cooling the exterior of the cavity; a hopper for loading particulate fusible material t... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6558308 | AVS melting process The Advanced Vitrification System (AVS) Melting Process is a process for vitrification of waste in a disposable canister. In the process, waste is dropped into the disposable canister from the top. While the waste is being dropped into the disposable cani... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6532768 | Process for the vitrification of a pulverulent material and apparatus for implementing the process The present invention relates to a vitrification process for a pulverulent material and an apparatus for implementing said process. The process consists in introducing the pulverulent material into the fusion area of a furnace via injection means, where i... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6490887 | Method for converting polychlorinated biphenyl oil into a resource, agent for decomposing polychlorinated biphenyl oil, and reclaimed material The method for converting harmful polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) oil into a resource includes chemical decomposition treatment, pelletizing treatment and thermal decomposition treatment. The chemical decomposition treatment uses a decomposing agent includ... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6485404 | Advanced vitrification system improvements A process of making vitrified waste in a crucible and inserting the crucible and vitrified waste into an outer container after vitrification. The outer container is then sealed.... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6340650 | Ceramic products made from waste glass, raw batch formulations, and method The invention provides a method to transform large quantities of waste glass into useful ceramic products by a low-cost manufacturing process. The major steps of the method consist of dry preparation of glass powder, granulation with a non-aqueous organic... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6334337 | Air bubbler to increase glass production rate In a glass melter, a precious metal insert is used to protect a gas bubbler from corrosion at the orifice of the bubbler through which gas is injected into the melt. The use of a precious refractory metal insert at the bubbler orifice prevents the attack ... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6311522 | Process for casting and forming slag products The present invention relates to a process and apparatus to cast and form slag directly from the molten state into crystalline or amorphous products suitable for use as decorative and structural building and construction materials. Molten slag and additiv... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6230521 | Method of recycling batches of mixed color cullet into amber, green, or flint glass with selected properties An automated method for recycling mixed colored cutlet glass (i.e., broken pieces of glass of mixed colors and types) into new glass products. A computer controlled process identifies the virgin glass raw materials, the desired target glass properties, th... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6223560 | Process of producing a glassy product for multiple applications and products obtained by the process A process for recycling trash and obtaining a glassy vitreous product by mixing trash with a vitrifying composition comprising 30% Sodium Sulphate, 7% Quartz, 20% Calcium Carbonate, 23% Sodium Carbonate, 13% Organic Sulphate (consisting of 20% Sodium Sulp... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6145343 | Low melting high lithia glass compositions and methods The invention relates to methods of vitrifying waste and for lowering the melting point of glass forming systems by including lithia formers in the glass forming composition in significant amounts, typically from about 0.16 wt % to about 11 wt %, based on... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6116170 | Waste incinerator A waste incinerator is provided which can completely prevent environmental pollution by dioxins. Exhaust gas from an incinerator is guided into a glass melting furnace by a duct, and blown into molten glass through a bubbling pipe to decompose dioxins in ... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6057257 | Abrasive composition An environmentally safe abrasive composition which contains at least about 60 weight percent of ferrometalsilicate, at least about 5 weight percent of spinel, and at least about 70 weight percent of crystalline material. This composition has a Vickers har... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6047566 | Method and device for melting recycled silicate starting materials The present invention concerns a method for melting recycled silicate starting materials. A rotating transport flow with helical flow filaments of transport air and starting material is supplied in the direction of the helix axis into the combustion chamb... | 04/11/2000 |
| 5981413 | Abrasive composition A glass-ceramic composition which is is crystallized in situ from a thermally crystallizable mixture containing from about 40 to about 80 weight percent of electric arc furnace dust and from about 10 to about 40 weight percent of glass. The composition ha... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5964911 | Process for making an abrasive composition A process for making an abrasive composition. In the first step of this process, from about 50 to about 85 weight percent electric arc furnace dust is mixed with at least about 10 weight percent of silica to prepare a thermally crystallizable mixture; the... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5961679 | Recovery of fissile materials from nuclear wastes A process for recovering fissile materials such as uranium, and plutonium, and rare earth elements, from complex waste feed material, and converting the remaining wastes into a waste glass suitable for storage or disposal. The waste feed is mixed with a d... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5947887 | Extruder glass-melter process for vitrification of nuclear and other toxic wastes A toxic waste and glass frit are fed into an extruder having a helical screw. The glass frit, as well as any glassy material and glass-forming component in the waste, are melted in the extruder as the screw transports the waste and the frit through the ex... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5935885 | Manufacture of ceramic tiles from fly ash The present invention relates to a process for forming glass-ceramic tiles. Fly ash containing organic material, metal contaminants, and glass forming materials is oxidized under conditions effective to combust the organic material and partially oxidize t... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5879566 | Integrated steam reforming operation for processing organic contaminated sludges and system A method and system for processing waste dries and reforms a sludge stream of the waste with a first reformed effluent stream to produce a gas effluent stream and a solids effluent stream. The gas effluent stream is reformed further to produce the first e... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5873675 | Method for hazardous waste vitrification Apparatus (10) and a method for vitrifying hazardous waste includes a melting vessel (12) in which hazardous waste and any other necessary components for forming a glassy mixture upon heating are introduced for heating by a heater (38), and a metallic con... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5848960 | Process for vitrifying residues from flue gas cleaning To vitrify chlorine-containing residues from flue gas cleaning, in particular filter dust and residues from the flue gas scrubber, the residues are melted in a melting furnace (8) and then discharged. To condition the melt, alkali-containing fluxes are ad... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5830251 | Manufacture of ceramic tiles from industrial waste The present invention relates to a process of forming ceramic tiles having the appearance of tiles produced from clays. The process includes melting a material to form a glass melt, treating the glass melt to produce a solid glass product, grinding the so... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5750824 | Iron phosphate compositions for containment of hazardous metal waste An improved iron phosphate waste form for the vitrification, containment and long-term disposition of hazardous metal waste such as radioactive nuclear waste is provided. The waste form comprises a rigid iron phosphate matrix resulting from the cooling of... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5728190 | Melting furnace and process for the inertization of hazardous substances by vitrification A tank furnace for the inertization of non-flammable batch, which contains hazardous substances, metals and less than 10% by weight of carbon, by vitrification with glass forming aggregates by producing a glassy melt. The furnace has a batch charging devi... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5718737 | Method of recycling mixed colored cullet into amber, green, or flint glass Mixed colored cullet glass, which generally contains amounts of green, amber and flint (colorless) glasses, is recycled into amber colored glass by regulating the additive amounts of amounts of iron, carbon, sulfur, and sulfur compounds in the mixture to ... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5716316 | Treatment of fly ash produced by a waste incinerator and containing chlorides of toxic metals This invention relates to a process for treating fly ash produced by a waste incinerator and containing chlorides of toxic metals, which includes a step consisting of subjecting said fly ash to a phosphating reaction, at high temperature, to convert the c... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5711635 | Apparatus for hazardous waste vitrification Apparatus (10) and a method for vitrifying hazardous waste includes a melting vessel (12) in which hazardous waste and any other necessary components for forming a glassy mixture upon heating are introduced for heating by a heater (38), and a metallic con... | 01/27/1998 |
