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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7357632 | Automated wood-fired pottery kiln A kiln and method of firing a kiln are provided for use in connection with the firing of small-scale pottery firing. The kiln includes a kiln wall that defines a main kiln volume that is no larger than 60 cubic feet and is less than 10 cubic feet in one embodiment. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| RE39442 | Animal carcass incinerator An animal carcass incinerator designed to subject the entire external surface of the biomass material simultaneously to flame. The flame front burns inward toward the core of the material, greatly accelerating the burning process. Complete flame coverage of the biom... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7128004 | Supplying apparatus for supplying combustible material, a gasification apparatus for gasifying combustible material and method for gasifying combustible material A supplying apparatus supplies a combustible material capable of enhancing the sealing effects of a supplying system for supplying a combustible material, such as combustible wastes, to a fluidized-bed chamber, stably supplies a combustible material having an undefi... | 10/31/2006 |
| 6948436 | Method and apparatus for the gasification and combustion of animal waste, human waste, and/or biomass using a moving grate over a stationary perforated plate in a configured chamber An apparatus for the combustion of organic waste such as poultry litter/manure, cow manure and swine manure, and/or human waste, and/or biomass using a moving grate over a stationary perforated plate to convert organic waste into usable energy. The unprocessed fuel ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6647903 | Method and apparatus for generating and utilizing combustible gas Apparatus and method for generating fuel gas and optionally, activated carbon gasification from biomass fuel.... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6619217 | Decomposition processing apparatus for PCB A decomposition processing apparatus for PCBs prolongs the staying time of the PCBs in a vertical furnace. The apparatus heats and decomposes the PCBs and includes porous staying plates through which the falling PCBs pass, to delay the progress of the PCB... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6615748 | Gasifier A method and portable apparatus is described for the conversion of cellulose and other blomass waste materials through a pyrolysis and partial combustion sequence in a downdraft gasifier to produce a gas which can be immediately utilized to fuel an intern... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6601526 | Compact dual cyclone combustor An apparatus and method of creating a high combustion rate in a combustor used to burn combustible matter. The combustor comprising a cylindrical combustion chamber extending vertically with at least one side loading bin for loading combustible matter int... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6397764 | Animal carcass incinerator An animal carcass incinerator designed to subject the entire external surface of the biomass material simultaneously to flame. The flame front burns inward toward the core of the material, greatly accelerating the burning process. Complete flame coverage ... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6389995 | Method of combustion and a combustion plant in which absorbent is regenerated A method of combustion and a combustion plant in which absorbent is regenerated is described herein. During the combustion of a fuel in a combustion chamber enclosing a fluidized bed, a fuel and an absorbent are supplied to the fluidized bed. The combusti... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6324999 | Incinerator for removing noxious substances The present invention provides an incinerator for removing toxic substances contained in a flue gas. That is, there is here disclosed an incinerator for removing toxic substances in which a removal section for removing the toxic substances generated from ... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6244195 | Safety incinerator for rubbish in volume and flammable waste This invention is a mass incinerator for burning various rubbishes (life rubbishes, industry wastes, hospital rubbishes and like) and flammable wastes (hospital wastes, poison material and like) under high temperature atmosphere. In particularly; to an in... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6199492 | Process for melting down combustion residues into slag A process for incinerating waste material to produce slag without the addition of fuel other than the waste material begins with carbonizing the waste material in a low temperature process in a generator to produce carbonized solid material with a high en... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6170411 | Waste tire incinerating and post-treating system A waste tire incinerating and post-treatment system in which waste tires are continuously and efficiently burned. The system includes a waste tire reservoir tank, a hoist, a conveyor system, a tire-size sensing system, an incinerating part, a waste oil pu... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6041724 | Tower garbage incinerator A tower garbage incinerator is provided, consisting of an upper main blast furnace having a zigzag furnace cavity, and a lower accessory burning furnace. When garbage is fed through the inlet of the main blast furnace, the zigzag design of the furnace cav... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6038988 | Waste incinerating method and apparatus with counter-current exhaust gas flow In a method of incinerating waste material in a parallel flow process wherein hot exhaust gases are conducted above a combustion chamber grate in the same direction as the material is moved on the grate, different temperatures zones are maintained to whic... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6006682 | Garbage incinerator with tunnel furnace combustion A garbage incinerator with tunnel furnace combustion includes a tunnel furnace serving as the burner unit, a number of carriers serving as the burner beds, and a specified track course to deliver the garbage-loaded carriers into the tunnel furnace to inci... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5983811 | Method and roller grill for burning refuse A roller grate arrangement for garbage-incinerating plants, in which a plurality of rollers with horizontal and parallel axes lie in an inclined plane. Primary air is fed to interiors of the rollers by air boxes located below the grate. The rollers have s... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5967064 | Roller grate A roller grate arrangement for garbage-incinerating plants, in which a plurality of rollers with horizontal and parallel axes lie in an inclined plane. Primary air is fed to interiors of the rollers by air boxes located below the grate. The rollers have s... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5961673 | Process and apparatus for producing fuel gas The invention concerns a process and apparatus for gasifying carbon-containing products, in particular waste and residues conditioned or processed in a suitable way. Gasification takes place in a mixed flow composed of a counter flow, direct flow and tran... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5937769 | Fire grates having intimate-contact preventing means thereon A variety of essentially circulr-planform fire grates having ash discharge openings therein and intimate-contact preventing means thereon is presented. The intimate contact preventing means for the fire grate having upper surface contour of fluctuation-fr... | 08/17/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5862762 | Method and facility for refuse incineration using a fire-grate-type incinerator and with separation of non-combustibles Combustible is comminuted and dried, and metal and noncombustible are removed from the coarsely comminuted combustible. Then, the combustible is secondarily comminuted and separated into coarse combustible and fluff which is fine combustible. The coarse c... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5826519 | Hearth bed and a furnace with a particle hearth bed A hearth particle bed system is made up of channel members which form an inclined surface upon which a layer of hearth particles downwardly flow. An air inlet is provided underneath the channel member and apertures are provided in the channel members for ... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5791266 | Combustion apparatus for highly energetic materials The specification describes a system for the thermal treatment of energetic materials which generate a tremendous volume of gaseous products upon combustion. The system includes a containment system which maintains an interface between hot exhaust gas pro... | 08/11/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5762008 | Burning fuels, particularly for incinerating garbage A method for burning fuels, particularly garbage, in incinerators with a stoker grate, for which the primary air is supplied below the stoker grate into the fuel layer and the secondary air is supplied above the fuel layer, is controlled in such a way tha... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5749307 | Refuse incineration facility including material crusher and melt burner There are provided a pretreatment facility (1) and a incineration/melting facility (2). In the incineration/melting facility, an incineration chamber (3) and a melting chamber (5) are integrally formed through a partition wall (7) so that incineration res... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5746142 | Horizontally pivoted system grate for a furnace A low-pollutant system for waste materials treatment includes a process chamber for converting organic components of the waste materials into a flammable gas and a two-stage vortex burning chamber for complete combustion of the flammable gas. The vortex b... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5735225 | Method for recovering energy from solid waste A method for recovering energy from waste, which includes: a first waste trituration step; fermentation of the waste in the presence of air. The method allows to recover the energy produced by waste combustion with an efficiency that is at least 50% highe... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5722333 | Incinerator furnace with fire grate and air supply This invention provides a variety of incineration furnace with modular fire grate apparatus for cylindrical incinerator furnaces of water jacket configuration. The invented fire grate module is provided with refuse dump agitation capability from underside... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5671687 | Incinerator having a fully automatic feeder An incinerator comprises a feeding plate, a first combustion chamber, a second combustion chamber, a curved duct, an air exhausting device, a water screen device, and a water tank. The feeding plate is provided on the underside thereof with a vibrating de... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5655463 | Apparatus and method for burning waste material A furnace includes a decomposition chamber configured to form a fire pit for controlled decomposition of combustible waste material, a preheat chamber connected to and located generally above the decomposition chamber, and an afterburn chamber operably co... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5619934 | Waste car disposer A waste car disposer which includes a plurality of tunnel-like furnaces connected in series and separately controlled to heat waste cars at different temperatures so that plastic, rubber, glass, lead, zinc, nickel, copper, iron and steel parts of waste ca... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5605104 | Method and device for melting down solid combustion residues The invention relates to a method and a device for melting down solid combustion residues such as slags, ashes and fine dusts from waste combustion installations (11) with solid, liquid and/or gaseous fossil fuels in a melting device. In order to reduce t... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5588378 | Combustion enhancement system with in-bed foils A combustion enhancement system with in-bed foils are utilized to enhance combustion and emissions. The combustion enhancement system is especially designed for use in a traveling grate-type stoker in which the combustion foils are positioned on the top s... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5582680 | Wastewater treating apparatus A compact, transportable and self-contained apparatus for treating wastewater containing as impurities and pollutants various non-volatile (at water boiling points) fluids such as greases, oils and soaps, having a vessel/evaporator for receiving the waste... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5564348 | Process and a device for regulating the combustion of solid fuels in a combustion plant A process for regulating the combustion of solid fuels in a combustion plant is characterized in that the incompletely burned gases that are formed directly above the area of the combustion outlet are directed upward along the inner wall of the charge spa... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5558079 | Trash incinerator An inexpensive trash incinerator having a primary burn chamber and an after burner which includes a spark arrestor. The after burner is a stack which rests on top of the primary burn chamber and it includes an opening in its lower end for admitting fresh ... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5526757 | Carcass cremator A carcass cremator has an inner chamber which is defined by firebrick walls. At least two thirds of the inner chamber is buried underground. A tube is disposed at the center of the inner chamber. A metal bowl is disposed on the tube. A top cover covers th... | 06/18/1996 |
