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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7721661 | Apparatus for combustion of biofuels A heating apparatus for the combustion of highly variable biofuel feed stocks is generally provided. The apparatus generally includes a combustion chamber or burn box adapted to receive a regulated feed of biomass. The burn box includes a grate for receipt of a dist... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7694636 | Furnace A furnace includes: a furnace housing; a perforated tray mounted in the furnace housing; and a stirring rod disposed rotatably on the perforated tray. The stirring rod has top and bottom ends, two opposite lateral ends, a middle portion, and opposite first and secon... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7424856 | Grate element for a grate of a waste combustion installation The present invention relates to a grate element (1) for a grate of a waste-incineration plant, having a plurality of rows of grate blocks, which are moveable or fixed, arranged one behind the other, a plurality of grate blocks (67) being arranged in e... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7293511 | Gasification apparatus and method An apparatus and method for the treatment of particulate organic waste material, the apparatus comprising: a hopper means having flow control means for controlling flow rate of the waste material; a pyrolysis unit having (i) a heating means for heating the material,... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7000551 | Chamber support for pyrolytic waste treatment system The inventive subject matter is directed toward a pyrolytic waste treatment system having a pyrolysis chamber supported in a manner that causes minimal movement or flexing of the chamber as the temperature of the chamber changes. Preferred solutions utilize support ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6435860 | Landfill condensate injection system An automated, computer-controlled landfill condensate injection system includes a pump that pumps condensate into a flare chamber at a pressure that is sufficiently high and through a nozzle that is configured to vaporize the condensate without requiring ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6425335 | Miniature garbage incinerator A miniature garbage incinerator includes a base, a cover on the base, a pot shaped furnace at the center of the base to define an revolving space therearound, a helical pipe connected to the air revolving space and heat source in the bottom of the base fo... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6343557 | Combustion furnace with grate and rod feeder A combustion furnace for solid fuel, including combustable fuel, wherein the furnace is arranged with a grate (11) with openings (12) which are situated for supply of air or another gas mixture for combustion. A first and second rod feeder (1, 2) is provi... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6298690 | Broken glass cleaning method and plant A large tumbling device into which broken pieces of labeled glass such as beverage bottles, or cullet, are fed. After entering the interior chamber of the tumbler, the cullet is carried by a plurality of interior fins along the inside circumference of the... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6276286 | Compression device for feeding a waste material to a reactor A compression device for feeding a waste material to a reactor includes a waste material feed assembly having a hopper, a supply tube and a compression tube. Each of the supply and compression tubes includes feed-inlet and feed-outlet ends. A feed-dischar... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6253689 | Incinerator A waste incinerator which includes a housing formed by a heat insulating outer wall, air ducts; a decomposing chamber; a fire room; and a catalytic converter, all disposed in the housing. Waste is introduced into the fire room and incinerated there, and t... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6220189 | Rotatable fluidized bed incinerator A rotatable fluidised bed incinerator comprises a rotatable combustion chamber, a means for rotating the combustion chamber, a means for introducing combustible material into the combustion chamber, and a means for introducing a gas into the combustion ch... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6120567 | Method of gasifying solid organic materials A heating system for producing heat by the gasification of solid, organic biomass materials. A mass of such materials is maintained on a grate in a primary oxidation chamber of the catalytic type, and materials in such mass are gradually heated in a defic... | 09/19/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5967062 | Rotating tire combuster An apparatus burns tires in a horizontally rotating combuster. The tires are loaded into a rotating combustion chamber through a traveling air lock and burned until they are reduced to ash. Combustion is enhanced by tumbling the burning tires in the rotat... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5927216 | Burner apparatus A burner apparatus uses fuel derived from waste resin. The burner includes a cylindrical body in combination with an oxygen supplier, which form an oxygen deficient atmosphere. While rotating the cylindrical body, a small portion of waste resin is partial... | 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 |
| 5868085 | Pyrolytic waste treatment system A system for pyrolysis of hydrocarbon constituents of waste material including a treatment unit featuring a retort with a ellipsoidal cross-section forming a first retort half and a second retort half, the material to be treated being selectively deposite... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5836258 | Method and apparatus for incinerating waste material using oxygen injection A method and apparatus for incinerating loose waste material in which the loose waste material is introduced into a furnace chamber to form a layer in the bottom of the furnace chamber. The layer of loose waste material is subjected to the direct action o... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5802992 | Sludge processor A method for drying and heating sludge to remove pathogens and to dry the sludge into a powder form in an elongate housing having an endless chain conveyor inside. The method includes slowly urging solid material from one end of the housing to the other w... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5769007 | Bulk material heating chamber equipped with heating tubes A heating chamber or low-temperature carbonization drum has an interior receiving bulk material or trash and has a longitudinal axis about which the heating chamber or drum is rotatable. A number of heating tubes through which a heating gas can flow in a ... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5735224 | Thermal dechlorinating apparatus and method for collected ash A thermal dechlorinating apparatus for collected ash, having a vertically elongated cylindrical apparatus body, a collected ash inlet and a collected ash outlet which are provided on the apparatus body and spaced in a vertical direction thereof, an inlet ... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5727483 | Rotary kiln incinerator A rotary incinerator for disposal of industrial waste is provided. The incinerator is slopedly and rotatably disposed to a slant support and has a plurality of spirally arranged tubular conveying ribs on entire inner periphery for squeezedly transmitting ... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5680821 | Solid waste handling and conveying apparatus A method and apparatus for safely conveying hazardous solid waste material to a waste processing system; for enhancing its subsequent combustion, in the case of an incinerator; and for reducing the size and duration of a moisture plume created by water va... | 10/28/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5660124 | Sludge processor An apparatus for drying and heating sludge to remove pathogens and to dry the sludge into a powder form which includes an elongate housing having an endless chain conveyor inside. The conveyor having outwardly extending scrapers for slowly urging solid ma... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5655465 | Treatment of toxic wastes Toxic wastes and other contaminants are removed from soil which is fed through a passage in an agitating means into a retort (10, 110) where the soil is agitated and brought into contact with the retort walls (11, 111, 111A) (at a temperature preferably a... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5653183 | Pyrolytic waste treatment system A system for pyrolysis of hydrocarbon constituents of waste material including a treatment unit featuring a retort with a ellipsoidal cross-section forming a first retort half and a second retort half, the material to be treated being selectively deposite... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5628260 | Vertical ring processor This invention related to aprocessing device such as a calciner or the like. The processing vessel is vertical with concentric cylindrical inner and outer walls, closely spaced and heated for rapid thermal processing, with strong boiling, evaporating, flu... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5611290 | Waste conveyor A waste conveyor includes a conveyor channel. A feed shaft is connected to the conveyor channel. A worm is disposed in the longitudinal direction of the conveyor channel. The worm has a shaft with an axis. A first metal cutter is disposed at an edge of a ... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5590610 | Waste burning boiler The waste burning boiler comprises a cylindrical outer wall, a cylindrical inner wall consisting of a plurality of vertical water pipes having the gaps therebetween closed by plate members. The plate members are provided with a plurality of holes communic... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5103744 | Apparatus for the combustion and/or decomposition of fuel by heat, especially of solid fuels An apparatus for the combustion and/or decomposition of fuel by heat, especially of solid fuels such as peat, coal, wood, straw or garbage, comprising a fuel supply and air supply to a bar grate which is used as combustion site and cooperates with materia... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5086714 | Vibratory hearth A hearth for use in a thermal processor or incinerator includes a substantially planar grate which is inclined upwardly and which is vibrated in such a way that material deposited on the input end of the grate moves upwardly toward the output end thereof.... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5020452 | Thermal remediation apparatus and method A thermal remediation apparatus for the combustion of hydrocarbon contaminants within particulate fill including a generally cylindrical combustion chamber having an exhaust port, an inlet, an outlet, and a mill having two shafts and four burners. The app... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4986196 | Solid waste incinerator system A solid waste incinerator apparatus has an elongated hearth having a plurality of walls and a floor and an elongated open side having a track mounted to each side of the open hearth. The hearth has a grate mounted above the floor thereof. A burner car has... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4947769 | Apparatus for combustion of solid particulate fuel An apparatus for burning solid particulate fuels in a top-fed combustion system that permits the use of fuels that produce large amounts of ash and clinkers. The apparatus displaces the ash and clinkers from the grate which, if not removed, would adversel... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4936231 | Solid waste garbage incinerator system An incineration system for processing solid waste refuse. A rigid, upright gas fired furnace reacts waste. The furnace comprises a rigid, generally cubicle outer shell having a rigid firebox disposed substantially concentrically therewithin, and a cooling... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4934283 | Solid waste disposal unit A solid waste disposal unit having a lower, pyrolyzing chamber and an upper, oxidizing chamber separated by a movable plate. Waste is deposited in the lower chamber. The chambers are rotated to move the plate to a first position which seals the lower cham... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4846082 | Tire carcass pyrolysis system The system comprises a pyrolysis chamber having a tire carcass inlet port and communicating with at least a duct for supplying combustion air, the pyrolysis chamber further communicating with s steam generator and having a stationary bottom of frustum of ... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4838183 | Apparatus and method for incinerating heterogeneous materials An apparatus for burning waste refuse having a heterogeneous composition comprising means defining a combustion chamber having an inlet for charging waste refuse therein and an outlet for discharging combustion gases therefrom, means disposed within the c... | 06/13/1989 |
