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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7258710 | Maritime emissions control system An Advanced Maritime Emissions Control System (AMECS) includes several Exhaust Intake Bonnets (EIBs) of different size and/or shape, an Emissions Capture System (ECS), and an Advanced Maritime Emissions Control Unit (AMECU) mounted on an Unpowered Seagoing Barge (US... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7025165 | Device to reduce the visible and infrared signature of a military vehicle A device to reduce the visible and infrared signature of a military combat vehicle by diluting the engine's exhaust and cooling gases. The device includes a caisson receiving both sources of heat flow to ensure a single outlet for both the exhaust gases and the cool... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6010379 | Exhaust gas system for ocean-going vessels, preferably for military purposes In an exhaust gas system for ocean-going vessels, preferably for military purposes, that are equipped with at least one internal combustion engine and at least one gas turbine, the exhaust gases from the gas turbine and the exhaust gases from the internal... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5967063 | Sea-going vessel with a solid-waste incinerator A waste-disposing sea-going vessel includes a vessel body that carries solid waste-holding containers to a site at sea far away from land. The vessel body further has an incinerator to incinerate the solid wastes of the containers, a scrubbing chamber to ... | 10/19/1999 |
| 4993314 | Convectively cooled hot gas exhaust structure to reduce infrared radiation The invention is a new design for a structure such as a stack for exhaust hot gases. One embodiment is that of the top portion of a ship's stack (the watchcap) for exhausting a hot steam plant, a gas turbine, a diesel or other engine, or burner exhaust g... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4552082 | Offshore incineration of hazardous waste materials A method and an ocean-going vessel are disclosed for more effectively incinerating hazardous liquid wastes at sea. Intermodal shipping tank containers are filled at waste generation sites; transported to dockside and loaded above decks on an incinerator s... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4303035 | Method of suppressing radiation from ship stack gases A method of reducing the temperature of hot combustion gases discharging m atop a ship stack and at least partially suppressing infrared radiation thereof by the steps of preheating water to near 100° C. and spraying it into the hot gases at near the ba... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4250801 | Chimney throat A prefabricated metal throat, for a chimney, is assembled by simple interengagement of two identical elements of a first type with two identical elements of a second type to provide a principal body shaped as a truncated regular pyramid with a rectangular... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4099452 | Smokestack-mounted airfoil A system for improving the effluent dispersal characteristics of smokestacks subject to relative winds comprising a vortex generating airfoil attached to a smokestack near the stack gas exit. Relative winds passing over the airfoil create strong vortices ... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4092908 | Fluidic seal A fluidic seal is provided for vent stacks which comprises a plurality of spaced frusto-conical concentric baffles with aligned central openings permitting free outward delivery of gas for discharge but providing an obstruction to reverse or return flow w... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4066545 | Bilge water disposal system including oil recovery means An environmentally protective bilge water disposal system utilizes an inverted dome gravitational oil separator unit in combination with an engine exhaust flash water vaporizor to remove and recover oil contamination from the bilge water prior to its disp... | 01/03/1978 |
| 4018683 | Bilge water disposal system including oil recovery means An environmentally protective bilge water disposal system utilizes an inverted dome gravitational oil separator unit in combination with an engine exhaust flash water vaporizor to remove and recover oil contamination from the bilge water prior to its disp... | 04/19/1977 |
