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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7144558 | Wood gasification apparatus A wood gasification apparatus in which cellulosic material is transported by an auger through a housing and heated to vaporize at least a portion of the cellulosic material by frictional heating. The auger and housing define a spiral void through which the cellulosi... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7122099 | Method and device for evacuating hot raw gases from coke ovens The invention relates to a method and a device for evacuating hot raw gases which occur in the oven chambers of a coke oven battery during coking. The oven gases are lead from the oven chambers into a hot gas collector. The pressure in the oven chambers is controlle... | 10/17/2006 |
| 5935387 | Method and device for heating a low temperature carbonization drum and low temperature carbonization/combustion plant having the device A method for heating a low temperature carbonization drum includes generating a low temperature carbonization gas in the drum; combusting a partial flow of the low temperature carbonization gas for generating a heating gas; conducting the heating gas in a... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5705035 | Tire liquefying process reactor discharge system and method A discharge system is used with a tire liquefaction process using a reactor. The system includes a receiver receiving unreacted components, including oil coated metal from the reactor. The unreacted components are moved through a pyrolysis reactor where t... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5693188 | Hydrocarbon thermal processing apparatus Apparatus for the thermal conversion of solids containing hydrocarbons. In one embodiment for solids which can be converted entirely to vapour, pieces of the solids are continually fed into a molten lead bath in an oxygen free atmosphere in an elongated c... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5609735 | Process and a device for separating a solid residue from its solution in a stirred bed of material A process and a device are described for separating a solid residue, after separation, from a solution of the residue in evaporable materials and/or solvents with the addition of up to 20% by weight of high-boiling hydrocarbons that are inert under evapor... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5464503 | Tire liquefying process reactor discharge system and method A discharge system is used with a tire liquefaction process using a reactor. The system includes a receiver receiving unreacted components, including oil coated metal, from the reactor. The unreacted components are moved through a pyrolysis reactor where ... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5411714 | Thermal conversion pyrolysis reactor system A thermal conversion pyrolysis reactor system (10) is provided for use in providing a continuous flow type pyrolysis reaction for conversion of carbonizable input materials ("MW") (12). The reactor system (10) utilizes a diffusion material ("MD") (14) whi... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5409577 | Carbonization apparatus A carbonization apparatus for carbonizing material which includes metal parts, as for instance waste material with elongated metal parts, such as metal wires and metal bands. A residue discharge pipe has a discharge port formed in an end face thereof. Car... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5302254 | Process and plant for the thermolysis of industrial and/or urban waste A plant for treating industrial and/or urban waste includes a stage for drying of the waste, followed by a stage for effecting thermolysis of the dried waste and a stage for effecting recovery of the solids and gases resulting from the thermolysis. Thermo... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5290327 | Device and allothermic process for producing a burnable gas from refuse or from refuse together with coal A method for generating, from refuse or refuse in combination with coal, a fuel gas suited for public utility purposes wherein refuse and coal can be introduced into the process in any proportion one to the other. The method provides the steps of subjecti... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5082534 | Pyrolytic conversion system A rotary, continuous pyrolytic conversion system converts solid hydrocarbon containing feedstocks into gases, liquid hydrocarbons and char. A converter drum is contained within an outer drum which is in substantially air-tight relationship with an injecto... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5039379 | Dry cooling of coke A preferred method of dry cooling coke includes the steps of removing the coke from the coke oven, crushing the coke with a crushing device to increase a surface area thereof, transporting the coke after crushing to a dry cooling apparatus, and dry coolin... | 08/13/1991 |
| 4551206 | Apparatus with moving bed pressure letdown stage for recovering retorted oil shale A dry sealing leg apparatus is comprised of four chambers through which a moving bed of retorted shale particulates from an oil shale retort is passed serially: a surge chamber, a gas injection chamber, a seal leg chamber, and a gas disengaging chamber. I... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4374704 | Apparatus for pyrolysis of hydrocarbon bearing materials A process and apparatus for the pyrolysis of coal or other hydrocarbon bearing materials in which the material is fed into the upper end of a rotating cylinder and is heated in a plurality of stages, the heated material passing from the cylinder into a ch... | 02/22/1983 |
