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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7118307 | Cooling water intake system A cooling water intake system is configured to minimize entrainment, impingement and thermal plumes associated with the operation of onshore industrial facilities, such as a power plant, and includes a delivery system guiding ground waters from under the sand bottom... | 10/10/2006 |
| 6840764 | Apparatus and process for producing charcoal from wood An apparatus and process for producing charcoal in a kiln from hardwood. The kiln is constructed over an array of hardwood logs supported on a suitable platform. Fill material is used to form a surrounding jacket surrounding the hardwood, a sawdust layer is applied ... | 01/11/2005 |
| 5928476 | Nonrecovery coke oven door A coke oven door for closing the open end of an elongated coking chamber of a nonrecovery coke oven, including process air vents extending through the door at a level above a coal charge to be coked, has a structural frame on its outer surface including a... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5435890 | Apparatus for producing a rubber extender/plasticizing agent from used automobile rubber tires A preferred embodiment of the apparatus 10 for recycling used automobile rubber tires is described in which small pieces of rubber tires are progressively fed into a vertical reactor 14 of the counter-flow type in which the material progressively descends... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5228955 | High strength coke oven wall having gas flues therein An improved coke oven wall constructed for refractory brick and having generally vertically extending gas flues formed therein employs different shaped brick to form the portion of the wall defining the flues in alternate courses of brick with the refract... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5114542 | Nonrecovery coke oven battery and method of operation A sole flue nonrecovery coking oven battery includes a plurality of elongated coking ovens constructed in side-by-side relation with common sidewalls downcomers connecting the ovens through the sidewalls to the sole flues, uptakes connecting the sole flue... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5096463 | Gasifier adapted to generate activated carbon An improved gasification system, in which synthesis gas is produced through the operation of a fuel gas production bed comprising an upper layer (66) of organic input material, typically in the form of pellets or briquettes of substantially uniform size a... | 03/17/1992 |
| 4948468 | Oil shale retort apparatus A retorting apparatus including a vertical kiln and a plurality of tubes for delivering rock to the top of the kiln and removal of processed rock from the bottom of the kiln so that the rock descends through the kiln as a moving bed. Distributors are prov... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4926763 | Method and device for manufacturing charcoal A charcoal manufacturing device includes at least two bottomless furnaces of which, in operation, at least one is in a carbonization phase and at least one other is charged with wet wood to be dried. An incinerator is provided for burning the gas produced... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4280878 | Structure and process for reclaiming heat from charcoal production facility The wood gases of a facility for the carbonization of wood to produce a lump charcoal are passed to an afterburner. The afterburner utilizes auxiliary burner units set at an angle to the combustion chamber centerline to provide heat for increasing the tem... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4225392 | Pyrolysis apparatus A conical reaction region in a pyrolysis device has an adjustable height, adjustable speed agitator in the vicinity of the grate and a second agitator stirring the incoming material. A feed auger stops short of the reaction chamber to produce a sealing re... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4126518 | Method and inclined chamber furnace for carbonizing fluent carbon-containing material A method of, and apparatus for, coking or carbonizing fluent or flowable carbon-containing material, such as wood, peat, residues, wastes or the like, by means of gases in an inclined treatment chamber through which the material moves from the top towards... | 11/21/1978 |
| 4124450 | Method for producing coke An increased coking rate of a coal charge in a non-recovery coke oven is achieved without polluting emissions by decreasing the supply of primary air fed into the coke oven chamber throughout the coking period while controlling the amount of heated second... | 11/07/1978 |
| 4111757 | Smokeless and non-recovery type coke oven battery Coke from a non-recovery type coke oven is pushed onto a downwardly-inclined floor within a smoke hood joined along one edge of the coke oven. The coke is quenched by water discharge nozzles inside the hood. The coke is discharged through a gate at the bo... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4045299 | Smokeless non-recovery type coke oven A burner for oil or gas is controlled by a thermocouple to maintain a predetermined minimum operating temperature within ignition chambers employed to incinerate partially-burned distillation products conducted from the space above a coal charge in a coke... | 08/30/1977 |
| 4039392 | Process and apparatus for producing char and co-products from coal and the like In accordance with the present invention an apparatus and process are disclosed wherein coal or peat or lignite is first transmitted to a devolatilizer from which tar and fuel gas are removed for transmission to a separator and recovery system, from which... | 08/02/1977 |
| 4038154 | Pile furnace A furnace and process for carrying out the carbonizing and/or activating of charcoal and similar operations includes vent means, which may be in the general shape of one or more elongated chambers of tunnels, that acts in combination with air admission me... | 07/26/1977 |
| 3983009 | Method and apparatus for destructive distillation of solid wastes and recovery of distilled products A process for destructive distillation of solid wastes and an apparatus for achieving the process whereby organic solid waste material which has been shredded, is exposed to a pyrolytic process to remove water and organic materials by a pyrolytic process ... | 09/28/1976 |
