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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7895769 | Method and a plant for thermally drying wet ground raw meal Raw meal sludge is dried in a vapor flow dryer by circulating exhaust vapor through a steam circuit which, prior to introduction thereof into the lower part of the dryer, is heated by indirect heat transmission from gaseous flows from a pre-heating system from a gas... | 03/01/2011 |
| 6602520 | Method for producing quickly decomposable solid pharmaceutical preparations Rapidly disintegrating preparations containing at least one active pharmaceutical ingredient and at least one excipient can be obtained by a simple process in which at least the predominant part of the complete composition of the ingredients for the prepa... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6266893 | Inverted bonnet hair dryer The inverted bonnet hair dryer is comprised of a bowl with a closed end and an open end. The bowl is pivotally supported on a stand and is rotatable to a position with its open end facing upward. The bowl is comprised of a hemispherical concave inner wall... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6163981 | Method and apparatus for drying wood particles A method and apparatus for drying material, especially wood particles, having moisture therein, comprising depositing the material to a selected depth onto a transport conveyor at the first end of a drying chamber. Heat is applied to the material as it is... | 12/26/2000 |
| 5983522 | Drying and pressing machine with a flow spun pressing cylinder In a drying and pressing machine that includes a pressing cylinder, a flow spun stainless steel pressing cylinder is used, produced in one piece and without welding. This cylinder (10) has a reduced thickness. It rests on rollers (10) that comprise glass ... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5740617 | Rotary drum dryer A rotary drum dryer dries a slurry into discrete solid particles. The dryer contains three long horizontal cylinders: an outer cylinder, a perforated cylinder inside the outer cylinder, and an inner cylinder inside the perforated cylinder. As the cylinder... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5373647 | Method and a system for drying sludge A method and a system serve to completely or partially dehydrate sludge by evaporation which originates from e.g. sewage. The sludge is dried with addition of heat in a drying chamber (2), the sludge being transported on an endless travelling grate (3) fr... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5361513 | Method and apparatus for drying and briquetting coal The subject invention is an integrated process for economically drying and briquetting coal to produce strong briquettes. The subject invention utilizes a conditioner to output dried coal having a selected moisture content and temperature and mean particl... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5355590 | Process for the drying and granulation of aspartame The invention relates to a process for the drying and granulation of aspartame through the thermal treatment of a wet mass of aspartame crystals using a hot carrier gas, characterized in that a wet mass of aspartame crystals is supplied, in a continuous p... | 10/18/1994 |
| 4563315 | Production of particulate solids in rotary fluidizer A method and apparatus for granulation in which particulate feed material is charged into a rotary cylindrical vessel (12) having its axis disposed horizontally, and respective cover plate (16,18) at each end for retaining the feed material, and a treatme... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4254560 | Method of drying brown coal A method of drying brown coal in which the brown coal is pelletized before the drying into pellets of 2 to 5 mm dia. by a wet pelletizing process making use of the water contained by the coal itself as the binder. The brown coal in the form of dried pelle... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4193206 | Processes for drying sewage sludge and filtering water A process for drying and granulating sewage sludge. Wet sewage sludge is dried in either a thermal drying zone or a mechanical dewatering zone comprising a cylindrical chamber having a porous wall and a centrally mounted rotating helical screw conveyor wh... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4179819 | Method for controlling emissions of ethylene to the atmosphere In the extruding, cooling, pelletizing, drying, and storing of ethylene polymers prepared by a high pressure continuous mass process, air coming in contact with the polymer and the cooling water is diluted with low concentrations of ethylene gas. This dil... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4177574 | Method and apparatus for granulating hydrated materials including food stuffs Hydrated materials such as bean paste are controlled as to their moisture content to an intermediate moisture content such as 12% to 40% on dry basis and higher than their plastic limit, and are then extruded into strips under vacuum, followed by the gran... | 12/11/1979 |
| 4161825 | Plasticized organic waste A composition of matter comprising a plasticized organic waste, preferably dried sewage sludge. Fibrous reinforcing media may also be present. Plasticization of the dried organic waste is performed by the simultaneous application of an elevated temperatur... | 07/24/1979 |
| 4088468 | Method and apparatus for applying size to glass strands This invention relates to a method and apparatus for forming glass filament in which a fluid is applied to the filament which is passed in contact with a suction means to contact the filament with air to remove the fluid from the filament and subsequently... | 05/09/1978 |
| 4003136 | Method for the drying and recovery of polyethylene waste material A method for drying and recovering polyethylene waste material is disclosed. In the preferred procedure, the raw waste material is defiberized, dried in a novel manner, and then pelletized into the finished product which is suitable for plastic processing... | 01/18/1977 |
| 3992784 | Thermal dewatering of brown coal The invention relates to a process for the upgrading of solid material containing bound water and free or chemically bound carbon, in particular brown coal, which process involves a heat treatment at a temperature of at least 150° C and at a pressure tha... | 11/23/1976 |
