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Class 44/577 - With nonfibrous carbohydrate (e.g., molasses, starch, etc.)


Subclass of Class 44 - Fuel and related compositions
Definition: Subject matter wherein a nonfibrous carbohydrate is a component
No. of patents: 26
Last issue date: 04/10/2007


NumberTitleIssue Date
7201781Carbohydrate-based fuel mixture and method for operating an internal combustion engine using a carbohydrate-based solid fuel
A fuel mixture containing a suspension in air at a concentration of about 200 mg of fuel per liter of air, of a solid fuel including at least one of a cereal flour, a cotton flour, a soybean flour, a potato flour, a cassava flour, a dehydrated chocolate powder and a...
04/10/2007
7157021Methods and compositions for dust and erosion control
The invention is directed to compositions and methods for treating a particulate and for dust and erosion control. The compositions comprise a dissolved sugar solid. Preferably, the composition comprises a dissolved sugar solid, further in combination with a salt or...
01/02/2007
6902589Method for producing shaped, activated charcoal
The invention relates to a method for producing shaped, activated charcoal. According to the method, after being ground, carbon-bearing material, or a mixture of several carbon-bearing materials are rendered homogenous with a binding agent which contains water, or a...
06/07/2005
6780210Process for forming a fuel product from paper mill sludge
A process for making a fuel product from paper mill sludge including dewatering the paper mill sludge so as to have a solids content of greater than 7 percent by weight, mixing an oxide-containing chemical and molasses with the dewatered paper mill sludge, pressuriz...
08/24/2004
6626966Coal briquette and production thereof
A method of producing coal briquette at a low energy cost by saving heating step or drying step for fine coal, which comprises adding and mixing from 1 to 10 mass parts of powdery starch to a coal having 15 mass % or more of water content and comprising 5...
09/30/2003
6273922Durable briquettes for use in gas-fired barbecue grills
A briquette, and method of making it, for use in gas-fired barbecue grills. The briquette features three desirable characteristics: (1) relative permanency or durability, i.e. it is useable a number of times without physical disintegration or shedding of ...
08/14/2001
6113662Processed solid burnable fuel composition
A solid burnable fuel composition which contains a major proportion of spent dried coffee grounds is described. The fuel composition includes at least 50% dried spent coffee grounds and a combustible wax which are mixed together and compressed into a suit...
09/05/2000
5797972Sewage sludge disposal process and product
Pellets or briquettes useful as fuel are produced from sewage sludge solids. Mechanically stable pellets or briquettes result from combining a major portion of sewage sludge solids with lesser amounts of lime and binder materials suitable for imparting st...
08/25/1998
5711768Sewage sludge disposal process and product
Briquettes useful as fuel are produced from dehydrated sewage sludge containing 65 weight percent or more sewage sludge solids. The briquettes on a dry basis contain from about 50 to about 95 weight percent sewage sludge solids together with from about 3 ...
01/27/1998
5573555Down burning solid fuel body
A down burning solid fuel body including a fire-igniting layer, a fire-catching layer and a body portion, wherein the content ratio among the fire-igniting layer, fire-catching layer and body portion is 20 to 50:40 to 45:30 to 40 based on the weight ratio...
11/12/1996
5431702Waste conversion process and products
A process is disclosed for time production of fuel pellets or briquettes from sewage sludge solids and municipal solid waste with minimal drying requirements. In one of its more specific aspects, this invention relates to a solid pelleted or briquetted fu...
07/11/1995
5421838Binding composition for the preparation of a novel agglomerate based on finely divided materials, process using the said composition and thus obtained agglomerate
A binding composition for the preparation of agglomerates based on finely divided materials, which puts into the presence of one another an amylaceous compound and ammonium chloride....
06/06/1995
5244474Starch composition
A starch product which comprises gelatinized starch sulphamate and gelatinized starch phosphate is useful as a binder, particularly for coal briquettes. The product may be made by mixing preformed starch sulphamate and preformed starch phosphate but may a...
09/14/1993
5242470Pelletizing coal or coke with starch particles
Coal or other fine particles are pelletized by mixing relatively moist particles of them with fine particles of a waste product collected during grain transport and storage and extruding or pelletizing the mixture without extensive heating or steaming....
09/07/1993
5223165Use of alkyl glycosides for dust suppression
A method of suppressing the generation or persistence of dust is provided. An aqueous composition of a higher alkyl glycoside is placed in contact with a friable solid material (e.g. coal) to suppress the generation of dust thereform. The alkyl glycoside ...
06/29/1993
5125931Sewage sludge disposal process and apparatus
This invention relates to a process for the production of fuel pellets or briquettes from sewage sludge solids. In one of its more specific aspects, this invention relates to a solid pelleted fuel product consisting essentially of sewage sludge solids and...
06/30/1992
5076297Method for preparing carbon fuel for smoking articles and product produced thereby
The present invention is directed to methods for producing carbon containing fuel elements especially suited for use in cigarette--like smoking articles. One method of the present invention makes use of two separate pyrolysis steps to ensure that the carb...
12/31/1991
4828573Method of manufacturing a pelletized fuel
A method of manufacturing a pelletized fuel including the steps of hydrolizing cellulose containing material to form a binder, mixing the binder with combustible fines including preferably coal fines and wood chips or saw dust in which the binder is about...
05/09/1989
4738685Coal briquetting process
Fine coal is cold briquetted using a binder which is 5-15% molasses and up to 5% of an inorganic hardening agent. An optional hot curing step gives water resistance. The briquettes show good strength characteristics and low undergrate losses during combus...
04/19/1988
4582511Process for suppressing the dusting of coal
Coal dusting is controlled by spraying the coal with a relatively viscous aqueous solution of sugar or sugar and other components of sugar-forming plants....
04/15/1986
4501593Process for the production of agglomerated fuels
In the pelletization of particles of carbonaceous material improvements in pellet strength are obtained by applying a first water soluble or swellable thermo-hardening binder and a second binder which is an emulsion of a heavy hydrocarbon in such a way th...
02/26/1985
4405331Refuse derived fuel and a process for the production thereof
The subject invention pertains to a novel refuse derived fuel comprising a mixture of solid refuse, fly ash and a binder and to a process for its production. In a further embodiment of the invention, the novel refuse derived fuel includes coal fines as an...
09/20/1983
4326854Synthetic firelog
A synthetic firelog is made by binding cellulosic particles with a combustible binder produced by the interaction of a liquid combustible by-product or waste product and a modifier, the resulting material being such as to be carbonizable on combustion to ...
04/27/1982
4156595Formcoke process and apparatus
A process for producing formcoke composed of char and selected binders comprising process steps in which non-oxidative thermal carbonization is employed....
05/29/1979
4152119Briquette comprising caking coal and municipal solid waste
Briquettes of specified geometry and composition are produced to serve as feed material or "burden" in a moving-burden gasifier for the production of a synthesis or fuel gas from organic solid waste materials and coal, including especially, the so-called ...
05/01/1979
4003717Method and apparatus for recovering by-product silt fines from a slurry thereof
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus of recovering by-product fines, such as coal fines, by-product fines created in the manufacture and processing of metals or any very finely divided substance which may be of value when recovered to a...
01/18/1977
 
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