Patents by Inventor Chris W. Taylor

Chris W. Taylor has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Prilling head assembly for pelletizer vessel
    Patent number: 6499979
    Abstract: Disclosed is a pelletizer vessel and a prilling head assembly for use in the pelletizer vessel for prilling a hard resid material. The pellitizer vessel has an has an upright pelletizing vessel with an upper prilling zone, a sphere-forming zone below the prilling zone, a cooling zone below the sphere-forming zone, a bath below the cooling zone, and a prilling head in the prilling zone rotatable along a vertical axis and having a plurality of discharge orifices for throwing molten material radially outwardly. A vertical height of the sphere-forming zone is sufficient to allow material discharged from the prilling head to form substantially spherical liquid pellets. Nozzles are provided for spraying water inwardly into the cooling zone to cool and at least partially solidify the liquid pellets to be collected in the bath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc.
    Inventors: Aldrich Holt Northup, Jr., Cameron O. Olson, Robert A. Robinson, Murugesan Subramanian, Chris W. Taylor, Jon C. Moretta
  • Prilling head assembly for pelletizer vessel
    Publication number: 20020182280
    Abstract: Disclosed is a pelletizer vessel and a prilling head assembly for use in the pelletizer vessel for prilling a hard resid material. The pellitizer vessel has an has an upright pelletizing vessel with an upper prilling zone, a sphere-forming zone below the prilling zone, a cooling zone below the sphere-forming zone, a bath below the cooling zone, and a prilling head in the prilling zone rotatable along a vertical axis and having a plurality of discharge orifices for throwing molten material radially outwardly. A vertical height of the sphere-forming zone is sufficient to allow material discharged from the prilling head to form substantially spherical liquid pellets. Nozzles are provided for spraying water inwardly into the cooling zone to cool and at least partially solidify the liquid pellets to be collected in the bath.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventors: Aldrich Holt Northup, Cameron O. Olson, Robert A. Robinson, Murugesan Subramanian, Chris W. Taylor, John C. Moretta