Patents Represented by Attorney Kenneth R. Eagan Russell J. Priem
  • Patent number: 5340037
    Abstract: A system for grinding hot coke includes feeding the hot coke into the system, while maintaining the system under less than atmospheric pressure, wetting the coke during this feeding step to assure constant flow of the coke into a grinding mill where the coke is reduced to a slurry and forwarded to a holding tank. The system includes apparatus to recover and treat vapors derived from the grinding of the coke and to feed the slurry to gasification means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1994
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Paul S. Wallace, Henry C. Chan