Patents Assigned to Mississippi Lime Company
  • Patent number: 11878913
    Abstract: A system and method of removing grit and contaminants from a lime oxide flour where the lime oxide flour begins as a standard lime flour which has a particle-size distribution of greater than 90% minus 100 mesh and less than 80% minus 200 mesh. The standard lime flour is then refined via classification to a refined lime flour which has greater than 80% minus 200 mesh. The refined lime flour may then be used for formation of lime hydrate at end-user on site production where it is typically less reactive to slaking water temperature variations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Michael S. Stever, Martin Gran, Randy Griffard, Gerald Kevin Bequette, Nathan T. Hooper
  • Patent number: 11865583
    Abstract: Systems and methods to effectively sort calcined lime (quicklime) particles to produce products with more consistent size and burn time characteristics after the quicklime particles have been created and without the use of specialized additives. Specifically, such systems and methods sort the quicklime particles below a selected size into a softer burned and harder burned fraction based on their size. The fractions are burned in the kiln together and as a singular product, but can be classified from each other after calcining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Mark DeGenova, Randy J. Griffard, David Venhaus
  • Patent number: 11772980
    Abstract: Systems and methods for impurity removal to limestone using modifications to the typical calcination process of turning calcium carbonate into calcium oxide prior to slaking to produce calcium hydroxide. Specifically, substantially increasing the temperature to 1100° C. or higher and increasing soak time can result in reductions in certain undesirable impurities, particularly with regards to lead and lead compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Martin L. Gran, Randy Griffard, Mary Grass
  • Patent number: 11673115
    Abstract: A hydrated lime product exhibiting superior reactivity towards HCl and SO2 in air pollution control applications. Also disclosed is a method of providing highly reactive hydrated lime and the resultant lime hydrate where an initial lime feed comprising calcium and impurities is first ground to a particle-size distribution with relatively course particles. Smaller particles are then removed from this ground lime and the smaller particles are hydrated and flash dried to form a hydrated lime, which is then milled to a significantly smaller particle size than that of the relatively course particles. The resultant lime hydrate product has available CaOH of greater than 92%, a citric acid reactivity of less than 20 seconds, a BET surface area greater than 18, a D90 less than 10 ?m, a D50 less than 4 ?m, a D90/D50 less than 3, and a large pore volume of greater than 0.2 BJH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Randy J. Griffard, Gerald K. Bequette, William S. Allebach, Sr., Paul J. Ramer
  • Patent number: 11656117
    Abstract: A rotary airlock test and demonstration setup, system, and method allowing for rotary airlocks to be tested for air leakage, wear, and particularly for inconsistent wear. The system allows for testing of the rotary airlocks on site utilizing a truck mounted system and even in situ should a portion of the air path for the testing be part of the pneumatic conveyor the rotary airlock would be used with.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Gerald K. Bequette, Nathan T. Hooper, Randy Griffard, Martin Gran
  • Patent number: 11603318
    Abstract: A hydrated lime product which can be provided to an end user in dry form and which can be formed into a slurry which will comprise lime hydrate with sufficiently increased reactivity over that of traditional hydrated lime slurries to be competitive in reaction time with on-site produced slaked lime slurries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Martin L. Gran, Randy Griffard, Michael Stever, Kory Mueller, Nathan Hooper, Scott Sipiorski
  • Patent number: 11572306
    Abstract: A method of providing highly reactive hydrated lime and the resultant lime hydrate where an initial lime feed comprising calcium and impurities is first ground to a particle-size distribution with relatively course particles. Smaller particles are then removed from this ground lime and the smaller particles are hydrated and flash dried to form a hydrated lime, which is then milled to a significantly smaller particle size than that of the relatively course particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Randy J. Griffard, Gerald K. Bequette, William S. Allebach, Sr., Paul J. Ramer
  • Patent number: 11420878
    Abstract: Systems and methods for impurity removal to limestone using modifications to the typical calcination process of turning calcium carbonate into calcium oxide. Specifically, substantially increasing the temperature to 1100° C. or higher and increasing soak time can result in reductions in certain undesirable impurities, particularly with regards to lead and lead compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Martin L. Gran, Randy Griffard, Mary Grass
  • Patent number: 11365150
    Abstract: Systems and Methods to produce a lime hydrate sorbent composition formed of highly reactive lime hydrate (HRH) by adding compounds to the slaking water in a method that would produce a non-HRH, which will typically be a lime hydrate having citric acid reactivity as discussed above of more than ten seconds, to make the non-HRH an HRH, which is having a citric acid reactivity of less than or equal to ten seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Randy Griffard, Martin L. Gran, William S. Allebach, Paul J. Ramer
  • Patent number: 11311839
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the use of highly reactive hydrated lime (HRH) in high temperature flue gas streams, namely those at greater than 400° F., such as are present before an air preheater (APH) to remove sulfur trioxide (SO3) from the flue gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Curt Biehn, Randy Griffard, Mark DeGenova, Eric Van Rens, Pat Mongoven
  • Patent number: 11148149
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generation of lime hydrate compounds and particularly highly reactive hydrated lime (HRH) with a reduced resistivity through the inclusion of a sodium compound generally in the slaking water used in generating the lime hydrate or HRH. The compound may then be used in systems which include a Electrostatic Precipitator (ESP) for SO2 mitigation without many of the associated problems in ESP performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Martin L. Gran, Randy Griffard, William S. Allebach, Paul J. Ramer
  • Patent number: 10960379
    Abstract: A hydrated lime product exhibiting superior reactivity towards HCl and SO2 in air pollution control applications. Also disclosed is a method of providing highly reactive hydrated lime and the resultant lime hydrate where an initial lime feed comprising calcium and impurities is first ground to a particle-size distribution with relatively course particles. Smaller particles are then removed from this ground lime and the smaller particles are hydrated and flash dried to form a hydrated lime, which is then milled to a significantly smaller particle size than that of the relatively course particles. The resultant lime hydrate product has available CaOH of greater than 92%, a citric acid reactivity of less than 20 seconds, a BET surface area greater than 18, a D90 less than 10 ?m, a D50 less than 4 ?m, a D90/D50 less than 3, and a large pore volume of greater than 0.2 BJH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Randy J. Griffard, Gerald K. Bequette, William S. Allebach, Sr., Paul J. Ramer
  • Patent number: 10723654
    Abstract: A method of providing highly reactive hydrated lime and the resultant lime hydrate where an initial lime feed comprising calcium and impurities is first ground to a particle-size distribution with relatively course particles. Smaller particles are then removed from this ground lime and the smaller particles are hydrated and flash dried to form a hydrated lime, which is then milled to a significantly smaller particle size than that of the relatively course particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Randy J. Griffard, Gerald K. Bequette, William S. Allebach, Sr., Paul J. Ramer
  • Patent number: 10688500
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the use of highly reactive hydrated lime (HRH) in circulating dry scrubbers (CDS) to remove sulfur dioxide (SO2) from the flue gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Curtiss Biehn, Randy Griffard, Mark Degenova, Eric Van Rens
  • Patent number: 10668480
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the use of highly reactive hydrated lime (HRH) in circulating dry scrubbers (CDS) to remove sulfur dioxide (SO2) and other acid gases from the flue gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Curtiss Biehn, Randy Griffard, Mark Degenova, Eric Van Rens
  • Patent number: 10590003
    Abstract: A chemical processing method to increase the brightness of a naturally sourced GCC. The process described herein employs a persulfate under certain heating and stirring conditions to effect a brightness change which can be on the order of about 8 points on the GE brightness scale and can move a GCC which is under a GE level of 80 to above a GE level of 80.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Sean Dingman, Kory Mueller
  • Patent number: 10549256
    Abstract: A hydrated lime product exhibiting superior reactivity towards HCl and SO2 in air pollution control applications. Also disclosed is a method of providing highly reactive hydrated lime and the resultant lime hydrate where an initial lime feed comprising calcium and impurities is first ground to a particle-size distribution with relatively course particles. Smaller particles are then removed from this ground lime and the smaller particles are hydrated and flash dried to form a hydrated lime, which is then milled to a significantly smaller particle size than that of the relatively course particles. The resultant lime hydrate product has available CaOH of greater than 92%, a citric acid reactivity of less than 20 seconds, a BET surface area greater than 18, a D90 less than 10 ?m, a D50 less than 4 ?m, a D90/D50 less than 3, and a large pore volume of greater than 0.2 BJH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Randy J. Griffard, Gerald K. Bequette, William S. Allebach, Sr., Paul J. Ramer
  • Patent number: 10457598
    Abstract: A method of providing highly reactive hydrated lime and the resultant lime hydrate where an initial lime feed comprising calcium and impurities is first ground to a particle-size distribution with relatively course particles. Smaller particles are then removed from this ground lime and the smaller particles are hydrated and flash dried to form a hydrated lime, which is then milled to a significantly smaller particle size than that of the relatively course particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Randy J. Griffard, Gerald K. Bequette, William S. Allebach, Sr., Paul J. Ramer
  • Patent number: 10307728
    Abstract: A sorbent composition with improved acid gas reactivity comprising calcium hydroxide particles is provided. In the calcium hydroxide composition, about 90% percent of the calcium hydroxide particles are less than or equal to about 10 microns; the ratio of 90% of the calcium hydroxide particles below a specified size to the ratio of 10% of the calcium hydroxide particles above a specified size is less than about 8; and the calcium hydroxide particles have a BET surface area of about 18 m2/g or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Randy J. Griffard, Mark G. Degenova, Stephen C. Schweigert, Gerald K. Bequette, William S. Allebach, Zhichao Richard Zhang, Curtiss R. Biehn
  • Patent number: 10307766
    Abstract: Systems and methods to effectively sort calcined lime (quicklime) particles to produce products with more consistent size and burn time characteristics after the quicklime particles have been created and without the use of specialized additives. Specifically, such systems and methods sort the quicklime particles below a selected size into a softer burned and harder burned fraction based on their size. The fractions are burned in the kiln together and as a singular product, but can be classified from each other after calcining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Mark DeGenova, Randy J. Griffard, David Venhaus