Patents Assigned to Teresa J. Woods
  • Patent number: 4882903
    Abstract: A combined cycle waste-to-energy plant is utilized to thermally convert municipal and industrial solid wastes into essentially complete products of combustion and use the combustion heat to produce steam and/or electrical power. The plant includes a building enclosure having a waste receiving area, a waste fuel separation and processing area, an incinerator area and a heat recovery and power generation area. Processed waste fuel is delivered to a series of incinerators by an automated conveyor and hopper system, and the waste fuel is burned in the incinerators by hot exhaust gas delivered thereto from one or more combustion turbines located outside the building and drivingly connected to electrical generators. Inlet air to the turbines is drawn from with the building to maintain its interior at a negative pressure, thereby preventing waste odors and pathogens from escaping from the building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1989
    Assignees: CH Guernsey & Company, Maurice G. Woods, Teresa J. Woods, Applied Thermal Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: William L. Lowry Jr., Maurice G. Woods, Charles A. Martin