Abstract: A sensible cooled air conditioning system comprised of a primary wet-dry side sensible heat exchanger using water refrigerant that changes to its vapor phase at the wet side by adsorption of sensible heat from the useful conditioned air passing therethrough and into a supply air duct, a blower for moving conditioned air through and from said duct, and the wet side air being exhausted as vapor laden humidified air, and a secondary refrigeration air conditioner for cooling and/or heating and removed from the supply air duct to eliminate pressure drop in said duct by an inlet opening from the supply air duct to receive a portion of said conditioned air and by an outlet opening into the supply air duct to return said conditioned air with additional sensible cooling and latent heat cooling for dehumidification, and a blower for moving conditioned air independently through the secondary refrigeration air conditioner.

Abstract: A method for cooling air to a predetermined outflow temperature for use in an atmosphere having a controlled humidity. In the method, a stream of air having an unknown temperature and an unknown humidity content is supplied. The air is cooled to provide cooled air having a temperature at or below the predetermined outflow temperature. The cooled air is heated when necessary to provide outgoing air having a temperature approximately equal to the predetermined outflow temperature.

Abstract: An incineration process which can utilize any type of incineration means for disposing of hazardous, as well as non-hazardous, burnable waste. Such wastes include toxic combustible liquids, oil slurries, soils contaminated with dioxin, PCBs, creosote, or any other potentially toxic combustible material. In particular, the present invention relates to an incineration process which has no continuous stack discharge or pollution. This process provides an improved incineration means which conserves energy by reacting hazardous and non-hazardous waste with steam and oxygen to convert it into gaseous and/or solid fuel; cooling, compressing and recycling a portion of the fuel gas to the incinerator system to provide fuel for the incineration process, and to recover gases that can be used for production of chemicals or sold as fuel gas.

Abstract: A dehumidifier of the present invention includes: a first frame; a second frame formed inside of the first frame, having a first opening and a second opening; and a unit for allowing air to flow from the first opening to the second opening, wherein the second frame has a hollow substrate, a thermoelectric element formed on a surface of the hollow substrate directly, a pair of electrodes, connected to the thermoelectric element, for supplying an electric current to the thermoelectric element, and the thermoelectric element causes a temperature difference between the outer surface and the inner surface of the second frame.

Abstract: An air conditioning system uses heat-pipes in combination with a cooling coil to increase either the dehumidification capacity or the efficiency and capacity of an air-conditioning system. In the dehumidification mode, the secondary cooling coil is inactive, and the heat pipes operate as a heat-exchanger between the warm return air and the cold supply air of the air conditioning system to precool the return air and reheat the supply air, increasing the latent capacity of the main cooling coil. In the efficiency and capacity boosting mode, the secondary cooling coil is activated by introducing a portion of the cooling fluid from the air-conditioning system. This results in a neutralization of the effect of the heat pipes as well as an increase in effective heat-exchange area between the cooling fluid and the air, therefore produces an increase in the capacity of the system.

Abstract: A lumber predrying/drying kiln comprises a multiplicity of panels, a multiplicity of mats, and resin. Each panel comprises a multiplicity of plates and a block of insulation. The plates comprise fibrous glass strands embedded in a resin. The plates surround and encapsulate each block of insulation. Panels are placed next to each other, and above and/or below each other, end-to-end, to form walls and a roof of the kiln. They are connected with several alternating layers of fiberglass mats and resin wide enough to cover the joint between, and rigidly and structurally connect, the panels.

Abstract: The capacity control range of an interior unit of a multiple type absorption air conditioning system is enlarged, and turning on and off of cooling/heating and switch over between the cooling and heating can be readily and safely performed. The capacity control range is increased by reserving a liquid refrigerant in an absorption cool/warm water unit. An interior unit is connected to the absorption cool/warm water unit by a communication device. The operation of the cool/warm water unit caused by turning on and off the system and switch over between cooling and heating are automatically controlled by an operation control device. Consequently, the operation is simplified, and safety is improved.

Abstract: A novel filter assembly (8) for fluid bed granulator, dryer or coater machines (1) which utilize a rigid filter frame (10) consisting of a solid bottom plate (4), a donut shaped top plate (3) with said top and bottom plates being connected by side rods (5) to form a cage like frame work. Said rigid filter frame (10) is reusable, around which a pleated (13) reusable flexible filter bag (9) is fitted and clamped (7), top support plate (2) and mounting plate (12) are connected by a threaded rod (6) with a sealing gasket (11) between them.

Abstract: An apparatus for incinerating a waste material by processing the waste material through dry distillation and gasification has a gasification furnace for storing a waste material therein and burning a portion of the waste material and thermally decomposing the remainder of the waste material by way of dry distillation with the heat of combustion of the portion of the waste material, thereby producing a combustible gas, and a combustion furnace connected to the gasification furnace through a gas introduction passage for mixing, with oxygen, the combustible gas introduced therein from the gasification furnace through the gas introduction passage and combusting the combustible gas mixed with the oxygen, the combustion furnace having a gas inlet port connected to the gas introduction passage. An oxygen supply device supplies the combustion furnace with an amount of oxygen required to combust the combustible gas into the combustion furnace while generating a swirling oxygen flow around the gas inlet port.

Abstract: An engine cooling apparatus positioned between a coolant radiator and air conditioning condenser of an associated automotive vehicle, with the cooling apparatus including a plurality of nozzle members between the condenser and radiator structure, with a fluid control operative through a control relay to effect actuation of a pump to direct fluid flow to the nozzle members upon sensing a predetermined coolant temperature within the radiator.

Abstract: The invention relates to a single pass airflow apparatus for cooling and drying corrugated product having open flutes, comprising an airflow exhaust duct having a first cross-sectional area, an inlet plenum with a cross-section area greater than the airflow exhaust duct and having an exit in airflow communication with an inlet to the airflow exhaust duct. The plenum has an open faced chamber abuttingly facing the stack of corrugated product which presents the open flutes to the plenum. A fan is provided for drawing airflow through corrugated product into the plenum and from there into airflow exhaust duct from whence the drawn air is exhausted to atmosphere. The invention is directed to the structure and to the method of its use.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a manifold 10 that is used in conjunction with a die attach cure station for providing a "quick cure" of the die mount adhesive, and for forcing contaminants away from the semiconductor die 33 surface. The manifold has an air put port 21 directly above the semiconductor die. Forced air is directed through the port. At each side of the forced port are vacuum ports 20,22 through which a vacuum is applied to draw air and heated die attach contaminants from the die surface. Air is also drawn from below and around the die mounting area to provide a stream of air that is drawn into the vacuum ports.

Abstract: An integrated wet-rotor zoning circulator for circulating fluid within a zone in a hydronic heating or cooling system. The zoning circulator has three primary components: a motor, an impeller casing, and a controller. The controller, which is integrated with the motor, houses a voltage transforming device (e.g., a transformer) and a switching device (e.g., a relay). When a thermostat in the zone being served by the zoning circulator closes, the switching device closes and the pump is activated.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for drying small articles of wearing apparel wherein the articles of wearing apparel are placed in a drying chamber having a curved surface on which the wearing apparel is placed, applying warm air under pressure along the curved surface to dry and tumble the wearing apparel to expedite the drying thereof.

Abstract: This refrigerant filter-drier core is molded from a permeable matrix which includes desiccant particles, a binder and reinforcing fibers, the fibers being fixed in place by the binder and being effective to impart strength and permeability to the filter-drier core.

Abstract: A horizontal dryer for solid material is the subject of the present invention. The dryer consists of a horizontal drum rotated about its horizontal axis, containing flighting around its periphery, and coupled with a heat source, all of which is well known in the prior art. The dryer of the present invention, however, both receives and discharges material at only one end and provides an inner tubular member, centrally mounted coaxially in the drum which member presents a preheating chamber. Material to be dried is first fed into the inner tubular member at one end of the drum and is moved through the tubular member by a plurality of curved flights thus preheating the material in preparation for drying. The material is moved through the preheating chamber to the opposite closed end of the drum where it is deposited into the primary drying chamber of the drum. Flighting in the drum moves the material back toward the inlet end of the drum as it continues to be heated and dried.

Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus for eliminating the flutter of a paper web in the dryer section of a papermaking machine between two single felt configurations in which the web is transferred from a dryer fabric of a first configuration onto a dryer fabric of a second configuration along a common run of the fabrics, the transfer being effected from one fabric to the other by means of a vacuum transfer roll, with the second configuration dryer fabric being brought into contact with the web and around which the fabric is winding, whereby on the side of the first configuration dryer fabric upstream of a contact point between the web carried thereon and the second configuration dryer fabric winding around the vacuum transfer roll there is provided a vacuum zone defined by the first configuration dryer fabric for retaining the web in contact with the first configuration dryer fabric.

Abstract: A foot dryer for drying toes on a foot of an individual has a blower which directs air through apertures in a top panel of a housing. A switch is positioned on the top panel adjacent to the apertures such that when the switch is activated by the individual using the ball of their foot, the toes of the individual are located directly above the apertures. Both a heating device and/or a powder dispenser may be incorporated between the blower and the apertures to either warm the air and/or dispense powder to the toes respectively. An optional timing mechanism may be incorporated to allow the powder to be dispensed automatically after the toes of the foot have had a sufficient time to dry. The air time for drying and/or powder could be set by the user or it could be set to a normal setting.

Abstract: The kiln system for drying green lumber to a predetermined moisture content according to the present invention includes a kiln chamber for enclosing a charge of lumber, a fan in upper portions of the kiln chamber above the stacks of lumber to circulate air through the kiln chamber and through the lumber in the kiln chamber and a first elongate fairing overlying and partially surrounding an upper corner of the charge of lumber. The elongate fairing controls the air flow from the fan in the upper portions of the chamber to increase the efficiency of the air flow and the drying process. For kiln chambers adapted to receive a charge of lumber consisting of a plurality of laterally spaced rectangular stacks of lumber, the elongate fairing preferably overlies and partially surrounds the outer upper corners of the outermost stacks of lumber.

Abstract: A high temperature regenerator of an absorption type hot and cold water generator and an absorption type hot and cold water generator capable of preventing corrosion from occurring by preventing local overheating at the heat transfer surface of the high temperature regenerator and capable of being miniaturized. The high temperature regenerator includes an outer case, an inner case, a plurality of solution pipes, a burner, a solution flow-in pipe, and a gas/liquid separation plate. The inner case is inside the outer case, and a solution is kept between the cases, with the inner case being submerged within this solution. The burner is mounted on the side of the outer case in such a way that heat can be supplied through the inner case, with the inside of the inner case serving as a combustion chamber.