Abstract: An apparatus for purifying and neutralizing toxic gases such as odors, fumes or various volatile organic compounds generated by research laboratories, chemical processing factories or hospitals where medicinal products are handled, comprises a main body having an intake, an exhaust and a control panel; a pre-filter, a first filter, first and second neutralizing pellet beds, and a second filter which are mounted in the apparatus main body and are placed from the intake to the exhaust in that order; and a blower and a driving device placed between the first and second neutralizing pellet beds. The apparatus effectively purifies and neutralizes toxic gases and collects fine particles or dust.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for thermochemically transforming biomass or other oxygenated feedstocks into high quality liquid hydrocarbon fuels. In particular, a catalytic hydropyrolysis reactor, containing a deep bed of fluidized catalyst particles is utilized to accept particles of biomass or other oxygenated feedstocks that are significantly smaller than the particles of catalyst in the fluidized bed. The reactor features an insert or other structure disposed within the reactor vessel that inhibits slugging of the bed and thereby minimizes attrition of the catalyst. Within the bed, the biomass feedstock is converted into a vapor-phase product, containing hydrocarbon molecules and other process vapors, and an entrained solid char product, which is separated from the vapor stream after the vapor stream has been exhausted from the top of the reactor.

Abstract: The present invention features a center feed system in combination with a coking vessel of a delayed coking system, or any other similar system. The center feed system features an inlet sleeve which slidably engages a retractable nozzle, with inlet and outlet, in fluid connection with a feed source of residual byproduct, allowing residual byproduct to flow from the feed source into the interior of the vessel, thus effectuating or inducing even thermal distribution throughout the vessel. The retractable nozzle is structured to extend through an opening in the coking vessel while introducing the residual byproduct into the coking vessel and retract out of the coking vessel and cover the opening for at least a portion of a coking cycle.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for producing solid petroleum coke. The solid petroleum coke product is formed in a coking drum which has a rotatable coke breaking structure installed therein. Quench water or other quench fluid is delivered into the coking drum to quench the coke product and the coke breaking structure is rotated to break up the coke product such that the coke will empty out of the lower end of the coking drum.

Abstract: Apparatus for the destructive reclamation of materials and energy from municipal wastes and other raw materials through the use of Microwave induced Gasification and Pyrolysis, where the waste or raw material may be circulated once or several times through the process thus enabling the programming of different processes to differing materials and desired end products. The form employed being linear, circulating conveyors or rotating carousels that may carry trays or crucibles, some of which may be equipped with linings that absorb microwaves to enable the early charring of materials that do not initially absorb microwaves and thus will not heat up on their own.

Abstract: An apparatus and a process as disclosed for manufacturing a glass sheet having a complex form for vehicles. The apparatus includes a roller heating oven, a supporting air bed in a shaping section, and a shaping ring for conveying the glass first to an upper shaping mold and then to a tempering station. The air bed is formed with fustoconical nozzles of such a size as to enable the ring to pass through them and to be placed beneath the a floating plane of the glass. The ring undergoes a first vertical movement to lift the glass toward the shaping mold and a second horizontal movement to convey the glass to the tempering station.

Abstract: A leveling door for sealing a leveling opening of a coke oven door has a leveling door body, a diaphragm sheet mounted on the leveling door body at its side facing a leveling opening so as to cover the leveling opening, the diaphragm sheet having an edge and being provided on the edge with a circumferential sealing frame, a plurality of pressing elements acting on the sealing frame and distributed over a periphery of the sealing frame, a plurality of socket pins mounting the pressing element on the leveling door body, and an exchangeable heat protective screen arranged in front of the diaphragm sheet at a side facing the leveling opening.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for bending difficult bending shapes such as an S-shape in a glass sheet. The downward bending of an outline-mould supported, heated glass sheet is assisted by a non-engaging lower partial surface mould used for blowing to a bending line (BL) or its vicinity a gas having a temperature at least equal to that of glass, the gas serving simultaneously as a glass carrier preventing its falling or excessive downward sagging. Blasting orifices in the shaping surface are adapted to concentrate heating on the most problematic areas of a bending line.

Abstract: A glass sheet is transferred from a bending cell to a tempering cell on a continuous frame, after which it is held during tempering by discontinuous gripping device. Lifting studs lift the glass sheet above the frame prior to gripping.

Abstract: A catalytic reactor for oxidation of carbonaceous fuels comprising at least one microlith catalytic element having flow channels with a flow path length no longer than about two times the diameter of the largest flow channel. The initial catalyst element is advantageously electrically conductive to permit electrical heating.

Abstract: In one manufacture of a preform rod from which optical fiber is drawn, chemical materials are moved into a rotating preform tube to which is applied a moving zone of heat. Following a deposition mode, the tube is collapsed to provide the preform rod. Provisions must be made to supply the deposition materials from a rotating supply conduit into the rotating preform tube without leakage and without the ingress of contaminants while an end portion of the tube is gripped securely. This is accomplished by providing non-metallic ferrules about an end portion of the preform tube which are caused to be clamped against the end portion of the preform tube in sealing and gripping engagement therewith.

Abstract: A bending installation includes a shaping bed, an evacuation conveyor positioned downstream of the shaping bed and a swinging device for swinging a glass plate exiting the downstream end of the shaping bed from the shaping bed to the evacuation conveyor. The shaping bed is curved in a direction of advance of the glass plate and has a conveying direction different from that of the evacuation conveyor. The swinging device takes the form of a rotating drum mounted coaxially with a support roller. The drum includes holding rollers spaced from the support roller by a distance sufficient that a glass plate exiting the shaping bed is held between a holding roller and the support roller, so that the swinging device is swung by the weight of the glass plate to a position where the glass plate is transferred to the evacuation conveyor. A tempering air blowing box may be provided on the swinging device.

Abstract: A local heater is arranged in a heating furnace in which glass plates are continuously conveyed, and a bending line on each glass plate is forcibly heated. The local heater is elongated, and positions of both ends of the local heater are independently and digitally controlled in a widthwise (X-axis) direction of the heating furnace. Control point data along the bending line is obtained by interpolating coordinate values of both ends of the bending line. X-axis velocity control is performed such that the local heater is located on the glass bending line in synchronism with conveyance of the glass plate. A heating locus is linear, and the operation of the local heater is not stepwise. An offset of the actual heating locus from the bending line can be minimized.

Abstract: Continuous filament glass fiber bundles are coated with a molten thermoplastic polymer, without the addition of a size to the glass, by passing the filaments through an unpressurized pool of the polymer contained in a passage. The forces between the filaments and the unpressurized polymer interact to center the filaments in the passage as they pass through. The passage is defined by a body member and a detachable cover having contiguous surfaces joined along a longitudinal mating line which is angularly displaced from the longitudinal axis of the passage to assist in prevention of filament snagging in the melting line as they pass through the passage.

Abstract: A twin wall coke quenching container having an upwardly slanting bottom, there being a first plurality of quenching water inlets in an upper portion of that bottom, the openings of the first plurality having axes transverse to the upwardly slanting bottom; a second plurality of water inlet openings are disposed in front and rear walls not much higher than a level of that edge and being arranged only in the bottom portion having the first plurality of openings; a third plurality of water inlet openings extend along the upper edge, and axial inclination similar to said slant of the bottom.

Abstract: An improved anaerobic digestion process is provided to enhance the methane content of product gas so that no further processing may be required for utilization as high quality, high Btu gas comprising greater than 90 percent methane. Operating conditions of lowered carbon dioxide influent concentration to the methane production digester and operation of the methane production digester under pressurization achieve high conversion efficiency rates and high methane content product gas. The carbon dioxide produced during the anaerobic digestion may be physically and chemically separated and removed thereby reducing the carbon dioxide content of the product gas.

Abstract: The invention relates to a readjustment device on coking oven batteries with linkages, disposed in a master gallery so as to be movable in the longitudinal direction of the battery, for the actuation of shutoff members on the individual ovens of the coking oven battery. The linkages, to be moved simultaneously and oppositely in the master gallery, are joined to each other at one end of the coking oven battery through a guide pulley and this guide pulley is provided with pulley segments having different radii to obtain different strokes at the linkages.

Abstract: A combustion chamber for powdered coal and the like having a refractory lined floor with an exit throat at the bottom. The throat is shaped approximately in accordance with the ratios employed in a contraction cone of a wind tunnel to produce a monotonic increase in flow therethrough in order to avoid any clogging by liquid slag and fly ash.