Patents by Inventor Chip Efferson

Chip Efferson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5179903
    Abstract: An incineration process which can utilize any type of incineration means for disposing of hazardous, as well as non-hazardous, burnable waste. Such waste 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. In this process, a portion of the flue gas stream is enriched with oxygen and recycled to the incineration means. The remaining portion of the flue gas stream is scrubbed to remove acid gases and passed through a purification zone wherein any remaining contaminates are removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1993
    Inventors: Harry I. Abboud, Chip Efferson