Patents by Inventor Grazia Di Salvia
Grazia Di Salvia 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).
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Publication number: 20220266252Abstract: Process for grinding heterogeneous matrices comprising fragile materials and plastic materials, comprising the steps of: (i) introducing in a mill or similar device a heterogeneous matrix comprising plastic materials and fragile materials of variable dimension; (ii) applying, by suitable moving actuator means, kinetic energy to said heterogeneous matrix, by projecting the materials of the matrix at high speed against suitable fixed stop means provided on said mill; (ill) proceeding to grinding under the effect of impacts occurring between the material projected by the actuator means and the material accumulated on said stop means; (iv) discharging the portion of processed material reduced under a prefixed maximum diameter, characterized in that said stop means are configured so that they can hold removably the material projected against the same in an outer region with respect to the volume interested by the movement of said actuator means.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2020Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: ITEA S. p. A.Inventors: Giuseppe La Pietra, Grazia Di Salvia, Massimo Pietro Malavasi, Edoardo Moioli, Alvise Achille Bassignano
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Patent number: 10393375Abstract: Oxycombustion process wherein a combustor is fed with a fuel, a comburent and compounds under the form of coherent aggregates having Young modulus ?104 MPa, the combustor being isothermal and flameless.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: ITEA S.P.A.Inventors: Massimo Malavasi, Grazia Di Salvia
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Patent number: 10203111Abstract: A combustion process wherein a fuel, a comburent and a component B), sulphur or sulphur containing compounds, are fed to the combuster in an amount to have a molar ratio B?/AI?0.5, wherein: B? is the sum by moles between the amount of sulphur present in component B)+the amount of sulphur (component BII)) contained in the fuel, AI is the sum by moles between the amount of alkaline and/or alkaline-earth metals (component AII)) contained in the fuel+the amount of the alkaline and/or alkaline earth metals (component A)) in the form of salts and/or oxides contained in component B), being the combustor isothermal and flameless.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2008Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: ITEA S.p.A.Inventors: Massimo Malavasi, Grazia Di Salvia, Edoardo Rossetti
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Patent number: 9677763Abstract: Oxycombustion process wherein low ranking, gaseous, liquid, solid, optionally solid melting hydrocarbon fractions are used as fuels, having a vanadium content in an amount by weight from 50 to 5,000 ppm or higher, for producing energy, wherein magnesium is added as oxide, or as a water-soluble salt, the combustor being refractored and isotherm or quasi isotherm, flameless, working at temperatures comprised between 1,250° C. and 1,450° C. and under pressurized conditions, wherein the oxidant is oxygen, the oxidant being used in admixture with water or steam such that the ratio by moles oxidant:(water-steam) is comprised between about 1:0.4 and about 1:3 or the oxidant is used in admixture with flue gases recycled from the flue gases outletting the energy recovery equipments, wherein the water amount is higher than 30% by volume, optionally by adding water, the molar ratio oxidant:(water/steam) in flue gases being comprised from about 1:0.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2013Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: ITEA S.p.A.Inventors: Massimo Pietro Malavasi, Grazia Di Salvia, Alvise Achille Bassignano, Giampietro Tedeschi
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Patent number: 9671110Abstract: Oxycombustion process for producing energy wherein low ranking gaseous, liquid, solid, optionally solid melting hydrocarbon fractions are used as fuels, having a vanadium content in amounts by weight from 50 to 5,000 ppm or higher, and alkaline metals Ma in amounts from 20 to 10,000 ppm, wherein magnesium is added as oxide, or as a magnesium compound forming MgO in the combustion process, or mixtures thereof and a silico-aluminate wherein the molar ratio SiO2:Al2O3 ranges from 2:1 to 6:1; the combustor being refractored, isotherm or quasi-isotherm, flameless, working at temperatures in the range 1,250°-1,450° C. and under pressurized conditions, wherein the oxidant being used in admixture with water or steam, the ratio by moles oxidant:(water/steam) being comprised between about 1:0.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2013Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: ITEA S.P.A.Inventors: Massimo Pietro Malavasi, Grazia Di Salvia, Nazario Di Salvia, Alvise Achille Bassignano, Giampietro Tedeschi
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Patent number: 9562205Abstract: A combustion process wherein a fuel, a comburent and component A) are fed to a combustor, component A), comprising low-melting salts and/or oxides having a melting temperature ?1,450 K, the ratio by moles A?/(A??A?)?0.01, being: A? the sum by moles between the amount of metals, under the form of low-melting salts and/or low-melting oxides present in the component A) and the amount of metals under the form of the low-melting salts and/or low-melting oxides or their low-melting mixtures, contained in the fuel, A? is the sum of the amount of all the metals contained in the fuel and of those contained in component A), in which the combustor is isothermal type and flameless.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2008Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: ITEA S.P.A.Inventors: Massimo Malavasi, Grazia Di Salvia, Edoardo Rossetti
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Publication number: 20160320056Abstract: Oxycombustion process wherein a combustor is fed with a fuel, a comburent and compounds under the form of coherent aggregates having Young modulus ?104 MPa, the combustor being isothermal and flameless.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2014Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventors: Massimo MALAVASI, Grazia DI SALVIA
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Publication number: 20150184853Abstract: Oxycombustion process wherein low ranking, gaseous, liquid, solid, optionally solid melting hydrocarbon fractions are used as fuels, having a vanadium content in an amount by weight from 50 to 5,000 ppm or higher, for producing energy, wherein magnesium is added as oxide, or as a water-soluble salt, the combustor being refractored and isotherm or quasi isotherm, flameless, working at temperatures comprised between 1,250° C. and 1,450° C. and under pressurized conditions, wherein the oxidant is oxygen, the oxidant being used in admixture with water or steam such that the ratio by moles oxidant:(water-steam) is comprised between about 1:0.4 and about 1:3 or the oxidant is used in admixture with flue gases recycled from the flue gases outletting the energy recovery equipments, wherein the water amount is higher than 30% by volume, optionally by adding water, the molar ratio oxidant:(water/steam) in flue gases being comprised from about 1:0.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2013Publication date: July 2, 2015Inventors: Massimo Pietro Malavasi, Grazia Di Salvia, Alvise Achille Bassignano, Giampietro Tedeschi
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Publication number: 20150153043Abstract: Oxycombustion process for producing energy wherein low ranking gaseous, liquid, solid, optionally solid melting hydrocarbon fractions are used as fuels, having a vanadium content in amounts by weight from 50 to 5,000 ppm or higher, and alkaline metals Ma in amounts from 20 to 10,000 ppm, wherein magnesium is added as oxide, or as a magnesium compound forming MgO in the combustion process, or mixtures thereof and a silico-aluminate wherein the molar ratio SiO2:Al2O3 ranges from 2:1 to 6:1; the combustor being refractored, isotherm or quasi-isotherm, flameless, working at temperatures in the range 1,250°-1,450° C. and under pressurized conditions, wherein the oxidant being used in admixture with water or steam, the ratio by moles oxidant:(water/steam) being comprised between about 1:0.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2013Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: Massimo Pietro Malavasi, Grazia Di Salvia, Nazario Di Salvia, Alvise Achille Bassignano, Giampietro Tedeschi
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Patent number: 8974225Abstract: A combustion process wherein a comburent, a fuel and the following components are fed: i) component B) sulphur or compounds containing sulphur in an amount to have a molar ration B1/C1?0.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2008Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: ITEA S.p.A.Inventors: Massimo Malavasi, Grazia Di Salvia, Edoardo Rossetti
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Patent number: 7910076Abstract: A process for the removal of heavy metals from flue gas deriving from combustion processes comprising the following steps: a) optional removal by filtration of solid particles or of particulate of heavy metals or their compounds, having an average diameter higher than 10 micron; b) flue gas washing performed with an aqueous phase and transfer of the heavy metals or their compounds to the aqueous phase; c) flue gas cooling and partial condensation of the steam contained in the flue gas and separation of a condensed phase; d) discharge of the flue gases substantially free from heavy metals or their compounds into the environment; f) discharge of the aqueous phase substantially free from heavy metals or their compounds into the environment.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2007Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: ITEA S.p.A.Inventors: Massimo Malavasi, Grazia Di Salvia, Edoardo Rossetti
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Publication number: 20100261126Abstract: A combustion process wherein a fuel, a comburent and component A) are fed to a combustor, component A), comprising low-melting salts and/or oxides having a melting temperature ?1,450 K, the ratio by moles A?/(A??A?)?0.01, being: A? the sum by moles between the amount of metals, under the form of low-melting salts and/or low-melting oxides present in the component A) and the amount of metals under the form of the low-melting salts and/or low-melting oxides or their low-melting mixtures, contained in the fuel, A? is the sum of the amount of all the metals contained in the fuel and of those contained in component A), in which the combustor is isothermal type and flameless.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2008Publication date: October 14, 2010Inventors: Massimo Malavasi, Grazia Di Salvia, Edoardo Rossetti
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Publication number: 20100261127Abstract: A combustion process wherein a fuel, a comburent and a component B), sulphur or sulphur containing compounds, are fed to the combuster in an amount to have a molar ratio B ‘/AI?0.5, wherein: B’ is the sum by moles between the amount of sulphur present in component B)+the amount of sulphur (component BII)) contained in the fuel, AI is the sum by moles between the amount of alkaline and/or alkaline-earth metals (component AII)) contained in the fuel+the amount of the alkaline and/or alkaline earth metals (component A)) in the form of salts and/or oxides contained in component B), being the combustor isothermal and flameless.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2008Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicant: ITEA S.p.A.Inventors: Massimo Malavasi, Grazia Di Salvia, Edoardo Rossetti
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Publication number: 20100248168Abstract: A combustion process wherein a comburent, a fuel and the following components are fed: i) component B) sulphur or compounds containing sulphur in an amount to have a molar ration B1/C1?0.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2008Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: ITEA S.p.A.Inventors: Massimo Malavasi, Grazia Di Salvia, Edoardo Rossetti
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Publication number: 20100051872Abstract: A process for the removal of heavy metals from flue gas deriving from combustion processes comprising the following steps: a) optional removal by filtration of solid particles or of particulate of heavy metals or their compounds, having an average diameter higher than 10 micron; b) flue gas washing performed with an aqueous phase and transfer of the heavy metals or their compounds to the aqueous phase; c) flue gas cooling and partial condensation of the steam contained in the flue gas and separation of a condensed phase; d) discharge of the flue gases substantially free from heavy metals or their compounds into the environment; f) discharge of the aqueous phase substantially free from heavy metals or their compounds into the environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2007Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: ITEA S.p.A.Inventors: Massimo Malavasi, Grazia Di Salvia, Edoardo Rossetti