Patents by Inventor Kai K. Mak

Kai K. Mak 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: 4990317
    Abstract: The specification discloses a process for the treatment of waste gas containing hydrogen chloride wherein the gas is at an elevated temperature in the range of from about 300.degree. F. to about 3000.degree. F. and is produced from the thermal decomposition of material contaminated with hazardous chlorinated organic compounds. The waste gas is contacted in a reaction unit with an alkaline brine solution under conditions such that hydrogen chloride in the waste gas reacts with the alkali to form a chloride salt and water. The heat of the gas evaporates water from the solution to maintain the salt concentration sufficiently high to cause the formation of salt crystals in the solution. The gas is conducted from the reaction unit following contact with the solution under conditions such that the gas includes water evaporated from the solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Assignee: International Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kai K. Mak, Rudy G. Novak
  • Patent number: 4961391
    Abstract: A thermal treatment process employs an indirectly fired rotary kiln in which matrix material contaminated with organic substances such as dioxins, PCBs, PAHs, fuel oils, and the like is heated as the material is advanced through the kiln to cause components of the organics to be released as vapor. Purge gas of low oxygen content is conducted through the kiln at a relatively low velocity of from about 0.5 ft./sec. to about 10 ft./sec. to gently sweep the vaporized components of the organic substances from the kiln and to minimize the entrainment of solid particulates, and to produce an off gas mixture including the vaporized components. The off gas is conditioned after removal from the kiln to render it acceptable for discharge to the atmosphere. The oxygen concentration in the kiln is maintained at a sufficiently low level to substantially prevent combustion of the vaporized organic components in the kiln.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1990
    Assignee: International Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kai K. Mak, Rudy G. Novak, Robert D. Fox, Richard W. Helse
  • Patent number: 4925389
    Abstract: A system including a method and apparatus for treating waste containing organic contaminants which includes a direct fired, countercurrent, rotary kiln providing a soaking zone having an oxidizing atmosphere through which the materials being treated are passed after the unwanted organics are removed, and a secondary combustion chamber for oxidizing gases containing vaporized or pyrolyzed organics in which the organics are burned and are subjected to high temperatures for a holding time sufficient to effect destruction of the organic contaminants. The system includes means to minimize off-gas so as to make possible a reduction in size of the equipment employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1990
    Assignee: International Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Steven G. DeCicco, Sung K. Lee, Rudy G. Novak, William E. Wass, Kai K. Mak
  • Patent number: 4766822
    Abstract: A system including a method and apparatus for treating waste containing organic contaminants which includes a direct fired, countercurrent, rotary kiln providing a soaking zone having an oxidizing atmosphere through which the materials being treated are passed after the unwanted organics are removed, and a secondary combustion chamber for oxidizing gases containing vaporized or pyrolyzed organics in which the organics are burned and are subjected to high temperatures for a holding time sufficient to effect destruction of the organic contaminants. The system includes means to minimize off-gas so as to make possible a reduction in size of the equipment employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1988
    Assignee: International Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Steven G. De Cicco, Sung K. Lee, Rudy G. Novak, William E. Wass, Kai K. Mak
  • Patent number: 4746290
    Abstract: A system including a method and apparatus for treating waste containing organic contaminants which includes a direct fired, countercurrent, rotary kiln providing a soaking zone having an oxidizing atmosphere through which the materials being treated are passed after the unwanted organics are removed, and a secondary combustion chamber for oxidizing gases containing vaporized or pyrolyzed organics in which the organics are burned and are subjected to high temperatures for a holding time sufficient to effect destruction of the organic contaminants. The system includes means to minimize off-gas so as to make possible a reduction in size of the equipment employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Assignee: International Technolgy Corporation
    Inventors: Steven G. DeCicco, Sung K. Lee, Rudy G. Novak, William E. Wass, Kai K. Mak