Patents by Inventor Ted V. Mull, Jr.

Ted V. Mull, Jr. 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: 6887435
    Abstract: An integrated air foil and ammonia injection grid provides a plurality of air foils across a flue conveying flue gas. Each air foil has a leading curved edge and a tapered, pointed, trailing end. At least one injection pipe is positioned inside each air foil, and has at least one nozzle for injecting ammonia into the flue gas flowing across the air foils. Preferably, plural injection tubes are provided and positioned one behind the other in each air foil, and each injection tube in a given air foil has a length different than a length of the other injection tubes in the same air foil. A longest injection tube in a given air foil is located furthest downstream and proximate the tapered trailing edge and a shortest injection tube in the same air foil is located furthest upstream, remaining injection tubes in the same air foil being progressively shorter the further upstream any injection tube is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: The Babcock & Wilcox Company
    Inventors: Melvin J. Albrecht, Mark S. Bock, Kevin J. Rogers, Ted V. Mull, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6312482
    Abstract: A combined, integral steam generator coal gasifier includes a vertically elongated, all welded, gas tight enclosure with a burner zone having a double pitch sloping furnace floor and a slag tap extending therethrough. Successive zones located above the burner zone are provided with appropriate tube materials for conveying synthesis gas produced by the coal gasification process. A multi-pass convection pass zone having upflow and downflow passes is located at an upper portion of the enclosure and contains a plurality of superheater (primary and secondary) as well as economizer heating surfaces which extract heat from the synthesis gas to produce steam. An ash remover is connected to the outlet of the convection pass zone to remove ash from the synthesis gas exiting from the convection pass zone. The slag tap located at the bottom of the burner zone communicates with a slag tank or a drag chain deasher for receiving and removing slag from the burner zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: The Babcock & Wilcox Company
    Inventors: David E. James, Paul S. Larsen, Mark C. Godden, Ted V. Mull, Jr., Paul S. Weitzel
  • Patent number: 5713291
    Abstract: A multi-cylinder air delivery port for introducing air into a fossil fuel-fired boiler and auxiliary equipment. The air delivery port is generally comprised of a linearly translatable and rotatable bundle of open ended cylinders that allow air to be injected with a directional and/or swirling flow pattern without the use of louvered damper blades and spin vanes of conventional air delivery ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Assignee: The Babcock & Wilcox Company
    Inventor: Ted V. Mull, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5687768
    Abstract: An arrangement of air foils in a duct bend for channeling an air flow through the duct in a manner which enhances the accuracy of pressure measurements taken at one or more points in the channels formed in the duct between the air foils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignee: The Babcock & Wilcox Company
    Inventors: Ted V. Mull, Jr., Melvin J. Albrecht, Jeffrey A. LaRose, Mitchell W. Hopkins