Patents by Inventor William Lanier

William Lanier 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: 7464540
    Abstract: A power system is provided having a power source, a first power source section with a first intake passage and a first exhaust passage, a second power source section with a second intake passage and a second exhaust passage, and an oxygen separator. The second intake passage may be fluidly isolated from the first intake passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: William Lanier Easley, Jr., Gerald Nelson Coleman, Wade James Robel
  • Publication number: 20080127645
    Abstract: An exhaust treatment system for an engine is disclosed and may have an air induction circuit, an exhaust circuit, and an exhaust recirculation circuit. The air induction circuit may be configured to direct air into the engine. The exhaust circuit may be configured to direct exhaust from the engine and include a turbine driven by the exhaust, a particulate filter disposed in series with and downstream of the turbine, and a catalytic device disposed in series with and downstream of the particulate filter. The exhaust recirculation circuit may be configured to selectively redirect at least some of the exhaust from between the particulate filter and the catalytic device to the air induction circuit. The catalytic device is selected to create backpressure within the exhaust circuit sufficient to ensure that, under normal engine operating conditions above low idle, exhaust can flow into the air induction circuit without throttling of the air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: William Lanier Easley, David Michael Milam, Stephan Donald Roozenboom, Michael Steven Bond, Amir Kapic
  • Publication number: 20070277506
    Abstract: A power system is provided having a power source, a first power source section with a first intake passage and a first exhaust passage, a second power source section with a second intake passage and a second exhaust passage, and an oxygen separator. The second intake passage may be fluidly isolated from the first intake passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventors: William Lanier Easley, Gerald Nelson Coleman, Wade James Robel
  • Publication number: 20070184205
    Abstract: A method of producing paperboard and cartons made therefrom is described incorporating a waterproof or water resistant coating applied to the interior of the carton except for areas intended for gluing. A coating material is applied to the surface of an applicator roll, and a portion of the coating material is then removed from the roll. Contact between a paperboard web and the roll transfers coating material to the web, creating a coated surface except for an uncoated stripe. A carton may be formed from the coated web with the uncoated portion of the carton cut from the uncoated strip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Inventors: Randall Bailey, William Lanier
  • Publication number: 20060120934
    Abstract: In a method to decrease emission of mercury, a factor is selected to control a combustion process to generate a flue gas comprising fly ash with enhanced unburned carbon; the combustion process is controlled according to a factor selected from reburning fuel, flue gas temperature, OFA injection, coal particle size, LNB flow, LNB design, combustion zone air, stoichiometric ratio of fuel, fuel/air mixing in a primary combustion zone and fuel/air mixing in a secondary combustion zone to produce the flue gas comprising fly ash with enhanced unburned carbon and to vaporize mercury; and the flue gas is allowed to cool to collect fly ash with enhanced unburned carbon with absorbed mercury. A system to decrease emission of mercury; comprises a combustion zone that is controlled to generate a flue gas comprising fly ash with enhanced unburned carbon and that produces vaporized mercury; and a post combustion zone to cool the flue gas to collect fly ash with enhanced unburned carbon with absorbed mercury.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2003
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventors: William Lanier, Charles Booth, Vitall Lissianski, Viadimir Zamansky, Peter Maly, William Seekar
  • Publication number: 20050260761
    Abstract: A method for monitoring and/or controlling performance of a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) emission control system includes injecting a quantity of a pollution neutralizing gas into a combustion gas stream containing a pollutant gas. The method also includes passing the stream over a catalyst bed to facilitate a reaction of the pollution neutralizing gas with the pollutant gas to produce an effluent and measuring a ratio of the pollution neutralizing gas to the pollutant gas in the effluent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Inventors: William Lanier, Frederic Ahlgren, Theodore Kircher
  • Publication number: 20050129600
    Abstract: In a method to decrease emission of mercury, a factor is selected to control a combustion process to generate a flue gas comprising fly ash with enhanced unburned carbon; the combustion process is controlled according to a factor selected from reburning fuel, flue gas temperature, OFA injection, coal particle size, LNB flow, LNB design, combustion zone air, stoichiometric ratio of fuel, fuel/air mixing in a primary combustion zone and fuel/air mixing in a secondary combustion zone to produce the flue gas comprising fly ash with enhanced unburned carbon and to vaporize mercury; and the flue gas is allowed to cool to collect fly ash with enhanced unburned carbon with absorbed mercury. A system to decrease emission of mercury; comprises a combustion zone that is controlled to generate a flue gas comprising fly ash with enhanced unburned carbon and that produces vaporized mercury; and a post combustion zone to cool the flue gas to collect fly ash with enhanced unburned carbon with absorbed mercury.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventors: William Lanier, Charles Booth, Vitali Lissianski, Vladimir Zamansky, Peter Maly, William Seeker