Process Patents (Class 110/341)
  • Patent number: 11802419
    Abstract: Methods of processing biological materials such as the remains of humans or pets, which may be enclosed in a casket, include depositing the biological materials, including the remains and/or the casket, into a cement kiln and operating the cement kiln to produce clinker, thereby incorporating products of the biological remains into the clinker, such as into a crystal or molecular structure of the clinker, and then grinding the clinker to form a cementitious product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Inventors: G. Allen Hamblen, Steven A. Regis
  • Patent number: 11655108
    Abstract: The object of the present invention relates to a rotating drum for infeeding material by gravity to its interior, which can be used both inside a vessel that could be subjected to pressure or not, such as for example for the treatment of solid waste with water vapour, and externally for all types of equipment that require infeeding material to a rotating drum for the transportation and tumbling thereof, wherein due to the special configuration thereof it does not require an independent device for infeeding material to the rotating drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: ECOHISPANICA I MAS D MEDIOAMBIENTAL, S.L.
    Inventors: Jesus Pacheco, Julian Alberto Soler
  • Patent number: 11200995
    Abstract: This invention relates to a solidifying agent for solidifying radioactive waste, and more particularly to a solidifying-agent composition for solidifying radioactive waste, including alumina cement and a gypsum powder. The solidifying-agent composition including alumina cement and a gypsum powder is capable of effectively minimizing an increase in the volume of a solidified radioactive waste product to a level satisfying physical and chemical safety regulations upon the solidification of radioactive waste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: KEPCO NUCLEAR FUEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nam-Chan Cho, Young-Jong Ju, Jeong-Myeong Kim, Dong Han Lim, Kyoung Kuk Ki, Jung Hoon Park
  • Patent number: 11079105
    Abstract: Cogeneration plant for the continuous production of electrical and thermal energy from solid woody biomass, the latter being selected from among wood in the form of woodchips, vine branches, shrubs and underbrush, grain, hay, animal litter, suitably-treated muds, shells and kernels, suitably-treated husks, fibrous cultures and compositions thereof, the plant including at least one first container and at least one second container connected by at least one interconnection duct, the first container including the components suitable for inducing the transformation of the biomass into syngas including H2 and CO; the plant providing for a particular step of screening, drying and briquette-making on board the machine of the solid woody starting biomass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: RESET S.R.L.
    Inventors: Luciano Di Felice, Stefano Manelfi, Valerio Manelfi, Emanuele Melchiorri
  • Patent number: 10077904
    Abstract: There is provided a wood pellet burner assembly for a wood pellet boiler, not shown. There is a fixed and easily removable fuel apertured grate mounted above and spaced apart from a base wall forming part of a main support enclosure. A movable scraper subassembly carrying an apertured flame tube is provided which can be moved in and out of the main support enclosure to perform a scraping action on the fixed fuel apertured grate to deliver ash and clinker which have not fallen through the grate during combustion off the grate out of the main support enclosure. This cleaning operation can be carried out at suitable preset time intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Inventor: Stephen William John Grant
  • Patent number: 10006633
    Abstract: A system for controlling a reagent flow to a furnace in a SCNR process includes at least one injection distribution module (IDM) for supplying water to a plurality of injection lances, metering valves for supplying a NOx reducing agent to the plurality of injection lances, wherein the reagent injection rate of each injection lance is controlled by one metering valve such that a reagent concentration in each injection lance is adjustable and variable from one another. A method for controlling a reagent flow to a furnace includes providing at least one IDM, and for each IDM, providing a plurality of injection lances in communication with the IDM, supplying water to the plurality of injection lances through the IDM and supplying a NOx reducing agent through metering valves, wherein each metering valve controls the reagent injection rate to one injection lance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: PEERLESS MFG. CO
    Inventors: James M. Valentine, Edmund S. Schindler, Jeffrey Michael Broderick, R. Gifford Broderick, John N. Dale
  • Patent number: 9982352
    Abstract: A chemical conversion process includes a synthesis step (10) that takes, as input, reactants that include at least dihydrogen and carbon monoxide and that gives, as output, a synthetic compound such as an engine fuel, water and overhead gases, a step of recovering all or some of the overhead gases resulting from the synthesis step and a step of producing dihydrogen, in particular electrochemically (14), by a conversion of the overhead gases recovered in the recovering step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Quentin Bernical
  • Patent number: 9801433
    Abstract: A method including the selection of a piece of jewelry with a setting, and inserting a mixture of transparent resin and cremation ashes in the setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Inventor: Gina Murphy
  • Patent number: 9480961
    Abstract: At least one heat pipe for removing heat is led into a reactor housing of a fluidized bed reactor, so that the temperature in the reactor housing can be controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Manfred Baldauf, Marc Hanebuth, Alexander Tremel
  • Patent number: 9447000
    Abstract: A process to improve the processability of a bio-oil is provided. The disclosed process involves removing at least a portion of the carboxylic acids originally present in a bio-oil using a weak base anion exchange resin. Upon removing at least a portion of these carboxylic acids, the treated bio-oil contains a lower TAN value and is better suited for processing in existing refinery equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Inaeris Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Maria Magdalena Ramirez Corredores, Xiaowei Tong, Jennifer Sorrells
  • Patent number: 9394484
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for pyrolysis of waste feed material. Some systems include a main retort and a secondary retort. Syngas is produced by pyrolysis in the main retort, and is then mixed with combustion air and ignited, in some cases to produce energy. Carbon char travels to the secondary retort and is exhausted from the system through an airlock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Inventor: Frank Reed
  • Patent number: 9157056
    Abstract: A device for recovering biogas, comprising at least one fermenter (13) and a percolate tank (10) for collecting the percolate removed from the fermenter or fermenters (13). The percolate tank (10) has a percolate inlet (10c) that can be connected to an outlet of the fermenter or fermenters (13) and a percolate outlet (10b). The percolate tank (10) is designed in such a way that the residence time of the percolate as it passes between the inlet (10c) and the outlet (10b) is sufficiently long to sanitize the percolate at the outlet (10b). The Percolate tank may also include one or more heaters to heat the percolate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Zero Waste Energy, LLC
    Inventor: Karlgünter Eggersmann
  • Patent number: 9057029
    Abstract: A method of producing oil, gas, and ash fertilizer from a feedstock includes inputting the feedstock into a reaction chamber having a wall, and combusting the feedstock in the reaction chamber. An electrical current flow is induced between the reaction chamber wall and the feedstock so as to cause arcing in the feedstock within the reaction chamber. Ash reaction byproducts migrate downward through the reaction chamber onto ash support structure, which is substantially electrically isolated from the reaction chamber wall. Gas and liquid reaction byproducts migrate upward through the reaction chamber to an upper chamber by a partial vacuum in the upper chamber, and are evacuated therefrom. The oil and gas are then separated from the evacuated gas/liquid products, providing the oil and the gas products. The oil is refinable, the gas is high in energy content, and the ash fertilizer is high in nitrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: ARK Power Dynamics, LLC
    Inventor: Michael W. Rogers
  • Patent number: 8919265
    Abstract: A gasifier comprises an internal chamber, a slag collection region, a slag passageway, a slag breaker, and an actuator. The internal chamber comprises a main combustion region that is configured and adapted to gasify fuel. The slag collection region is located beneath the main combustion region. The slag passageway operatively connects the main combustion region to the slag collection region. The slag breaker comprises a face that is movable relative to the internal chamber. The face is configured and adapted to move within the slag passageway in a manner such that the face contacts and mechanically breaks solidified slag into chunks of solidified slag that then fall into the slag collection region. The actuator is connected to the slag breaker and is configured and adapted to move the face of the slag breaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: InnerPoint Energy Corporation
    Inventor: Gene Offutt
  • Publication number: 20140272639
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to storing energy in a form that is carbon neutral, storable and transportable, so that it can be used on demand. The present invention provides a process and system for using energy as available to produce carbon from carbon oxide, and then oxidizing the carbon to generate useful energy on demand, while effectively recycling the carbon, oxidant, and carbon oxide used in the process or system. In one embodiment, the present invention effectively stores renewable energy as carbon, transports the carbon, oxidizes the carbon to generate useful energy on demand and recycles the carbon as carbon dioxide. This invention may increase the utilization of renewable energy, especially for electrical power generation, while producing no net carbon dioxide or other air pollutants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Zietlow Innovative Engineering and Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Douglas A. ZIETLOW
  • Patent number: 8812162
    Abstract: An intelligently controlled catalytic converter automatically monitors various operating parameters, such as water jacket temperature, catalytic input temperature, catalytic converter output temperature, oxygen level, ambient temperature, ambient humidity and/or ambient barometric air pressure, of a biofuel-fired device and automatically controls dampers, blowers and electric heaters in the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: ClearStak LLC
    Inventors: John Schneider, Matt Fraga, Eric Dithrich, Jeffrey R. Hallowell
  • Publication number: 20140196638
    Abstract: Disclosed is a combustion device and method for combusting granular, solid fuel, for example wood pellets. The combustion device includes a chamber having an outer wall and an inner wall, which inner wall divides the chamber into a combustion air space and a combustion chamber. Further, the combustion device includes at least one blast apparatus for providing primary combustion air and secondary combustion air and a rotating unit for rotating the combustion chamber. The inner surface of the combustion chamber includes a number of steps for lifting combustion fuel in the combustion chamber, when the combustion chamber is rotated. Further, primary combustion air is provided into the combustion chamber for contributing combustion of combustion fuel and for moving combustion fuel on the steps. In addition, secondary combustion air is provided into the combustion chamber for removing completely combusted fuel and/or combustion gases from the combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Konepaja M. Pappinen Oy
    Inventors: Matti Pappinen, Mikko Pappinen
  • Publication number: 20140150698
    Abstract: A solid fuel gravity feed combustion device, system and method are presented. The device includes a chute having an inlet and outlet, such that the chute inlet is configured to receive multiple pellets. A floor is disposed substantially below the chute inlet, and adjacent to the chute outlet. The chute outlet is configured to accommodate a pellet pile including at least a portion of the multiple pellets disposed upon the floor, where the pile surface is oriented substantially at a pellet angle of repose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: NEW ENGLAND WOOD PELLET LLC
    Inventor: Steven J. Walker
  • Publication number: 20140150697
    Abstract: A solid fuel conveying system is presented. The system includes a low power agitating grate. The grate has a surface for burning solid fuel in a burner, such as a downdraft burner. The grate includes a rotating camshaft and a plurality of movable grate elements. Each movable grate element has a cam end and a slide end. A cam bore passes through the grate element cam end, and a slide bore passes through the grate element slide end. A slide pin passes through each movable grate slide bore. A plurality of cams are disposed along the rotating camshaft, with each cam disposed within a cam bore in one of the plurality of movable grates elements. A camshaft drive rotates the camshaft, thereby moving each grate element in accordance with the orientation of the cam passing through the corresponding cam bore of that grate element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: NEW ENGLAND WOOD PELLET LLC
    Inventor: Steven J. Walker
  • Patent number: 8739708
    Abstract: A municipal or like refuse is crushing, separating ferrous metals, mixing with crushed limestone, drying up and loading in furnace of pyrolysis. An electronic and electric scrap is crushing, drying up from surface water and warming on 2-4° C. above temperature of transporting air, divide into concoction nonferrous and precious metals and dielectric fraction, which go in furnace of pyrolysis by specified air, cleaned from dust and moistened up to 100% moisture by water. At mixing with dielectric fraction temperature of the air increases, relative moisture falls down to level, excluding condensation of moisture and spark formation in system. Pyrolysis is carried out under simultaneous neutralization fo allocated hydrogen chloride by limestone with reception of calcium chloride. Gas allocated at pyrolysis condensing and dividing to water and organic phases (liquid fuel).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Inventor: Yuriy Rabiner
  • Patent number: 8734540
    Abstract: A fuel additive concentrate comprising at least one aryl amine; and at least one metal-containing compound is disclosed. In an aspect, the fuel additive concentrate can be synergistic. Fuel composition comprising the fuel additive concentration and methods of combusting the fuel composition are also disclosed. Moreover, methods of enhancing research octane number, increasing fuel economy, and reducing the carbon footprint of a vehicle are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Afton Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Allen A. Aradi, May Duffield Thomas
  • Patent number: 8715373
    Abstract: A fuel additive concentrate comprising at least one aryl amine; and at least one metal-containing compound is disclosed. In an aspect, the fuel additive concentrate can be synergistic. Fuel composition comprising the fuel additive concentration and methods of combusting the fuel composition are also disclosed. Moreover, methods of enhancing research octane number, increasing fuel economy, and reducing the carbon footprint of a vehicle are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Afton Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Allen A. Aradi, May Duffield Thomas
  • Publication number: 20140109805
    Abstract: A process for cremation of animal remains includes the steps of inserting animal remains into a primary combustion chamber of a cremator and igniting a primary burner in the primary combustion chamber. An oxygen content of gas leaving the primary combustion chamber is measured. The oxygen content is represented by an oxygen level information signal. A temperature of the primary combustion chamber is also measured and the temperature measured is represented by a primary temperature signal. Volatilization of animal remains is determined dependent upon at least one of the oxygen level information signal, the primary temperature signal and the passage of a predetermined amount of time. Upon determining volatilization of the animal remains, a volumetric flow rate of gas or fuel fed into the primary burner is adjusted. Further, the quantity of air being introduced into the primary combustion chamber is adjusted dependent upon the oxygen level information signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Inventor: Christopher J. Albertson, SR.
  • Patent number: 8689707
    Abstract: A replacement burner system which facilitates reduction of nitrous oxide produced during combustion of a fuel. The replacement burner system comprising a fuel supply duct having an inlet and an outlet with a fuel deflector located within the fuel supply duct to facilitate redistribution of a flow of the fuel. An adjustable coal nozzle is located within the fuel supply duct between the fuel deflector and the outlet. An exterior surface of the fuel supply duct supports an air swirling device, and the air swirling device obstructs between 65% and 75% of the transverse flow area, located between an exterior surface of the fuel supply duct and the inwardly facing surface of the venturi register, after the replacement burner system is accommodated within the windbox of a combustion boiler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Fuel Tech, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter D. Marx, Robert W. Pickering, Charles E. Trippel
  • Publication number: 20140065559
    Abstract: A pressurized oxy-combustion circulating fluidized bed power plant having a circulating fluidized bed boiler is provided. A combustion chamber of the boiler is in fluid communication with a separator and configured so that solids produced during combustion enter the separator. The power plant further includes an air separation unit that is in fluid communication with the combustion chamber. The air separation unit is configured to supply substantially pure oxygen to the combustion chamber at a pressure greater than 1 bar. An external heat exchanger is in fluid communication with the separator and in fluid communication with the combustion chamber. The external heat exchanger is configured so that a portion of the solids received in the separator pass through the external heat exchanger and transfer heat to a working fluid, after which the solids are returned to the combustion chamber to moderate or control the temperature in the combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.
    Inventor: Glen D. Jukkola
  • Patent number: 8578582
    Abstract: A method for dismantling a furnace having a multilayered refractory structure including: a furnace shell; a containing layer that is formed of a containing refractory that contains asbestos, and covers the inner side of the furnace shell; and a multilayered non-containing layer that is formed of a non-containing refractory that contains no asbestos, and covers the inner side of the containing layer, the method includes: a primary dismantling process; and a secondary dismantling process conducted after the primary dismantling process. In the primary dismantling process, the non-containing layer is dismantled from a furnace-core side thereof but the containing layer and at least one layer of the layers forming the non-containing layer, which is in contact with the containing layer, are left as a remnant. In the secondary dismantling process, the remnant is dismantled while asbestos measures are implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumi Kurayoshi, Ryo Kato, Katsumi Mori, Yoshihito Doi
  • Publication number: 20130276681
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a burner for solid fuel, said burner comprising: A stoker (41) having a fuel outlet (29) within said burner, and an exhaust (31), a grate (27) positioned below said fuel outlet (29) and between said fuel outlet (29) and said exhaust (31), a first blower (92) connected to a space below said grate (27), and a second blower (68) connected to a plurality of injectors (61A, 62A) provided around said fuel outlet (29) above said grate (27) and directed towards said exhaust (31), said injectors (61A, 62A) being parallel and unidirectionally directed over said grate (27), and wherein the injectors (61A, 62A) are provided along the periphery of said burner, said injectors (61A, 62A) being configured for injecting secondary air at a speed of 40-80 m/s, thereby ensuring unidirectional parallel flows of secondary air over said grate (27).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: LINKA MASKINFABRIK A/S
    Inventor: Erling Jensen
  • Patent number: 8550018
    Abstract: A stirring control method is adapted for a combustion apparatus which includes a furnace for burning fuel material, and a stirring member rotatably disposed in the furnace for stirring the fuel material and ash resulting from burning of the fuel material. The stirring control method includes: controlling rotation of the stirring member at an initial rotational speed; determining whether a height of the fuel material reaches an upper detection range; generating an indication when the height of the fuel material reaches the upper detection range; determining whether the height of the fuel material reaches a lower detection range when the height of the fuel material does not reach the upper detection range; and controlling rotation of the stirring member at a rotational speed higher than the initial rotational speed when the height of the fuel material reaches the lower detection range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Suncue Company Ltd.
    Inventor: Jung-Lang Lin
  • Patent number: 8550017
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus of controlling exhaust gas in an oxyfuel combustion boiler which can attain stable combustion of the boiler while an amount of unburned combustibles and a NOx density in exhaust gas are maintained in their allowable ranges. A rate of supply of directly supplied oxygen to burners 6 to a total amount of oxygen produced by an air separation unit 18 is regulated in an operating range where the NOx density in the exhaust gas is below a NOx limit value and the amount of unburned combustibles in the exhaust gas is blow an unburned combustible limit value to thereby attain stable combustion of the oxyfuel combustion boiler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignees: IHI Corporation, Electric Power Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuuhei Terushita, Toshihiko Yamada, Shuzo Watanabe, Terutoshi Uchida
  • Patent number: 8550016
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus of controlling a flow rate of a primary recirculating exhaust gas in an oxyfuel combustion boiler, capable of realizing a stable combustion by a burner in oxyfuel combustion. Weight ratio of flow rate of primary recirculating exhaust gas [ton/h] to amount of pulverized coal from a mill [ton/h] is defined as G/C, and the flow rate of primary recirculating exhaust gas is controlled so that the G/C falls within a given range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignees: IHI Corporation, Electric Power Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuuhei Terushita, Toshihiko Yamada, Shuzo Watanabe, Terutoshi Uchida
  • Patent number: 8499702
    Abstract: Char-handling processes for controlling overall heat balance, ash accumulation, and afterburn in a reheater are provided. Carbonaceous biomass feedstock is pyrolyzed using a heat transfer medium forming pyrolysis products and a spent heat transfer medium. The spent heat transfer medium is separated into segregated char and char-depleted spent heat transfer medium. The char-depleted spent heat transfer medium is introduced into a dense bed of heat transfer medium fluidized by a stream of oxygen-containing regeneration gas. All or a portion of the segregated char is combusted in the dense bed using the stream of oxygen-containing regeneration gas. A portion of the segregated char may be exported out of the pyrolysis system to control the overall heat balance and ash accumulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Ensyn Renewables, Inc.
    Inventors: Paolo Palmas, Paul Alvin Sechrist, Daniel N. Myers, Sid Kulprathipanja, Stanley Joseph Frey, Barry Freel
  • Publication number: 20130192501
    Abstract: A gasification apparatus for solid fuel, especially an apparatus for producing syngas by pressurized gasification of coal powder, including a gasification chamber (II) and a syngas cooling chamber (III). The inner wall of the gasification chamber is a water-cooling wall (4). The inner side of the water-cooled wall is evenly coated with a layer of fire-resistant material (16). There is an annular cavity between the water-cooling wall of the gasification chamber and the furnace body. A syngas cooling device, a vertical pipe (22), a gas distribution device (24), a defoaming device, and a dewatering and deashing device (21) are provided in the syngas cooling chamber. Said syngas cooling device is connected with a cone-shaped disk at the bottom of the gasification chamber. The vertical pipe (22) is connected with the syngas cooling device. The lower portion of the vertical pipe (22) is connected with the trumpet-shaped gas distribution device (24) via a smooth transition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2009
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Zhengtao Lu, Mingkun Wang, Congbin Jiang, Wei Xin, Ruiheng Gao, Honghai Li
  • Patent number: 8490556
    Abstract: Provided are fuel feed means 3, an air separation unit 6 air feed means 7, a combustion furnace 11 with a burner 9 for combustion, an exhaust gas line 14 for leading an exhaust gas from the combustion furnace 11 to outside of the combustion furnace 11, exhaust gas treatment means 20a and 20b included in the exhaust gas line 14, and a recirculation line 15 for circulating a portion of the exhaust gas at least exhaust gas treatment means 20a and 20b for recirculation of a portion of the exhaust gas at least dust-removed by the exhaust gas treatment means 20a and 20b to the burner. Further provided are exhaust gas capture means 18 for taking out carbon dioxide gas from a remaining non-recirculating exhaust gas, and carbon dioxide gas feed means 33, 40 and 46 for introducing carbon dioxide gas to equipments 10, 20a and 20b of the oxyfuel combustion boiler facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignees: IHI Corporation, Electric Power Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Yamada, Terutoshi Uchida, Shinji Watanabe, Shuzo Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20130174625
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for producing a manufactured product, a method for making a liquid absorbent, and processes for disposal of flammable liquids with a flue gas desulfurization by-product. The compositions for the manufactured products combine a binder and the by-product. The composition contains a greater percentage by weight of the by-product than the binder. The methods for producing manufactured products include dewatering the gypsum-depleted waste stream to reduce a water content, and forming the manufactured product. The method for making a liquid absorbent includes dewatering, granulating, drying, heating, and packaging a granulated gypsum-depleted composition as the liquid absorbent. The processes for disposal of flammable liquids include distributing a by-product into contact with flammable liquid, absorbing the liquid, transporting, and igniting the flammable liquid. The artificial soils are a combination of by-product and animal waste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: UTTER TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventor: UTTER TECHNOLOGY LLC
  • Publication number: 20130174765
    Abstract: A self-regenerative combustion system comprising a single burner, capable of operating both during the combustion step and the waste gas aspiration step, and a valve with four ways and three positions, capable of switching the regeneration and the on/off control (oxydizing agent end and waste gas end). The system is provided for obtaining the maximum efficiency, flexibility, minimum fuel consumption and minimum environmental impact with reduced NOx emissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicants: DANIELI CENTRO COMBUSTION S.P.A., DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE S.P.A.
    Inventors: DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE S.P.A., DANIELI CENTRO COMBUSTION S.P.A.
  • Publication number: 20130167761
    Abstract: Present Invention discloses new combustible mixture and fuel, which during burning releases energy 15 times greater than that of lignite and 4-5 times than that of coke. The combustible mixture consists of the liquid and solid phases, where the solid phase comprises: aluminium powder; at least one M1X2, where M1 can be any metal in oxidation state +2, and X can be any halogen; M2CO3, where M2 can be any two-valent metal; zinc ammonia chloride, SiO2 in the form of quartz sand; and quick lime; whereas the liquid matter comprises: at least one C1 to C6 carboxylic acid, or at least one anhydride of the mentioned carboxylic acids, or at least one its ester or amide; methylcellulose; and formaldehyde, or its commercially accessible solution—formalin; and water. Fuel is made when the combustible mixture is hermetically closed in a container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: COR BREVIS D.O.O.
    Inventor: Drago Cosic
  • Publication number: 20130167762
    Abstract: Grate bar for a furnace. The grate bar comprises a first air duct (46) at a first lateral side of the grate bar. The first air duct is provided at an angle other than 90 degrees with respect to a longitudinal axis of the grate bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: TISKA GMBH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Schmid
  • Patent number: 8475160
    Abstract: Clean combustion and equilibration equipment and methods are provided to progressively deliver, combust and equilibrate mixtures of fuel, oxidant and aqueous diluent in a plurality of combustion regions and in one or more equilibration regions to further progress oxidation of products of incomplete combustion, in a manner that sustains combustion while controlling temperatures and residence times sufficiently to reduce CO and NOx emissions to below 25 ppmvd, and preferably to below 3 ppmvd at 15% O2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Vast Power Portfolio, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Andrew Campbell, David Hagen
  • Patent number: 8453585
    Abstract: A new and unique boiler and method of transition between air and Oxy-combustion in a coal fired combustion process wherein near pure oxygen may be introduced to the boiler furnace in several locations including directly into the flame through the burner and/or directly into the furnace as nearly pure oxygen, and/or into the recycle flue gas streams to the burners, including both primary and secondary streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignees: Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc., American Air Liquide, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan B. Stone, Denny K. McDonald, Allan J. Zadiraka, Rajani K. Varagani
  • Patent number: 8453584
    Abstract: A method for handling a substance from which a combustible gas volatilizes. A method for handling a substance from which a combustible gas volatilizes, in which, when such substance is handled inside an apparatus with a high degree of hermeticity, air is introduced into the apparatus and the substance is handled in a state in which the volatilized combustible gas is diluted to a concentration at which neither explosion nor fire occurs. With this method for handling a substance from which a combustible gas volatilizes, the combustible gas is diluted with air to a concentration at which neither explosion nor fire occurs, without using inactive gases such as nitrogen or carbon dioxide that have to be produced or purchased. Therefore, a substance from which a combustible gas volatilizes can be inexpensively and safely handled in operations such as mixing and storing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Taiheiyo Cement Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Mori, Eiji Fukuda, Makoto Kagamida, Katsumi Aono
  • Publication number: 20130025513
    Abstract: A fuel additive concentrate comprising at least one aryl amine; and at least one metal-containing compound is disclosed. In an aspect, the fuel additive concentrate can be synergistic. Fuel composition comprising the fuel additive concentration and methods of combusting the fuel composition are also disclosed. Moreover, methods of enhancing research octane number, increasing fuel economy, and reducing the carbon footprint of a vehicle are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: Afton Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Allen A. Aradi, May Duffield
  • Publication number: 20130008358
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a solid fuel suitable for thermal power generation by making use of the fruit seed or press cake thereof of a plant which grows in large quantities in nature. [Solution] The solid fuel comprises a composition containing 70 wt % or more, on dry basis, of the fruit seed or press cake thereof of Ricinus communis, Triadica sebifera, Jatropha curcas, Brassica rapa L. var. nippo-oleifera, Plamae, Zea mays or Prosopis glandulosa (honey mesquito) and is hot compression molded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: CREATIVE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Michihiro Kiyama
  • Publication number: 20120304903
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments relates to an optical measurement that determines the temperature in a flame and determines the particle size of the fuel present in the flame. The optical measurement device includes a color camera that measures light information in the flame and outputs measurement results and an evaluation unit that evaluates the measurement results. Further, a coal burning power plant is provided with a multitude of burners that burn milled coal each in a flame and a multitude of optical measurement devices described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: ABB RESEARCH LTD
    Inventors: Julio Danin LOBO, Mehmet Mercangoez, Ken Yves Haffner
  • Publication number: 20120288804
    Abstract: Method and device for operating a conveyor for a combustion product, in which, during the conveyance, through the detection and analysis of properties (such as volume flow, mass flow, moisture, temperature, grain size) of the combustion product by means of microwaves, a control of transport parameters (such as transport speed, cooling of the combustion product, supply of combustion product, degree of crushing) is realized. It is herein possible to protect the conveyor thermally and mechanically and, at the same time, to ensure real-time regulation of the composition and quantity of the combustion product for following treatment steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: Clyde Bergemann DRYCON GmbH
    Inventor: Rafael MORENO RUEDA
  • Publication number: 20120276486
    Abstract: Techniques convey, cool and energy recuperate hot material from a combustion boiler of a combustion plant. Such techniques involve: a) issue of the hot material from a material issue orifice of a combustion boiler into a capture region of a housing, a conveyor belt being arranged in the housing, b) conveyance of the hot material through a cooling region in the housing, c) cooling of the hot material in the cooling region by means of a cooling-air stream moving in the opposite direction to the material, d) removal of at least part of the heated cooling-air stream out of at least one region adjacent to the capture region of the housing, and e) delivery of the removed cooling-air stream to at least one region, carrying combustion exhaust gases, of the combustion plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: CLYDE BERGEMANN DRYCON GMBH
    Inventors: Rafael Moreno Rueda, Ge Hongmin, Ma Hongjuan, Liu Johnson
  • Publication number: 20120266793
    Abstract: Described is an integrated process of cogasifying an engineered fuel, formulated to be suitable for working under reducing environment, with coal and cofiring another engineered fuel, formulated to be suitable for working under oxidizing environment, with coal to produce electric power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: RE COMMUNITY ENERGY, LLC
    Inventors: James W. BOHLIG, Dingrong BAI
  • Publication number: 20120259147
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is presented for reducing mono nitrogen oxide emissions in a hydrocarbon processing furnace. A preferred embodiment hydrocarbon cracking furnace includes a firebox with a set of wall burners and a set of floor burners, the floor burners comprising secondary burner tips burning a fuel-rich mixture and positioned below primary burner tips burning a fuel-lean mixture. A portion of flue gases are recirculated from the primary burner combustion area to the secondary burner combustion area and back to the primary burner combustion area. The floor burners further comprise a set of steam injection ports that inject steam into a conical flow to contact flames at the primary burner tips, reducing flame temperature and thereby reducing thermal NOx. The steam injection ports are positioned in the firebox above the primary burner tips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Inventor: David C. Payne
  • Publication number: 20120240832
    Abstract: A system for digesting biodigestible feed that preferably includes the steps of comminuting the feed, introducing feed, an oxygen-containing gas, an accelerant, and bacteria into a digestion zone, the bacteria being suitable for digesting the feed under aerobic, anaerobic, and anoxic conditions. The contents of the digestion zone can be changed from aerobic operation to either anoxic or anaerobic operation, or vice versa, without changing the bacteria in the digestion zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: William Nicholas Hiatt, Mohammed Memon, Jacob J.L. Dickinson, James DeWitt Stein, Gary L. Ailes
  • Patent number: 8250994
    Abstract: A collapsible material is provided which maintains a predetermined strength and shape until it is heated and increased in temperature to a desired temperature and then can collapse, after a lapse of a predetermined time. The collapsible material of the present invention is characterized by comprising a base formed of a hydrate of a hydraulic material and unexpanded vermiculite particles dispersed in the base. In the collapsible material of the present invention, it is preferable that the hydraulic material is formed of at least one of cement and gypsum and the unexpanded vermiculite particles are contained in an amount of 0.5 to 15 wt %. Also, in the collapsible material of the present invention, it is preferable that ash balloon particles are contained in an amount of 0.5 to 20 wt %. Further, in the collapsible material of the present invention, it is preferable that a coating film formed of a hydrate of the hydraulic material and silica powder is formed on the surface of the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignees: Kazo Shirasaki, Norihito Shirasaki
    Inventors: Kazuo Shirasaki, Yozaburo Osawa
  • Publication number: 20120145052
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of controlling the operation of an oxy-fired boiler; the method comprising combusting a fuel in a boiler; producing a heat absorption pattern in the boiler; discharging flue gases from the boiler; recycling a portion of the flue gases to the boiler; combining a first oxidant stream with the recycled flue gases to form a combined stream; splitting the combined stream into several fractions; and introducing each fraction of the combined stream to the boiler at different points of entry to the boiler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: Armand A. Levasseur, Shin G. Kang, James R. Kenney, Carl D. Edberg, David G. Turek