Inclined Patents (Class 202/128)
  • Publication number: 20150083573
    Abstract: The invention discloses a sleeve-type coal material decomposition apparatus which includes a kiln body. The inside of said kiln body is set with coal material decomposition-promoting layers and circular heating layers centered on the axis of kiln body; the said circular coal material decomposition-promoting layers and circular heating layers are isolated from each other; both ends of the said circular coal material decomposition-promoting layer are respectively connected to the coal inlet and coal outlet on kiln body and are also connected to the decomposition gas collecting mechanism on kiln body. The coal material decomposition-promoting layers and circular heating layers are isolated from each other, which is helpful for the acquisition of pure coal decomposition gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventor: Shucheng Zhu
  • Publication number: 20130306913
    Abstract: A method of gasifying carbonaceous material is described. The method comprises a first step of pyrolysing and partially gasifying the carbonaceous material to produce volatiles and char. The volatiles and the char are then separated and, subsequently, the char is gasified and the volatiles are reformed. The raw product gas is then finally cleaned with char or char-supported catalysts or other catalysts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: CURTIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Chun-Zhu Li, Hongwei Wu, Mohammad Asadullah, Xiaoshan Wang
  • Patent number: 7871499
    Abstract: A retort oven for decomposition of waste materials through pyrolysis employing a deck with a variable angle of inclination for adjusting the retention time and processing rate of waste material flowing unassisted through the oven interior. The oven includes an outer shell lined with a refractory material and houses an inner oven chamber. The deck is adjustably hinge mounted to the inner chamber supporting sidewalls extending in a decline from a waste material entrance to a charred material exit. The deck is operated in a preferred angle range of inclination between 28°-50° from the oven floor normal. A controlled heat source is positioned within the oven to heat a first outer volume whose heated gases are transferred into a second inner volume of the inner chamber using an array of heat gun tubes heating the deck and material as it descends along the declined deck. The deck can be adjusted for varying the retention time of material within the oven for varied exposure to heat and charring efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Simeken, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael W. Gehring, William Sweet
  • Patent number: 7594978
    Abstract: A system for refining hydrocarbon containing materials in a continuous coking mode may provide a pyrolyzer (1) which may be inclined to effect a liquid seal between a liquid conduction environment (6) and a gaseous conduction environment (7). A heat source (9) may heat the material past the coking point and the system may include a screw or auger (10) which can continuously remove the coke while simultaneously outputting refined products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: The University of Wyoming Research Corporation
    Inventors: Lee E. Brecher, Lyle A. Johnson, Jr., Vijay K. Sethi
  • Patent number: 6972085
    Abstract: A system for refining hydrocarbon containing materials in a continuous coking mode may provide a pyrolyzer (1) which may be inclined to effect a liquid seal between a liquid conduction environment (6) and a gaseous conduction environment (7). A heat source (9) may heat the material past the coking point and the system may include a screw or auger (10) which can continuously remove the coke while simultaneously outputting refined products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: The University of Wyoming Research Corporation
    Inventors: Lee E. Brecher, Lyle A. Johnson, Jr., Vijay K. Sethi
  • Publication number: 20030159913
    Abstract: A portable reactor container that contains a removable fire grate enclosure and an incline on its floor that slopes to a discharge port. Heating elements are arranged between the enclosure and the container. A heat recovery section, which may be a water reservoir, surrounds the outside of the container to convert water into steam by absorbing heat leaving the container. The enclosure may be inserted into or removed from the container with a forklift. Wood waste or other wood waste material may be filled into the fire crate enclosure to be transformed into wood charcoal by heating appropriately while the container is hermetically sealed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Inventor: Philippe R. Murcia
  • Patent number: 6126907
    Abstract: A thermal decomposition apparatus for decomposing polymer waste is provided which is simple in structure, small in size and inexpensive, and also the operating cost thereof is low.A feed pipe 18 and an inclined pipe 23 are connected in the form of the letter V at a large angle therebetween, and a feed screw 19 and an feed-up screw 25 are arranged inside the respective pipes. Polymer waste introduced into a hopper 17 is melted in the interior of the feed pipe 18 by heat from a first hot air furnace 10 and accumulated in the V-shaped portion. The polymer melt is then conveyed upward by the feed-up screw 25. In the process of conveyance, the polymer melt undergoes primary decomposition by means of heat from a second hot air furnace 11 and the cracked gas thus generated undergoes secondary decomposition by the heat from a third hot air furnace 12, the resultant gas being guided to a condenser 7. Sludge drops down through a chute pipe 35 into a water tank 36.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Inventor: Youichi Wada
  • Patent number: 5851361
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for the separation and chemical and physical alteration of organic solid material in which the materials are placed in a sealed rotating drum and exposed to hot products of combustion produced by a flame in the drum. The temperature, oxygen content, material flow rate and dwell time within the drum are controlled so that a substantial portion of the organic molecules is cracked and reformed. Many of these cracked molecules revert to a gas or liquid, and the gas, liquid, and remaining solids from the initial material are separately collected and processed further. The inside of the drum is kept clean by recirculating carriers. The drum wall is cooled by exposure to the ambient temperature and selectively insulating the inside of the drum. The flame is produced with a stoichiometric mixture of oxygen and fuel to produce a temperature to avoid combustion of the solid material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Inventor: Jim S. Hogan
  • Patent number: 5507846
    Abstract: A gasifier for producing methane-rich fuel gas from a biomass material feed includes at least one cylindrical vessel, and an axially extending rotor mounted within the vessel. A feeding system is mounted to the vessel at the input end for introducing feed to the vessel. The feeding system includes two independently operated pistons, slidable in an inclined cylinder, and two slide valves, disposed in a vertical pipe above the inclined cylinder. The slide valves serve to apportion the amount of feed delivered to the gasifier, while the pistons selectively seal the pressurized interior of the kiln from the feed hopper. A discharge system for removing residue from the kiln also includes two pistons which selectively seal kiln from the environment. The gasifier of the present invention may also include double-plate intake and exhaust manifolds, and a box beam rotor, optionally including zinc oxide disposed in the hollow, central rotor shaft defined by the vanes of the box beam rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Wright Malta Corporation
    Inventor: John A. Coffman
  • Patent number: 4597772
    Abstract: A tilted, fixed kiln with rotory steam gasifier having a fixed elongated, pressurizable kiln body member with an input end and an output end and with the center axis supported at an angle to the horizontal so as to bring into effect gravitational forces acting on high moisture content biomass material fed into the input end and travelling through the kiln to the output end and having in the kiln body an axially extending rotor and a motor, radially spaced-apart scoop-like blade elements extending along the axial length of the kiln for tumbling the material, means for increasing the temperature from its input to its output end, spaced-apart blades and chains disposed in the rotor kiln cavities for stirring the biomass material as it travels through the kiln to prevent agglomeration, a plurality of parallel, axially extending hot gas counter-flow feedback pipes arranged around the kiln body and along the backsides of the scoop-like blade elements, a metering auger mounted vertically to the input end of the kiln
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1986
    Assignee: Wright-Malta Corporation
    Inventor: John A. Coffman
  • Patent number: 4588560
    Abstract: A reactor for catalytically dewaxing a waxy distillate consisting of a lubricating oil or liquid petroleum feedstocks utilizing a shape-selective crystalline aluminosilicate zeolite catalyst in order to obtain a lubricating oil having a low pour point and a high viscosity index, particularly, a plate-type hydroprocessing trickle reactor construction for catalytically dewaxing liquid petroleum feedstocks. The reactor is essentially constituted of an inclined plate trickle bed reactor wherein a tray of generally permeable construction supports a bed of catalyst material, such as crystalline zeolite, and in which the liquid petroleum feedstock trickles downwardly through the catalyst material from the upper end of the reactor towards the lower end of the reactor, while hydrogen is concurrently injected into the space below the permeable tray at the upper end of the reactor in the direction towards the lower end of the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1986
    Assignee: Mobil Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas F. Degnan, Bruce P. Pelrine
  • Patent number: 4187167
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for the extraction of petroleum from tar sands, bituminous shale, and other petroleum bearing materials, and the separation of the extracted petroleum into its several fractions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1980
    Inventors: Jaroslav Havlik, William E. Hodges
  • Patent number: 4151045
    Abstract: An inclined chamber of a coke oven is defined by a heating side wall, a coke removal side, a horizontal chamber ceiling and a chamber floor inclined downwardly from the heating side wall to the coke removal side. Briquettes are charged into the chamber, through charging holes in the heating side wall arranged vertically one above the other and through charging holes in the chamber ceiling arranged one behind the other, in separate inclined fill layers. The charging operation is through separate charging holes, in a sequence from the lowermost charging hole in the heating side wall to the uppermost charging hole therein, and then from the chamber ceiling charging hole closest to the heating side wall to the chamber ceiling charging hole furthest therefrom. The vertical and horizontal spacing between adjacent charging holes is dimensioned to avoid breakage of the briquettes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1979
    Assignee: Didier Engineering GmbH
    Inventor: Dietrich Wagener
  • Patent number: 4146460
    Abstract: A gravity feed inclined retort apparatus provides for a distillation process in which oil is removed from shale ore in the inclined portion of the retort, and the gaseous oil is removed to a vapor condenser/separator in which the vapor is condensed into the product oil. The retorted shale is fed onto a continuous chain stoker, or other similar conveying device, where the coke portion of the retorted shale is burned as fuel for the retort. Hot gases from the combustion zone where air is directed through the burning coke are used to preheat the shale ore above the dew point of the oil, through a heat exchange plate; and the hot gases then flow through the shale ore in the retort chamber, picking up the oil vapors from the heated shale, and carrying this oil-filled gas into a vapor condenser/separator. Some of the oil vapors are also condensed onto cooled side walls extending along the retort chamber and this condensed oil flows into oil collection gutters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1979
    Inventor: Delbert D. Thomas
  • Patent number: 4133719
    Abstract: An inclined chamber of a coke oven is defined by a heating side wall, a coke removal side, a horizontal chamber ceiling and a chamber floor inclined downwardly from the heating side wall to the coke removal side. Briquettes are charged into the chamber, through charging holes in the heating side wall arranged vertically one above the other and through charging holes in the chamber ceiling arranged one behind the other, in separate inclined fill layers. The charging operation is through separate charging holes, in a sequence from the lowermost charging hole in the heating side wall to the uppermost charging hole therein, and then from the chamber ceiling charging hole closest to the heating side wall to the chamber ceiling charging hole furthest therefrom. The vertical and horizontal spacing between adjacent charging holes is dimensioned to avoid breakage of the briquettes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1979
    Assignee: Didier Engineering GmbH
    Inventor: Dietrich Wagener
  • Patent number: 4126519
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for performing a continuous thermal treatment of organic carbonaceous materials under controlled pressure in which the feed material is introduced into the system in the form of a slurry, and the level of liquid is maintained at a preselected operating level, serving as a gas-tight seal. The feed material is conveyed upwardly of the liquid operating level and is thereafter introduced into a reaction chamber in which it is heated to within a controlled elevated temperature range under controlled pressure in a manner to effect vaporization of at least a portion of the volatile substances therein, forming a gaseous phase composed of condensible and noncondensible vapors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1978
    Assignee: Edward Koppelman
    Inventor: Robert G. Murray
  • Patent number: 4094769
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for recovering oil products from oil shale and like materials, controlled amounts of raw oil shale are delivered into an upper inlet of a downwardly sloping retort chamber that is constructed as readily portable. The raw oil shale is first moved in a direction countercurrent to gravity flow and crushed in the retort chamber by means of a rotating member that also serves to retain the oil shale in the retort chamber until a satisfactory recovery is completed. The crushed oil shale is confined to a relatively thin, downwardly moving layer in contact with a heated, inner, annular wall surface and moves by gravity flow between the inlet and a lower outlet to produce oil product vapors that rise to an upper portion of the retort chamber. The moving layer of the oil shale becomes spent as it passes through the retort chamber and finally is selectively discharged through the lower outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1978
    Assignee: Mineral Concentrates & Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Harold Brown
  • Patent number: 4083693
    Abstract: A system for regenerating waste acid, comprises (1) a concentrator for concentrating the waste liquor, (2) a reactor for reacting the concentrated liquor at a temperature below 1000.degree. F. in the presence of oxygen and hydrocarbon combustion gases and on a recycled moving bed of particles without vibration of the reactor bottom, (3) a separator for separating the iron oxide dust from the other gases from the reactor, (4) the same concentrator cools these gases, (5) an absorber for absorbing the hydrogen chloride cooled gas in an aqueous solution from the following scrubber, (6) a scrubber for scrubbing the unabsorbed gases in water to absorb the hydrogen chloride gas remaining in the gases from the absorber, and (7) a condenser for condensing any liquids and any residual HCl remaining in the exhaust gases before exhausting them as non-polluting gases into the atmosphere and passing the condensate back into the waste acid concentrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1978
    Assignee: Toledo Pickling & Steel Service, Inc.
    Inventor: Lars J. Hansen
  • Patent number: 4070251
    Abstract: An inclined chamber has vertical heating flues on each side thereof. The floors of the heating flues are vertically staggered in an inclined manner. Pairs of heating flues are joined at the tops thereof by guide openings which are vertically staggered in an inclined manner. Central and upper air inlet openings extend into the heating flues and are vertically staggered in an inclined manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1978
    Assignee: Didier Engineering GmbH.
    Inventors: Kurt Prange, Friedrich Isermann, Ernst Hasenacker, Manfred Blase
  • Patent number: 4038152
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for the destructive distillation of organic waste materials. An insulated sealed distillator compartment is provided having a plurality of conveyor stages for transporting the waste material through the sealed compartment while subjecting the material to a plurality of increased zones of temperature in order to completely pyrolyze the material and evolve pyrolysis gases. An auger feed apparatus supplys a continuous supply of material to the sealed distillator, while an auger discharge apparatus removes a continuous supply of solid carbonaceous residue from the distillator. The residue can be classified and separated into usable products. The evolved gases may be converted into crude oil and natural gas. A process for destructive distillation of the waste materials is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1977
    Assignee: Wallace-Atkins Oil Corporation
    Inventor: Lyle D. Atkins