Having Insulation Patents (Class 55/434.1)
  • Patent number: 11261691
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an integrated collet and a downhole plugging system, and a plugging method thereof. The integrated collet includes a collet body, wherein the collet body can form a seal with an inner wall of a downhole casing and is anchored to the inner wall of the downhole casing; an internal channel is formed inside the collet body along an axial direction; and an inner wall of the internal channel of the collet body is a conical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Vertechs Petroleum Technology Innovation & Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qijun Zeng
  • Patent number: 10913085
    Abstract: A cyclone is disclosed that includes an enclosure that encloses at least a portion of the cyclone. The enclosure delimits an enclosed volume between an interior surface of the enclosure and the exterior surface of the body. The enclosure retains a gas coolant or liquid coolant in thermal exchange with the enclosed exterior surface of the cyclone. A powder coating system is disclosed that includes a spray booth and a cyclone, where ambient air is added to process air that is drawn from the spray booth into the cyclone. The ambient air may be added to the process air to cool the process air to a temperature that is lower than the process air would be if ambient air were not added, and also may be used to dilute the powder overspray entrained process air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventor: Jeffrey R. Shutic
  • Patent number: 10682620
    Abstract: Entrained particles from an exhaust gas stream may be removed from the gas stream with a device including a housing having a top, an inner surface, and a bottom with a hole passing therethrough, where the housing further includes an impact surface. An entrance pipe guides the exhaust gas stream into the housing toward the impact surface, and is arranged so that the entrance pipe has an inner diameter x; and the impact surface is separated from the opening of the entrance pipe by a distance y, wherein y is between 3x and ?x. An exit pipe guide the exhaust gas stream out of the housing. A receptacle is removably connected to the hole in the bottom of the housing. The impact surface diverts the exhaust gas stream from a first flow direction to a second flow direction, causing the entrained particles to fall from the exhaust gas stream into the receptacle before entering the exit pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: X ENERGY, LLC.
    Inventor: Howard Taery Kim
  • Patent number: 10293388
    Abstract: A method of cleaning an evaporator that includes at least one heat transfer element for the evaporation of water, comprising forming a sacrificial layer of a first material on a surface of the heat transfer element (1); evaporating water that includes a second material to deposit the second material on top of the sacrificial layer (2, 3); and cleaning the evaporator by removing both the sacrificial layer formed on the heat transfer element and the second layer formed on top of the sacrificial layer; wherein the first material is more easily removed from the heat transfer element than the second material (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: IDE TECHNOLOGIES LTD
    Inventors: Tomer Efrat, Itamar Hite
  • Patent number: 9604229
    Abstract: A particle separator assembly connectable to a fluidized reactor includes a vertical vortex chamber enclosed by water tube panel walls forming a polygonal horizontal cross section and a supporting structure of the water tube panel walls. The polygonal horizontal cross section has at least six corners and the supporting structure has at least one horizontally arranged circular beam arranged outside of the water tube panel walls and attached by radially extending fasteners to at least three of the water tube panel walls. The at least one circular beam forms a full circle, or the at least one circular beam forms a partial circle covering at least seventy-five percent of a full circle and has ends that are firmly attached to a rigid support construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: AMEC FOSTER WHEELER ENERGIA OY
    Inventor: Pentti Lankinen
  • Patent number: 9174157
    Abstract: A filtration apparatus comprises a casing defining an inner cavity with an upper cylindrical portion and a lower hopper portion. An inlet feeds gas and solids into the inner cavity and causes movement of the solids in a downward spiral path in the casing. A solids outlet at a bottom of the lower hopper portion outlets the solids from the casing. A gas outlet exhausts gases from the casing. An annular arrangement of ports in a wall of the casing injects an other gas in the inner cavity. The ports are oriented to guide the other gas into following a partially vertical path into the inner cavity to disrupt the movement of the solids in the downward spiral path to allow a capture of the solid particles by the capturing solids. A gas source is connected to the arrangement of ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: AIREX ENERGIE INC.
    Inventor: Guy Prud'Homme
  • Patent number: 8764869
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a separator and more specifically, but not exclusively, to a centrifugal separator for the cleaning of a gaseous fluid. A centrifugal separator is provided as comprising a housing defining an inner space, and a rotor assembly for imparting a rotary motion onto a mixture of substances to be separated. The rotor assembly is located in said inner space and is rotatable about an axis relative to the housing. The rotor assembly comprises an inlet for receiving said mixture of substances, an outlet from which said substances are ejected from the rotor assembly during use, and a flow path for providing fluid communication between the inlet and outlet, wherein the outlet is positioned more radially outward from said axis than the inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Alfa Laval Corporate AB
    Inventor: Thomas Eliasson
  • Patent number: 8657926
    Abstract: A device for condensing water includes a container with a plurality of openings and a heat transfer zone arranged in an interior of the container. The heat transfer zone includes a bulk material layer and/or a fiber layer and/or a textile layer and/or a grid layer and/or a lattice layer and/or a perforated plate. The interior of the container is subdivided by the heat transfer zone into a first zone and a second zone. Further, the heat transfer zone has at least in sections an open porosity and/or channels through which process gas can flow from the first zone to the second zone and through which a further process gas in the form of cooling gas can flow in a reverse direction. A permeable region of the heat transfer zone partially includes materials which have a thermal conductivity of more than 20 W(mK)?1 in a temperature range up to 300° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jürgen Mielke, Klaus Strätz
  • Patent number: 8353976
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the anti-erosion coating of the wall of a cyclone for separating and recovering solid particles driven in a fluid, in which a composite material is deposited in a mould comprising the wall of the cyclone (13) and an adapted form (17) in order to obtain, upon stripping, an impression having a predetermined geometry, at least one means for attaching the composite material to the wall of the cyclone (15), and connected to said wall, is provided before casting in the body of the impression. The invention also relates to an anti-erosion coating for a cyclone inner wall that includes a composite material provided in the form of a continuous layer on the inner wall of the cyclone, and at least one attachment means connected to the wall of said cyclone in the body of the coating, particularly with a smooth exposed surface. The invention also relates to a cyclone including such a coating and to the use of said coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Total Raffinage Marketing
    Inventors: Ahmed Belghazi, Luis Miguel Leal, Jacques Lapalus
  • Patent number: 8251227
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for separating particulates from a fluid are provided. The apparatus can include a separation section having at least one wall, a first end, a second end, and an inner metal surface exposed to an internal volume of the separation section. The apparatus can also include a fluid discharge outlet in fluid communication with the internal volume at the first end. The apparatus can also include a particulate discharge outlet in fluid communication with the internal volume at the second end. The apparatus can also include an inlet in fluid communication with the internal volume. The inlet can be disposed intermediate the first end and the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC
    Inventor: Phillip K. Niccum
  • Publication number: 20120174543
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a separator and more specifically, but not exclusively, to a centrifugal separator for the cleaning of a gaseous fluid. A centrifugal separator is provided as comprising a housing defining an inner space, and a rotor assembly for imparting a rotary motion onto a mixture of substances to be separated. The rotor assembly is located in said inner space and is rotatable about an axis relative to the housing. The rotor assembly comprises an inlet for receiving said mixture of substances, an outlet from which said substances are ejected from the rotor assembly during use, and a flow path for providing fluid communication between the inlet and outlet, wherein the outlet is positioned more radially outward from said axis than the inlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB
    Inventors: Olle Törnblom, Thomas Eliasson, Janke Burmeister, Mats-Orjan Pogén, Per Stjemswärd
  • Patent number: 8157895
    Abstract: A pressure cyclone is disclosed having a concave top head, wherein the concave top head has a substantially flat roof disposed in the interior of the cyclone vessel. An inlet is tangentially-coupled to the vessel and has an inlet nozzle disposed therein and configured to smoothly transition into the cyclone vessel to create a vortex that separates solid particulates from an incoming particulate-fluid suspension. In particular, the one surface of the inlet nozzle is tangent to the inner surface of cyclone vessel and another surface of the inlet nozzle is parallel and continuous with the substantially flat roof. An inlet casing is disposed around a length of the inlet nozzle and configured to transition from a circular casing to an elliptical casing along the length of the inlet nozzle, and couple to the vessel with the elliptical casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC
    Inventor: William E. Phillips
  • Patent number: 8097053
    Abstract: The present invention is related to the separator (dust chamber) for separating solid particles from vapor-gas mixture, particularly to the structure of the dust chamber belonging amongst installation of the plant processing the fossil fuels or materials containing organic matter. The dust chamber (1) for separating solid particles from vapor-gas mixture comprises main body (2) with inner refractory lining (7) arranged to the inner surface of said main body, first and second stage cyclones (3, 4), lamella compensators (18, 19), dust removal conduits (5, 15) and inlet conduit (13) of the vapor-gas mixture into the first cyclone (3). The main body (2) of the dust chamber (1) is manufactured in all height from the cylinder of equal diameter and first and second stage cyclones (3, 4) are placed outside of the main body (2) of the dust chamber (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Eesti Energia Olitoostus AS
    Inventors: Aleksandr Kaidalov, Boriss Kindorkin
  • Publication number: 20110271836
    Abstract: A pressure cyclone is disclosed having a concave top head, wherein the concave top head has a substantially flat roof disposed in the interior of the cyclone vessel. An inlet is tangentially-coupled to the vessel and has an inlet nozzle disposed therein and configured to smoothly transition into the cyclone vessel to create a vortex that separates solid particulates from an incoming particulate-fluid suspension. In particular, the one surface of the inlet nozzle is tangent to the inner surface of cyclone vessel and another surface of the inlet nozzle is parallel and continuous with the substantially flat roof. An inlet casing is disposed around a length of the inlet nozzle and configured to transition from a circular casing to an elliptical casing along the length of the inlet nozzle, and couple to the vessel with the elliptical casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: KELLOGG BROWN & ROOT LLC
    Inventor: William E. Phillips
  • Patent number: 8034143
    Abstract: A cyclone includes a cylindrical housing and has an inner diameter D. An inlet is near a first end of the housing. A deflection member can be positioned within the first end or the second end of the housing, depending on whether the cyclone is uniflow or reverse flow. An outlet tube is positioned within and extends from a second end or the first end of the housing (depending on whether uniflow or reverse flow). A bunker is formed between the outlet tube and an inner wall of the housing in a uniflow design and between the deflection member and the housing in a reverse flow design, and collects particles separated from an inlet gas stream. A gap between the deflection member and the outlet tube has a length in the range of approximately 0.4*D to 0.8*D. The length of the bunker is approximately greater than or equal to 1.5*D.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: UTI Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Zhongchao Tan, Zhimin Yu
  • Patent number: 6802890
    Abstract: A centrifugal separator assembly, which is attached to a fluidized bed reactor for separating solid particles from gas exhausted from a reaction chamber of the fluidized bed reactor, includes a vortex chamber. The vortex chamber is in a horizontal direction defined by vertically-extending outer walls formed of planar water tube panels, the inside of the outer walls being at least partly provided with a refractory lining and defining a gas space in the vortex chamber, where at least one vertical gas vortex is established. The separator assembly also includes at least one inlet for introducing gas into the gas space from the reaction chamber, at least one outlet for discharging purified gas from the gas space, and at least one outlet for discharging separated solid particles from the gas space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: Foster Wheeler Energia Oy
    Inventor: Timo Hyppänen
  • Publication number: 20010052223
    Abstract: A heat-resistant and wear-resistant insertion element or segment of a segmented dip tube suitable for use in a refractory-lined cyclone of a cement clinker production line. The insertion element, is capable of being fabricated and installed with a length greater than 120 cm, and is distinguished by a long service life. The insertion element may be a composite structure made of a metallic carcass or sheet (10) and a metallic mesh with webs (11) forming lattice-shaped openings which are filled with a heat-resistant ceramic composition (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Publication date: December 20, 2001
    Inventors: Ralf Filges, Horst Schilling
  • Patent number: 6258153
    Abstract: The device enables the deposition of substances from a gas phase. The device has a deposition chamber with at least one inner wall that is maintained at a deposition temperature for the deposition of the substances. A delivery end of a feed line extends to or into the deposition chamber. The substances to be deposited in the deposition chamber are delivered in gas form via the feed line. The feed has a transport temperature above the deposition temperature. This transport temperature is selected such that premature deposition of the substances inside the feed is prevented. A thermal insulation is formed between the feed and the inner wall of the deposition chamber. Any cooling of the feed toward its delivery end down to the deposition temperature is thereby prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Frank Hintermaier