Rotating Means Patents (Class 96/196)
  • Patent number: 5370498
    Abstract: An apparatus for eliminating gas constituents, such as moisture or the like, from a cooking space of an industrial kitchen apparatus or the like, has a radial fan which is arranged close to an essentially vertically housing wall, the drive shaft of the radial fan penetrating the housing wall, and the housing wall having a housing opening close to the circumference of the radial fan with a partition provided close to the circumference of the radial fan for deflecting a part of the flow generated by the fan into the housing opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Assignee: Rational GmbH
    Inventor: Armin Klingler
  • Patent number: 5236590
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for removing dissolved organics from an aqueous composition, said composition comprising water, carbon dioxide and dissolved organics, and said composition having a pH of 6.5 or less and an inlet organics concentration. The process comprises the steps of feeding said aqueous composition to a centrifugal separation zone, preferably to a hydrocyclone, depressurizing said composition in said centrifugal separation zone to regasify at least a portion of said carbon dioxide. An aqueous product stream is removed from the centrifugal separation zone wherein the concentration of said organics is less than said inlet organics concentration. The process is particularly useful in the cleanup of industrial wastewater, and also for removing organics from water produced in petroleum production operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1993
    Assignee: Chevron Research and Technology Company
    Inventors: Steven F. Sciamanna, Michael Dubrovsky