| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 241017000 | With additional heating or cooling | 24 |
| 20090050719 | BLADE GRANULATOR AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CUT BODIES - A granulating mill for the production of cut pieces from viscous materials and a process for producing cut pieces are described. The granulating mill comprises gaps between the knives ( | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090127359 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSFORMING WASTE MATERIALS INTO FUEL - A process to transform solid waste into fuel by adding water and heat to provide no more than 350 BTUs/lb of the weight of the solid waste for no more than 85 minutes. Such a process transforms the solid waste into fuel in a process time of not greater than 85 minutes. The system uses a pressure vessel; a condenser tank to permit selective addition of water to and evacuation of steam from the vessel; a heater to increase the temperature of the vessel; a vacuum pump to selectively reduce pressure within the vessel and to help evacuate steam from the vessel to the condenser tank; and a water pump to selectively add water from the condenser tank to the interior volume of the vessel. A method for converting solid waste into fuel includes loading the solid waste into a rotating pressure vessel and transforming the solid waste into fuel by adding water; reducing pressure; adding heat; and then evacuating steam. The contents are evacuated from the pressure vessel. At least some of the contents are fuel. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090166452 | METHOD AND PLANT FOR DRYING AND COMMINUTION OF MOIST, MINERAL, RAW MATERIALS - Described is a method as well as a plant for drying and comminution of moist, mineral raw materials, such as chalk, marl and clay, by which method the raw materials are dried and comminuted subject to simultaneous supply of hot gases in a drier crusher ( | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090212140 | System and method for processing hygroscopic materials - The present invention is a system and method for reducing the size of a hygroscopic material while simultaneously drying the material at a relatively low temperature to a predetermined value during the reduction process. The present invention utilizes a preconditioning make-up air system to significantly dehumidify the make-up air to values in the range of 0.02 grains per pound of dry air while limiting the temperature of the make-up air exiting the preconditioning make-up air system to below a predetermined critical value. While not limited in its application to any one particular hygroscopic material, the present invention is particularly adapted to uses where the product is a temperature-sensitive, water adsorbing material such as sodium sesquicarbonate or trona ore. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090256014 | NIOBIUM POWDER, NIOBIUM GRANULATED POWDER, NIOBIUM SINTERED BODY, CAPACITOR AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREROF - The present invention provides a method of efficiently producing niobium powder, niobium alloy powder, niobium hydride powder or niobium hydride alloy powder for a capacitor, which enables production of capacitor having a high capacitance per unit mass and good leakage current characteristics with narrow variation, and also provides a production method for sintered body and a capacitor using the niobium powder, niobium alloy powder, niobium hydride powder or niobium hydride alloy powder. According to the present invention, by grinding niobium hydride powder or niobium hydride alloy powder with a grinding aid having a density of 2 to 3.6 g/cm | 10-15-2009 |
| 20100006680 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR DRYING AND POWDERIZING MATERIAL - An apparatus for drying and powderizing organic material. The apparatus includes at least one chamber including: an intake adapted to receive warm air and the material into the at least one chamber, and an outlet adapted to transport warm air and powder out of the at least one chamber; at least one rotatable drive shaft in the at least one chamber adapted to rotated; and at least one blade assembly on the at least one drive shaft. The blade assembly includes a blade hub about the rotatable drive shaft and at least one blade coupled to the blade hub, wherein the at least one blade is adapted to powderize the material to expose a surface of the material to the warm air so that moisture in the material evaporates into the warm air. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100140381 | Process And Apparatus For Treatment Of A Material - The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for the treatment of a material in the form of fragments or particles which is moved and/or rotated, mixed, heated and, if appropriate, comminuted by at least one mixing element ( | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100200682 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING BONE PRODUCT - The invention discloses a system for processing bone product comprising at least a mincer and a comminuter ( | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100243770 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING THE PARTICLE SIZE OF A POZZOLAN - Methods for comminuting the pozzolanic material include (i) providing a comminuting apparatus including a rotatable drum and an agitation medium positioned within the rotatable drum and configured to slidably move along the interior surface of the drum when the drum is rotated (ii) introducing a pozzolanic material into the comminuting apparatus and operating the comminuting apparatus so as to create a static charge on the agitation medium; and (iii) comminuting the pozzolanic material in the comminuting apparatus by rotating the rotatable drum without causing the media to crush the pozzolanic material so as to yield a reduced-size pozzolanic material comprising a majority of particles having a substantially globular shape. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100301145 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE COARSE AND FINE GRINDING OF MINERAL AND NON-MINERAL MATERIALS - In the coarse and fine grinding of mineral and non-mineral materials, e.g. limestone, cement clinker, blast-furnace slag, old concrete or ashes, the grinding material, usually comprising new and recirculated stock, is fed as a defined and laterally bounded material layer ( | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110240773 | METHOD FOR GRANULATING ETHYLENE/TETRAFLUOROETHYLENE COPOLYMER - To provide a method for producing ETFE granules having a low content of an ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer oligomer and being excellent in handling efficiency.
| 10-06-2011 |
| 20120292413 | Installation and process for the milling-drying and storage of brown coal - The invention relates to a process and to an installation ( | 11-22-2012 |
| 20130048767 | METHOD FOR COMMINUTION OF MILL FEED - The invention relates to a method for comminution of mill feed, in particular for the cement industry, wherein the grinding material is subjected in a mill, in particular an air swept roller mill, to a grinding-drying with supply of a hot gas, is classified and fed as a dust-gas mixture to a filter for dust separation. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130075503 | KITCHEN DISPOSER AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING KITCHEN WASTES - A kitchen disposer includes a basket with a stirring member received within, and a shredding device, and a funnel are installed in a frame. The shredding device and the stirring member are driven by a driving device so as to grind bones and shells of the kitchen wastes into small pieces which are collected in the basket via the funnel. The collected kitchen wastes are mixed with micro-organisms and stirred. By control of the humidity and temperature, the mixture is fermented and becomes fertilizers. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130087642 | FREE FLOWING 100-500 MICROMETER SIZE SPHERICAL CRYSTALS OF COMMON SALT AND PROCESS FOR PREPARATION THEREOF - The present invention provides spherical shaped crystals of common salt having size distribution in the range of 100-500 μm and a process for preparation of the said salt. The above mentioned size range is relevant for many important edible and non-edible applications of salt. The salt is demonstrated to have superior flow properties compared to the cubic counterpart. The free flow property of the salt can be further enhanced through surface treatment with additive such as glycine. The salt is produced by cost-effective mechanical means and such production is amenable to scale up. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130112787 | PROCESS FOR DRY-GRINDING A POLYSACCHARIDE DERIVATIVE - In a process for producing a particulate polysaccharide derivative by dry-grinding a moist polysaccharide derivative, one or more of the properties selected from median diameter, median length, bulk density and dissolution rate is controlled by controlling the temperature of the polysaccharide derivative prior to thy-grinding. Advantageously one or more of the properties selected from median diameter, median length, bulk density and dissolution rate of the particles after thy-grinding is adjusted to a first value by a first temperature of the polysaccharide derivative prior to thy-grinding and is adjusted to a second value by a second temperature. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130146686 | METHOD AND INSTALLATION FOR COAL GRINDING IN INERT OPERATION OR IN NON-INERT OPERATION - The invention relates to a method and an installation for coal grinding in inert operation or in non-inert operation, wherein a proportion of the coal dust produced in a mill is fed to a classifier for separation of super fines. The super fines are fed to a hot gas generator with solid fuel burner in order to heat the re-circulated process gas and to feed it back to the mill. The self-produced coal dust is thus used for the hot gas generation. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130306763 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CONVERSION OF BIOHAZARD TO MUNICIPAL WASTE - A system for shredding medical waste, the system comprising a medical waste treating chamber ( | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130313344 | PROCESS FOR RECOVERING BITUMEN FROM ROOFING WASTE - Collected roofing waste, derived on-stream of old roof renovation process, exposure cold grinding with sequential separation to extract layers of bitumen from old roofing membrane. Extracted bitumen layers in crumbs are subjected to thermo dehydration and recovering by injection of volatile and modifier compounds. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20140048631 | Post Consumer Scrap Film Recycling Process - A method for processing a supply of post consumer scrap linear low density or low density polyethylene film into near-virgin quality blown film product. The method includes tearing the supply of film in a shredder, wherein the surface area of the film is exposed, including delaminating the film. The torn supply of film is washed in a water bath including a surfactant. The film is agitated in the bath containing the surfactant wherein contaminants on the film are removed from the film. The washed film is ground into smaller pieces and additional washing of the ground film in a rotating friction washer and a sink float tank occurs wherein additional contaminants are removed from the film. The ground film is then dried and compacted without addition of water into granulated objects of near-virgin quality blown film product. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140110509 | PIPING SYSTEM FROM REACTOR TO SEPARATOR AND METHOD TO CONTROL PROCESS FLOW - An apparatus, for the steam explosion treatment of biomass, having a pressurized reactor vessel to receive a biomass material and steam, discharge lines connecting the pressurized reactor vessel to the separation device, the lines sized and positioned to allow for the steam explosion of biomass material. At the outlet end of the discharge lines is a collection-expansion manifold to connect the outlet end of each of the discharge lines to a collection line, wherein the collection line provides a passage for biomass material and steam flowing from the discharge lines. The collection line passage has a substantially larger cross-sectional area than the cross-sectional area of a single discharge line. The collection line is coupled to a separation device such that the separation device receives the biomass material and steam from the collection line. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140175196 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING OBJECTS HAVING CHEMICAL CONTAMINATES - A system and method for processing objects having chemical contaminates includes a shredding module arranged to shred the objects to form a plurality of shredded fragments, each having the chemical contaminates, and a separating module arranged to separate the chemical contaminates from the shredded fragments. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140175197 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING OBJECTS HAVING CONTAMINATING PARTICLES - A system and method for processing objects having contaminating particles includes the steps of shredding the objects in a shredding chamber to form a plurality of shredded fragments, wherein the shredding chamber is arranged to be substantially combustion resistant, and removing the contaminating particles from the plurality of shredded fragments. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20150041574 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TREATING MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE - A method for treating process material using a plurality of autoclaves, wherein each of the plurality of autoclaves cycles through the following steps: introducing a steam from one or more of the plurality of autoclaves to the interior of the vessel; increasing the temperature within the vessel by adding heat to the interior of the vessel using an indirect heat source; reducing the temperature and pressure within the vessel by venting a portion of the steam within the interior of the vessel to another one of the plurality vessels; increasing the temperature within the vessel by continuing to add heat to the interior of the vessel using the indirect heat source; reducing a moisture content of the process material in the interior of vessel to a predetermined value by conveying the steam to another one of the plurality of vessels. | 02-12-2015 |
