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1972-09-06 |
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1973-05-15 |
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102 |
Method for drying a material |
US14740096 |
2015-06-15 |
US10113794B2 |
2018-10-30 |
Siegfried Schmidt; Maria Toivonen |
The invention relates to a method of drying a material, that includes the steps of: providing a gaseous atmosphere with superheated steam in a housing, transporting a material into the housing, and drying the material in the gaseous atmosphere. Thereafter, transporting the dried material out of the housing and extracting from the gaseous atmosphere volatile substances which escape from the material into the gaseous atmosphere, especially flavors. The invention is also direct to an apparatus for drying the extruded material. |
103 |
METHOD FOR DRYING HIGH MOISTURE, LOW CALORIFIC VALUE LIGNITE FOR A GENERATING SET AND RECOVERING WATER CONTAINED THEREIN AND APPARATUS THEREOF |
US15312908 |
2015-03-02 |
US20170153025A1 |
2017-06-01 |
Xu ZHAO; Yan DOU; Zhongfu ZHAN; Yongpeng TAN; Jinwen SHI; Tao SHEN; Yonggong LING; Wei YANG; Yan ZHANG |
The present invention relates to a method for drying high moisture, low calorific value lignite for a generating set and recovering water contained therein and an apparatus thereof, which mainly consisting of a rotary steam tube dryer, a washing cooling tower, a coal mill, a 1st bag filter I, a condenser, a weighing surge bunker, a water ring vacuum pump and so on. In the present invention, a drying system is integrated with a milling system, every dryer and the corresponding coal mill are disposed and are directly connected via a surge bunker, thereby not only saving the heat lost during the transportation of pulverized coal, but also omitting a long-distance transportation from a conventional drying system to a conventional milling system, effectively avoiding such phenomena as dust pollution, waste and spontaneous combustion during transportation and transshipment, simplifying the coal preparation system employed in the front-end process of drying. |
104 |
Method and arrangement for torrefaction with controlled addition of cooling liquid to the torrefied material |
US14360663 |
2011-11-29 |
US09557105B2 |
2017-01-31 |
Peter Björklund |
The improved method and arrangement are for cooling torrefied lignocellulosic material. By adding water in controlled amounts to the torrefied material in a grinder at exit from a roaster the entire volume of torrefied material could be cooled down to a temperature well below the critical temperature without increasing the water content of the final product. |
105 |
PRE-CURING EQUIPMENT FOR ALIGNMENT LAYER |
US14235278 |
2013-10-12 |
US20150323249A1 |
2015-11-12 |
Ping WANG; Sangwoog KIM; Changyun ZUO; Jianzheng ZHANG; Yuan FANG |
A pre-curing equipment for alignment layer is provided. The pre-curing equipment includes: a platform; a heating plate disposed below the platform; and a plurality of support needles configured to support a substrate, and disposed between the substrate and the platform. Each of the plurality of support needles has a tip end with a diameter in a range of 0.5 to 0.8 mm, and at least the tip end of each of the plurality of support needles is made of a heat insulating material. |
106 |
Method of accelerated water vapor removal from high sugar concentrates |
US12928769 |
2010-12-17 |
US09155325B2 |
2015-10-13 |
Gregory Michael Rapstine |
A process of, and apparatus for, accelerated water vapor removal from molasses is provided. Raw molasses is preheated; continuously agitated while advancing at a flowrate of at least about 1.5 gpm through a cooking apparatus in the presence of a temperature greater than 310° F.; continuously agitated while advancing through a cooling apparatus at a reduced temperature, and while removing separated water vapor water from the cooked molasses to form a cooled molasses having a homogenous temperature profile. The molasses may be admixed with supplements. The product is then packaged. An orificed helical conveyor having a plurality of protrusions from the outer perimeter agitates the cooking molasses. An orificed helical conveyor having gaps in the perimeter of the conveyor alternating with protrusions along the perimeter of the conveyor agitates the cooling molasses. |
107 |
METHOD AND APPRATUS FOR DRYING A MATERIAL |
US14740096 |
2015-06-15 |
US20150276310A1 |
2015-10-01 |
Siegfried Schmidt; Maria Toivonen |
The invention relates to a method of drying a material, that includes the steps of: providing a gaseous atmosphere with superheated steam in a housing, transporting a material into the housing, and drying the material in the gaseous atmosphere. Thereafter, transporting the dried material out of the housing and extracting from the gaseous atmosphere volatile substances which escape from the material into the gaseous atmosphere, especially flavors. The invention is also direct to an apparatus for drying the extruded material. |
108 |
Methods for making polymer particulates in gel form |
US13763561 |
2013-02-08 |
US09133337B2 |
2015-09-15 |
Joseph F. Ludvik; Xing Dong |
Methods for making polymer particles in gel form via an emulsion and/or suspension process are provided. The method can include preparing a reactant mixture comprising a carrier fluid and a monomer component containing one or more phenolic compounds and optionally one or more crosslinking compounds, a mixture of Maillard reactants, or a combination thereof. The monomer component can polymerize to form the polymer particles in gel form. The reactant mixture can be located within a reactor having one or more inner surfaces in contact with the reactant mixture during polymerization of the monomer component. The one or more inner surfaces limit a release of metal, metal ions, or a combination thereof into the reactant mixture to produce the polymer particles in gel form containing less than 1 wt % metal atoms, metal ions, or a combination thereof, based on the total weight of the polymer particles in gel form. |
109 |
METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DRYING A FLUID FILM APPLIED TO A SUBSTRATE |
US14409863 |
2013-01-25 |
US20150192360A1 |
2015-07-09 |
Franz Durst |
The invention relates to a method for drying a fluid film including a vaporizable liquid and applied to a substrate surface of a substrate, having the following steps: transporting of the substrate on a transport surface of a transport device along a transport direction via a drying apparatus, vaporizing the liquid by means of a plurality of heat sources arranged in succession in the transport direction, wherein each of the heat sources has a heating surface which is arranged at a distance of 0.1 mm to 15.0 mm opposite the substrate surface, and discharging of the vaporized liquid through a discharge opening between two successive heating surfaces. |
110 |
Drill cuttings treatment systems |
US13237604 |
2011-09-20 |
US09073104B2 |
2015-07-07 |
George Alexander Burnett; Brian Bender Madsen; Dale Alton Pierce |
Generally, the present disclosure is related to systems and methods for separating hydrocarbons and/or other liquids from drill cuttings material. One illustrative embodiment disclosed herein is directed to a system that includes, among other things, a thermal reactor that is adapted to remove liquid from drill cuttings material by heating the drill cuttings material to at least a first temperature that is sufficiently high enough to vaporize the liquid. The illustrative system also includes a feeder system that is adapted to controllably feed a flow of the drill cuttings material to the thermal reactor, and a control system that is adapted to control the flow of the drill cuttings material from the feeder system so as to maintain a temperature in the thermal reactor at or above the first temperature. |
111 |
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DRYING ELECTRONIC DEVICES |
US14630824 |
2015-02-25 |
US20150168059A1 |
2015-06-18 |
Reuben Quincey Zielinski; Joel Christopher Trusty |
Methods and apparatuses for drying electronic devices are disclosed. Embodiments include methods and apparatuses that heat and decrease pressure within the electronic device. Some embodiments increase and decrease pressure while adding heat. Other embodiments include a desiccator for removing moisture from the air being evacuated from the electronic device prior to the air reaching an evacuation pump. Further embodiments detect humidity within the low-pressure chamber and determine when to increase and/or decrease pressure based on the humidity. Still further embodiments determine that the device is sufficiently dry to restore proper function based on the detected humidity, and in some embodiments based on the changes in humidity while pressure is being increased and/or decreased. Still further alternate embodiments automatically control some or all aspects of the drying of the electronic device. Additional embodiment disinfect the electronic device. |
112 |
Clothing dryer and control method thereof |
US13692430 |
2012-12-03 |
US09009987B2 |
2015-04-21 |
Hyung Woo Lee; Hee Beom Park; Ja Young Kim; Sang Oh Yoo |
A clothing dryer capable of effectively drying a small amount of substance, and a control method thereof by changing an algorithm of a sensor-dry course, which is configured to control an operation rate, a degree of drying or a temperature of drying, to be adapted to the small load of substance in a case where the substance to be dried has a small load when compared to the entire volume of the clothing dryer, so that the drying efficiency is enhanced regardless of the load of the substance, and a separate option button is provided for a sensor-dry course, so that a small load of substance is dried adaptively to the material characteristic of the substance for a respective dry course, thereby enhancing the drying efficiency. |
113 |
POROUS MEMBRANE PRODUCTION METHOD, AND POROUS MEMBRANE DRYING DEVICE |
US14383946 |
2013-03-12 |
US20150075027A1 |
2015-03-19 |
Osamu Maehara; Masaki Kurashina; Toshinori Sumi |
The present invention of a method for producing a porous membrane including a solidification step of forming a porous membrane, and a heating step of drying the porous membrane, wherein the heating step includes at least a water reduction step of the porous membrane, the water reduction step uses a heating medium, and the temperature of the heating medium (Tgh) satisfies a relation of tgh>Td, when Td represents the heat deformation temperature of a membrane material. The present invention of a drying device of a porous membrane including a water reduction unit, and a final drying unit, wherein the drying device includes a membrane-surface-temperature measurement means for measuring the surface temperature of the porous membrane and the final drying unit, and a control means for controlling the temperature and/or the flow speed of the heating medium of the water reduction unit. |
114 |
Supercritical drying method for semiconductor substrate |
US13600860 |
2012-08-31 |
US08950082B2 |
2015-02-10 |
Yohei Sato; Hisashi Okuchi; Hiroshi Tomita; Hidekazu Hayashi; Linan Ji |
According to one embodiment, a supercritical drying method for a semiconductor substrate comprises introducing a semiconductor substrate, a surface of the semiconductor substrate being wet with a water-soluble organic solvent, to the inside of a chamber, hermetically sealing the chamber and increasing a temperature inside the chamber to not lower than a critical temperature of the water-soluble organic solvent, thereby bringing the water-soluble organic solvent into a supercritical state, decreasing a pressure inside the chamber and changing the water-soluble organic solvent in the supercritical state to a gas, thereby discharging the water-soluble organic solvent from the chamber, starting a supply of an inert gas into the chamber as the pressure inside the chamber decreases to atmospheric pressure, and cooling the semiconductor substrate in a state where the inert gas exists inside the chamber. |
115 |
ROTARY FRICTION DRYER AND METHOD OF USE |
US14215668 |
2014-03-17 |
US20150007446A1 |
2015-01-08 |
Heimann L. Robert |
A rotary friction dryer or gasifier and a method of using the same is provided. The rotary friction dryer generally comprises an entrance stage, an exit stage, a decompression zone located such that it separates the entrance and exit stages, a multi-stage compression screw, a mixing means coupled to the screw, at least one exhaust vent located in the decompression zone, and at least one discharge outlet located in the exit stage. The entrance stage includes an intake throat and the temperature of each stage (entrance and exit) is controllable. |
116 |
HEAT-TREATMENT OF WATER-ABSORBING POLYMERIC PARTICLES IN A FLUIDIZED BED AT A FAST HEAT-UP RATE |
US14358792 |
2012-12-18 |
US20140345154A1 |
2014-11-27 |
Herbert Gartner; Marc Hager; Harald Plochinger; Sabine Auernig; Hans-Peter Kohler; Elisabeth Lacker |
The present invention relates to a method for heat-treating water-absorbing polymeric particles at a temperature equal to or above 150° C. in a fluidized bed dryer at a fast heat-up rate, the use of a fluidized bed dryer for heat-treating water-absorbing polymeric particles in continuous or batch mode as well as to the heat-treated polymeric particles obtained by the method of the present invention. |
117 |
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRYING SUBSTRATES |
US14268394 |
2014-05-02 |
US20140298669A1 |
2014-10-09 |
Young-Ju Jeong; Bok-Kyu Lee; Sun-Kyu Hwang; Jeong-Yong Bae; Soo-Bin Yong |
A method for drying substrates using isopropyl alcohol (IPA) includes: a pre-stage in which heated fluid is injected to a bottom surface of a substrate to raise a temperature of the substrate simultaneously to injection of an organic solvent to a top surface of the substrate and injection of a dry gas to the top surface thereof to improve a vaporization power of the organic solvent; and a final stage in which the injection of the heated fluid is stopped and the organic solvent and the dry gas are injected to the top surface of the substrate. |
118 |
SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS |
US13625980 |
2012-09-25 |
US20130081297A1 |
2013-04-04 |
Mikio NAKASHIMA |
Provided is substrate processing apparatus including processing chamber that dries substrate W using high temperature and high pressure fluid, raw material accommodating unit that accommodates raw material in liquid state, and supplying unit that supplies the high temperature and high pressure fluid to the processing chamber. The supplying unit includes sealable outer vessel connected to the processing chamber and the raw material accommodating unit, and inner vessel provided within the outer vessel and configured to receive the raw material. The inner vessel is provided with opened holes portions configured to drop down the raw material toward a portion of the outer vessel to be heated. After the raw material is accommodated in the inner vessel, the raw material is contacted with the portion to be heated and then heated. A high temperature and high pressure fluid is then obtained and supplied to the processing chamber. |
119 |
Method of accelerated water vapor removal from high sugar concentrates |
US12928769 |
2010-12-17 |
US20120156342A1 |
2012-06-21 |
Gregory Michael Rapstine |
A process of, and apparatus for, accelerated water vapor removal from molasses is provided. Raw molasses is preheated; continuously agitated while advancing at a flowrate of at least about 1.5 gpm through a cooking apparatus in the presence of a temperature greater than 310° F.; continuously agitated while advancing through a cooling apparatus at a reduced temperature, and while removing separated water vapor water from the cooked molasses to form a cooled molasses having a homogenous temperature profile. The molasses may be admixed with supplements. The product is then packaged. An orificed helical conveyor having a plurality of protrusions from the outer perimeter agitates the cooking molasses. An orificed helical conveyor having gaps in the perimeter of the conveyor alternating with protrusions along the perimeter of the conveyor agitates the cooling molasses. |
120 |
Plant and Method for Treating Moist Organic and/or Inorganic Material |
US13386759 |
2010-07-23 |
US20120128547A1 |
2012-05-24 |
Andre Grosser |
The invention relates to a plant for treating moist organic and/or inorganic material, particularly in the form of sludge, for example sewage sludge, wherein the plant comprises a drying surface for the material to be treated and a transfer station connecting thereto for the at least partially dried material. According to the invention, the plant comprises, downstream from the drying surface, a device for sanitizing the material. |