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5451248 Storage and transportation of goods under controlled atmospheres
XII
New Patents
constant the conditions for optimum pyrolysis, feeding carbonaceous material to the retort faster when the temperature drops while simultaneously increasing the flow of compressed air to the many burner cups.
5450906 METHOD
AND MEANS
of perishable goods which includes adsorption apparatus for the selective adsorption in whole or in part and in a predeterminded order of any water vapor, carbon dioxide, oxygen or ethylene contained within the atmosphere, a blower tbr urging the atmosphere to the adsorption apparatus, and a conduiting for returning the controlled atmosphere to the container.
5451378
OF
EXTINGUISHING FIRES IN OIL WELLS
PHOTON
CONTROLLED
DECOMPOSITION Courtney Leonard Ottumwa, IA, UNITED STATES Assigned to Courmey's Fire Crushers Inc Fires in oil wells are contained by placing a pipe ring containing selectively located and aimed spray nozzles around a burning oil well by a self-propelled vehicle that includes a controllable boom for raising and lowering the pipe ring and a pump to supply liquid carbon dioxide to the spray nozzles to form a substantially cylindrical or conical volume of liquid carbon dioxide around the oil well. The spray excludes oxygen from the region inside the cylindrical volume and the fire is extinguished by lack of oxygen as it is cooled. Some of the spray may be directed away from the pipe ring to cool heated objects near the fire. In one embodiment of the invention, a ring containing spray nozzles is moved by a walking boom to surround and put out a fire in a well in which the flow rate is relatively high. In another embodiment a fire in a well in which the flow rate is less may be put out by a containment cap containing spray nozzles that is placed over the fire by a boom attached to a vehicle such as an articulated loader to spray the fire.
NONHYDROLYZABLE
OF AMBIENTS
Russell Stephen D; Sexton Douglas A San Diego, CA, UNITED STATES Assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy A method and apparatus to decompose nonhydrolyzable ambients such as chlorofluorocarbons and nitrogen trifluoride which enables the conventional disposal of their byproducts are disclosed. It employs photo-decomposition of the nonhydrolyzable ambient using UV light and a mediating species to allow chemical reactions to occur which form an effluent which is hydrolyzed by conventional methods. This abatement process is amenable to point-of-use decomposition systems required for modular cluster tool systems used in microelectronic device fabrication.
5451523 APPARATUS ORGANIC
FOR COMPOSTING WASTE
MATERIAL
5451248 STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION OF GOODS UNDER CONTROLLED ATMOSPHERES Sadkowski Piotr J; Garrett Michael E; LaCava Albert; Lemcoff Norbert; Psaras Dimitrio; Hayashi Shigeki Ash, UNITED KINGDOM Assigned to The BOC Group plc A system for controlling the atmosphere of a container for use in the storage and/or transportation
Von Fahnestock J Nicholas; McCusker Buford C Trotwood, OH, UNITED STATES Assigned to Ag Renu Inc Apparatus for preparing stable humus from a batch of organic waste material. The apparatus has an elongated drum-like reactor vessel and a prime mover operatively connected thereto to rotate the reactor vessel about its axis. At least one non-rotating sensor wand within the reactor vessel for sensing temperature and collecting gas samples within and substantially across the volume of the reactor vessel and within and substantially across the volume of the
New Patents
constant the conditions for optimum pyrolysis, feeding carbonaceous material to the retort faster when the temperature drops while simultaneously increasing the flow of compressed air to the many burner cups.
5450906 METHOD
AND MEANS
of perishable goods which includes adsorption apparatus for the selective adsorption in whole or in part and in a predeterminded order of any water vapor, carbon dioxide, oxygen or ethylene contained within the atmosphere, a blower tbr urging the atmosphere to the adsorption apparatus, and a conduiting for returning the controlled atmosphere to the container.
5451378
OF
EXTINGUISHING FIRES IN OIL WELLS
PHOTON
CONTROLLED
DECOMPOSITION Courtney Leonard Ottumwa, IA, UNITED STATES Assigned to Courmey's Fire Crushers Inc Fires in oil wells are contained by placing a pipe ring containing selectively located and aimed spray nozzles around a burning oil well by a self-propelled vehicle that includes a controllable boom for raising and lowering the pipe ring and a pump to supply liquid carbon dioxide to the spray nozzles to form a substantially cylindrical or conical volume of liquid carbon dioxide around the oil well. The spray excludes oxygen from the region inside the cylindrical volume and the fire is extinguished by lack of oxygen as it is cooled. Some of the spray may be directed away from the pipe ring to cool heated objects near the fire. In one embodiment of the invention, a ring containing spray nozzles is moved by a walking boom to surround and put out a fire in a well in which the flow rate is relatively high. In another embodiment a fire in a well in which the flow rate is less may be put out by a containment cap containing spray nozzles that is placed over the fire by a boom attached to a vehicle such as an articulated loader to spray the fire.
NONHYDROLYZABLE
OF AMBIENTS
Russell Stephen D; Sexton Douglas A San Diego, CA, UNITED STATES Assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy A method and apparatus to decompose nonhydrolyzable ambients such as chlorofluorocarbons and nitrogen trifluoride which enables the conventional disposal of their byproducts are disclosed. It employs photo-decomposition of the nonhydrolyzable ambient using UV light and a mediating species to allow chemical reactions to occur which form an effluent which is hydrolyzed by conventional methods. This abatement process is amenable to point-of-use decomposition systems required for modular cluster tool systems used in microelectronic device fabrication.
5451523 APPARATUS ORGANIC
FOR COMPOSTING WASTE
MATERIAL
5451248 STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION OF GOODS UNDER CONTROLLED ATMOSPHERES Sadkowski Piotr J; Garrett Michael E; LaCava Albert; Lemcoff Norbert; Psaras Dimitrio; Hayashi Shigeki Ash, UNITED KINGDOM Assigned to The BOC Group plc A system for controlling the atmosphere of a container for use in the storage and/or transportation
Von Fahnestock J Nicholas; McCusker Buford C Trotwood, OH, UNITED STATES Assigned to Ag Renu Inc Apparatus for preparing stable humus from a batch of organic waste material. The apparatus has an elongated drum-like reactor vessel and a prime mover operatively connected thereto to rotate the reactor vessel about its axis. At least one non-rotating sensor wand within the reactor vessel for sensing temperature and collecting gas samples within and substantially across the volume of the reactor vessel and within and substantially across the volume of the