Phillip Vann Bush

US Patent:

8128717, Mar 6, 2012

Filed:

Dec 1, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/325370

Inventors:

Martin Brendan Linck - Mount Prospect IL, US
Phillip Vann Bush - Bartlett IL, US

Assignee:

Gas Technology Institute - Des Plaines IL

International Classification:

B01J 7/00
H01M 8/06
C01B 3/36
C01B 6/24
C01B 3/02
C01B 3/24
C10J 3/46

US Classification:

48197R, 48 61, 423644, 4236481, 423650

Abstract:

An apparatus for fast pyrolysis of biomass and other solid organic materials including a vertically oriented cylindrical vessel having a solids outlet proximate the bottom thereof, a vapor outlet, a top wall forming at least one opening, and an adjacent heated side wall. Disposed within the cylindrical vessel and extending through the at least one opening in the top wall is a rotor having a rotatable shaft coincident with the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical vessel to which is attached at least one substantially vertically oriented blade having one edge connected directly or indirectly with the rotatable shaft and having an opposite edge spaced apart from the heated side wall, whereby a non-radial, preferably tangential, force is imparted on the feedstock in the cylindrical vessel. Also disclosed is a method for fast pyrolysis of biomass and other solid organic materials.

US Patent:

45184011, May 21, 1985

Filed:

Sep 26, 1983

Appl. No.:

6/535643

Inventors:

Duane H. Pontius - Birmingham AL
Phillip V. Bush - Pinson AL

Assignee:

The United States of America as represented by the Environmental
Protection Agency - Washington DC

International Classification:

B03C 308

US Classification:

55101

Abstract:

An electrostatic precipitator for the removal of dust having a resistivity of from 10. sup. 9 to 5. times. 10. sup. 12 ohm cm from a gas wherein negatively biased discharge rods are arranged in a plane between grounded plates, and wherein the rods are of a diameter of approximately 3/8" (approximately 0. 375 inch) enabling increased level of electrical field to be employed without the problem of back corona discharge.