摘要:
A fully implantable nerve stimulation system includes an event-triggered, closed-loop control unit that detects physiological events from nerve signals and delivers stimulation pulses to a nerve to produce a desired physiological response. The stimulation system includes a low-noise, low-power nerve signal amplifier, accelerometers that detect position and a battery powered processor that selectively powers components in the system to detect physiological events and deliver stimulation pulses with a minimum of battery power.
摘要:
A fully implantable nerve stimulation system includes an event-triggered, closed-loop control unit that detects physiological events from nerve signals and delivers stimulation pulses to a nerve to produce a desired physiological response. The stimulation system includes a low-noise, low-power nerve signal amplifier, accelerometers that detect position and a battery powered processor that selectively powers components in the system to detect physiological events and deliver stimulation pulses with a minimum of battery power.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for continuously carbonizing materials while co-producing gases in a coking chamber closed to the atmosphere, having a charger at one end comprising a pushing ram surrounding a mandrel that surrounds an air or oxygen injection lance. The other end of the coking chamber collects and separates coke from gases, with coke directed to a closed quenching chamber and gases directed to a cleanup. Thermal energy for converting coal into coke derives from combusting some metallurgical coal by said lance. In the case of producing coke from metallurgical coal, which is expensive because of limited supply, the herein method and apparatus are configured to separately charge a low-cost, abundant, carbonizing material and expensive metallurgical coal so that metallurgical coal surrounds the low-cost carbonizing material, and a lance combusts the low-cost carbonizing material, releasing thermal energy that heats metallurgical coal under reducing conditions, producing specification coke and gases more economically. After cleanup, gases are used as chemical feedstock or fuel. The word “coke” herein used may also be referred to as “charcoal” or “char.”
摘要:
A method and apparatus for gasifying a solid fuel within a pressurized gasifier without a lockhopper, a slurry or pulverization comprising the feeding of said fuel into a charging chamber having a first section equipped with a ram through which a mandrel is disposed, and a second section within which an impervious seal is formed from the solid fuel by the compressive forces generated by said ram and a third section into which the seal is advanced while said ram forms a successive seal in said second section. The seal from said third section is reduced in size and charged into the pressurized gasifier where it is gasified without loss of pressure. The gases produced are utilized to polygenerate products such as transport fuels and electric power, and a fertilizer from waste gas resulting from the combustion of one of the produced gases.
摘要:
A method for recovering energy in-situ from underground resources such as coal and upgrading such energy above ground, comprising a first step consisting of injecting a hot recycling gas through said resource to devolatilize it to produce a raw hydrogen rich gas and an in-situ residual hot char wherein said hydrogen rich gas is brought above ground and is treated to become a cleaned, upgraded hydrogen rich gas serving as a feedstock to make a chemical and/or transportation fuel, and a second step consisting of injecting a waste greenhouse gas like carbon dioxide (CO2) plus an oxidant such as air into said hot char to convert said CO2 into CO+N2 which is brought above ground and treated to form a clean lean gas which can be beneficially used to: (i) generate efficient electric power, (ii) heat the hydrogen rich recycle gas, and (iii) make a needed by-product such as fertilizer.
摘要翻译:一种从诸如煤等地下资源中原位回收能源的方法,其特征在于包括将热回收气体通过所述资源注入脱挥发分以产生富含原氢的气体和原位的第一步骤 残余热焦炭,其中所述富氢气体被置于地面以上并被处理成为清洁的,升级的富氢气体,用作原料以制备化学和/或运输燃料,以及第二步骤,其包括将诸如 二氧化碳(CO 2)和氧化剂如空气进入所述热焦炭以将所述CO 2转化成CO + N 2,所述CO + N 2被置于地面并进行处理以形成干净的贫气,其可有利地用于:(i)产生有效的电力 ,(ii)加热富氢循环气体,和(iii)制备所需的副产物如肥料。
摘要:
A method for upgrading a petroleum material comprises charging the material into a vessel having a cylindrical wall, then heating the cylindrical wall. The petroleum material adjacent the wall is heated to a temperature sufficient to form a layer of carbon on the wall, and volatile material generated at the wall during the carbon formation passes through the bulk of the petroleum material thermally cracking it to form smaller molecules and simultaneously desulfurizing same.
摘要:
A method of reducing iron oxide by induction heating. The method involves the following steps:(a) charging iron oxide and a carbonaceous material into the inlet end of a plurality of compartments whose walls comprise a material which is adaptable to being heated by induction wherein the plurality of compartments commonly share an induction coil means which surrounds the plurality of compartments and the induction coil means does not individually surround any of the compartments;(b) heating the walls of the compartments by the induction coil means to cause the metallization of the iron oxide by the reducing agents contained in the carbonaceous material;(c) discharging metallized iron from an outlet end of the plurality of compartments;(d) forcing the gaseous products generated by the reaction of the iron oxide and the reducing agents of the carbonaceous material, to flow toward the outlet end of the compartments to increase the efficiency of metallization; and(e) collecting the gaseous products resulting from the metallization of the iron oxide.
摘要:
An improved method for generating gas from coal including caking and high sulfur coals, in a completely enclosed system wherein no oxygen or air is used to burn a portion of the coal and/or char to produce heat for the reaction. The heat for the reaction of the instant invention is produced by electric induction coils surrounding a vertical retort which possesses a plurality of compartments or cells whose walls are heated by induction. Energy requirement is reduced by pressurizing and methanating within the compartments in order to benefit from exothermic reaction of the methane formation. The coal charged is heated by said walls so that the coal is converted from coal to coke or char by driving the volatiles from the coal in a controlled and efficient manner. The char is further kept hot by the same heated walls of said compartments and also by direct induction to make possible the generation of gas, mainly CO and H.sub.2 by reacting steam with said hot char. The coal is charged at the top of said retort, in a sealed manner and the ash removed from the bottom without causing pollution. The conditions within said compartments are such that the CO formed is made to react with the H.sub.2 in the coal as the CO rises to form CH.sub.4 and H.sub.2 O and give off heat to result in reducing the heat energy induced by the induction coils. The hot generated methanated gas rises within said retort and leaves it at the top thence it is directed to a desulfurizer for cleaning. The gas is then used in different ways.
摘要:
The improvement in method and apparatus for basic oxygen steel making employing the off-gas principle for pre-heating purposes. This improvement involves the directing of the off-gas from a first furnace during refining to a second furnace, and burning said off-gas within the second furnace efficiently in order to preheat scrap and/or iron pellets in order to decrease the charge of molten pig iron and increase the solid charge. At the conclusion of the refining portion of the cycle, said first furnace is emptied of its steel and the cold charge is introduced into it while molten pig iron is charged into said second furnace on top of the pre-heated scrap. The cycle is then reversed by refining in said second furnace and directing said off-gas to said first furnace where it is mixed with oxygen or air and burnt within it to provide energy for the pre-heat. The method and apparatus provide for the protection of the lining and gives consideration to maintenance and pollution control. This improvement makes use of the off-gas which is generally wasted and in this manner conserves an appreciable amount of energy.
摘要:
An improved method and apparatus for by-product coke oven operation wherein the problems of pollution caused by gases leaking out of the oven during the coking cycle are eliminated by providing an improved coke oven door using the metal-to-metal contact principle. Because of thermal conditions the distortion of the jambs and the distortion of the doors themselves takes place thus making the sealing of coke oven doors very difficult; this in particular is very serious with respect to high ovens. This distortion being of such form that the distortion of the jamb occurs in the opposite direction of the distortion of the oven door. This invention compensates for such distortion and makes possible the proper fit up of the door to a particular jamb irrespective of the degree of distortion.