Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
034474000 | Gas or vapor humidity regulation | 29 |
20090158614 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREPARING A CONTAINER LOADED WITH WET RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS FOR DRY STORAGE - A system and method for preparing a container holding high level radioactive waste for dry storage. In one aspect, the invention is a method of preparing a canister having a cavity loaded with wet radioactive elements for dry storage, the method comprising: (a) providing a gas circulation system comprising a condensing module, a desiccant module, a gas circulator module; (b) connecting the gas circulation system to the canister so as to form a hermetically sealed closed-loop path that includes the cavity; (c) filling the hermetically sealed closed-loop path with a non-reactive gas; (d) circulating the non-reactive gas through the hermetically sealed closed-loop path until the condensing module is no longer removing substantial amounts of water from the circulating non-reactive gas, wherein the desiccant module is sealed off from the hermetically sealed closed-loop path during step (d); and (e) adding the desiccant module to the hermetically sealed closed-loop path and continuing to circulate the non-reactive gas through the hermetically sealed closed-loop path, the desiccant module dehumidifying the circulating the non-reactive gas. In another aspect, a system and method is disclosed wherein the second phase of drying is performed by a vacuum module rather than the desiccant module to achieve the desired dryness level, the vacuum module being switched into the closed loop after the first phase of drying is completed. | 06-25-2009 |
20090300939 | Fluid Replacement System - An apparatus for treating a travelling porous web of material in a predetermined gaseous atmosphere comprising a process chamber ( | 12-10-2009 |
20100005683 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING A SPRAY DRYER APPARATUS BY REGULATING AN INLET AIR FLOW RATE, AND A SPRAY DRYER APPARATUS - A method of controlling a spray dryer apparatus having a spray dryer chamber ( | 01-14-2010 |
20100024243 | LAUNDRY DRYER PROVIDING MOISTURE APPLICATION DURING TUMBLING AND REDUCED AIRFLOW - A laundry dryer includes a rotatable drum, an air delivery system selectively operable to provide air into the drum at a first flow rate and a second flow rate that is less than the first flow rate, and a moisture delivery system operable to provide moisture (e.g., water mist or steam) into the drum while air is being provided at the lower second flow rate, and during drum rotation (tumbling), to thus enhance dispersion of the moisture into the fabrics of the load, and the attendant dewrinkling/refresh benefits. The air delivery system can include a reversible blower that provides air at the first flow rate when operated in a first direction and provides air at the second flow rate when operated in an opposite second direction. The drum can be a reversibly rotatable drum that is rotatable in a first and an opposite second direction, and the dryer can include a drive motor that both rotates the drum and operates the blower. The moisture delivery system can include a nozzle to provide moisture directly into the drum. | 02-04-2010 |
20100024244 | Heater and controls for extraction of moisture and biological organisms from structures - A gas heater with specialized controls allows an operator to deploy a single device to heat and to dry when extracting moisture from a structure. The heater has a fan in a blow thru arrangement ahead of a burner. The burner uses either natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas. The heater has air flow, fan motor, temperature, and ignition controls and sensors. The heater delivers high temperature air to the structure that hastens evaporation as the heated air absorbs great concentrations of water vapor. Then the moisture laden heated air exits the building as the heater draws in fresh air, ducts it into a structure, and pressurizes the structure. This moisture laden air then leaks from the building through select windows using the energy imparted from the fan and then exhausts the moisture to the atmosphere, drying the structure. | 02-04-2010 |
20100037481 | Method of Using a Moisture Meter During a Laundering Process - A method of processing at least one garment involves a local environment with ambient moisture, a garment having a moisture content, a plurality of work stations, and a threshold amount of moisture. The plurality of work stations operate according to a plurality of parameters. The threshold amount of moisture is the amount of ambient moisture naturally absorbed by the garment. The method includes a processing step, a measuring step, a determining step and an adjusting step. The garment is processed through at least one of the work stations during the processing step. During the measuring step, the moisture content of the garment is measured. The relationship between the measured moisture content and the threshold amount of moisture is determined during the determining step. And, at least one parameter is adjusted based on the relationship between the measured moisture content and the threshold amount of moisture during the adjusting step. | 02-18-2010 |
20100058610 | DEVICE OF SUPPLYING WATER FOR LAUNDRY DRYER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A water supply device for a drying machine and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The water supply device includes a common hose having one end connected to at least one water supply source, a drying machine water supply hose having one end connected to the common hose and the other end connected to a steam generator of the drying machine, and a washing machine water supply hose having one end connected to the common hose and the other end connected to a washing machine. With the provision of the water supply device, the drying machine has the effects of preventing wrinkles, creases, or the like from being generated in an object to be dried, such as clothes, and the like, or eliminating wrinkles, creases, or the like in clothes, and the like. | 03-11-2010 |
20120090194 | Hygienic Dehumidification of Animal Carcasses warm from Slaughter - The invention relates to a method and a device for handling carcasses of slaughtered animals during suspended transport after evisceration and before weighing in an abattoir by means of an air stream, in which a horizontally directed stream of conditioned air is made to flow around the carcasses at speeds of 1.5 to 6 m/s with a suction effect. Suspension conveyors are set up in a separate room in a meandering arrangement along parallel tracks transversely to the horizontally aligned extraction openings and inlet openings for air, and the inlet openings and extraction openings are connected through an air-conditioning plant, arranged outside the room, for dehumidifying and cooling the air extracted from the room. When a room designed as a dripping zone in an abattoir is used for the purposes according to the invention, the room is prepared by installing or fitting inlet openings and extraction openings on two enclosing walls lying opposite one another and is connected to a separate air-conditioning plant for conditioning the air. | 04-19-2012 |
20120266487 | Method and Plant for Dehumidifying Material in Granular Form - Granular material is dehumidified by: a) arranging a dehumidification plant having at least one hopper for containing the granular material, having a feed mouth and an output mouth, and at least one dry air generator fluidically connected to a dry air distributor inside the hopper; b) loading granular material into the hopper through the feed mouth; c) measuring the degree of initial humidity of the granular material entering the hopper; d) calculating on the basis of the values of initial humidity measured, the dehumidifying capacity of the dry air flow through the hopper needed to achieve predefined residual humidity values in the granular material leaving the hopper, the residence time of the granular material inside the hopper being fixed; e) generating a dry air flow through said hopper having a dehumidifying capacity calculated in the calculating step d). | 10-25-2012 |
20120285037 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A LAUNDRY TREATMENT APPARATUS ACCORDING TO TARGET RELATIVE HUMIDITY - A control method of a laundry treatment apparatus is disclosed. The control method of a laundry treatment apparatus includes a humidity measuring step of measuring a relative humidity of an accommodating space accommodating laundry, a target humidity setting step of setting a target relative humidity based on the relative humidity measured in the humidity measuring step, to dry the laundry, and a heated air supplying step of supplying heated air to the accommodating space based on the target relative humidity. | 11-15-2012 |
20130000143 | METHOD FOR DRYING BULK MATERIAL - The invention relates to a method for drying bulk goods, in particular solids, such as granular materials, powders, grains, films, shreds, or the like, preferably plastic granular material, in a drying silo ( | 01-03-2013 |
20130125411 | ABSORPTION DRYING DEVICE FOR A DISHWASHER AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | 05-23-2013 |
20140150287 | METHOD OF DRYING MATERIAL BY MEMBRANE DEHUMIDIFIED AIR - Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a method of drying a feed gas mixture. The method includes contacting a first side of one or more membranes with a feed gas mixture. The feed gas mixture includes at least water and a second gas component. Contacting the first side of the one or more membranes with the feed gas mixture produces a permeate gas mixture on a second side of the one or more membranes and a retentate gas mixture on the first side of the one or more membranes. The permeate gas mixture is enriched in water, and the retentate mixture is depleted in water. The one or more membranes have a H2O vapor permeability coefficient of at least about 25,000 Barrer at room temperature. Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a method of drying a material. The method includes contacting a material with the retentate gas mixture, to provide a dried material. Various embodiments also relate to membranes useful for performing the drying method, devices or machines that can perform the drying method, and materials dried by the drying method. | 06-05-2014 |
20140190037 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONDITIONED AIR TO AN ENCLOSED STRUCTURE - An energy exchange system is configured to provide dry supply air to an enclosed structure. The system may include an energy transfer device having a first portion configured to be disposed within a supply air flow path and a second portion configured to be disposed within a regeneration air flow path. The energy transfer device is configured to decrease a humidity level of supply air. The energy transfer device is configured to be regenerated with regeneration air. The system may also include a first heat exchanger configured to be disposed within the supply air flow path downstream from the energy transfer device and within the regeneration air flow path upstream from the second portion of the energy transfer device. The first heat exchanger is configured to transfer sensible energy between the supply air and the regeneration air. The supply air is configured to be supplied to the enclosed structure after passing through the energy transfer device and the first heat exchanger. | 07-10-2014 |
20140298675 | CONTROLLING MOISTURE IN AND PLASTICIZATION OF BIORESORBABLE POLYMER FOR MELT PROCESSING - Methods and systems for controlling the moisture content of biodegradable and bioresorbable polymer resin during extrusion above a lower limit that allows for plasticization of the polymer resin melt and below an upper limit to reduce or prevent molecular weight loss are disclosed. Methods are further disclosed involving plasticization of a polymer resin for feeding into an extruder with carbon dioxide and freon. | 10-09-2014 |
20140360045 | Procedure and facility for grain moisture control - A facility for controlling the grain moisture provided with a grain storage silo conveniently installed on a hard flat floor and inside of which an elevated floor comprising air passageways is provided, determining an air chamber inside the silo and below the perforated floor, into which previously conditioned air is blown by an air heater, wherein the control of hot air blowing times is determined based on means of modeling and calculating on and off times applied through an electronic control means, with the ability to read and record manual input data entered by an operator and reading data from a temperature sensor in the air chamber, below the perforated floor, further aided with an ambient temperature and moisture sensor, thereby causing the application of different stages of drying, re-humidification and maintenance of the grain moisture. | 12-11-2014 |
20140373385 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRYER PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM - A dryer performance optimization system comprising a dryer having an inner wall and being adapted to rotate at variable speeds and a variable frequency drive being adapted to vary the rotational speed of the dryer. The preferred system also comprises a baghouse having an inlet end being adapted to receive exhaust gas from the dryer and an outlet end and a controller being adapted to control the temperature of the exhaust gas from the dryer. A method for controlling the temperature of exhaust gas in a baghouse comprising providing a dryer performance optimization system as described herein and varying the temperature of the exhaust gas from the dryer by varying the rotational speed of the dryer. | 12-25-2014 |
20150096189 | METHOD OF DRYING CANNABIS MATERIALS - A method for drying cannabis plant material is provided. The method includes loading cannabis plant material into a chamber, setting the humidity of the chamber to a first humidity level for a first time period and setting the temperature of the chamber to a first temperature for the first time period, and setting the humidity of the chamber to a second humidity level, and optionally the temperature of the chamber to a second temperature, until the water content of the cannabis plant material reaches a first desired percentage. The method may further include setting the humidity of the chamber to a third humidity level and/or the temperature of the chamber to a third humidity level until the water content of the cannabis plant material reaches a second desired percentage. | 04-09-2015 |
20160061522 | Method For Producing Salts With A Reduced Water Of Crystallisation Content - The invention relates to a method for drying salts with a water of crystallisation content in convective apparatuses that can additionally be indirectly heated. The invention is primarily characterised in that the drying process takes place with a moisture content of the drying gas above a determined level. The gas surrounding the salt particles during the drying process therefore has a specific humidity. In this way, the rate of drying is positively influenced. | 03-03-2016 |
20160160430 | EXHAUST TYPE CLOTHES DRYER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN EXHAUST TYPE CLOTHES DRYER - A method for controlling an exhaust type clothes dryer may include measuring humidity of air passing through an interior of the drum to sense a degree of dryness of a target item, and discharging air that has passed through the drum or recirculating at least a portion of air that has passed through the drum to the drum by comparing a degree of dryness of the target item with a predetermined reference value. In the recirculating of air, an amount of recirculated air may be increased according to an increase in the degree of dryness of the target item by adjusting a degree of opening of a recirculation channel. | 06-09-2016 |
034475000 | And gas or vapor temperature regulation | 9 |
20100170105 | Grain dryer - A grain drying system utilizing a geothermal loop to remove heat from the ground, and a heat pump to transfer the ground heat to air which is provided over grain to assist in the drying. The system is provided with a telescoping duct to allow more or less ambient air into the system to assist in the drying process, depending upon ambient temperature and humidity. | 07-08-2010 |
20100263226 | WASHING/DRYING DEVICE COMPRISING A MOISTURE DETERMINING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A WASHING/DRYING DEVICE - A laundry drying device having a washing drum; a moisture determining device to determine a moisture content of process air evacuated from the washing drum, wherein the moisture determining device has at least one temperature sensor; and a cooling body to cool the process air, wherein the cooling body has an inlet side, an outlet side, and an inlet for a medium that flows through the cooling body or that is located in the cooling body. A first temperature sensor is arranged behind the inlet of the cooling body; a second temperature sensor is arranged at the outlet side of the cooling body to measure an outlet temperature of the medium; and a third temperature sensor is arranged at the inlet side of the cooling body to measure an inlet temperature of the medium. The medium is the process air or a coolant. | 10-21-2010 |
20110154686 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TREATING A COMMODITY - A method and apparatus for treating a commodity includes providing a sealed enclosure. A commodity is arranged in a plurality of layers spaced apart to provide ventilation areas between the layers. The commodity is further arranged in a plurality of rows having a space formed therebetween. A cover is positioned on a top surface and an exposed end surface of the rows or an exposed surface of an air handler to provide a seal. The air handler is positioned in communication with the space between the rows so as to move air along the space and through the ventilation areas, such that an even flow of air is achieved over the commodity. A catalytic heater/converter is provided for burning unburnt fuel and for depleting oxygen from the sealed enclosure during the heating of the commodity. A controller controls the air flowing through the ventilation areas and over the commodity. | 06-30-2011 |
20110167669 | WALL DRYING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A system for drying walls includes a panel which has a first portion, a second portion, and a body portion, the body portion joining the first portion and the second portion, the first portion being in contact with a floor and the second portion being in contact with a wall, the panel creating a channel through which air is passed to extract water from the wall. A method of drying lower portions of walls within a water-damaged building includes placing a plurality of panels against the lower portions of walls such that a channel is created along the lower portions of the walls and forcing air along the channel. | 07-14-2011 |
20110271548 | HYBRID DRYING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A HYBRID DRYING SYSTEM - Disclosed is a hybrid drying system where a cold-air drier and a desiccant drier are combined to increase drying efficiency (extent of dehumidification/power consumption), thereby shortening drying time and significantly reducing operation costs. The hybrid drying system includes a desiccant drier installed between an evaporator and a condenser and having an absorbing part configured to produce dry air from the cold-air dried air which has passed through the evaporator and a detaching part configured to supply recycled air heated by the condensation heat of the condenser as a recycling heat source ; a heat exchanger configured to heat-exchange exterior air with recycled exhaust air with the recycled air to retrieve exhaust heat; and a control unit configured to simultaneously control a cold-air drying operation and a desiccant drying operation according to the humidity and temperature of the drying chamber. The hybrid drying system is operated through a freezing cycle, a drying cycle, a drying chamber circulating cycle, and a recycling cycle. | 11-10-2011 |
20120102780 | DRYING SYSTEM - A drying system for drying a coating applied to an article of manufacture. The drying system includes an enclosable booth having an interior for housing the article of manufacture. The system also includes an air source for blowing air into the booth, means for raising the temperature of the air before entry into the booth, means for lowering the temperature of the air before entry into the booth, means for raising the humidity of the air before entry into the booth, and means for lowering the humidity of the air before entry into the booth. In one embodiment there is included at least one distribution cone which includes a conical member having a plurality of openings formed along the axis thereof. The cones emit air across an article of manufacture within the booth. | 05-03-2012 |
20150082657 | DRYING OF FOODSTUFFS - An apparatus for drying foodstuffs involves a pallet supporting a stack of containers containing the foodstuffs. The pallet has a perimeter on which the stack of containers is sealingly supportable. The top of the pallet has at least one aperture to permit air flow therethrough, and the top, bottom and sides of the pallet define a ventilation duct for receiving air through the top of the pallet. A low pressure plenum in fluid communication and sealingly engaged with the ventilation duct draws air down vertically through the foodstuffs through the top of the pallet and out of the ventilation duct into the plenum. A drying installation involves the apparatus in a climate controlled room. A method of processing foodstuffs involves controlling temperature, relative humidity or both temperature and relative humidity of air in the room and drawing the air in the room vertically down past the foodstuffs until the foodstuffs are processed. The apparatus, installation and method are particularly useful for drying grapes by an Appassimento drying method. | 03-26-2015 |
20160076814 | DRYER APPLIANCES AND METHODS FOR OPERATING SAME - Dryer appliances and methods for operating dryer appliances are provided. A method includes calculating an initial cycle time, and counting down from the initial cycle time for an initial countdown time. The method further includes determining, during the step of counting down from the initial cycle time for the initial countdown time, whether a load size value and an air flow value have been established. The method further includes calculating, when the load size value and the air flow value have been established, a first updated remaining cycle time based on the load size value and the air flow value. | 03-17-2016 |
20160161184 | CARBON HEAT SOURCE DRYING METHOD - When a kneaded mixture produced by adding a hinder-containing additive and water to carbon powder and kneading the mixture is formed into a rod-shaped carbon heat source (HS) and the carbon. heat source (HS) is subsequently dried to manufacture a finished product, a drying method according to the present invention includes generating a dry atmosphere in which an evaporation rate (Vo) at which the water evaporates through an outer surface of the carbon heat source (HS) is made approximately equal to a speed (Vs) at which the water in the carbon heat source (HS) moves toward the outer surface while a weight absolute humidity (AH) is lowered in a stepwise manner, and drying the carbon heat source (HS) in the dry atmosphere. | 06-09-2016 |