Procedyne Corporation

Robert Staffin

Mario A Fronzoni

Carol A Girrell

Herbert K Staffin

H Kenneth Staffin

Joseph E Japka

Swarnjeet S Bhatia

A process and apparatus for surface coating of workpieces in fluidized beds under atmospheric or slightly higher pressure is disclosed. The process comprises submerging the workpiece(s) in the fluidized bed, mixing a metal halide with an inert gas to form the fluidizing gas, feeding to the fluidized bed another gas which is capable of reacting with the metal halide in the fluidized bed and coating the workpiece(s). The workpiece(s) are maintained at a temperature in the range of from 1600.degree. F. to 2000.degree. F. until it is evenly coated. The apparatus comprises a saturator vessel for saturating the inert gas with the metal halide and a fluid bed reactor. There are several advantages that the present invention offers over the prior art, namely, the coating can be performed in a relatively short period of time, 4 to 5 hours and that atmospheric pressure can be used, eliminating the need for a costly vacuum system.

Hard surface coatings for metals in fluidized beds

The present invention involves an apparatus and method for heat treating metal workpieces in chemically controlled environments produced by decomposition of an atmosphere precursor, e.g. methanol or ethyl acetate, introduced to a heated fluidized bed retort as a vapor.

Apparatus for metal treatment

Method for metal treatment using a fluidized bed

This invention relates to non-abrasive, lubricative, particulate solids, e.g. graphites, lime, calcium oxides, zinc oxides and compounds of higher saturated fatty acids, particularly, stearate salts, and their methods of use as fluidized bed media for preventing clinging and related carryover problems. Preferably, fluidized bed media, selected in accordance with this invention, have a beneficial effect on subsequent process operations.

Particulate medium for fluidized bed operations

Disclosed is a method and apparatus for calcining or heat treating finely divided solids to effect a change in physical and/or chemical properties and, in so doing and prior to exhaust, filtering out particles entrained in the exhaust.

Fluidized bed calcining system

The present disclosure relates to a diffusion plate to partition one space from another and pass a gas through ports in the plate in a flow pattern which is uniform over the area of the partition. Specifically, the disclosure relates to a diffusion plate, sometimes referred to as a distributor plate, having the aforesaid functions in connection with fluidized bed apparatus.

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Colonia, NJ, United States of America

Robert Staffin