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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 1979
Filed:
Mar. 28, 1977
Applicant:
Inventors:
James R Melcher, Lexington, MA (US);
Jeffrey C Alexander, Somerville, MA (US);
Karim Zahedi, Brookline, MA (US);
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D / ; B03C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
55 99 ; 55 10 ; 55122 ; 55138 ; 55262 ; 55466 ; 55474 ; 110222 ; 110245 ; 110263 ; 110345 ; 422142 ; 422144 ;
Abstract
A fluidized bed, particulate collector system wherein, in one embodiment, the bed particles have applied thereto at the surface thereof, an additive that serves to adhere particulate, once collected, to the bed particles. The bed particles and/or additive may be combustible or may be incombustible. In one embodiment, the system includes two fluidized beds, in tandem, the first of which collects particulate mostly in the supermicron sizes and the second of which is an electrofluidized bed that collects particulate mostly in the submicron sizes.