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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Donald Duane Brooker, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Assignee:
Texaco Inc. and Texaco Development Corporation, San Ramon, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C10B 1/00 ; C10J 3/00 ; F27B 5/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C10B 1/00 ; C10J 3/00 ; F27B 5/06 ;
Abstract
The method of protecting a surface in a gasifier which is normally an exposed surface in the gasifier. The method includes forming a refractory attachment with a securement surface that confronts the protectable surface in the gasifier and mechanically securing the refractory attachment onto the protectable surface in the gasifier without the refractory attachment penetrating the protectable surface. Such mechanical securing is achieved by providing a latch which if formed of complementary shapes of the securement surface and the protectable surface.