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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2014
Diamond Power International, Inc., Lancaster, OH (US);
Austin Tyler Little, Chillicothe, OH (US);
Louis A. Zotti, King of Prussia, PA (US);
Tony F. Habib, Lancaster, OH (US);
Alan J. Dore, Haverford, PA (US);
DIAMOND POWER INTERNATIONAL, INC., Lancaster, OH (US);
Abstract
A remote submerged chain conveyor system for separating particles from a coal ash/water slurry from one or more remotely located boiler units. A tank forms an ash holding section, a dewatering section, and an ash settling section. The ash holding section receiving the slurry with first and second opposite ends. The dewatering section dewaters the slurry. The settling zone is an elongated trough connected with the ash holding section at one end with a discharge drain trough at near an opposite end. The tank sections being oriented in a generally linear arrangement wherein a net flow of water from the ash/water slurry is in a direction from the settling zone toward the distal and. A drag chain moves along the ash settling conveying the particles settling from the slurry to the dewatering section.