Michael Eugene Jones
Nursing in Tucson, AZ

5975892, Nov 2, 1999

Nov 25, 1998

9/199908

Michael Andrew Jones - Tucson AZ

F27B 1500

432 58

A self-contained calcination plant is enclosed in a feed-storage silo. The plant consists of a vertical reactor, a separation cyclone and a pair of heat exchangers connected by appropriate piping and immersed in the feed material stored in powdery form in the silo. A positive displacement blower creates an air stream that is preheated in one of the heat exchangers and fed in part to a gas burner and in part to a feed pipe at the bottom of the reactor. The feed material is kept in a fluidized state in the silo by air heated in the other heat exchanger and blown upward from the bottom of the storage compartment, from where the material is dropped into the feed pipe through rotary valves prior to injection into the reactor. The feed pipe is connected tangentially to the reactor so as to produce an upward swirling flow around the burner's flame. The fluidized reaction products are passed through a cyclone to separate the calcined oxides from the hot gases, which are then fed serially through the heat exchangers to preheat the process air used for the blower and the storage compartment.

7885946, Feb 8, 2011

Sep 27, 2005

11/235836

David John Carr - Southampton, GB
Michael John Jones - Tucson AZ, US
Robert Bruce Nicholson - Southsea, GB
William James Scales - Fareham, GB
Barry Douglas Whyte - Eastleigh, GB

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 7/00, G06F 17/30

707704, 707781

A storage control apparatus, in communication with a cluster of storage devices in a storage network having plural administrator systems, comprises a cluster lock requester component, a cluster lock receiver component and a configuration component, wherein, responsive to receipt of a cluster lock by said cluster lock receiver component, the configuration component is operable to configure a logical resource object within said cluster. The apparatus may also include a cluster lock granter component operable to grant a cluster lock to the cluster lock receiver component responsive to said cluster lock requester component. A method of operating a storage control apparatus includes method steps corresponding to functional components of an apparatus and may be embodied in computer program codes.