Granted Patent B2

US 12,190,701 · App. 18/047,916 · Granted Jan 7, 2025

Inventors: John Francis Quanci (Haddonfield, NJ); Andre Vassilnenko Kalinin (Jardim Limoelro, BR)

Assignee: SUNCOKE TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT LLC

G08B21/16F02D41/1441G01N33/0032G05B19/418G05B23/0235G05B23/0283G08B3/10G08B5/36B01D53/30B01D2251/104B01D2251/2062B01D2251/208B01D2251/21B01D2251/502B01D2251/508B01D2251/51C01B17/69C01B21/24C01B21/36C08K5/37

Abstract

Claims (17)

1. A system located within an industrial facility, the system comprising:

a first sensor in the industrial facility, wherein the first sensor is configured to measure a chemical concentration;

a second sensor in the industrial facility, wherein the second sensor is configured to measure a wind direction; and

a programmer in communication with the first sensor and the second sensor, wherein the programmer includes a computer-readable medium having instructions that, when executed, causes the programmer to:

receive a first input from the first sensor;

based at least on the first input, automatically generate an initial action to facilitate determining a likelihood of an event occurrence;

receive a second input from the second sensor and in response to the generated initial action, wherein the second input facilitates determining the likelihood of the event occurrence; and

based at least on the first and second inputs, automatically generate a remedial action to mitigate an effect of the event occurrence.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein automatically generating a remedial action is performed in real-time.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the first sensor is one of a first set of sensors and the second sensor is one of a second set of sensors in communication with the first set of sensors.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the programmer is further configured to, in response to automatically generating the initial action, activate the second sensor to generate the second input.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the first input includes a concentration of at least one of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), sulfur trioxide (SO 3 ), organic sulfur, sulfuric acid (H 2 SO 4 ), hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S), thiol, nitric oxide (NO), nitric dioxide (NO 2 ), smog, ozone, volatile organic compound (VOC), total hydrocarbons, ammonia (NH 3 ), and/or hydrochloric acid (HCl).

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the second input further includes at least one of an ambient temperature, an atmospheric pressure, a humidity, a rain index, or a heat index.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the first and/or second inputs used to generate the remedial action are the result of averaging or exceeding a value multiple times.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second sensor is configured to measure the wind direction and a wind speed.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second sensor is configured to measure the wind direction of an environmental or outdoor wind.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the industrial facility includes a coke processing facility, a coke inventory processing facility, and/or a steel processing facility, and the remedial action to mitigate an effect of the event occurrence is done in the industrial facility.

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