Patents by Inventor Alex R. Bartman

Alex R. Bartman has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Apparatus, system and method for integrated filtration and reverse osmosis desalination
    Patent number: 9790113
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a filtration skid configured to generate a filtrate through at least one of microfiltration and ultrafiltration. The apparatus further includes a desalination skid fluidly connected to the filtration skid. The desalination skid is configured to perform reverse osmosis desalination on the filtrate to generate a permeate, where the filtrate travels from the filtration skid to the desalination skid without traversing a storage tank. In one embodiment, the apparatus further comprises a controller, where the filtration skid and the desalination skid are integrated to provide self-adaptive operation of the filtration skid and the desalination skid in response to control by at least one of a supervisory controller and a local controller. In one embodiment, the control responds to at least one of temporal variability of feed water quality, a permeate production capacity target, and a permeate quality target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Yoram Cohen, Panagiotis D. Christofides, Anditya Rahardianto, Alex R. Bartman, Aihua Zhu, Han Gu, Larry Xingming Gao
  • APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATED FILTRATION AND REVERSE OSMOSIS DESALINATION
    Publication number: 20140048462
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a filtration skid configured to generate a filtrate through at least one of microfiltration and ultrafiltration. The apparatus further includes a desalination skid fluidly connected to the filtration skid. The desalination skid is configured to perform reverse osmosis desalination on the filtrate to generate a permeate, where the filtrate travels from the filtration skid to the desalination skid without traversing a storage tank. In one embodiment, the apparatus further comprises a controller, where the filtration skid and the desalination skid are integrated to provide self-adaptive operation of the filtration skid and the desalination skid in response to control by at least one of a supervisory controller and a local controller. In one embodiment, the control responds to at least one of temporal variability of feed water quality, a permeate production capacity target, and a permeate quality target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Yoram Cohen, Panagiotis D. Christofides, Anditya Rahardianto, Alex R. Bartman, Aihua Zhu, Han Gu, Larry Xingming Gao