Patents by Inventor Charles Joseph Kruse

Charles Joseph Kruse 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).

  • Flow-diverger feed inlet distributor
    Patent number: 11083983
    Abstract: A flow-diverger feed inlet distributor and/or a vertical, partially perforated baffle for separating vapor and liquid in a horizontal vessel. The flow-diverger feed inlet distributor comprises multiple pairs of straight-vertical vanes positioned in the horizontal vessel adjacent a feed inlet opening at one head/end of the vessel. The partially perforated baffle is positioned in the vessel adjacent the feed inlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: BECHTEL OIL, GAS AND CHEMICALS, INC
    Inventors: Charles Joseph Kruse, Qui Truong Poorman, Reni Raju
  • Flow-Diverger Feed Inlet Distributor
    Publication number: 20200338477
    Abstract: A flow-diverger feed inlet distributor and/or a vertical, partially perforated baffle for separating vapor and liquid in a horizontal vessel. The flow-diverger feed inlet distributor comprises multiple pairs of straight-vertical vanes positioned in the horizontal vessel adjacent a feed inlet opening at one head/end of the vessel. The partially perforated baffle is positioned in the vessel adjacent the feed inlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: Bechtel Oil, Gas and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Joseph Kruse, Qui Truong Poorman, Reni Raju
  • Method for the reduced formation of tertiary butyl alcohol in a finishing reactor in the manufacture of methyl tertiary butyl ether
    Patent number: 6218582
    Abstract: A method for the preparation of methyl tertiary butyl ether is provided wherein a mixture of methanol and substantially peroxides-free tertiary butyl alcohol are catalytically reacted to form a reaction product comprising unreacted methanol, unreacted tertiary butyl alcohol, water, isobutylene and methyl tertiary butyl ether, that is separated into a substantially anhydrous first lighter distillation fraction comprising isobutylene, methanol and methyl tertiary butyl ether and a second heavier distillation fraction comprising methanol, tertiary butyl alcohol and water, and wherein the isobutylene and methanol in the first distillation fraction are reacted to form an isobutylene conversion product that contains additional methyl tertiary butyl ether that is substantially free from tertiary butyl alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Huntsman International LLC
    Inventors: Charles Joseph Kruse, Kyle Lee Preston, Brian Lawrence Benac
  • Use of a second stage reactor in the manufacture and recovery of methyl tertiary butyl ether
    Patent number: 5763685
    Abstract: MTBE is prepared from TBA and MeOH by passing a feed mixture comprising TBA and MeOH through a primary MTBE reaction zone to form a primary reaction product containing MTBE, unreacted TBA, unreacted MeOH, isobutylene and water; the primary reaction product is fractionated to provide a first lighter distillation fraction comprising isobutylene, MeOH and MTBE and a first higher boiling distillation fraction comprising MeOH, TBA and water and the first higher boiling distillation fraction is charged to a second stage MTBE reaction zone to form a second stage reaction product comprising unreacted MeOH, unreacted TBA water, isobutylene and MTBE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Huntsman Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Joseph Kruse, Kyle Lee Preston, Brian Lawrence Benac