Patents by Inventor Donald L. Bunning
Donald L. Bunning 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).
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Patent number: 10618864Abstract: The invention describes processes to prepare levulinic acid, formic acid and/or hydroxymethyl furfural from various biomass materials.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: GFBiochemicals IP Assets B.V.Inventors: Brian D. Mullen, Cora M. Leibig, Louis A. Kapicak, Donald L. Bunning, Steven R. Strand, Daniel Joseph Brunelle, Marc David Rodwogin, Robert Page Shirtum, Andrew J. Louwagie, Dorie Janine Yontz, Matthew John Tjosaas
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Publication number: 20190016658Abstract: The invention describes processes to prepare levulinic acid, formic acid and/or hydroxymethyl furfural from various biomass materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2018Publication date: January 17, 2019Inventors: Brian D. Mullen, Cora M. Leibig, Louis A. Kapicak, Donald L. Bunning, Steven R. Strand, Daniel Joseph Brunelle, Marc David Rodwogin, Robert Page Shirtum, Andrew J. Louwagie, Dorie Janine Yontz, Matthew John Tjosaas
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Patent number: 9493391Abstract: The present application provides a method for producing an beta-lactone product. The method includes the steps of: reacting an epoxide, a solvent with a carbonylation catalyst and carbon monoxide to produce a reaction stream comprising a beta-lactone then separating a portion of the beta-lactone in the reaction stream from the solvent and carbonylation catalyst to produce: i) a beta-lactone stream with the beta-lactone, and ii) a catalyst recycling stream including the carbonylation catalyst and the high boiling solvent; and adding the catalyst recycling stream to the feed stream.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2015Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: NOVOMER, INC.Inventors: Scott D. Allen, Ronald R. Valente, Han Lee, Anna E. Cherian, Donald L. Bunning, Nye A. Clinton, Olan Stanley Fruchey, Bernard Duane Dombek
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Publication number: 20160102040Abstract: The present application provides a method for producing an beta-lactone product. The method includes the steps of: reacting an epoxide, a solvent with a carbonylation catalyst and carbon monoxide to produce a reaction stream comprising a beta-lactone then separating a portion of the beta-lactone in the reaction stream from the solvent and carbonylation catalyst to produce: i) a beta-lactone stream with the beta-lactone, and ii) a catalyst recycling stream including the carbonylation catalyst and the high boiling solvent; and adding the catalyst recycling stream to the feed stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2015Publication date: April 14, 2016Inventors: Scott D. Allen, Ronald R. Valente, Han Lee, Anna E. Cherian, Donald L. Bunning, Nye A. Clinton, Olan Stanley Fruchey, Bernard Duane Dombek
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Patent number: 9206144Abstract: The present application provides a method for producing an beta-lactone product. The method includes the steps of: reacting an epoxide, a solvent with a carbonylation catalyst and carbon monoxide to produce a reaction stream comprising a beta-lactone then separating a portion of the beta-lactone in the reaction stream from the solvent and carbonylation catalyst to produce: i) a beta-lactone stream with the beta-lactone, and ii) a catalyst recycling stream including the carbonylation catalyst and the high boiling solvent; and adding the catalyst recycling stream to the feed stream.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2014Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Novomer, Inc.Inventors: Scott D. Allen, Ronald R. Valente, Han Lee, Anna E. Cherian, Donald L. Bunning, Nye A. Clinton, Olan Stanley Fruchey, Bernard Duane Dombek
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Patent number: 9115067Abstract: The invention generally relates to the manufacture of acrolein. In particular, the invention generally relates to a process for the continuous production of acrolein via the catalytic oxidation of propylene.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2014Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Novus International, Inc.Inventors: Donald L. Bunning, James D. Rolston, David A. LaBrot, Puvin Pichai, John Patrick Dever, Olan Stanley Fruchey, Michael L. Hutchison, Kevin Roy
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Publication number: 20140316161Abstract: The invention describes processes to prepare levulinic acid, formic acid and/or hydroxymethyl furfural from various biomass materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2012Publication date: October 23, 2014Inventors: Brian D. Mullen, Cora M. Leibig, Louis A. Kapicak, Donald L. Bunning, Steven R. Strand, Daniel Joseph Brunelle, Marc David Rodwogin, Robert Page Shirtum, Andrew J. Louwagie, Dorie Janine Yontz, Matthew John Tjosaas
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Publication number: 20140275575Abstract: The present application provides a method for producing an beta-lactone product. The method includes the steps of: reacting an epoxide, a solvent with a carbonylation catalyst and carbon monoxide to produce a reaction stream comprising a beta-lactone then separating a portion of the beta-lactone in the reaction stream from the solvent and carbonylation catalyst to produce: i) a beta-lactone stream with the beta-lactone, and ii) a catalyst recycling stream including the carbonylation catalyst and the high boiling solvent; and adding the catalyst recycling stream to the feed stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Novomer, Inc.Inventors: Scott D. Allen, Ronald R. Valente, Han Lee, Anna E. Cherian, Donald L. Bunning, Nye A. Clinton, Olan Stanley Fruchey, Bernard Duane Dombek
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Patent number: 8796475Abstract: The present application provides a method for producing an beta-lactone product. The method includes the steps of: reacting an epoxide, a solvent with a carbonylation catalyst and carbon monoxide to produce a reaction stream comprising a beta-lactone then separating a portion of the beta-lactone in the reaction stream from the solvent and carbonylation catalyst to produce: i) a beta-lactone stream with the beta-lactone, and ii) a catalyst recycling stream including the carbonylation catalyst and the high boiling solvent; and adding the catalyst recycling stream to the feed stream.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2013Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Novomer, Inc.Inventors: Scott D. Allen, Ronald R. Valente, Han Lee, Anna E. Cherian, Donald L. Bunning, Nye A. Clinton, Olan Stanley Fruchey, Bernard Duane Dombek
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Publication number: 20130281715Abstract: The present application provides a method for producing an beta-lactone product. The method includes the steps of: reacting an epoxide, a solvent with a carbonylation catalyst and carbon monoxide to produce a reaction stream comprising a beta-lactone then separating a portion of the beta-lactone in the reaction stream from the solvent and carbonylation catalyst to produce: i) a beta-lactone stream with the beta-lactone, and ii) a catalyst recycling stream including the carbonylation catalyst and the high boiling solvent; and adding the catalyst recycling stream to the feed stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Inventors: Scott D. Allen, Ronald R. Valente, Han Lee, Anna E. Cherian, Donald L. Bunning, Nye A. Clinton, Olan Stanley Fruchey, Bernard Duane Dombek
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Patent number: 8445703Abstract: The present application provides a method for producing an beta-lactone product. The method includes the steps of: reacting an epoxide, a solvent with a carbonylation catalyst and carbon monoxide to produce a reaction stream comprising a beta-lactone then separating a portion of the beta-lactone in the reaction stream from the solvent and carbonylation catalyst to produce: i) a beta-lactone stream with the beta-lactone, and ii) a catalyst recycling stream including the carbonylation catalyst and the high boiling solvent; and adding the catalyst recycling stream to the feed stream.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2010Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Novomer, Inc.Inventors: Scott D. Allen, Ronald R. Valente, Han Lee, Anna E. Cherian, Donald L. Bunning, Nye A. Clinton, Olan Stanley Fruchey, Bernard Duane Dombek
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Publication number: 20120123137Abstract: The present application provides a method for producing an beta-lactone product. The method includes the steps of: reacting an epoxide, a solvent with a carbonylation catalyst and carbon monoxide to produce a reaction stream comprising a beta-lactone then separating a portion of the beta-lactone in the reaction stream from the solvent and carbonylation catalyst to produce: i) a beta-lactone stream with the beta-lactone, and ii) a catalyst recycling stream including the carbonylation catalyst and the high boiling solvent; and adding the catalyst recycling stream to the feed stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2010Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: NOVOMER, INC.Inventors: Scott D. Allen, Ronald R. Valente, Han Lee, Anna E. Cherian, Donald L. Bunning, Nye A. Clinton, Olan Stanley Fruchey, Bernard Duane Dombek
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Patent number: 8124812Abstract: An aldehyde composition derived by hydroformylation of a transesterified seed oil and containing a mixture of formyl-substituted fatty acids or fatty acid esters having the following composition by weight: greater than about 10 to less than about 95 percent monoformyl, greater than about 1 to less than about 65 percent diformyl, and greater than about 0.1 to less than about 10 percent triformyl-substituted fatty acids or fatty acid esters, and having a diformyl to triformyl weight ratio of greater than about 5/1; preferably, greater than about 3 to less than about 20 percent saturates; and preferably, greater than about 1 to less than about 20 percent unsaturates.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2009Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Zenon Lysenko, Donald L. Morrison, David A. Babb, Donald L. Bunning, Christopher W. Derstine, James H. Gilchrist, H. Ray Jouett, Jeffrey S. Kanel, Kurt D. Olson, Wei-Jun Peng, Joe D. Phillips, Brian M. Roesch, Aaron W. Sanders, Alan K. Schrock, Pulikkottil J. Thomas
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Publication number: 20100298610Abstract: An aldehyde composition derived by hydroformylation of a transesterified seed oil and containing a mixture of formyl-substituted fatty acids or fatty acid esters having the following composition by weight: greater than about 10 to less than about 95 percent monoformyl, greater than about 1 to less than about 65 percent diformyl, and greater than about 0.1 to less than about 10 percent triformyl-substituted fatty acids or fatty acid esters, and having a diformyl to triformyl weight ratio of greater than about 5/1; preferably, greater than about 3 to less than about 20 percent saturates; and preferably, greater than about 1 to less than about 20 percent unsaturates.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2009Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: Dow Global Technologies Inc.Inventors: Zenon Lysenko, Donald L. Morrison, David A. Babb, Donald L. Bunning, Christopher W. Derstine, James H. Gilchrist, H. Ray Jouett, Kurt D. Olson, Wei-Jun Peng, Joe D. Phillips, Brian M. Roesch, Aaron W. Sanders, Alan K. Schrock, Pulikkottil J. Thomas, Jeffrey S. Kanel
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Publication number: 20100126060Abstract: Waste water emissions from a biodiesel production facility are substantially reduced by recovering water from a spent water stream used in a water washing step in the refining of crude biodiesel which water washing removes glycerin. The water is recovered from the spent water stream is concentrated to provide an aqueous fraction which can be recycled for the water washing. The concentration also provides a glycerin-containing fraction containing that can be blended with crude glycerin by-product generated by transesterification of glycerides to make the biodiesel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2008Publication date: May 27, 2010Applicant: BEST ENERGIES, INC.Inventors: Thomas A. Maliszewski, Donald L. Bunning, David J. Schreck, Louis A. Kapicak, Norman L. Balmer
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Patent number: 7663002Abstract: A non-aqueous hydroformylation process with liquid catalyst recycle involving a hydroformylation step and one or more stages of phase separation to recover a high molecular weight aldehyde product with efficient recovery of rhodium catalyst. The process includes a hydroformylation step to prepare a non-aqueous hydroformylation reaction product composition comprising one or more aldehyde products, one or more conjugated polyolefins, a rhodium-organophosphorus ligand complex, free organophosphorus ligand, and an organic solubilizing agent for said complex and said free ligand, and thereafter one or more stages of phase separation using added water under a carbon monoxide gas, hydrogen gas, or a mixture thereof. The process requires a specific range of total pressure for the hydroformylation, a specific range of total pressure for at least one of the separation stages, and a minimum sum of the total pressure of the hydroformylation step and the total pressure of the separation stage containing said gas.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2007Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Dow Global Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Wei-Jun Peng, Kurt D. Olson, Donald L. Morrison, Brian M. Roesch, Donald L. Bunning, Jeffrey G. Hippler, Vincent J. Stricker
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Patent number: 7615658Abstract: An aldehyde composition derived by hydroformylation of a transesterified seed oil and containing a mixture of formyl-substituted fatty acids or fatty acid esters having the following composition by weight: greater than about 10 to less than about 95 percent monoformyl, greater than about 1 to less than about 65 percent diformyl, and greater than about 0.1 to less than about 10 percent triformyl-substituted fatty acids or fatty acid esters, and having a diformyl to triformyl weight ratio of greater than about 5/1; preferably, greater than about 3 to less than about 20 percent saturates; and preferably, greater than about 1 to less than about 20 percent unsaturates.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2004Date of Patent: November 10, 2009Assignee: Dow Global Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Zenon Lysenko, Donald L. Morrison, David A. Babb, Donald L. Bunning, Christopher W. Derstine, James H. Gilchrist, H. Ray Jouett, Jeffrey S. Kanel, Kurt D. Olson, Wei-Jun Peng, Joe D. Phillips, Brian M. Roesch, Aaron W. Sanders, Alan K. Schrock, Pulikkottil J. Thomas
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Publication number: 20090118548Abstract: A non-aqueous hydroformylation process with liquid catalyst recycle involving a hydroformylation step and one or more stages of phase separation to recover a high molecular weight aldehyde product with efficient recovery of rhodium catalyst. The process includes a hydroformylation step to prepare a non-aqueous hydroformylation reaction product composition comprising one or more aldehyde products, one or more conjugated polyolefins, a rhodium-organophosphorus ligand complex, free organophosphorus ligand, and an organic solubilizing agent for said complex and said free ligand, and thereafter one or more stages of phase separation using added water under a carbon monoxide gas, hydrogen gas, or a mixture thereof. The process requires a specific range of total pressure for the hydroformylation, a specific range of total pressure for at least one of the separation stages, and a minimum sum of the total pressure of the hydroformylation step and the total pressure of the separation stage containing said gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2007Publication date: May 7, 2009Inventors: Wei-Jun Peng, Kurt D. Olson, Donald L. Morrison, Brian M. Roesch, Donald L. Bunning, Jeffrey G. Hippler, Vincent J. Stricker
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Patent number: 5001274Abstract: An improved process for the rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation of olefins to aldehydes is described. The improvement provides a means for recovering valuable components in gaseous streams by scrubbing the streams with a stripped or cooled catalyst solution.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 1989Date of Patent: March 19, 1991Assignee: Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics Company Inc.Inventor: Donald L. Bunning
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Patent number: 4999452Abstract: A process for producing acrylic ester by the catalytic esterification of a crude liquid stream of enriched acrylic acid recovered by the partial condensation of the reaction gas effluent from the catalytic oxidation of propylene and/or acrolein. The partial condensation allows a significant proportion of volatile aldehydes and water to pass through the first recovery stage to a second stage for conventional recovery, along with uncondensed acrylic acid vapors and the remainder of the uncondensed reaction gases.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1989Date of Patent: March 12, 1991Assignee: Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics Company Inc.Inventors: Donald L. Bunning, William G. Etzkorn, William M. Haydon, Gordon G. Harkreader, Jonathan J. Kurland, Wai C. Liu, Ernesto Vera-Castaneda