Patents by Inventor Geir Inge Eide

Geir Inge Eide 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).

  • Method for mixing fluids
    Patent number: 7128276
    Abstract: The use of a turbulent contactor to absorb a selected gas component from a gas stream. The invention particularly applies to a method of distributing a liquid into a gas stream which comprises providing a liquid to an annulus at the periphery of a pipe in which a gas stream is flowing, the gas flow drawing the liquid into a film along the inner surface of the pipe to a sharp edge at the end of the pipe at which point the liquid breaks off the surface of the pipe and mixes intimately with the gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Statoil ASA
    Inventors: Finn Patrick Nilsen, Harald Linga, Rune Fantoft, Inge Sverre Lund Nilsen, Geir Inge Eide
  • Method for mixing fluids
    Publication number: 20030155436
    Abstract: The use of a turbulent contactor to absorb a selected gas component from a gas stream. The invention particularly applies to a method of distributing a liquid into a gas stream which comprises providing a liquid to an annulus at the periphery of a pipe in which a gas stream is flowing, the gas flow drawing the liquid into a film along the inner surface of the pipe to a sharp edge at the end of the pipe at which point the liquid breaks off the surface of the pipe and mixes intimately with the gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventors: Finn Patrick Nilsen, Harald Linga, Rune Fantoft, Inge Sverre Lund Nilsen, Geir Inge Eide