Patents by Inventor Heather A. Elsen
Heather A. Elsen 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: 11936081Abstract: A redox flow battery may include: a positive half-cell comprising a catholyte; a negative half-cell comprising an anolyte; and an ion permeable membrane, wherein the ion permeable membrane separates the catholyte and the anolyte, and wherein the catholyte, the anolyte, or both comprise a low-transition temperature material comprising: a redox-active phase; and an ionically conducting organic salt.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Exxon Mobil Technology and Engineering CompanyInventors: Divyaraj Desai, Michael R. Harper, Jr., Heather A. Elsen, Jonathan D. Saathoff, Mehmet D. Ertas, Steven W. Levine
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Patent number: 11888199Abstract: An elevated target amount of electrolyte is used to initially fill a molten carbonate fuel cell that is operated under carbon capture conditions. The increased target electrolyte fill level can be achieved in part by adding additional electrolyte to the cathode collector prior to start of operation. The increased target electrolyte fill level can provide improved fuel cell performance and lifetime when operating a molten carbonate fuel cell at high current density with a low-CO2 content cathode input stream and/or when operating a molten carbonate fuel cell at high CO2 utilization.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company, FUELCELL ENERGY, INC.Inventors: Jonathan Rosen, Heather A. Elsen, Gabor Kiss, William A. Lamberti, William C. Horn, Anding Zhang, Timothy C. Geary, Adam Franco, Abdelkader Hilmi
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Patent number: 11888187Abstract: Molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs) are operated to provide enhanced CO2 utilization. This can increase the effective amount of carbonate ion transport that is achieved. The enhanced CO2 utilization is enabled in part by operating an MCFC under conditions that cause transport of alternative ions across the electrolyte. The amount of alternative ion transport that occurs during enhanced CO2 utilization can be mitigated by using a more acidic electrolyte.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company, FuelCell Energy, Inc.Inventors: Abdelkader Hilmi, Timothy A. Barckholtz, Jonathan Rosen, Heather A. Elsen, Gabor Kiss, Carl A. Willman, Chao-Yi Yuh, Hossein Ghezel-Ayagh, Timothy C. Geary
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Publication number: 20220255105Abstract: A redox flow battery may include: a positive half-cell comprising a catholyte; a negative half-cell comprising an anolyte; and an ion permeable membrane, wherein the ion permeable membrane separates the catholyte and the anolyte, and wherein the catholyte, the anolyte, or both comprise a low-transition temperature material comprising: a redox-active phase; and an ionically conducting organic salt.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2021Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Divyaraj Desai, Michael R. Harper, JR., Heather A. Elsen, Jonathan D. Saathoff, Mehmet D. Ertas, Steven W. Levine
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Publication number: 20220173421Abstract: An elevated target amount of electrolyte is used to initially fill a molten carbonate fuel cell that is operated under carbon capture conditions. The increased target electrolyte fill level can be achieved in part by adding additional electrolyte to the cathode collector prior to start of operation. The increased target electrolyte fill level can provide improved fuel cell performance and lifetime when operating a molten carbonate fuel cell at high current density with a low-CO2 content cathode input stream and/or when operating a molten carbonate fuel cell at high CO2 utilization.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Jonathan Rosen, Heather A. Elsen, Gabor Kiss, William A. Lamberti, William C. Horn, Anding Zhang, Timothy C. Geary, Adam Franco, Abdelkader Hilmi
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Patent number: 11335937Abstract: An elevated target amount of electrolyte is used to initially fill a molten carbonate fuel cell that is operated under carbon capture conditions. The increased target electrolyte fill level can be achieved in part by adding additional electrolyte to the cathode collector prior to start of operation. The increased target electrolyte fill level can provide improved fuel cell performance and lifetime when operating a molten carbonate fuel cell at high current density with a low-CO2 content cathode input stream and/or when operating a molten carbonate fuel cell at high CO2 utilization.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignees: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY, FUELCELL ENERGY, INC.Inventors: Jonathan Rosen, Heather A. Elsen, Gabor Kiss, William A. Lamberti, William C. Horn, Anding Zhang, Timothy C. Geary, Adam Franco, Abdelkader Hilmi
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Publication number: 20210159531Abstract: An elevated target amount of electrolyte is used to initially fill a molten carbonate fuel cell that is operated under carbon capture conditions. The increased target electrolyte fill level can be achieved in part by adding additional electrolyte to the cathode collector prior to start of operation. The increased target electrolyte fill level can provide improved fuel cell performance and lifetime when operating a molten carbonate fuel cell at high current density with a low-CO2 content cathode input stream and/or when operating a molten carbonate fuel cell at high CO2 utilization.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2019Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Jonathan Rosen, Heather A. Elsen, Gabor Kiss, William A. Lamberti, William C. Horn, Anding Zhang, Timothy C. Geary, Adam Franco, Abdelkader Hilmi
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Publication number: 20200396799Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to processes for forming or otherwise creating a transparent, conductive film from a heavy hydrocarbon material. It allows for what is often considered to be waste material to be transformed into a useful product, such as a heating element. Such heating elements can be incorporated into many contexts where it can be important to have transparency and/or a thin heating element, such as in windshields. The process involves dissolving a heavy hydrocarbon material in a solvent, casting the heavy hydrocarbon solution that results from the dissolving onto a substrate to form a film, and then annealing the film. The disclosure also provides for objects in which such resulting films can be used, such as Joule heaters.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventors: Jeffrey Grossman, Brent Keller, Owen Morris, Mark Disko, Heather Elsen, Xining Zang, Nicola Ferralis, Ximena Hasbach
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Publication number: 20200176783Abstract: Cathode collector structures and/or corresponding cathode structures are provided that can allow for improved operation for a molten carbonate fuel cell when operated under conditions for elevated CO2 utilization. A cathode collector structure that provides an increased open area at the cathode surface can reduce or minimize the amount of alternative ion transport that occurs within the fuel cell. Additionally or alternately, grooves in the cathode surface can be used to increase the open area.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2019Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Jonathan Rosen, Timothy A. Barckholtz, Heather A. Elsen, Gabor Kiss, Lu Han, Thomas M. Smith, Sandipan K. Das, Chao-Yi Yuh, Carl A. Willman, Timothy C. Geary, Keith E. Davis, Abdelkader Hilmi, Lawrence J. Novacco
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Publication number: 20200176789Abstract: Molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs) are operated to provide enhanced CO2 utilization. This can increase the effective amount of carbonate ion transport that is achieved. The enhanced CO2 utilization is enabled in part by operating an MCFC under conditions that cause transport of alternative ions across the electrolyte. The amount of alternative ion transport that occurs during enhanced CO2 utilization can be mitigated by using a more acidic electrolyte.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2019Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Abdelkader Hilmi, Timothy A. Barckholtz, Jonathan Rosen, Heather A. Elsen, Gabor Kiss, Carl A. Willman, Chao-Yi Yuh, Hossein Ghezel-Ayagh, Timothy C. Geary
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Publication number: 20160060545Abstract: The stability of distillate type jet fuels is improved by cathodic hydrogenation in an electrolytic cell with a proton permeable membrane separating cathode and anode compartments; a source of hydrogen is oxidized in the anode compartment to form protons which permeate the membrane to effect a cathodic reduction of the nitrogenous components of the fuel in the cathode compartment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2015Publication date: March 3, 2016Applicant: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Mark A. GREANEY, Richard J. QUANN, Heather A. ELSEN, Kuangnan QIAN, Anthony S. MENNITO
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Patent number: 8932455Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to the processing of hydrocarbon-containing feedstreams in the presence of an interstitial metal hydride containing catalyst comprising a surface, and a Group VI/Group VIII metal sulfide coated onto the surface of the interstitial metal hydride. The catalysts and processes of the present invention can improve overall hydrogenation, product conversion, as well as sulfur reduction in hydrocarbon feedstreams.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2013Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Exxonmobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Chuansheng Bai, Adrienne J. Thornburg, Heather A. Elsen, Jean W. Beeckman, William G. Borghard
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Patent number: 8765628Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to the processing of hydrocarbon-containing feedstreams in the presence of an active catalyst component comprising a surface, and a metal oxide film coated on the surface of the active catalyst component. The catalysts and processes of the present invention can improve overall hydrogenation, product conversion, as well as improved resistance to catalytic deactivation due to sulfur and nitrogen compounds present in the hydrocarbon feedstreams.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2010Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Chuansheng Bai, Adrienne J. Thornburg, Heather A. Elsen, William G. Borghard, Cody R. Cole
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Publication number: 20140081060Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to the processing of hydrocarbon-containing feedstreams in the presence of an interstitial metal hydride containing catalyst comprising a surface, and a Group VI/Group VIII metal sulfide coated onto the surface of the interstitial metal hydride. The catalysts and processes of the present invention can improve overall hydrogenation, product conversion, as well as sulfur reduction in hydrocarbon feedstreams.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: Chuansheng BAI, Adrienne J. THORNBURG, Heather A. ELSEN, Jean W. BEECKMAN, William G. BORGHARD
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Patent number: 8637424Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to the processing of hydrocarbon-containing feedstreams in the presence of an interstitial metal hydride comprising a surface, with a metal oxide integrally synthesized and providing a coating on the surface of the interstitial metal hydride. The catalysts and processes of the present invention can improve overall hydrogenation, product conversion, as well as sulfur and nitrogen reduction in hydrocarbon feedstreams.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventor: Heather A. Elsen
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Patent number: 8618010Abstract: The present invention relates to new processes for regenerating oxidized interstitial metal hydride containing catalysts prior to the use of such catalysts in a hydroprocessing process. Interstitial metal hydride containing catalysts are easily oxidized in the environment and once oxidized, the hydroprocessing activity of the interstitial metal hydrides is most often severely diminished and this lost activity due to oxidization of the iMeH is not susceptible to recovery under hydroprocessing conditions. As a result, these catalysts in the present art require considerable special handling in inert environments all through processes from fabrication, shipping, loading, use, and maintenance of the catalyst systems to protect the activity of the interstitial metal hydride components.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2010Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Faiz Pourarian, Marc A. Portnoff, David A. Purta, Margaret A. Nasta, Jingfeng Zhang, Heather A. Elsen, Patricia A. Bielenberg
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Patent number: 8598067Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to the processing of hydrocarbon-containing feedstreams in the presence of an interstitial metal hydride containing catalyst comprising a surface, and a Group VI/Group VIII metal sulfide coated onto the surface of the interstitial metal hydride. The catalysts and processes of the present invention can improve overall hydrogenation, product conversion, as well as sulfur reduction in hydrocarbon feedstreams.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2010Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Chuansheng Bai, Adrienne J. Thornburg, Heather A. Elsen, Jean W. Beeckman, William G. Borghard
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Publication number: 20120115713Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to the processing of hydrocarbon-containing feedstreams in the presence of an active catalyst component comprising a surface, and a metal oxide film coated on the surface of the active catalyst component. The catalysts and processes of the present invention can improve overall hydrogenation, product conversion, as well as improved resistance to catalytic deactivation due to sulfur and nitrogen compounds present in the hydrocarbon feedstreams.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2010Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: Chuansheng Bai, Adrienne J. Thornburg, Heather A. Elsen, William G. Borghard, Cody R. Cole
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Publication number: 20120111768Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to the processing of hydrocarbon-containing feedstreams in the presence of an interstitial metal hydride comprising a surface, with a metal oxide integrally synthesized and providing a coating on the surface of the interstitial metal hydride. The catalysts and processes of the present invention can improve overall hydrogenation, product conversion, as well as sulfur and nitrogen reduction in hydrocarbon feedstreams.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2010Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventor: Heather A. Elsen
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Publication number: 20120111767Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to the processing of hydrocarbon-containing feedstreams in the presence of an interstitial metal hydride containing catalyst comprising a surface, and a Group VI/Group VIII metal sulfide coated onto the surface of the interstitial metal hydride. The catalysts and processes of the present invention can improve overall hydrogenation, product conversion, as well as sulfur reduction in hydrocarbon feedstreams.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2010Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: Chuansheng Bai, Adrienne J. Thornburg, Heather A. Elsen, Jean W. Beeckman, William G. Borghard