Patents by Inventor Hongbin Cao

Hongbin Cao 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).

  • Patent number: 10662095
    Abstract: An ozone-photocatalysis reactor, comprising: a shell layer (1); activated carbon layers (2) arranged in the shell layer (1); and at least one photoxidation unit arranged in the shell layer (1) and above the activated carbon layers (2). The photoxidation unit comprises a honeycomb activated carbon layer I (3), a light source layer and a honeycomb activated carbon bed layer II (4) sequentially from bottom to top. A gas inlet (7) and a water inlet (6) are formed in the shell layer below the activated carbon layers (2); a water outlet (9) and a gas outlet (10) are formed in the shell layer (1) above the photoxidation unit; and the activated carbon layers (2), at least one honeycomb activated carbon bed layer I (3) and at least one honeycomb activated carbon bed layer II (4) are loaded with a solid catalyst. The reactor uses ozone oxidation and ozone-photocatalysis sufficiently for sewage treatment, the treatment time is short, and the treatment efficiency is high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Yongbing Xie, Hongbin Cao, Yuxing Sheng, Yuping Li
  • Publication number: 20200148550
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a recycling method of amphiphilic surface-active pollutants in water, comprising: performing a polymerization reaction by illumination treatment on the amphiphilic surface-active pollutants in water to form a polymerization product; performing self-assembly on the polymerization product for aggregation to form a fluorescent material, and performing separation to obtain a recycled product. Through treatment of the amphiphilic surface-active pollutants by illumination, the present disclosure can realize the recycled utilization of the amphiphilic pollutants in the wastewater by one step of reaction, so that the amphiphilic surface-active pollutants can be converted into usable fluorescent materials, and the biological toxicity is greatly reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING,CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Hongbin Cao, He Zhao, Qin Dai, Shanshan Sun
  • Publication number: 20200039838
    Abstract: A system for extracting vanadium from a leaching solution containing vanadium chromium silicon and for preparing vanadium pentoxide, and a method therefor, the system comprising, in sequence: an impurity removal system, an extraction system, a reverse-extraction and vanadium precipitation system, a washing system and a calcining system. The method comprises the following steps: removing silicon in a leaching solution by using a silicon removal agent, extracting most of the vanadium to an organic phase by using centrifugal extraction, reverse-extracting the vanadium of a vanadium-rich organic phase by using a mixed solution containing a basic solution and an ammonium salt, and precipitating ammonium metavanadate to obtain an ammonium metavanadate solid, washing and drying, and then calcining at a certain temperature to obtain a low chromium, low silicon, low aluminum and high-purity vanadium pentoxide product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Hongbin CAO, Pengge NING
  • Publication number: 20190367397
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a treatment method of wastewater containing heterocyclic organics comprising the following steps: (1) adding a persulfate to the wastewater containing heterocyclic organics in a reaction vessel; (2) heating the reaction vessel to a reaction temperature in an inert atmosphere, then introducing an oxygen-containing gas until a reaction pressure is reached for reaction, and after the reaction is completed, cooling and filtering the reaction resultant to obtain a filtrate as a treated effluent and a filter residue; no catalyst is added to the reaction system. The treatment method provided by the present disclosure not only can significantly reduce the treatment temperature of the conventional wet oxidation, but also can control the amount of generated spherical polymer and the removal efficiency of organic pollutants by control of reaction conditions. Wastewater purification and organics recovery and reuse are achieved at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Hongbin CAO, Yongbing XIE, Linbi ZHOU, Yanchun SHI
  • Publication number: 20190300786
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a fluorescent nanomaterial and a preparation method and applications thereof, and the preparation method comprises: subjecting amphiphilic molecules in a solvent system to an illumination treatment and/or a heat treatment to obtain fluorescent nanomaterials. The preparation of fluorescent nanomaterials provided by the present disclosure is simple in process, simple and easily available in raw materials and requires neither additional addition of a strong acid, a strong alkali, a passivating agent and the like, nor high temperature and high pressure in the preparation process. The whole process is environmentally friendly and pollution-free and the products can be used in various fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Hongbin Cao, He Zhao, Qin Dai
  • Publication number: 20190289298
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a quick intra code-rate predicting method in the field of video coding, which may skip an entropy coding procedure during an RDO process by modeling residual information of a prediction block and predicting the number of coding bits of the prediction block based on an information entropy theory under a corresponding model. The code-rate predicting method comprises: making statistics on prediction block distribution information and modeling to obtain a combined model, predicting the number of coding bits of a prediction mode based on the model, and correcting the predicted number of coding bits for predicting the code-rate of each prediction mode during the RDO process, so as to replace a high time complexity in an actual entropy coding procedure, thereby effectively reducing the coding time with less video quality loss. The present disclosure is applicable to Iframe code-rate prediction for in video coding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Ronggang WANG, Hongbin CAO, Zhenyu WANG, Wen GAO
  • Publication number: 20190112211
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for photocatalytic ozonation reaction, in which the silicon carbide material is used. By using the silicon carbide material for photocatalytic ozonation reaction, the present disclosure overcomes the problem of low photocatalytic efficiency of silicon carbide, utilizes photogenerated electrons therefrom with strong reducibility to reduce ozone molecules to efficiently produce hydroxyl radicals, so as to improve the oxidation capacity in the process. Whether visible light or ultraviolet light is coupled with ozone, the group has strong catalytic activity, moreover, the silicon carbide has low cost and good stability, which prolongs the life of catalyst for photocatalytic ozonation or device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Hongbin CAO, Yongbing XIE, Yuping LI, Yuxing SHENG
  • Patent number: 10174204
    Abstract: The present invention provides carbon quantum dots, preparation method and uses thereof. The preparation method of the carbon quantum dots comprises the following steps: (1) preparing a dispersion of carbon based material; (2) mixing a solution of halogenated quinone with the dispersion of carbon based material and preparing a dispersion of carbon based-halogenated quinone composite material by halogenated quinone grafting method; (3) adding a solution of H2O2 to the dispersion of carbon based-halogenated quinone composite material and carrying out reaction thereof, obtaining reaction products; (4) carrying out solid-liquid separation to the reaction products, with the resulting filtrate continuing to react, thus obtaining a dispersion of carbon quantum dots. This method adopts metal-free catalytic oxidation, the process of which is safe, convenient and low-cost, and is performed under a mild reaction condition without adding additional substances which are difficult to be separated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: He Zhao, Hongbin Cao, Di Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170369346
    Abstract: An ozone-photocatalysis reactor, comprising: a shell layer (1); activated carbon layers (2) arranged in the shell layer (1); and at least one photoxidation unit arranged in the shell layer (1) and above the activated carbon layers (2). The photoxidation unit comprises a honeycomb activated carbon layer I (3), a light source layer and a honeycomb activated carbon bed layer II (4) sequentially from bottom to top. A gas inlet (7) and a water inlet (6) are formed in the shell layer below the activated carbon layers (2); a water outlet (9) and a gas outlet (10) are formed in the shell layer (1) above the photoxidation unit; and the activated carbon layers (2), at least one honeycomb activated carbon bed layer I (3) and at least one honeycomb activated carbon bed layer II (4) are loaded with a solid catalyst. The reactor uses ozone oxidation and ozone-photocatalysis sufficiently for sewage treatment, the treatment time is short, and the treatment efficiency is high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Yongbing XIE, Hongbin CAO, Yuxing SHENG, Yuping LI
  • Patent number: 9708203
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a reactor for removing organic matters by immobilized-enzymatic electrode coupled electro-coagulation. In the method, in a single electrochemical system, an enzyme-modified electrode is combined with electro-coagulation to synergistically remove organic matters from water. Certain electrochemical parameters are controlled such that a polymerization reaction is performed between hydrogen peroxide generated by a cathode reaction and organic matters catalyzed by the immobilized-enzymatic electrode. After the polymerization reaction, the organic product enters an anode chamber through a pump. The organic product is precipitated and removed by performing a reaction between the organic product and different hydrolysis products from the electro-coagulation through a coagulating/flocculating effect of compression of a double electric layer, adsorption and electric neutralization as well as precipitation capture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy
    Inventors: Hongbin Cao, He Zhao, Yuping Li, Haitao Li, Yi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170152385
    Abstract: The present invention provides carbon quantum dots, preparation method and uses thereof. The preparation method of the carbon quantum dots comprises the following steps: (1) preparing a dispersion of carbon based material; (2) mixing a solution of halogenated quinone with the dispersion of carbon based material and preparing a dispersion of carbon based-halogenated quinone composite material by halogenated quinone grafting method; (3) adding a solution of H2O2 to the dispersion of carbon based-halogenated quinone composite material and carrying out reaction thereof, obtaining reaction products; (4) carrying out solid-liquid separation to the reaction products, with the resulting filtrate continuing to react, thus obtaining a dispersion of carbon quantum dots. This method adopts metal-free catalytic oxidation, the process of which is safe, convenient and low-cost, and is performed under a mild reaction condition without adding additional substances which are difficult to be separated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: He ZHAO, Hongbin CAO, Di ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20170152141
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heterogeneous metal-free Fenton catalyst, a method for preparing the same and use thereof. The catalyst is a carbon-based material surface-bonded with halogenated quinones, wherein the carbon-based material has synergistic action with halogenated quinones. The catalyst is prepared by grafting halogenated quinones onto the carbon-based material, or feeding chlorine during the carbonation process of the carbon-based material for oxidization. The production of hydroxyl radicals by using the catalyst has a low cost and a safe, simple and convenient process. The conditions for producing hydroxyl radicals are mild, without any secondary pollution. Moreover, the radical production has a high, continuous and stable yield, and the hydroxyl radicals can be effectively produced by using no chemicals which are harmful to human bodies, without any side product and any additional substances which are difficult to separate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: He ZHAO, Hongbin CAO, Di ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20170057821
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a synthetic method of graphitic carbon nitride material. The method involves a homogenous mixing of carbon nitride precursor and ammonium salt, and calcining the mixture to obtain a porous graphitic carbon nitride material. Wherein, the ammonium salt is any one or a combination of at least two which could release gaseous NH3 during thermolysis. The present invention uses thermolabile ammonium salt as a pore former; the thermolysis of ammonium salt could release soft gas bubbles during the calcination; the later burst of bubbles leads to the formation of nanoporous structure. The proposed method is template-free and environmentally-friendly, and the resultant material exhibits high photocatalytic activity in the field of gas and water decontamination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Hongbin CAO, Yongbing XIE, Jiadong XIAO, Yuping LI, Yuxing SHENG
  • Publication number: 20150203374
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a reactor for removing organic matters by immobilized-enzymatic electrode coupled electro-coagulation. In the method, in a single electrochemical system, an enzyme-modified electrode is combined with electro-coagulation to synergistically remove organic matters from water. Certain electrochemical parameters are controlled such that a polymerization reaction is performed between hydrogen peroxide generated by a cathode reaction and organic matters catalyzed by the immobilized-enzymatic electrode. After the polymerization reaction, the organic product enters an anode chamber through a pump. The organic product is precipitated and removed by performing a reaction between the organic product and different hydrolysis products from the electro-coagulation through a coagulating/flocculating effect of compression of a double electric layer, adsorption and electric neutralization as well as precipitation capture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Hongbin Cao, He Zhao, Yuping Li, Haitao Li, Yi Zhang