Patents by Inventor Jeffrey K. Hardin

Jeffrey K. Hardin 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: 11585195
    Abstract: Herein are provided tools and processes for extracting oil from subterranean formation. The processes can include lightening the oil in the formation prior to extraction by the addition of a nanogas solution. The tools include injectors for the formation of the nanogas solution within the subterranean formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Nano Gas Technologies Inc
    Inventors: Jeffrey K. Hardin, Scott A. Fiedler
  • Publication number: 20220410036
    Abstract: A process for separation of a slurry by radially injecting a stream of a nanogas solution at a shear-focus volume within a pipe; passing an aqueous slurry through the pipe along a direction of flow and through the shear-focus volume; and shearing and/or admixing the slurry with the nanogas solution within the shear-focus volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: NANOGAS TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Rudy M FOLDS, Scott A FIEDLER, Jeffrey K HARDIN
  • Patent number: 11344822
    Abstract: A process for separation of a slurry by radially injecting a stream of a nanogas solution at a shear-focus volume within a pipe; passing an aqueous slurry through the pipe along a direction of flow and through the shear-focus volume; and shearing and/or admixing the slurry with the nanogas solution within the shear-focus volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: NANO GAS TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Rudy M Folds, Scott A Fiedler, Jeffrey K Hardin
  • Publication number: 20220090473
    Abstract: Herein are provided tools and processes for extracting oil from subterranean formation. The processes can include lightening the oil in the formation prior to extraction by the addition of a nanogas solution. The tools include injectors for the formation of the nanogas solution within the subterranean formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: NanoGas Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey K. Hardin, Scott A. Fiedler
  • Patent number: 11193359
    Abstract: Herein are provided tools and processes for extracting oil from subterranean formation. The processes can include lightening the oil in the formation prior to extraction by the addition of a nanogas solution. The tools include injectors for the formation of the nanogas solution within the subterranean formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: NANOGAS TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey K Hardin, Scott A Fiedler
  • Publication number: 20210046401
    Abstract: A process for separation of a slurry by radially injecting a stream of a nanogas solution at a shear-focus volume within a pipe; passing an aqueous slurry through the pipe along a direction of flow and through the shear-focus volume; and shearing and/or admixing the slurry with the nanogas solution within the shear-focus volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: Nano Gas Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Rudy M FOLDS, Scott A FIEDLER, Jeffrey K HARDIN
  • Publication number: 20200289959
    Abstract: Herein is provided processes for affecting the separation of oil from emulsions by the addition of nanogas solutions. For example, the nanogas solutions can be used to affect the viscosity and/or density of oil droplets in oil-in-water emulsions, break the oil-in-water emulsion; and form an oil phase floating on a water phase. In another example, the nanogas solutions can be used in conjunction with a floatation tank to separate oil from, for example, produced water. In other examples selection of the gasses in the nanogas solution can be used to affect reactions and/or separation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: NanoGas Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey K Hardin, Scott A Fiedler, Rudy M Folds
  • Publication number: 20200216315
    Abstract: A process includes converting dioxygen in oxygen nanobubbles to ozone by exposure of the dioxygen to UV light in a UV reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Jeffrey K Hardin, Scott A Fiedler, Cliffton L Roe
  • Publication number: 20190093463
    Abstract: Herein is provided a process which includes hydraulically fracturing a subterranean formation with a fracking fluid that includes a nanobubble solution. Alternatively, herein is provide a process that includes hydraulically fracturing a subterranean formation that includes nanobubbles with a fracking fluid that may or may not include a nanobubbles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: Nano Gas Technologies Inc
    Inventors: Jeffrey K Hardin, Scott A Fiedler, Rudy M Folds
  • Publication number: 20180326368
    Abstract: A system for stabilizing gas-infused liquid, includes a tubular flow path configured to receive and pass therethrough the gas-infused liquid under a pressure of at least 20 psi, wherein a surface of the flow path configured to engage the gas-infused liquid flowing through the flow path is formed of material having a surface roughness (Ra) in a range of 0.1 ?m-10.0 ?m, and the flow path has a length which is at least 100 times a mean inner diameter thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: Nano Gas Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Cliffton Lee Roe, Jeffrey K. Hardin
  • Patent number: 10053966
    Abstract: Herein are provided tools and processes for extracting oil from subterranean formation. The processes can include lightening the oil in the formation prior to extraction by the addition of a nanogas solution. The tools include injectors for the formation of the nanogas solution within the subterranean formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Nano Gas Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey K Hardin, Scott A. Fiedler, Rudy M Folds
  • Publication number: 20180073336
    Abstract: Herein are provided tools and processes for extracting oil from subterranean formation. The processes can include lightening the oil in the formation prior to extraction by the addition of a nanogas solution. The tools include injectors for the formation of the nanogas solution within the subterranean formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: Nano Gas Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey K. Hardin, Scott A. Fiedler, Rudy M. Folds