Patents by Inventor Peter de Bakker

Peter de Bakker 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: 9527104
    Abstract: A method for processing of granules, by forming at least one injection zone in a fluidized bed where a feed stream of seed particles is contacted or coated by a liquid product by simultaneous injection of the feed stream of the seed particles and a feed stream of the liquid product, forming at least one granulation zone in the fluidized bed where the contacted or coated seed particles may be at least one of dried, shaped, and cooled to form granules, extracting the granules from the at least one granulation zone and sorting the extracted granules into undersize granules, on-size granules, and oversize granules, passing the on-size granules to post-processing treatment, removing the oversize granules, and passing the undersize granules back into the feed stream of the seed particles, wherein the extracted granules are made to pass through at least one classifier located in the at least one granulation zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: YARA INTERNATIONAL ASA
    Inventors: Francois Ledoux, Luc Vanmarcke, Howard Volke, Peter de Bakker, Remco de Fouw, Roeland Elderson
  • Patent number: 9199265
    Abstract: A method for processing of granules, by forming at least one injection zone in a fluidized bed where a feed stream of seed particles is contacted or coated by a liquid product by simultaneous injection of the feed stream of the seed particles and a feed stream of the liquid product, forming at least one granulation zone in the fluidized bed where the contacted or coated seed particles may be at least one of dried, shaped, and cooled to form granules, extracting the granules from the at least one granulation zone and sorting the extracted granules into undersize granules, on-size granules, and oversize granules, passing the on-size granules to post-processing treatment, removing the oversize granules, and passing the undersize granules back into the feed stream of the seed particles, wherein the extracted granules are made to pass through at least one classifier located in the at least one granulation zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: YARA INTERNATIONAL ASA
    Inventors: Francois Ledoux, Luc Vanmarcke, Howard Volke, Peter de Bakker, Remco de Fouw, Roeland Elderson
  • Publication number: 20140318446
    Abstract: A method for processing of granules, by forming at least one injection zone in a fluidized bed where a feed stream of seed particles is contacted or coated by a liquid product by simultaneous injection of the feed stream of the seed particles and a feed stream of the liquid product, forming at least one granulation zone in the fluidized bed where the contacted or coated seed particles may be at least one of dried, shaped, and cooled to form granules, extracting the granules from the at least one granulation zone and sorting the extracted granules into undersize granules, on-size granules, and oversize granules, passing the on-size granules to post-processing treatment, removing the oversize granules, and passing the undersize granules back into the feed stream of the seed particles, wherein the extracted granules are made to pass through at least one classifier located in the at least one granulation zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Yara International ASA
    Inventors: Francois LEDOUX, Luc VANMARCKE, Howard VOLKE, Peter de BAKKER, Remco de FOUW, Roeland ELDERSON
  • Publication number: 20110159180
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method and device for processing of granules of solidified salts, by forming at least one injection zone in a fluidised bed where a feed stream of seed particles is contacted/coated by the liquid product by simultaneous injection of a feed stream of the seed particles and a feed stream of the liquid product to be sprayed, forming at least one granulation zone in the fluidised bed where contacted/coated seed particles may be dried and/or shaped and/or cooled to form granules, extracting granules from the at least one granulation zone(s) and sorting the extracted granules into three fractions; undersize granules with too small diameters compared to the desired size range, on-size granules with diameters within the desired size range, and oversize granules with too large diameters compared to the desired size range, passing the fraction of on-size granules to post-processing treatment for forming the product granules, removing the oversize, typically by reducing the size of at least a
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventors: Francois Ledoux, Luc Vanmarcke, Howard Volke, Peter de Bakker, Remco de Fouw, Roeland Elderson