Patents by Inventor Robert John Gartside

Robert John Gartside 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).

  • Pyrolysis heater
    Patent number: 7172412
    Abstract: A pyrolysis heater particularly for the cracking of hydrocarbons in the production of olefins has a burner arrangement in the firebox which includes staged combustion low NOx hearth burners firing upwardly in the firebox adjacent to the walls. Wall stabilizing gas fuel injection tips, located at an elevation above the hearth burners, inject fuel upwardly between the walls and the flame from the hearth burners. This prevents rollover of the flame onto the process heater coil and overheating of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: ABB Lummus Global Inc.
    Inventors: Erwin M. J. Platvoet, Robert John Gartside, Peter Robert Ponzi, Paul Chapman, Frank D. McCarthy
  • Catalytic/oxidative promoted hydrocarbon pyrolysis
    Patent number: 5866745
    Abstract: Light olefins are produced from a hydrocarbon feedstock by a steam pyrolysis reaction in the presence of small quantities of essentially pure oxygen and selected catalytic solids to enhance the steam pyrolysis reaction, to promote the combustion of hydrogen to water and to minimize the formation of carbon oxides. The catalysts are characterized by low surface area, by non-alumina supports and by the catalytic oxides of the group IVB, VB and VIB transition metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: ABB Lummus Global Inc.
    Inventors: Robert John Gartside, Atef M. Shaban