Patents by Inventor Stephen Allen Noe

Stephen Allen Noe 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: 10960375
    Abstract: A method of revamping vertical converters having a bolt-on flanged pressure shell extension for housing an internal heat exchanger is performed by replacing an existing pressure shell extension with a larger pressure shell extension for housing a plurality of internal heat exchangers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: KELLOGG BROWN & ROOT LLC.
    Inventors: Stephen Allen Noe, Sachin Kalatrakkal, Shiliang Zhan, Deyuan Wu
  • Publication number: 20190134587
    Abstract: A method of revamping vertical converters having a bolt-on flanged pressure shell extension for housing an internal heat exchanger is performed by replacing an existing pressure shell extension with a larger pressure shell extension for housing a plurality of internal heat exchangers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Allen NOE, Sachin KALATRAKKAL, Shiliang ZHAN, Deyuan WU
  • Patent number: 9643856
    Abstract: Methods and systems for making ammonia are provided. The method can include heating a first compressed syngas to produce a heated first syngas. The heated first syngas and a second compressed syngas can be combined to produce a combined syngas. The combined syngas can be reacted within a first ammonia converter and a second ammonia converter to produce an ammonia product. Heat from the ammonia product can be transferred to a first heat transfer medium to produce a first cooled product and a second heat transfer medium. Heat from the first cooled product can be transferred to a third heat transfer medium to produce a second cooled product. Heat from the second cooled product can be transferred to the combined syngas to produce a third cooled product. The third cooled product can be separated to produce a purified ammonia product and a recycle gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Kellogg Brown+Root LLC
    Inventors: Shashi Prakash Singh, Akhil Jain Nahar, Stephen Allen Noe
  • Patent number: 9561968
    Abstract: Methods and systems for making ammonia are provided. The method can include converting carbon monoxide in a first syngas to carbon dioxide to produce a shifted syngas. At least a portion of the carbon dioxide can be separated from the shifted syngas to produce a carbon dioxide-lean syngas. Carbon monoxide and/or carbon dioxide in the carbon dioxide-lean syngas can be converted to methane to produce a methanated first syngas. A second syngas can be separated to produce a purified second syngas and a waste gas. The methanated first syngas and the purified second syngas can be combined to produce an ammonia feedstock. The ammonia feedstock can have a hydrogen to nitrogen molar ratio of about 3.5:1 to about 2.5:1. At least a portion of the hydrogen and nitrogen in the ammonia feedstock can be reacted to produce an ammonia product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC
    Inventors: Shashi Prakash Singh, Akhil Jain Nahar, Stephen Allen Noe
  • Publication number: 20150044120
    Abstract: Methods and systems for making ammonia are provided. The method can include converting carbon monoxide in a first syngas to carbon dioxide to produce a shifted syngas. At least a portion of the carbon dioxide can be separated from the shifted syngas to produce a carbon dioxide-lean syngas. Carbon monoxide and/or carbon dioxide in the carbon dioxide-lean syngas can be converted to methane to produce a methanated first syngas. A second syngas can be separated to produce a purified second syngas and a waste gas. The methanated first syngas and the purified second syngas can be combined to produce an ammonia feedstock. The ammonia feedstock can have a hydrogen to nitrogen molar ratio of about 3.5:1 to about 2.5:1. At least a portion of the hydrogen and nitrogen in the ammonia feedstock can be reacted to produce an ammonia product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: SHASHI PRAKASH SINGH, AKHIL JAIN NAHAR, STEPHEN ALLEN NOE
  • Publication number: 20150044121
    Abstract: Methods and systems for making ammonia are provided. The method can include heating a first compressed syngas to produce a heated first syngas. The heated first syngas and a second compressed syngas can be combined to produce a combined syngas. The combined syngas can be reacted within a first ammonia converter and a second ammonia converter to produce an ammonia product. Heat from the ammonia product can be transferred to a first heat transfer medium to produce a first cooled product and a second heat transfer medium. Heat from the first cooled product can be transferred to a third heat transfer medium to produce a second cooled product. Heat from the second cooled product can be transferred to the combined syngas to produce a third cooled product. The third cooled product can be separated to produce a purified ammonia product and a recycle gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: SHASHI PRAKASH SINGH, Akhil Jain Nahar, Stephen Allen Noe
  • Patent number: 6132687
    Abstract: A method for modifying a standard two-bed horizontal ammonia converter to provide increased conversion and/or production capacity by placing the first secondary catalyst bed of the existing converter in parallel flow with the existing primary catalyst bed and replacing magnetite catalyst in the second secondary catalyst bed with high activity ruthenium-on-carbon catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Allen Noe
  • Patent number: 6015450
    Abstract: Methanol emissions in the CO.sub.2 vent from a synthesis gas unit in an ammonia or hydrogen plant are reduced by contacting raw synthesis gas from a low temperature shift converter with recycled stripped condensate to absorb methanol. The synthesis gas is treated in a purification unit to form the CO.sub.2 vent of reduced methanol content. The condensate from the contacting step is steam stripped to form a process steam stream suitable for feed to the reformer and a stripped process condensate stream suitable for offsites polishing, a portion of which is recycled for contacting the raw synthesis gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: The M. W. Kellogg Company
    Inventors: Girish Chimanlal Joshi, Stephen Allen Noe