Gas Contacting Means Patents (Class 96/144)
  • Patent number: 8617299
    Abstract: A canister includes a first fuel vapor adsorption device and a second fuel vapor adsorption device. The second fuel vapor adsorption device can adsorb a part of fuel vapor that still remains in a gas after desorption by the first fuel vapor adsorption device. The second fuel vapor adsorption device includes a first passage containing a fuel vapor adsorption material and a second passage containing no fuel vapor adsorption material. The first passage and the second passage allow the gas to flow therethrough. A gas introduction device allows the fuel vapor to flow from the second passage into the first passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masakazu Hasegawa, Masahiro Sugiura
  • Patent number: 8580013
    Abstract: An air dryer cartridge is provided for a compressed air supply system, in particular a compressed air supply system of a commercial vehicle, with a drying agent box which is filled with a drying agent. The drying agent box can be coupled in an axial direction to a connecting flange of the compressed air supply system. A seal, which is designed as a non-return valve and, in the fitted state of the air dryer cartridge, acts in a sealing manner between the drying agent box and the connecting flange, is arranged on the drying agent box. A method for operating the air dryer cartridge on the compressed air supply system is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Eduard Hilberer
  • Patent number: 8557029
    Abstract: Methods and systems for regenerating a purification bed take advantage of inert gas pressure, such as, for example, supplied by a pipeline. The inert gas (102) is provided at a first pressure and combined with a recycle composition (116) from the vessel (110, 110a) containing the material being regenerated. These streams form a regeneration fluid composition (114) at a second pressure less than the inert gas pressure, which is then routed to the vessel to regenerate the purification bed. A jet compressor (108) may be used for the combining of the inert gas and recycle streams. The recycled composition allows reduction in inert gas usage, while a portion is flared or otherwise disposed of.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Univation Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Randall L. Force, Rachael L. Le Geyt
  • Patent number: 8545609
    Abstract: The Microwave System and method of reactivation is designed to provide an indirect, safe and energy efficient source of heat and temperature rise required in the reactivation section of the desiccant unit for the release into atmosphere of the water vapors which are accumulated in the desiccant rotor. This microwave reactivation system and method is based on heat transfer produced from a heated fluid which is pumped through a closed loop coil assembly. This closed loop coil assembly is located and runs through both the isolated heating chamber of the microwave section and the reactivation / regeneration section in the dehumidification system. The airstream passing through the reactivation intake section comes in contact with the coil assembly and is heated to the desired temperature prior to reaching the desiccant rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: 7142871 Canada Inc.
    Inventor: Mario Caggiano
  • Patent number: 8529676
    Abstract: A canister for trapping a fuel vapor vaporized in a fuel tank has a casing defining an adsorption chamber therein, an adsorbent capable of adsorbing the fuel vapor and filled in the adsorption chamber and a flow regulation plate disposed in the casing. The casing has a fuel introducing port configured to introduce the fuel vapor from the fuel tank into the adsorption chamber, and an air communicating port communicating the adsorption chamber with the atmosphere. The air communicating port is formed on a side surface of the casing extending in a direction of gravitational force. The flow regulation plate disposed at an end of the adsorption chamber near the air communicating port and has an opening configured to communicate the adsorption chamber with the air communicating port. The opening is positioned above the air communicating port in the direction of gravitational force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahiro Sugiura
  • Patent number: 8529677
    Abstract: A carbon canister as utilized relative to underground fuel storage tank vapor recovery, including for the capture and purging of hydrocarbon vapors as air is introduced into and released from an underground storage tank, and wherein, in one form intended primarily for use in Stage II Vapor Recovery systems, the carbon canister includes a valve activated by weight of saturated carbon and wherein, in another form intended primarily for use in Stage I Vapor Recovery systems, the carbon canister is a free breathing carbon canister with a surge protection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Husky Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Schroeder, Darrell Vilmer, Arthur C. Fink, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8500886
    Abstract: Exhaust gas after coal or oil burning has moisture, which hinders carbon dioxide adsorption. It is necessary to completely remove this moisture with the minimum use of energy. The exhaust gas from the burning apparatus is first lowered of its temperature by passing through an total heat exchanger rotor, and the resultant gas which has low temperature and humidity is sent to a carbon dioxide adsorption rotor, thereby removing carbon dioxide from the gas, which is then sent through the total heat exchanger rotor with the resultant desorption of moisture adsorbed there and is exhausted to outside atmosphere, while the carbon dioxide adsorption rotor is desorbed of its carbon dioxide using water vapor, with the resultant very humid carbon dioxide to be sent to a processing system such as for underground burial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Seibu Giken Co, Ltd
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okano, Tsutomu Hirose
  • Patent number: 8500882
    Abstract: There is provided an air purifier having a dehumidification function, including: a body case having an inner space; a blower part installed in the inner space of the body case and drawing outside air from both sides of the body case through a single blower fan; an air purifying part purifying air drawn from one side of the body case; and a dehumidifying part removing moisture from air drawn from the other side of the body case by a dehumidifying rotor. Through the blower part drawing the air from both sides of the body case, the air purifier purifies the air drawn from one side of the body case and dehumidifies the air drawn from the other side of the body case. Accordingly, a drop in an airflow amount caused by concurrently performing the dehumidification and the purification may be alleviated, so improved dehumidification and purification effects are achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Woongjin Coway Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong-Jin Yun, Byung-Kil Park
  • Publication number: 20130104735
    Abstract: A method for removing volatile organic substances from the contained air of closed habitats includes a) conducting contained air through an adsorber bed formed by a hydrophobic zeolite bed, b) closing the adsorber bed, c) extracting the air from the adsorber bed and feeding the air into the closed habitat, d) desorbing the volatile organic substances, in particular freons such as R134a and VOCs, from the adsorber bed by heating the adsorber, e) leading the desorbed substances to an environment outside the closed habitat, wherein water vapor, water, or CO2 is fed to the adsorber bed through a flushing line. The device includes a housing for accommodating an adsorber, a contained-air supply line, a contained-air return line, a flushing line, and least one outlet-air line for returning air from the adsorber bed into the closed habitat and for conducting the desorbate to an environment outside the closed habitat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: ASTRIUM GMBH
    Inventors: Willigert Raatschen, Carsten Matthias, Helmut Westermann
  • Patent number: 8431082
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for producing purified hydrogen gas by a pressure swing adsorption process. Further the invention relates to detecting an operating life of adsorbents in a adsorption tower. The method and the apparatus have a gas supply unit for adding an inert gas to an unpurified hydrogen gas and a detector for measuring an inert gas in a purified hydrogen gas discharged from the adsorption tower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Polycrystalline Silicon America Corporation (MIPSA), Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Kamei, Yasunari Takimoto
  • Publication number: 20130087047
    Abstract: Disclosed is a dry CO2 capturing device with improved energy efficiency, which utilizes a difference in temperature between a regeneration operation of isolating CO2 from an sorbent containing CO2 absorbed therein and a pre-treatment operation of allowing H2O to be adsorbed to CO2. The dry carbon dioxide (CO2) capturing device, includes a recovery reactor for recovering CO2, a recovery cyclone for discharging a gas while separating the CO2-captured solid sorbent only, a regenerator for receiving the CO2-captured solid sorbent and separating CO2 captured in the solid sorbent, and a pre-treatment reactor for cooling the solid sorbent free from CO2, wherein a first heat exchanger is provided between the recovery cyclone and the regenerator to pass the CO2-captured solid sorbent therethrough, and a second heat exchanger is provided between the pre-treatment reactor and the regenerator to pass the solid sorbent free from CO2 therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventor: Korea Institute of Energy Research
  • Publication number: 20130025450
    Abstract: Systems and methods to condition air are disclosed. An example system includes a desiccant heat transfer device to supply conditioned air to a facility, an air intake to receive air to be conditioned via the desiccant heat transfer device, and a make-up exhaust to provide exhaust air from a heat dissipating device in the facility to provide heated air to reactivate the desiccant heat transfer device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Inventors: Ratnesh Kumar Sharma, Chih C. Shih, Thomas W. Christian, Cullen E. Bash
  • Publication number: 20130025460
    Abstract: A fuel vapor processing apparatus may include a case defining an adsorption chamber containing adsorbent, so that fuel vapor introduced into the adsorption chamber is adsorbed by the adsorbent and fuel vapor is desorbed from the adsorbent by air flowing through the adsorption chamber. A desorption promoting unit may include a retaining frame and a desorption promoter configured to promote desorption of the fuel vapor from the adsorbent. The desorption promoter may be fitted into the retaining frame. The retaining frame may be fitted into the adsorption chamber, so that the desorption promoter does not directly contact an inner wall of the case defining the adsorption chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shota YAMANAKA
  • Patent number: 8349058
    Abstract: A regeneration reactor of a CO2 capture system is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, in the CO2 capture system comprising a capture reactor selectively adsorbing CO2 by bringing a CO2-containing gas supplied from the outside into contact with a solid adsorbent, and a regeneration reactor separating the adsorbed CO2 from the solid adsorbent adsorbed with the CO2, the regeneration reactor includes a chamber having an inverted truncated cone shape being widened toward an upper part and narrowed toward a lower part, such that a pressure in the regeneration reactor is constantly maintained through the whole part and accordingly, a flow velocity in the chamber can be constantly maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Energy Research
    Inventors: Chang-Keun Yi, Gyoung-Tae Jin, Do-Won Shun, Sung-Ho Jo, Jae-Hyeon Park, Dal-Hee Bae, Ho-Jung Ryu, Young-Cheol Park, Seung-Yong Lee
  • Publication number: 20120304858
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for removing carbon dioxide from a gas stream, comprising placing the gas stream in contact with a resin, wetting the resin with water, collecting water vapor and carbon dioxide from the resin, and separating the carbon dioxide from the water vapor. The resin may be placed in a chamber or a plurality of chambers connected in series wherein the first chamber contains resin that was first contacted by the gas, and each successive chamber contains resin which has been wetted and carbon dioxide collected from for a greater period of time than the previous chamber, and so on, until the last chamber. Secondary sorbents may be employed to further separate the carbon dioxide from the water vapor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: GLOBAL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Allen B. Wright, Klaus S. Lackner, Ed Leon-Guerrero, Ursula Ginster, Tymothy Catterson, Karl Madison, Ryuhei Ishikawa, George W. Grimm, Mark Malcomson, Ping Liu
  • Patent number: 8308854
    Abstract: A system for recycling helium carrier gas comprises: a bladder, the bladder interior fluidically configured so as to receive helium-bearing gas output from at least one of a split vent and a septum purge vent of a gas chromatograph; a compartment containing the bladder; a source of pressurized air or gas operable so as to supply pressurized air or gas into the compartment interior so as to compress the bladder containing the helium-bearing gas; a gas reservoir fluidically coupled to the bladder interior so as to receive the helium bearing gas from the compressed bladder interior; and at least one gas purification module configured so as to receive the helium-bearing gas from the gas reservoir and operable to remove contaminants from the helium-bearing gas, an output of the at least one gas purification module being fluidically coupled to a carrier gas inlet of the gas chromatograph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Thermo Finnigan LLC
    Inventors: Edward B. McCauley, Matt A. Lasater
  • Publication number: 20120272827
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for producing purified hydrogen gas by a pressure swing adsorption process. Further the invention relates to detecting an operating life of adsorbents in a adsorption tower. The method and the apparatus have a gas supply unit for adding an inert gas to an unpurified hydrogen gas and a detector for measuring an inert gas in a purified hydrogen gas discharged from the adsorption tower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION, Mitsubishi Polycrystalline Silicon America Corporation (MIPSA)
    Inventors: Takeshi Kamei, Yasunari Takimoto
  • Publication number: 20120247330
    Abstract: An apparatus for capture and sequestration of CO2 from fossil fuel-fired power plant flue gas includes a polymer matrix embedded with a sorbent suitable for removing CO2 from the flue gas and a spacer mated with the polymer matrix. The spacer is adapted to create channels between adjacent portions of the polymer matrix such that the flue gas flows through the channels and comes in contact with the sorbent. Further, an apparatus for the capture and sequestration of CO2 from fossil fuel-fired power plant flue gas includes a hollow fiber membrane embedded with an adsorbent or other suitable material for removing CO2 from the flue gas. The adsorbent particles may be embedded into a wall of the membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Ramsay Chang, Adam Berger, Abhoyjit Bhown
  • Patent number: 8262785
    Abstract: A hydrocarbon adsorption trap for adsorption of evaporated fuel vapors includes a first fuel vapor permeable media retention layer, a second media retention layer positioned in a spaced parallel relationship to the first layer forming a gap therebetween and a hydrocarbon vapor adsorbent media disposed in the gap between the first and second layers for adsorbing evaporated fuel vapors from the intake tract when the engine is not operating. A mounting member is secured to peripheral edge portions of the layers and closes the gap between the layers while providing a means of securing the trap into an air intake tract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Mann & Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Joshua Barron, Beau Kidman
  • Patent number: 8262784
    Abstract: A regenerative adsorption gas dryer has a wet gas inlet, first and second drying towers, and a dried gas outlet. The inlet, towers and outlet are arranged such that, in use, a flow of purge gas regenerates an off-stream one of the towers, while a stream of wet gas from the wet gas inlet enters an on-stream one of the towers to exit that tower as a stream of dried gas which then continues to the dried gas outlet. The roles of the off-stream and on-stream towers are reversible. The dryer further has a first check valve for controlling a stream of dried gas between the first drying tower and the dried gas outlet, and a second check valve for controlling a stream of dried gas between the second drying tower and the dried gas outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Walker Filtration Limited
    Inventors: Brian Walker, Peter Carney
  • Patent number: 8257470
    Abstract: Disclosed is a harmful material treatment system for recovering the energy and removing the harmful material in the process of treating the gas containing the harmful material generated in the multiplex utilization facility, in the display mall, in diverse manufacturing processes and in the vehicle painting process, more particularly, to a harmful material treatment system which can recover the energy contained in the air conditioning facility or in the exhaust gas of the process with an efficiency of more than 90%, for exhausting the inside air to the outside so as to treat the contaminating material such as odor and volatile organic chemicals, and to remove the harmful material with a removal efficiency of more than 90% by adsorbing and concentrating the harmful material with a rotary-type adsorbent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Enbion Inc.
    Inventors: Hyun Jae Lee, Myeong Soo Yoon, Min Su Shin, Won Moon Jeong, Jeong Ki Min
  • Publication number: 20120204724
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a filtering device for NBC weapons, comprising a hermetically sealed box structure (10), provided with an opening for the inlet of air and/or gas to be filtered and an opening for the outlet of filtered air and/or gas, and within which one or more plates (11) are arranged to define the walls of a course for said air and/or gas from said inlet and said outlet, the sides of the plates (11) facing said course supporting a layer (12) of an adsorbing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: AERO SEKUR S.p.A.
    Inventors: Giancarlo Angelini, Ornella Ursini, Paolo Ciccoli, Marco Adami, Mario Ravanetti, Alessandro Pica, Franco Cataldo
  • Publication number: 20120160099
    Abstract: A carbon dioxide separation method and a carbon dioxide separation apparatus capable of maintaining a carbon dioxide adsorption capacity for a long term by collecting an amine compound that evaporates during an operation of the apparatus and reloading the amine compound onto a carbon dioxide adsorbent. An amine collector and an amine aqueous solution preparation device are connected to an adsorbent-packed tank packed with a carbon dioxide adsorbent. An amine compound that evaporates from the carbon dioxide adsorbent during an operation of the apparatus is collected by the amine collector into the amine aqueous solution preparation device. The collected amine compound is reloaded onto the carbon dioxide adsorbent via a supply line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takatoshi Shoji, Akira Kimura, Teruo Kishimoto
  • Publication number: 20120152116
    Abstract: Rotary fluid processing systems and associated methods are disclosed. A purification system in accordance with the particular embodiment includes a rotatable adsorbent-containing heat/mass transfer element that is generally symmetric about a rotation axis, and includes multiple radial flow paths oriented transverse to the rotation axis and multiple axial flow paths oriented transverse to the radial flow paths. The axial flow paths and radial flow paths are in thermal communication with each other, and are generally isolated from fluid communication with each other at the heat transfer element. Particular embodiments can further include a housing arrangement having multiple manifolds with individual manifolds having an entry port and an exit port, and with individual manifolds having different circumferential locations relative to the rotation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Prometheus Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: John A. Barclay, Tadeusz Szymanski, Lenard J. Stoltman, Kathryn Oseen-Senda, Hunter A. Chumbley
  • Publication number: 20120152209
    Abstract: A motor vehicle has an internal combustion engine (1) that is supplied with fuel from a fuel tank (4). A regeneratable filter device (6) is associated with the fuel tank (4) and can be connected to a vacuum storage device (20) for purging the filter device (6). To simplify and/or improve the regeneration of the filter device, the vacuum storage device (20) is arranged outside an intake tract of the internal combustion engine (1) and is associated with the fuel tank (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: DR. ING. H.C.F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Andreas Menke
  • Patent number: 8202350
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include a method and apparatus for reversibly sorbing a target gas. In one embodiment, an apparatus for reversibly sorbing a target gas is disclosed. The apparatus includes an inlet, a multi-channel monolith coupled to the inlet, the multi-channel monolith including a plurality of channels, each one of the plurality of channels includes one or more walls, wherein at least one of the one or more walls of at least one of the plurality of channels is porous and wherein one or more of the plurality of channels contain a sorbent and an outlet coupled to the multi-channel monolith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: Marianna F. Asaro, Yigal Blum
  • Publication number: 20120145006
    Abstract: A carbon canister as utilized relative to underground fuel storage tank vapor recovery, including for the capture and purging of hydrocarbon vapors as air is introduced into and released from an underground storage tank, and wherein, in one form intended primarily for use in Stage II Vapor Recovery systems, the carbon canister includes a valve activated by weight of saturated carbon and wherein, in another form intended primarily for use in Stage I Vapor Recovery systems, the carbon canister is a free breathing carbon canister with a surge protection device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventors: Timothy Schroeder, Darrell Vilmer, Arthur C. Fink, JR.
  • Publication number: 20120145000
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for drying a moist gas is provided. The apparatus includes a revolving desiccant rotor with at least an adsorption sector and a regeneration chamber; the regeneration chamber comprising at least a first dry gas sector, a hot regeneration sector, and a second dry gas sector, and optionally a cold regeneration sector. The method includes at least an adsorption sector and a regeneration chamber; the regeneration chamber comprising at least a first dry gas sector, a hot regeneration sector, and a second dry gas sector, and optionally a cold regeneration sector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventors: Trapti Chaubey, Jean-Pierre Tranier, Paul Terrien
  • Publication number: 20120125198
    Abstract: Device for drying gas includes a dryer with a vessel which has at least three compartments at a first axial end of a rotor rotatably disposed in the vessel, the rotor arranged for conduction of at least three gas flows, including a main flow, a regeneration flow and a cooling flow, respectively. A first compartment of the vessel has an outlet for said main flow, a second compartment has an inlet for the cooling flow and a third compartment has an inlet for the regeneration flow. The vessel at the second axial end of the rotor has a first compartment which includes an inlet for the main flow and a second compartment with an outlet for the cooling flow and the regeneration flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventor: Bart Etienne Agnes Vanderstraeten
  • Publication number: 20120079939
    Abstract: The present invention discloses the improvements to a vacuum swing adsorption (VSA) process used for Xe recovery. By only collecting the recovered gas mixture after the initial evacuation of N2 from the adsorbent vessel and void space, the recovered Xe is not diluted by N2 contained in the adsorbent vessel and void space. The concentration of the recovered Xe can by increased (high purity), simultaneously little Xenon is lost. During the initial evacuation of N2, the vessel has been evacuated to a pressure less than 1 atmospheric pressure, for example, from 100 to 1 torr.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew David Johnson, Richard Vincent Pearce, Thomas Stephen Farris, Timothy Christopher Golden, Matthew John Bosco, Eugene Joseph Karwacki, JR., David Charles Winchester, Jeffrey Raymond Hufton
  • Patent number: 8142556
    Abstract: A compressed air supply device for a utility vehicle includes a valve housing and an air-drying cartridge, wherein compressed air can be supplied to the air-drying cartridge via the valve housing. The compressed air flows through the air-drying cartridge in a first direction of flow. An electrically controllable valve is provided in the valve housing, which ensures a return flow of compressed air counter to the first direction of flow through the air-drying cartridge for regeneration purposes. A valve that can be controlled pneumatically by the electrically controlled valve is provided in the valve housing, via which compressed air can be supplied to the air-drying cartridge for regeneration purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Eduard Hilberer
  • Patent number: 8137435
    Abstract: A system and method of purifying gaseous carbon dioxide from a gaseous mixture obtained at low pressure from a flue gas by passing the gaseous mixture through a vacuum swing adsorption unit and then a gas purification unit to produce carbon dioxide having a purity of approximately 97% by volume or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventor: Yudong Chen
  • Patent number: 8118912
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a system and a method for purifying and storing water produced from atmospheric air to provide a safe, inexpensive source of potable water. Improvements over prior systems and methods include the use of two isolated air chambers, one for ambient air used to capture moisture from the atmosphere, and another for clean rechargeable air to convert the captured moisture into condensate and using a rotating mass of hygroscopic material and a condensation unit, each of which is periodically sterilized by heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Inventors: Felix Rodriguez, Nizar K. Khanji
  • Publication number: 20120024324
    Abstract: Methods and systems for regenerating a purification bed take advantage of inert gas pressure, such as, for example, supplied by a pipeline. The inert gas (102) is provided at a first pressure and combined with a recycle composition (116) from the vessel (110, 110a) containing the material being regenerated. These streams form a regeneration fluid composition (114) at a second pressure less than the inert gas pressure, which is then routed to the vessel to regenerate the purification bed. A jet compressor (108) may be used for the combining of the inert gas and recycle streams. The recycled composition allows reduction in inert gas usage, while a portion is flared or otherwise disposed of.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: UNIVATION TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Randall L. Force, Rachael L. Le Geyt
  • Publication number: 20120000365
    Abstract: Exhaust gas after coal or oil burning has moisture, which hinders carbon dioxide adsorption. It is necessary to completely remove this moisture with the minimum use of energy. The exhaust gas from the burning apparatus is first lowered of its temperature by passing through an total heat exchanger rotor, and the resultant gas which has low temperature and humidity is sent to a carbon dioxide adsorption rotor, thereby removing carbon dioxide from the gas, which is then sent through the total heat exchanger rotor with the resultant desorption of moisture adsorbed there and is exhausted to outside atmosphere, while the carbon dioxide adsorption rotor is desorbed of its carbon dioxide using water vapor, with the resultant very humid carbon dioxide to be sent to a processing system such as for underground burial.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: SEIBU-GIKEN CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okano, Tsutomu Hirose
  • Patent number: 8075677
    Abstract: A carbon canister with a valve activated by the weight of nearly saturated or saturated carbon communicates with piping from an underground tank. The invention includes carbon within a casing inside a canister, a weight actuated valve, and piping in communication with the atmosphere. When an ORVR vehicle refuels, the pressure lowers in the tank that draws air into the canister. After refueling, the tank remains subject to conditions that generate hydrocarbon vapors. Those vapors then return to the canister and adhere to the surface of the carbon. The carbon, heavier with hydrocarbons, lowers the canister and closes the weight actuated valve. Closing the valve returns pressure control to an external pressure vacuum relief valve. The next refueling draws in atmospheric air to purge the hydrocarbons in the canister and thus lighten it. A secondary purge valve also removes hydrocarbons from the canister. Once the carbon lightens, the inlet valve opens and the vapors return to the canister for adsorption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Husky Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Schroeder, Darrell Vilmer, Arthur C. Fink, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8016925
    Abstract: A compact and highly portable combination pressure swing adsorption apparatus and product gas conservation device for medical use, to produce efficiently a gas with a high concentration of oxygen and to deliver the oxygen concentrated gas to a user at selectable times and in selectable doses, in which the operating components are detachably mounted together as a single unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Inventors: Norman R. McCombs, Robert Bosinski, Robert E. Casey, Michael R. Valvo
  • Patent number: 8012446
    Abstract: NO2 may be removed from a carbon dioxide feed gas comprising NOx and at least one “non-condensable” gas as contaminants by passing the feed gas at a first elevated pressure through a first adsorption system that selectively adsorbs at least NO2 to produce at least substantially NO2-free carbon dioxide gas. The adsorption system is at least partially regenerated using a carbon dioxide-rich gas recovered from the substantially NO2-free carbon dioxide gas after purification. The invention has particular application in removing NOx and water from flue gas generated by oxyfuel combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew David Wright, Kevin Boyle Fogash, Vincent White, Jeffrey William Kloosterman, Timothy Christopher Golden, Paul Higginbotham
  • Publication number: 20110209613
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for regenerating the media of a rotary sorption concentrator system includes passing a 600° F. to 1000° F. regeneration fluid stream through a rotating media in a first isolated zone to regenerate the media and remove contaminants from the media that are not removed during a typical desorption cycle of a rotary sorption concentrator system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Inventors: Christopher P. Jensen, Kevin Orff, Frank Giles
  • Publication number: 20110189075
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for removing carbon dioxide from a gas stream without consuming excess energy, wherein a solid sorbent material is used to capture the carbon dioxide. The solid sorbent material may utilize a water-swing for regeneration. Various geometric configurations are disclosed for advantageous recovery of CO2 and regeneration of the sorbent material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventors: Allen B. Wright, Klaus S. Lackner, Ryuhei Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20110132197
    Abstract: Provided is an exhaust recycling system, which can burn and remove efficiently a VOC in an exhaust gas discharged from a predetermined zone and which can recycle the clean air after the removal of VOC. Also provided is a technique capable of stabilizing the concentration of the VOC contained in the exhaust gas to be fed to an adsorption apparatus. The exhaust recycling system comprises a coating zone (111) for discharging the exhaust gas containing the VOC, an adsorption apparatus (200) for adsorbing the VOC in the exhaust gas discharged from the coating one (111), and a clean air recycle apparatus for releasing the VOC adsorbed by the adsorption apparatus (200), from the adsorption apparatus (200), thereby to make the adsorbed VOC into a combustion fuel for a regenerative combustion apparatus (300), and for introducing again the clean air cleaned by passing through the adsorption apparatus (200), into the coating zone (111).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bansei Nagase, Hisashi Saito, Masahiro Nakao
  • Publication number: 20110107914
    Abstract: The present invention relates to articles for extracting a component from a fluid stream, the article including a body portion having a plurality of bores extending therethrough, the bores facilitating the flow of the fluid stream through the body portion in use, wherein the body portion is formed from a mixture of a binder and at least one component selected from the group consisting of carbon fibres, carbon nanotubes and mixtures thereof. The present invention also relates to a method of forming such articles and methods and systems including same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
    Inventors: Shi Su, Ramesh Thiruvenkatachari
  • Publication number: 20110088552
    Abstract: A method by which water may be extracted from the air even without a supply of electricity from a power source or even without a supply of fuel, as well as an apparatus therefor, is disclosed. The apparatus used for the method for extracting water from the air comprises at least a rotatably mounted hygroscopic moisture-absorbing rotor having at least one region through which air can pass in the direction of thickness thereof; a passage for regeneration through which air for regeneration is circulated, of which both ends are opened at the opposing two surfaces of a regeneration region, respectively, the regeneration region being a part of the moisture-absorbing rotor, at which the moisture-absorbing rotor that absorbed moisture is regenerated; and a drain hole for taking out condensed water from the passage for regeneration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: Hidetoshi IKE, Nao Okuhata
  • Publication number: 20110088557
    Abstract: A regeneration reactor of a CO2 capture system is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, in the CO2 capture system comprising a capture reactor selectively adsorbing CO2 by bringing a CO2-containing gas supplied from the outside into contact with a solid adsorbent, and a regeneration reactor separating the adsorbed CO2 from the solid adsorbent adsorbed with the CO2, the regeneration reactor includes a chamber having an inverted truncated cone shape being widened toward an upper part and narrowed toward a lower part, such that a pressure in the regeneration reactor is constantly maintained through the whole part and accordingly, a flow velocity in the chamber can be constantly maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: Chang-Keun Yi, Gyoung-Tae Jin, Do-Won Shun, Sung-Ho Jo, Jae-Hyeon Park, Dal-Hee Bae, Ho-Jung Ryu, Young-Cheol Park, Seung-Yong Lee
  • Publication number: 20110056377
    Abstract: A carbon dioxide recovery system according to the present embodiments includes: an absorber bringing exhaust gas containing carbon dioxide into contact with absorbent reversibly absorbing or releasing carbon dioxide at above or below a predetermined temperature, and making the absorbent absorb carbon dioxide in the exhaust gas; a regenerator releasing carbon dioxide in the absorbent by heating the absorbent absorbing carbon dioxide at the absorber; a reflux pipeline flowing back the absorbent regenerated at the regenerator to the absorber; and a filter introducing at least a part of the absorbent, removing solids accumulated in the introduced absorbent, and returning the absorbent after the solids are removed to a vicinity of a portion where the absorbent is introduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Inventors: Shinobu MONIWA, Nobuyuki Ashikawa, Yasuhiko Nagamori, Hiroyuki Tokimoto, Satomi Ebihara, Masato Oda
  • Patent number: 7892323
    Abstract: The management of hydrogen in hydrogen-containing streams associated with petrochemical process units wherein the hydrogen-containing stream is subjected rapid cycle pressure swing adsorption to increase the concentration of hydrogen therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: David L. Stern, Bal K. Kaul, John Di-Yi Ou, Dana L. Pilliod
  • Publication number: 20110031103
    Abstract: The present application is directed to a method and system for preparing gaseous utility streams from gaseous process streams, particularly, removing oil contamination from such streams prior to use in a dry gas seal. The methods and systems may include at least one kinetic swing adsorption process including pressure swing adsorption, temperature swing adsorption, calcination, and inert purge processes to treat gaseous streams for use in dry gas seals of rotating equipment such as compressors, turbines and pumps and other utilities. The adsorbent materials used include a high surface area solid structured microporous and mesoporous materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventors: Harry W. Deckman, Preeti Kamakoti, Peter I. Ravikovitch, Bruce T. Kelley, Paul Scott Northrop, Peter C. Rasmussen, Paul Lawrence Tanaka, Martin N. Webster, Wieslaw Jerzy Roth, Edward W. Corcoran
  • Publication number: 20110011264
    Abstract: A fuel vapor processor has a fuel tank, a canister, a vapor pipe, a recovery pipe, an air pipe, a suction device, a vapor pipe valve, an air pipe valve, and a pressure regulator. The vapor pipe leads fuel vapor generated in the fuel tank to the canister for trapping the fuel vapor in the canister. The recovery pipe recoveries the fuel vapor desorbed from the canister into the fuel tank. The air pipe communicates the canister with the atmosphere. The suction device is disposed on the recovery pipe for desorbing the fuel vapor trapped in the canister. The pressure regulator is communicated with the air pipe between the air pipe valve and the canister in order to allow gas flow from the atmosphere toward the canister. During desorption of the fuel vapor due to the suction device, the vapor pipe valve and the air pipe valve are closed, and negative pressure is kept in the canister such that the fuel vapor is desorbed from the canister and fresh air is led into the canister via the pressure regulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhiko MAKINO, Masanobu SHINAGAWA, Hideki TESHIMA, Takashi MANI
  • Publication number: 20110005393
    Abstract: The system and method for recycling and using the heat from compressed gas produced by a biogas treatment plant. The system includes a biogas cleaning stage and a plurality of compression and heat exchanger stages that allows the heat generated by compressed gases to be harvested. After the heat is harvested, it is delivered to a jacketed vessel containing media used to remove contaminants from the biogas. The media inside the jacketed vessel requires regeneration or stripping of harmful VOCs and other contaminants picked up from the biogas. The system also includes an inert gas generator that creates hot inert gas that is delivered to the jacketed vessel that heats the media located therein to remove contaminants. Because the jacket vessel and the media are simultaneously heated, the system's heat-up time is reduced The system also includes a heat exchanger that partially recovers the heat from the inert gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventors: Lowell Howard, Jeffrey V. Wetzel, Ronald Drake
  • Patent number: 7846242
    Abstract: An air dryer desiccant cartridge, the cartridge comprising a base having an inlet and an outlet, and a casing connected to the base to define a cavity there between, wherein the cavity contains a filter and a desiccant, the filter being arranged upstream of the desiccant such that during normal operation fluid flow entering the cartridge through the inlet passes through the filter and then on to the desiccant before reaching the outlet, and during purging of the cartridge purge flow entering the outlet passes through the desiccant before reaching the filter, wherein further the cartridge includes a valve operable to permit a portion of the purge flow to bypass the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Wabco GmbH & Co. Ohg.
    Inventors: Mark Paling, Andrew G. L. Blackwood, Ignitius Milomo, Stephan Niemeyer, Christian Fischer, Andreas Stephan