Patents Assigned to Accelergy Corporation
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Patent number: 10173936Abstract: An IBTL system having a low GHG footprint for converting biomass to liquid fuels in which a biomass feed is converted to liquids by direct liquefaction and the liquids are upgraded to produce premium fuels. Biomass residues from the direct liquefaction, and optionally additional biomass is pyrolyzed using microwave pyrolysis to produce structured biochar, hydrogen for the liquefaction and upgrading, and CO2 for conversion to algae, including blue green algae (cyanobacteria) in a photobioreactor (PBR). Produced algae and diazotrophic microorganisms are used to produce a biofertilizer that also contains structured biochar. The structured biochar acts as a nucleation agent for the algae in the PBR, as a absorption agent to absorb inorganics from the biomass feed to direct liquefaction or from the liquids produced thereby, and as a water retention agent in the biofertilizer.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2016Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignees: ACCELERGY CORPORATION, SHANGHAI ADVANCED RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCEInventors: Rocco A Fiato, Yuhan Sun, Mark Allen, Quanyu Zhao
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Publication number: 20170015602Abstract: An ICBTL system and method having a low GHG footprint for converting coal or coal and biomass to liquid fuels and a biofertilizer in which a carbon-based feed is converted to liquids by direct liquefaction and optionally by indirect liquefaction and the liquids are upgraded to produce premium fuels. CO2 produced by the process is used to a produce cyanobacteria containing algal biomass and other photosynthetic microorganisms in a photobioreactor. Optionally, lipids extracted from the some of the algal biomass is hydroprocessed to produce fuel components and biomass residues and the carbon-based feed our gasified to produce hydrogen and syngas for the direct and indirect liquefaction processes. Some or all of the algal biomass and photosynthetic microorganisms are used to produce a natural biofertilizer. CO2 may also be produced by a steam methane reformer for supplying CO2 to produce the algal biomass and photosynthetic microorganisms.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Applicant: Accelergy CorporationInventors: Rocco A. Fiato, Richard F. Bauman, Sioma Zaczepinski, Attilio Bisio
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Patent number: 9365461Abstract: An IBTL system having a low GHG footprint for converting biomass to liquid fuels in which a biomass feed is converted to liquids by direct liquefaction and the liquids are upgraded to produce premium fuels. Biomass residues from the direct liquefaction, and optionally additional biomass is pyrolyzed to produce structured biochar, hydrogen for the liquefaction and upgrading, and CO2 for conversion to algae, including blue green algae (cyanobacteria) in a photobioreactor (PBR). Produced algae and diazotrophic microorganisms are used to produce a biofertilizer that also contains structured biochar. The structured biochar acts as a nucleation agent for the algae in the PBR, as a absorption agent to absorb inorganics from the biomass feed to direct liquefaction or from the liquids produced thereby, and as a water retention agent in the biofertilizer.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignees: ACCELERGY CORPORATION, SHANGHAI ADVANCED RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCEInventors: Rocco A. Fiato, Yuhan Sun, Mark Allen, Quanyu Zhao
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Patent number: 9234139Abstract: A combined Direct Coal Liquefaction (DCL)/Fischer Tropsch (F-T) process and system for producing high Cetane diesel fuel by converting at least 70% of the feed coal by DCL operating at 50 to 70% conversion and gasifying the bottoms and between 0 and 30% of the feed coal to produce H2 for supply to the DCL and to upgrading and syngas for being converted to diesel by F-T. Diesel blendstocks produced by the DCL and the F-T in a ratio of 3 to 1 to 14 to 1 are blended to produce diesel fuel having a Cetane Number of at least 51 and a specific gravity of 0.845 or less.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2012Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: ACCELERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Richard F. Bauman, Gerald A. Melin, Kenneth L. Trachte
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Publication number: 20150191657Abstract: A direct coal liquefaction method and apparatus in which the feed coal is mixed with a recycled 600° F.+ non-donor stream in which the ratio of coal to said stream is at least 1.5:1 on a moisture free basis to form an input slurry to a DCL reactor. Hydrogen containing treat gas is supplied to the reactor. 1000° F.? bottoms from the reactor are recycled as part of the 600° F.+ non-donor stream. 1000° F.+ bottoms from the reactor are gasified in a PDX unit to provide hydrogen for the DCL reaction. The ratio of recycled bottoms to feed coal is between 1:0.5 and 1:1.5.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2014Publication date: July 9, 2015Applicant: ACCELERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Richard F. Bauman, Peter S. Maa
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Publication number: 20140345341Abstract: An IBTL system having a low GHG footprint for converting biomass to liquid fuels in which a biomass feed is converted to liquids by direct liquefaction and the liquids are upgraded to produce premium fuels. Biomass residues from the direct liquefaction, and optionally additional biomass is pyrolyzed to produce structured biochar, hydrogen for the liquefaction and upgrading, and CO2 for conversion to algae, including blue green algae (cyanobacteria) in a photobioreactor (PBR). Produced algae and diazotrophic microorganisms are used to produce a biofertilizer that also contains structured biochar. The structured biochar acts as a nucleation agent for the algae in the PBR, as a absorption agent to absorb inorganics from the biomass feed to direct liquefaction or from the liquids produced thereby, and as a water retention agent in the biofertilizer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2014Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicants: Accelergy Corporation, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of ScienceInventors: Rocco A. Fiato, Yuhan Sun, Mark Allen, Quanyu Zhao
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Publication number: 20140296595Abstract: A method for converting coal into BTX in which feed coal is converted to a 600-700° F.? product stream by direct liquefaction. This product stream is hydrocracked and hydroprocessed to produce a 350° F.? stream which in turn is fractionated to produce a 160° F.? stream and a 160/350° F. stream that contains 85-90% naphthenes. The 160/350° F. stream is catalytically reformed to produce an aromatic stream and a 160° F.? paraffinic stream. The aromatics stream can be separated into benzene toluene and xylene streams by distillation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: ACCELERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Richard F. Bauman, Kenneth Lee Trachte
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Publication number: 20140262965Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing liquids from coal including diesel and jet fuel blends and BTX in which the coal feed is converted to liquids in a DCL reactor, the produced liquids are upgraded and separated into, naphtha and DCL jet or diesel blend stock streams, the C3/180-350° F. stream is converted in a Fischer Tropsch reactor to produce a highly paraffinic diesel or jet fuel blend stock and the DCL and Fischer Tropsch blend stocks are blended in controlled ratios to produce premium diesel or jet fuels meeting applicable specifications.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Accelergy CorporationInventors: Richard F. Bauman, Kenneth Lee Trachte
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Patent number: 8748679Abstract: A method for producing synthetic fluids from TGFA's harvested from genetically modified seed crops in which all of the fatty acids in the TGFA's from the seeds of a crop have the same carbon atom chain length, preferably C12 or C14, and the synthetic fluids produced by the method. The TGFA's are hydroprocessed to cleave the fatty acids from the glycol backbone and to hydrodeoxygenate and isomerize the fatty acids to form single carbon chain length isoparaffins having a controlled degree of branching with minimum cracking. Controlled mixtures of hydrocarbon components, in which each hydrocarbon component of the mixture has a different single carbon atom chain length, are produced.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2010Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Accelergy CorporationInventor: Rocco A. Fiato
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Publication number: 20130104611Abstract: A combined Direct Coal Liquefaction (DCL)/Fischer Tropsch (F-T) process and system for producing high Cetane diesel fuel by converting at least 70% of the feed coal by DCL operating at 50 to 70% conversion and gasifying the bottoms and between 0 and 30% of the feed coal to produce H2 for supply to the DCL and to upgrading and syngas for being converted to diesel by F-T. Diesel blendstocks produced by the DCL and the F-T in a ratio of 3 to 1 to 14 to 1 are blended to produce diesel fuel having a Cetane Number of at least 50.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2012Publication date: May 2, 2013Applicant: ACCELERGY CORPORATIONInventor: Accelergy Corporation
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Publication number: 20120144887Abstract: An ICBTL system having a low GHG footprint for converting coal or coal and biomass to liquid fuels in which a carbon-based feed is converted to liquids by direct liquefaction and optionally by indirect liquefaction and the liquids are upgraded to produce premium fuels. CO2 produced by the process is used to produce algal biomass and photosynthetic microorganisms in a photobioreactor. Optionally, lipids extracted from the some or all of the algal biomass is hydroprocessed to produce fuel components and biomass residues and the carbon-based feed our gasified to produce hydrogen and syngas for the direct and indirect liquefaction processes. Some or all of the algal biomass and photosynthetic microorganisms are used to produce a natural biofertilizer. CO2 may also be produced by a steam methane reformer for supplying CO2 to produce the algal biomass and photosynthetic microorganisms.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2011Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: ACCELERGY CORPORATIONInventors: Rocco A. Fiato, Richard F. Bauman, Sioma Zaczepinski, Attilio Bisio
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Patent number: 8148435Abstract: An integrated coal-to-liquids process is provided to minimize carbon dioxide emissions and efficiently make use of carbon resources, by recovering carbon dioxide emissions from Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) facilities, using the recovered carbon dioxide in at least one carbonylation reaction step for converting ammonia to urea and then converting urea into dimethyl carbonate.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2009Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Accelergy CorporationInventor: Rocco A. Fiato
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Publication number: 20110263914Abstract: A method for producing synthetic fluids from TGFA's harvested from genetically modified seed crops in which all of the fatty acids in the TGFA's from the seeds of a crop have the same carbon atom chain length, preferably C12 or C14, and the synthetic fluids produced by the method. The TGFA's are hydroprocessed to cleave the fatty acids from the glycol backbone and to hydrodeoxygenate and isomerize the fatty acids to form single carbon chain length isoparaffins having a controlled degree of branching with minimum cracking. Controlled mixtures of hydrocarbon components, in which each hydrocarbon component of the mixture has a different single carbon atom chain length, are produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2010Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: Accelergy CorporationInventor: Rocco A. Fiato
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Publication number: 20090286889Abstract: An integrated coal-to-liquids process is provided to minimize carbon dioxide emissions and efficiently make use of carbon resources, by recovering carbon dioxide emissions from Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) facilities, using the recovered carbon dioxide in at least one carbonylation reaction step for converting ammonia to urea and then converting urea into dimethyl carbonate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2009Publication date: November 19, 2009Applicant: ACCELERGY CORPORATIONInventor: Rocco A. Fiato
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Patent number: RE48308Abstract: An IBTL system having a low GHG footprint for converting biomass to liquid fuels in which a biomass feed is converted to liquids by direct liquefaction and the liquids are upgraded to produce premium fuels. Biomass residues from the direct liquefaction, and optionally additional biomass is pyrolyzed using microwave pyrolysis to produce structured biochar, hydrogen for the liquefaction and upgrading, and CO2 for conversion to algae, including blue green algae (cyanobacteria) in a photobioreactor (PBR). Produced algae and diazotrophic microorganisms are used to produce a biofertilizer that also contains structured biochar. The structured biochar acts as a nucleation agent for the algae in the PBR, as a absorption agent to absorb inorganics from the biomass feed to direct liquefaction or from the liquids produced thereby, and as a water retention agent in the biofertilizer.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignees: ACCELERGY CORPORATION, SHANGHAI ADVANCED RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCEInventors: Rocco A Fiato, Yuhan Sun, Mark Allen, Quanyu Zhao