Patents Assigned to Gaps Technology LLC.
  • Patent number: 12215284
    Abstract: A treatment process for preparing a remediated liquid from a contaminated liquid originally containing more than 5 ppm hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and substantially without formation of precipitate, includes steps of steps of adding an aqueous solution containing at least one hydroxide compound at a collective concentration of 35-55 wt % to the contaminated liquid to achieve a concentration of 125-5000 ppm of the hydroxide compounds in the contaminated liquid, adding a fulvic acid and/or a humic acid to the contaminated liquid to achieve a concentration of 0.01-10 ppm of the acid(s) in the contaminated liquid, and dispersing the aqueous solution and the at least one organic acid in the contaminated liquid and allowing the aqueous solution and the at least one organic acid to react with the contaminated liquid for a period of time until a concentration of hydrogen sulfide in the contaminated liquid is reduced to ?5 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Gaps Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Cliffton Lee Roe, Linda Schweitzer
  • Patent number: 12187972
    Abstract: A treatment process for removing and/or remediating contaminants in a contaminated gas includes flowing a stream of the contaminated gas through a pipeline, treating the flowing stream of the contaminated gas by injecting droplets of a liquid treatment composition containing 35-55 wt % total of one or more hydroxide compounds into the flowing the stream of the contaminated gas in the pipeline such that the liquid treatment composition mixes into the contaminated gas in the flowing stream and remediates contaminants in the contaminated gas, injecting water into the mixed flowing the stream of the contaminated gas and the liquid treatment composition in the pipeline downstream of where the liquid treatment composition is injected into the pipeline, and separating the flowing stream of the treated contaminated gas from any remaining amount of the liquid treatment composition, the water and the precipitates in a separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Gaps Technology, LLC.
    Inventors: Cliffton L. Roe, Gerald A. Pourciau
  • Patent number: 12084615
    Abstract: A treatment method for remediating various contaminants including H2S, CO2, NH3 and other contaminants contained in fluids being extracted from the earth comprises steps of: preparing an aqueous based treatment composition containing water and collectively 35-55 weight percent of one or more hydroxide compounds; injecting a dosage amount of the treatment composition into contaminated fluids located in a subterranean deposit under the earth's surface such that the treatment composition mixes with the fluids deep under the earth's surface; and extracting a mixture of the contaminated fluids and the treatment composition through a well such that the treatment compositions remediates contaminants in the fluids as the mixture passes through the well to the earth's surface, wherein a dosage amount of the treatment composition may be 0.010 to 10.0 ml of the aqueous based treatment composition/liter of the contaminated fluids being extracted from the subterranean deposit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Gaps Technology, LLC.
    Inventor: Cliffton Lee Roe
  • Patent number: 11708535
    Abstract: A treatment composition for remediating for remediating H2S, CO2 and other contaminant(s) in a fluid mixture of contaminated liquids and gasses comprising: a hydrocarbon based liquid; and at least one hydroxide compound dispersed or dissolved into the hydrocarbon based liquid. The at least one hydroxide compound dispersed or dissolved into the hydrocarbon based liquid constitutes 30-50 wt % of the treatment composition, the at least one hydroxide compound includes at least one of potassium hydroxide and sodium hydroxide, and a pH of the treatment composition is in a range of 13-14.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Gaps Technology, LLC.
    Inventor: Cliffton Lee Roe
  • Patent number: 11613710
    Abstract: A treatment process for remediating H2S and other contaminants in liquids includes: partially filling a closed vessel with a contaminated liquid containing ?5 ppm H2S with a head space above the liquid within the vessel where gasses released from the liquid from the liquid collect; separately providing a treatment composition in the head space so that the gasses from the liquid may contact the treatment composition; and permitting the contact between the vapors from the liquid and the treatment composition to continue until a collective concentration of H2S in the liquid and in the head space is <5 ppm. The treatment composition includes an aqueous solution containing at least one hydroxide compound, a collective concentration of the at least one hydroxide compound in the aqueous solution is in a range of 35-55 weight %, and the aqueous solution constitutes at least 80 weight % of the treatment composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Gaps Technology, LLC.
    Inventors: Cliffton Lee Roe, Linda Schweitzer
  • Patent number: 11607653
    Abstract: A stabilized, gas-infused liquids containing ultra high concentrations of infused gas, produced by: generating a gas-infused liquid in a sealed vessel under a high pressure of at least 20 psi; stabilizing the gas-infused liquid by passing the liquid while still under the high pressure through a tubular flow path arrangement which compresses the infused gas into nano bubbles in the liquid; infusing an additional amount of the gas into the stabilized liquid by injecting the same, while still under high pressure, back into the sealed pressure vessel along with more of the gas; and again stabilizing the liquid by again passing liquid, while still under the high pressure, through the tubular flow path arrangement to thereby form the additional amount of infused gas into nano bubbles in the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Gaps Technology, LLC.
    Inventor: Cliffton Lee Roe
  • Patent number: 11512258
    Abstract: A treatment composition for remediating for remediating H2S and other contaminant(s) in contaminated liquids, comprising: 0.1-10.0 weight % collectively of at least one hydroxide compound; 0.01-3.0 weight % collectively of at least one organic acid selected from a group consisting of fulvic acid and humic acid; 0.01-10.0 wt % of a chelating agent; and at least 75% weight of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Gaps Technology, LLC.
    Inventors: Cliffton Lee Roe, Linda Schweitzer
  • Patent number: 11219872
    Abstract: A system for stabilizing gas-infused liquid, includes a tubular flow path configured to receive and pass therethrough the gas-infused liquid under a pressure of at least 20 psi, wherein a surface of the flow path configured to engage the gas-infused liquid flowing through the flow path is formed of material having a surface roughness (Ra) in a range of 0.1 ?m-10.0 ?m, and the flow path has a length which is at least 100 times a mean inner diameter thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Gaps Technology LLC.
    Inventor: Cliffton Lee Roe
  • Patent number: 10913911
    Abstract: A treatment composition for remediating for remediating H2S and other contaminant(s) in contaminated gasses comprising: an aqueous hydroxide solution containing at least one hydroxide compound at a collective concentration of 35-55 weight percent of the aqueous hydroxide solution; at least one organic acid selected from the group consisting of fulvic acid and humic acid; and a chelating agent, wherein the aqueous hydroxide solution constitutes at least 80 wt % of the treatment composition, the at least one organic acid constitutes 0.1-5 wt % of the treatment composition, the chelating agent constitutes 0.1-5 wt % of the treatment composition, and a pH of the treatment composition is at least 12.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Gaps Technology LLC
    Inventor: Cliffton Lee Roe
  • Patent number: 10858595
    Abstract: A treatment process for remediating a contaminated liquid containing more than 5 ppm hydrogen sulfide, includes steps of: preparing a treatment solution containing an aqueous solution containing ?1 hydroxide compound, in which a collective concentration of the ?1 hydroxide compound in the aqueous solution is in a range of 35-55 weight percent and the aqueous solution constitutes at least 95% of the treatment solution; adding to the liquid an amount of an treatment solution sufficient to reduce a concentration of hydrogen sulfide in the contaminated liquid to ?5 ppm based on stoichiometry of reactions between the ?1 hydroxide compound and the hydrogen sulfide in the liquid; and dispersing the treatment solution in the liquid and allowing the treatment solution to react with the contaminated liquid for a period of time until a concentration of hydrogen sulfide in the liquid is reduced to ?5 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Gaps Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Cliffton Lee Roe, Linda Schweitzer
  • Patent number: 10807021
    Abstract: A system for treating liquids and solutions for separating components thereof, the system including a treatment vessel having a treatment chamber therein, a device for generating a gas-infused liquid under elevated pressure, and a device for stabilizing the gas-infused liquid such that most of the gas infused into the liquid by the device for generating a gas-infused liquid will remain in the liquid if pressure of the liquid is reduced to atmospheric pressure, and for flowing the stabilized gas-infused liquid into the treatment chamber so as to form a liquid layer including the stabilized, gas-infused liquid in the treatment chamber. The treatment vessel includes a discharge port through which some of the stabilized, gas-infused liquid in the liquid layer may be discharged from the treatment vessel, the withdrawn liquid is infused with an additional amount of the gas, again stabilized, and again flown the liquid into the treatment chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Gaps Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Cliffton Lee Roe
  • Patent number: 10486114
    Abstract: A method for producing stabilized, gas-infused liquids containing ultra high concentrations of infused gas, includes steps of: generating a gas-infused liquid in a sealed vessel under a high pressure of at least 20 psi; stabilizing the gas-infused liquid by passing the liquid while still under the high pressure through a tubular flow path arrangement which compresses the infused gas into nano bubbles in the liquid; infusing an additional amount of the gas into the stabilized liquid by injecting the same, while still under high pressure, back into the sealed pressure vessel along with more of the gas; and again stabilizing the liquid by again passing liquid, while still under the high pressure, through the tubular flow path arrangement to thereby form the additional amount of infused gas into nano bubbles in the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Gaps Technology LLC.
    Inventor: Cliffton Lee Roe
  • Patent number: 10486115
    Abstract: A system for stabilizing gas-infused liquid, includes a tubular flow path configured to receive and pass therethrough the gas-infused liquid under a pressure of at least 20 psi, wherein a surface of the flow path configured to engage the gas-infused liquid flowing through the flow path is formed of material having a surface roughness (Ra) in a range of 0.1 ?m-10.0 ?m, and the flow path has a length which is at least 100 times a mean inner diameter thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Gaps Technology LLC.
    Inventor: Cliffton Lee Roe