Patents Assigned to ION Clean Energy, Inc.
  • Patent number: 12251657
    Abstract: A carbon dioxide capture system, fluid contactor and method are disclosed. In embodiments, a gas-liquid contactor unit is disposed along a process fluid flow axis and includes a contactor of network flow diversions barriers with flow voids for movement of process fluids therebetween. A plurality of heat exchange channels are provided in the flow diversion barriers to transport a heat exchange fluid through the contactor network. A heat exchange feed channel is provided to deliver feed of the heat exchange fluid to the heat exchange channels at multiple feed locations spaced along the flow axis. At least one heat exchange bypass channel may extend beyond the multiple feed locations to deliver a portion of the feed of the heat exchange fluid to additional heat exchange channels located downstream from the multiple feed locations for the heat exchange channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: ION Clean Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Panaccione, Erik Everhardus Bernardus Meuleman, Gregory Allan Staab, Nathan R. Brown
  • Patent number: 12042762
    Abstract: A chemical processing system for removing carbon dioxide from a gas mixture using a multicomponent amine-based scrubbing solution includes a spectroscopic evaluation system with a liquid contact probe for spectroscopic investigation, an energy source connected with the liquid contact probe to provide the spectroscopic stimulation energy to the probe, a spectrometer connected with the liquid contact probe to detect the spectroscopic response energy to the probe and to output spectral data corresponding to the spectroscopic response energy, and a machine learning spectral data analyzer connected to the spectrometer for evaluation of the spectral data to determine a concentration value for each of water, amine component and captured carbon dioxide in the scrubbing solution, the machine learning spectral data analyzer being trained for each such component over a corresponding trained concentration range, and optionally over a trained temperature range to provide a temperature-compensated concentration value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: ION CLEAN ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Charles Panaccione, Nathan R. Brown, Erik Everhardus Bernardus Meuleman
  • Publication number: 20220023794
    Abstract: A carbon dioxide capture system, fluid contactor and method are disclosed. In embodiments, a gas-liquid contactor unit is disposed along a process fluid flow axis and includes a contactor of network flow diversions barriers with flow voids for movement of process fluids therebetween. A plurality of heat exchange channels are provided in the flow diversion barriers to transport a heat exchange fluid through the contactor network. A heat exchange feed channel is provided to deliver feed of the heat exchange fluid to the heat exchange channels at multiple feed locations spaced along the flow axis. At least one heat exchange bypass channel may extend beyond the multiple feed locations to deliver a portion of the feed of the heat exchange fluid to additional heat exchange channels located downstream from the multiple feed locations for the heat exchange channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: ION Clean Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Panaccione, Erik Everhardus Bernardus Meuleman, Gregory Allan Staab, Nathan R. Brown
  • Patent number: 11167236
    Abstract: A carbon dioxide capture system, fluid contactor and method are disclosed. In embodiments, a gas-liquid contactor unit is disposed along a process fluid flow axis and includes a contactor network of flow diversion barriers with flow voids for movement of process fluids therebetween. A plurality of heat exchange channels are provided in the flow diversion barriers to transport a heat exchange fluid through the contactor network. A heat exchange feed channel is provided to deliver feed of the heat exchange fluid to the heat exchange channels at multiple feed locations spaced along the flow axis. At least one heat exchange bypass channel may extend beyond the multiple feed locations to deliver a portion of the feed of the heat exchange fluid to additional heat exchange channels located downstream from the multiple feed locations for the heat exchange channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: ION Clean Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Panaccione, Erik Everhardus Bernardus Meuleman, Gregory Allan Staab, Nathan R. Brown