Patents Assigned to Superior Plus Inc.
  • Patent number: 7651865
    Abstract: A method and system to consistently and automatically conditioning and delivering a solid-free liquid (filtrate) sample suitable for instrumental analysis is disclosed. A slurry, preferably a slurry produced by a sub-atmospheric pressure chlorate dioxide generating process, is fed through a filter to remove the solid phase and to provide the liquid phase on the downstream side of the filter, where the concentration of at least one dissolved component is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Superior Plus Inc.
    Inventors: Mario Luis Costa, John Brian Birks, Chunmin Pu, Kui Xu
  • Patent number: 7407641
    Abstract: A chlorine dioxide generator comprises a water eductor surrounded by a variable volume plenum. The plenum casing is threaded onto the venturi body, permitting the plenum volume and area to be modified depending on the capacity required. Chlorine and sodium chlorite may be fed tangentially into a conical plenum and reacted therein to form chlorine dioxide, which is discharged into water passing through the eductor at the venturi throat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Superior Plus Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald Cowley, David Andrew Dean
  • Patent number: 6972121
    Abstract: Chlorine dioxide generating processes of the single vessel type which produce chlorine dioxide of high purity are monitored and controlled by a computer using Advanced Control Strategies for steady, stable operation with optimum chemical usage on the basis of a desired chlorine dioxide production rate as the sole input from an operator to the computer program effecting the computer control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Superior Plus Inc.
    Inventors: Chunmin Pu, John Brian Birks, James Johannes Hopmans
  • Patent number: 6967010
    Abstract: A chlorine dioxide generator comprises a water eductor surrounded by a variable volume plenum. The plenum casing is threaded onto the venturi body, permitting the plenum volume and area to be modified depending on the capacity required. Chlorine and sodium chlorite may be fed tangentially into a conical plenum and reacted therein to form chlorine dioxide, which is discharged into water passing through the eductor at the venturi throat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Superior Plus Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald Cowley, David Andrew Dean
  • Patent number: 6740223
    Abstract: Chlorine dioxide is produced at high conversion rates from aqueous sodium chlorite solution by electrochemical oxidation in an undivided electrochemical cell. The cell utilizes an anode of high surface area through which the aqueous sodium chlorite solution flows into an interelectrode gap between the anode and a cathode. Water or acidified water is fed into the interelectrode gap to function as catholyte and also to dilute the electrolyzed sodium chlorite solution to provide an aqueous solution of chlorine dioxide exiting from the electrochemical cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Superior Plus Inc.
    Inventors: Marek Lipsztajn, Ronald K. Schaible, Yuri Alexeevich Omelchenko, George Joseph Ranger
  • Patent number: 6555085
    Abstract: A greater yield of chlorine dioxide from a chlorine dioxide generating process is obtained by providing acidic or acidity-generating components in the product chlorine dioxide solution to provide a chlorine dioxide solution having a pH below about 5.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Superior Plus Inc.
    Inventors: Edward J. Bechberger, Mario Luis Costa, Marek Lipsztajn