Patents Examined by Anita Nassiri Motlagh
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Patent number: 12209029Abstract: Disclosed is a method for fast and cost-efficient preparation of ikaite crystals. The method comprises contacting an alkaline aqueous solution, which comprises carbonate and bicarbonate ions, with a water solution, which comprises Ca2+, at a temperature not exceeding 15° C., wherein contact between the alkaline aqueous solution and the water solution takes place at a permeable or porous surface, through which either solution is fed to the other at a flow rate facilitating formation of ikaite crystals. Also disclosed is system for carrying out the ikaite preparation process. The process and system provides a cost efficient and effective means for capture and storage of carbon dioxide.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: Climate Solutions ApSInventor: Erik Trampe
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Patent number: 12194411Abstract: The embodiments provide an acidic gas absorbent having low diffusibility, an acidic gas removal method employing the acidic gas absorbent, and also an acidic gas removal apparatus employing the absorbent. The acidic gas absorbent according to the embodiment comprises: a particular tertiary amine compound, such as, an alkyl dialkanol amine or a hydroxyalkyl piperazine; a halogen-free ionic surfactant; and an aqueous solvent. The embodiments provide not only the acidic gas absorbent but also an acidic gas removal method and apparatus employing the acidic gas absorbent.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Akiko Suzuki, Yoshihiko Nakano, Reiko Yoshimura, Asato Kondo, Kenji Sano, Toshihiro Imada, Shinji Murai, Mitsuru Udatsu
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Patent number: 12194409Abstract: Some embodiments are directed to a system for extracting carbon dioxide from a fluid. The system can include a fluid source and a reactor. The reactor can include one or more chambers, and each chamber can include one or more monoliths for adsorbing carbon dioxide from the fluid. The chambers can be alternatively unsealed for a contacting mode and sealed for a regeneration mode. A power source can provide an electric current to the monoliths to release carbon dioxide adsorbed by the monoliths. Each chamber can include an array of monoliths. Each monolith can include a sorbent that adsorbs carbon dioxide from fluid. The system can include modular components such that the number of reactors can be increased or decreased.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2024Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Noya, Inc.Inventors: Joshua Ivan Santos-Heard, Daniel Cavero-Rodriguez, Laurene Petitjean, Alexandra Justine Welch, Brandon John Garczynski, Nathaniel Balin Gertzman, Aditi Dhadwaiwale, Robinson Wiessinger Flaig, Elizabeth Tu, Maarten Johan Thomas-Bosum
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Patent number: 12186704Abstract: Provided is a simple and low-cost method for efficiently fixing a sufficient amount of carbon dioxide contained in a carbon dioxide-containing gas (e.g. a plant exhaust gas). The method of fixing carbon dioxide comprises a contact step of bringing a carbon dioxide-containing gas having a temperature of 350° C. or more into contact with a cementitious hardened body to fix carbon dioxide in the carbon dioxide-containing gas to the cementitious hardened body. The carbon dioxide-containing gas may be a gas that is free from being supplied with moisture before the contact step and during the contact step. One of examples of the carbon dioxide-containing gas is a plant exhaust gas.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignees: TAIHEIYO CEMENT CORPORATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYOInventors: Dianchao Wang, Takafumi Noguchi, Takahito Nozaki, Yasuhide Higo
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Patent number: 12180402Abstract: Provided are a new phosphor having emission characteristics different from the conventional nitride or oxynitride phosphor, a manufacturing method, and a light-emitting device. In an embodiment, the phosphor may include inorganic substance having crystal represented by A26(D, E)51X86 including at least A, D, X (A is at least one kind of element selected from Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba; and D is Si, and X is at least one kind of element selected from O, N, and F); and further includes, if necessary, E (E is at least one kind of element selected from B, Al, Ga, and In) wherein the crystal further includes M (M is at least one kind of element selected from Mn, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb, Dy, and Yb). Upon irradiation of excitation source, the maximum value of emission peak in a wavelength range from 630 nm to 850 nm may occur.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: National Institute for Materials ScienceInventors: Naoto Hirosaki, Takashi Takeda, Shiro Funahashi
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Patent number: 12180404Abstract: A dispersion that includes water and a light-emitting body dispersed in the water. The light-emitting body contains a nanoparticle of a AgInSe compound semiconductor, and a film to which hydrophilicity is imparted by ultrasonic irradiation on a surface of the nanoparticle. The film has a double structure having a first organic molecular film containing an alkylthiol and a second organic molecular film composed mainly of a fatty acid. The light-emitting body has an emission quantum yield of 10% or more, an emission intensity peak wavelength in the range of 650 to 1000 nm, and a half-width ?H of 100 nm or less at the emission intensity peak wavelength.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayoshi Murakami, Norikazu Fujihira
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Patent number: 12172126Abstract: A method for removing hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from a H2S-containing gas composition, including dispersing particles of a mud composition in a reactor, introducing the H2S-containing gas composition through a bottom of the reactor containing the mud composition and passing the H2S-containing gas composition through the mud composition, and adsorbing and removing H2S from the gas composition by the mud composition to form a purified gas composition. The mud composition contains a CuMnAl layered triple oxide (LTO) and a base mud.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2024Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALSInventors: Sagheer A. Onaizi, Mustapha Iddrisu
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Patent number: 12173382Abstract: A combustion ash handling method of handling combustion ash discharged from a combustion furnace that combusts a petroleum-based fuel includes: separating the combustion ash into a heavy component and a light component by a dry-type separation technique; feeding the light component to the combustion furnace as a fuel; and recovering the heavy component. A metal such as vanadium is separated and extracted from the heavy component of the combustion ash.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroyuki Mori, Seiji Tabata, Suguru Yabara, Tomohiro Osawa
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Patent number: 12168611Abstract: A method for crystallizing calcium nitrate from an aqueous calcium nitrate composition including from 6 to 12 weight % nitric acid, from 11 to 17 weight % phosphoric acid, and from 36 to 49 weight % dissolved calcium nitrate, which aqueous composition is optionally directly obtainable from digesting phosphate rock in nitric acid. The method includes filling at least one vertical crystallizing tank through an inlet with the aqueous calcium nitrate composition. The crystallizing tank includes a vertical cylindrical section, a first inlet, a first outlet, a second inlet, three concentric banks of cooling coils, an agitator, and a temperature measurement device. The method includes circulating through the banks of cooling coils a cooling fluid, having an initial temperature ranging from ?40° C. to ?5° C., and rotating the agitator such that a minimum average heat transfer of 400 W/m2·K is achieved on the cooling coil the most distant from the agitator.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2020Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Yara International ASAInventors: Robertus Louwe, Olav Lier
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COdesorption system suitable for limited space in complex sailing region and flexible control method
Patent number: 12161970Abstract: A CO2 desorption system suitable for limited space in a complex sailing region comprises an exhaust boiler, a compact CO2 absorber, a compact CO2 lean-rich liquid heat exchanger, a compact CO2 desorber, a compact CO2 rich liquid preheating device, a compact CO2 rich liquid reboiling pre-desorption device and an intelligent control platform. Further, a global optimization control method for the CO2 desorption system suitable for limited space in a complex sailing region is further established based through a knowledge and data-driven exhaust extraction flow accurate-prediction model for a heat source of a CO2 rich liquid preheating device and a steam extraction flow accurate-prediction model for a heat source on an upper section of a CO2 rich liquid reboiling pre-desorption device to realize flexible control of operation parameters of the desorption system under different operating conditions of an engine.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2024Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignees: Jiaxing Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang UniversityInventors: Chenghang Zheng, Xiang Gao, Can Zhou, Yongxin Zhang, Qihao Chen, Weihong Wu, Zhiying Zhou, Haitao Shen, Haidong Fan, Qingyi Li, Yifan Wang, Peng Liu, Libin Yu, Tao Wang -
Patent number: 12162755Abstract: A continuous hydrocarbon pyrolysis process to produce hydrogen gas and carbon includes exposing a hydrocarbon feedstock to an oxygen depleted combustion gas within a hydrocarbon pyrolysis zone. A valveless pulse combustor produces the combustion gas at a temperature greater than 2,400° C. The hydrocarbon feedstock and combustion gas have a residence time within the hydrocarbon pyrolysis zone less than 30 seconds to cause pyrolysis of the hydrocarbon feedstock and produce gas comprising hydrogen and solid particles comprising carbon. The gas and solid particles exit the hydrocarbon pyrolysis zone at a temperature greater than 1,200° C. A heat exchanger cools the gas and solid particles to a temperature less than 200° C. A gas absorber removes unwanted gas molecules from the gas and produce H2 containing gas having an H2 concentration greater than 80 vol. % H2. The H2 containing gas is continuously introduced to a H2 consuming facility.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Omnis Advanced Technologies, LLCInventors: James S. Swensen, Stephen P. Gibbel, David S. Gibbel, Douglas E. Grunder, Simon K. Hodson
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Patent number: 12157086Abstract: A flare seal drum having an amine liquid seal. The flare seal drum includes: a baffle separating the flare seal drum into a first section and a second section; a waste gas inlet receiving waste gas into the first section and being combined with amine in the first section; a gas collecting pipe located in the first section; a packing pipe receiving waste gas from the gas collecting pipe; a packing filling the packing pipe, the waste gas passing through the packing; an amine spray nozzle located above the packing pipe and supplying amine to the packing in the packing pipe; and an amine pump that removes amine and waste gas from the second section through an amine line.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: KUWAIT NATIONAL PETROLEUM COMPANYInventor: Kanagasabai Rathinasabapathi
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Patent number: 12152477Abstract: Methods of enhancing productivity of a subterranean wellbore may include introducing a carbonated mixture comprising water and carbonate anions to a target zone of the subterranean wellbore; introducing basaltic particles to the target zone of the subterranean wellbore; contacting the basaltic particles with the carbonated mixture; dissolving at least a part of the basaltic particles with the carbonated mixture to release divalent cations including calcium cations, magnesium cations and ferrous cations; reacting, in the target zone of the subterranean wellbore, the divalent cations with the carbonate anions in the carbonated mixture to produce carbonate minerals; providing stimulus to the basaltic particles and the carbonated mixture to promote the dissolving and the reacting; depositing at least a part of the carbonate minerals to fractures of the target zone; and monitoring the reacting of the divalent cations with the carbonated anions and depositing.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Abdulaziz S. Al-Qasim, Ali A. Al-Yousef
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Patent number: 12151204Abstract: A catalytic oxidation system for efficient conversion and removal of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in a coal chemical industry is provided. The catalytic oxidation system includes a reactor and a first temperature control system, where the reactor is provided with a waste gas inlet and a waste gas outlet and is provided with a preheating zone, a reaction zone, and a heat recovery zone sequentially in a flow direction of a waste gas, and a catalyst is filled in the reaction zone; and the first temperature control system includes a first serpentine pipe buried in the catalyst and a first steam drum arranged outside the reactor, the first steam drum and the first serpentine pipe are connected through a pipeline to form a circulation line, and a temperature in the reaction zone is adjusted to 150° C. to 350° C. by controlling a pressure of the first steam drum.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2024Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignees: Zhejiang University, Taizhou Institute of Zhejiang UniversityInventors: Shengyong Lu, Bing Zhou, Yaqi Peng, Minghui Tang, Kai Zhang, Hao Zhang, Jiamin Ding, Guanjie Wang
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Patent number: 12138585Abstract: In general, the subject matter described herein relates to wettable materials that can be used to expose a liquid phase to a gas phase. An example method includes: providing a material including a polymeric substrate and at least one of: a silicate coating disposed over the polymeric substrate; or a polar mineral additive dispersed within the polymeric substrate at a loading from about 1% to about 25%, by weight; and using the material in a chemical process in which the material is at least partially covered by a liquid phase and the liquid phase is exposed to a gas phase.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc.Inventors: Timothy D. Weatherill, Gerald J. Fiorillo, Sarah C. Rogers, Jeffrey W. Smith, Carlos Daniel Stagnaro, Devesh Mathur, Ryan Joseph Carter
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Patent number: 12134566Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, provided are a method for producing indium tin oxide particles, including a step of obtaining a precursor solution including indium and tin by heating an indium carboxylate having 1 to 3 carbon atoms and a tin carboxylate having 1 to 3 carbon atoms in a solvent including a carboxylic acid having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, and a step of obtaining a reaction solution including indium tin oxide particles by adding dropwise the obtained precursor solution to a heated solvent including oleyl alcohol and linear alcohol having 14 to 18 carbon atoms, in which, in the solvent, a concentration A of the linear alcohol having 14 to 18 carbon atoms with respect to all solvents, in units of % by mass, and a concentration B of the oleyl alcohol with respect to all solvents, in units of % by mass, satisfy the expression 1; and a method for producing a curable composition. A/(A+B)>0.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Masahiro Takata
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Patent number: 12128350Abstract: A water-lean carbon dioxide absorbent according to the present invention comprises a cyclodiamine and a polyalkylene glycol alkyl ether and further comprises an alkanolamine, wherein the absorbent shows an excellent reaction rate with carbon dioxide, is resistant to degradation due to oxygen and heat, and can greatly reduce energy consumption due to latent heat of water when regenerated, and thus leads to a water-lean carbon dioxide absorbent with improved regeneration efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: CE-TEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Yun-Je Lee, Hai Lian Jin, Seong Yeon Kim, Ye Sol Woo, Kwang Soon Lee, Hoon Sik Kim
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Patent number: 12122680Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus, system, and method, by which a plentiful supply of carbon dioxide may be provided to a fuel-conversion process operated in the deep sea far from shore thereby permitting a conversion of electrolysis-generated hydrogen gas into a carbonaceous liquid fuel. Because the cost and complexity of storing and transporting liquid fuels by ship is substantially simpler and less costly than is transporting gases, the present invention is expected to promote the extraction and distribution of energy harvested from the deep sea by permitting it to be accomplished with reasonable logistical complexity and at a reasonable and low cost.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Lone Gull Holdings, Ltd.Inventors: Garth Alexander Sheldon-Coulson, Brian Lee Moffat
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Patent number: 12121855Abstract: A system to abate an emission stream from a semiconductor manufacturing process is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of sections configured to pass an emission stream therethrough. The sections include a metal oxide media section to remove a hydride from the emission stream; a desiccate media section downstream to the metal oxide media section to remove moisture from the emission stream; and a catalytic media section downstream to the desiccate media section to remove a nitrogen oxide (NOx) from the emission stream. The abatement system provides carbon-free abatement of nitrogen oxide and hydride(s). The abatement system has significantly lower cost to manufacture and operate.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2024Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.Inventor: Justin M. Weinstein
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Patent number: 12121859Abstract: The present application provides a modular membrane isolation carbon desorption device, a carbon capture system, a method, and an application thereof. The device comprises an electrolyzer in which a plurality of anion exchange membranes are arranged, dividing the electrolyzer into multiple electrolysis units. Each electrolysis unit is equipped with electrodes, and the polarities of the electrodes in adjacent units are opposite. An electrolysis unit containing a positive electrode function as an anode electrolysis unit, while one with a negative electrode serves as a cathode electrolysis unit. This application effectively reduces heat loss during the carbon desorption process and enables dual-sided dissolution of the positive electrode and dual-sided deposition of the negative electrode, thereby enhancing electrolysis efficiency during the carbon desorption process.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2024Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Central South UniversityInventors: Changhong Wang, Xinbing Xia, Pengfei Zhao, Yibo Li, Hong Liu, Shuai Li, Kangkang Li, Shenghai Yang, Yongming Chen, Chaobo Tang, Jianguang Yang