Patents Examined by Daniel Berns
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Patent number: 11406961Abstract: Novel radioactive iodide molecular traps, in which one or more metal atoms are functionalized by coordinating to an amine containing two or more nitrogens, and methods of using the molecular traps to capture radioactive iodide.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEYInventors: Jing Li, Baiyan Li
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Patent number: 11407649Abstract: The disclosure provides, inter alia, formulations comprising cerium (III) carbonate, and processes for producing cerium (III) carbonate. In embodiments, the disclosure provides methods for passivating photodegradation of organic compounds using cerium (III) carbonate.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Alexander Katz, Manish Mishra
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Patent number: 11407777Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a metal-organic framework manufacturing method of manufacturing a metal-organic framework having excellent gas adsorbability and durability. A metal-organic framework manufacturing method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a step of mixing a metal salt containing a metal atom and a polydentate ligand in the presence of a solvent to manufacture a metal-organic framework, the polydentate ligand contains a compound represented by Formula (1), a content of the compound represented by Formula (1) in the polydentate ligand is 50 mol % or greater with respect to a total molar amount of the polydentate ligand, the solvent contains an organic solvent having a boiling point of 100° C. or higher, and a water content in the solvent is 0 to 90 mass % with respect to a total mass of the solvent.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Koji Hironaka, Masaya Nakayama
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Patent number: 11400410Abstract: An aqueous solvent composition is provided, comprising a nucleophilic component having one or more sterically unhindered primary or secondary amine moieties, a Brønsted base component having one or more basic nitrogen moieties, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water. A biphasic composition is provided, comprising one or more carbamate compounds, one or more conjugate acids of Brønsted base, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water. A biphasic CO2 absorption process is also provided, utilizing the biphasic solvent composition.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventors: Yongqi Lu, Yang Du, Qing Ye
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Patent number: 11389762Abstract: The invention relates to a process for removal of metal carbonyls from crude synthesis gas in a gas scrubbing process with a physical scrubbing medium. Scrubbing medium laden with hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and metal carbonyls is sent to a treatment vessel having a residence time region and a scrubbing region. Metal carbonyls are precipitated from the laden scrubbing medium as metal sulfides in the residence time region. The scrubbing region is supplied with a regenerated scrubbing medium.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges ClaudeInventors: Sharon Corbet, Alfred Gubrinski, Sophia Schmidt
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Patent number: 11383988Abstract: Disclosed herein are personal care and/or cosmetic compositions, comprising a carrier and oolitic aragonite beads having an average diameter between 10 nm to 10 mm. Also disclosed herein are methods of reducing plastic contamination and/or pollution comprising making a cosmetic or personal care composition, wherein at least a portion to all (100%) of the plastic microbeads in the cosmetic or personal care composition are replaced with oolitic aragonite. Also disclosed herein are a milling system and milling methods for producing oolitic aragonite particles having a clean top size in which the particles are screened to remove any oversized particles. Additional uses include drug-loaded aragonite particles for therapeutic drug delivery and chromatography media.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignees: Nant Holdings IP, LLP, Calcean Minerals and Materials, LLCInventors: Anthony Myers, Alyson Myers, Harold Meherg, Patrick Soon-Shiong
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Patent number: 11383197Abstract: Disclosed is a process comprising: step a) contacting a feed stream comprising a contaminant with an absorbent stream in a counter-current flow to produce a contaminant depleted product stream depleted in the molar quantity of the contaminant relative to the molar quantity of said contaminant in the feed stream, and a contaminant enriched absorbent stream enriched in the molar quantity of the contaminant relative to the molar quantity of said contaminant in the absorbent stream; and step b) treating the contaminant enriched absorbent stream to form a gaseous stream comprising said contaminant and a regenerated absorbent stream lean in the molar quantity of said contaminant relative to the molar quantity of said contaminant in the contaminant enriched absorbent stream; herein said absorbent stream comprises at least 15 wt. % of at least one compound (A) of general formula (I) or a mixture (M) comprising at least one compound (B) of general formula (II) and at least one compound (C) of general formula (III).Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Taminco BVBAInventors: Stijn Simonne Paul Van de Vyver, Robin Jacques Matton, Klaas Victor
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Patent number: 11369919Abstract: An absorbent for selective removal of hydrogen sulfide over carbon dioxide from a fluid stream comprises an aqueous solution of a) a tertiary amine, b) a sterically hindered secondary amine of the general formula (I) in which R1 and R2 are each independently selected from C1-4-alkyl and C1-4-hydroxyalkyl; R3, R4, R5 and R6 are each independently selected from hydrogen, C1-4-alkyl and C1-4-hydroxyalkyl, with the proviso that at least one R4 and/or R5 radical on the carbon atom bonded directly to the nitrogen atom is C1-4-alkyl or C1-4-hydroxyalkyl when R3 is hydrogen; x and y are integers from 2 to 4 and z is an integer from 1 to 4; where the molar ratio of b) to a) is in the range from 0.05 to 1.0, and c) an acid in an amount, calculated as neutralization equivalent relative to the protonatable nitrogen atoms in a) and b), of 0.05 to 15.0%. One preferred amine of the formula I is 2-(2-tert-butylaminoethoxy)ethanol.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Gerald Vorberg, Ralf Notz, Thomas Ingram, Georg Sieder, Torsten Katz
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Patent number: 11369942Abstract: A method for assembling and synthesizing Cu2O particle-supported porous CuBTC includes the following steps of: 1) dissolving polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) in ethanol solution to obtain a PVP-ethanol solution; 2) dissolving copper salt in distilled water, and mixing with trimesic acid, salicylic acid, and the PVP-ethanol solution obtained in step 1) under stirring; and 3) conducting a hydrothermal reaction on the mixed solution obtained in step 2) at 120° C. to obtain Cu2O particle-supported porous CuBTC. The new method introduces salicylic acid during the synthesis of CuBTC. The salicylic acid, as a ligand precursor, forms a porous CuBTC material through the unsaturated coordination of a ligand under the catalysis of Cu ion. The resulting porous CuBTC supported with ultrafine Cu2O nanoparticles can adsorb high-energy molecules and exhibit excellent crystallinity, porosity, and stability.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: TONGJI UNIVERSITYInventors: Fengting Li, Ying Wang, Tao Feng
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Patent number: 11369918Abstract: The disclosure provides seven integrated methods for the chemical sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2), nitric oxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) (collectively NOx, where x=1, 2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) using closed loop technology. The methods recycle process reagents and mass balance consumable reagents that can be made using electrochemical separation of sodium chloride (NaCl) or potassium chloride (KCl). The technology applies to marine and terrestrial exhaust gas sources for CO2, NOx and SO2. The integrated technology combines compatible and green processes that capture and/or convert CO2, NOx and SO2 into compounds that enhance the environment, many with commercial value.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Inventor: Robert George Richardson
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Patent number: 11351498Abstract: The invention provides a method for the capture of at least one acid gas in a composition, the release of said gas from said composition and the subsequent regeneration of said composition for re-use. The method comprises the step of capturing an acid gas by contacting said acid gas with a capture composition comprising at least one salt of a carboxylic acid dissolved in a solvent system consisting substantially of water.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: C-Capture LtdInventors: Douglas Barnes, Caspar Schoolderman, Gergely Jakab, Christopher Rayner
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Patent number: 11344870Abstract: Provided herein are metal organic frameworks comprising metal nodes and N-donor organic ligands. Methods for capturing chemical species from fluid compositions comprise contacting a metal organic framework characterized by the formula [MaMbF6-n(O/H2O)w(Ligand)x(solvent)y]z with a fluid composition and capturing one or more chemical species from the fluid composition.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Mohamed Eddaoudi, Karim Adil, Youssef Belmabkhout, Amandine Cadiau
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Patent number: 11331646Abstract: The present invention is related to a process for manufacturing a sorbent suitable for a use in a circulating dry scrubber device comprising the steps of: providing quicklime and water in an hydrator; slaking said quicklime via a non-wet route in the hydrator; collecting a lime based sorbent at an exit of the hydrator. The process is characterized in that it comprises a further step of adding at least a first additive comprising: a compound comprising silicon, and/or, a compound comprising aluminum, and/or a compound comprising silicon and aluminum before or during said slaking step, at a molar ratio between silicon or aluminum or a combination thereof and the calcium provided to said hydrator equal to or below 0.2 and equal to or above 0.02. In some other aspects, the present invention is related to a sorbent, a premix, and a flue gas treatment process.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: S.A. Lhoist Recherche et DeveloppementInventors: Marion Lorgouilloux, Mehdi Maazoun, Olivier Nyssen, Heiszwolf Johan
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Patent number: 11319233Abstract: The invention pertains to methods of reducing dissolved elements such as arsenic, selenium and mercury in aqueous solutions using, for example, various barium compounds to partition said elements to a solid phase. Such methods are particularly useful for reducing such elements at various points in coal and oil-fired power plants prior to final waste water treatment.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Inventor: Steven Feeney
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Patent number: 11311856Abstract: A permanently porous vanadium(II)-containing metal-organic framework (MOF) with vanadium(II) centers and methods for synthesis of such MOF frameworks are provided. Methods for using such compounds to selectively react with N2 over CH4 are provided. In the synthetic methods, a vanadium source, such as VY2(tmeda)2, where Y is a halogen and tmeda is N,N,N?,N?-tetramethylethane-1,2-diamine and a H2(ligand) are reacted in the presence of acid in a solvent at between 110° C. and 130° C. to form an intermediate product. The intermediate product is collected and washed with a washing agent, such as DMF and acetonitrile, and the vanadium(II) based MOF is activated by heating the washed intermediate product to at least 160° C. under dynamic vacuum.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Jeffrey R. Long, David E. Jaramillo, Douglas A. Reed
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Patent number: 11291948Abstract: The embodiments provide an acidic gas absorbent having low diffusibility, an acidic gas removal method, and an acidic gas removal apparatus. The acidic gas absorbent according to the embodiment comprises: an amine compound having a vapor pressure of 0.001 to 10 Pa at 20° C.; a water-soluble polymer compound having a mass-average molecular weight of 900 to 200000 and not containing a functional group having a pKa value greater than 7 except for hydroxy; and water.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Akiko Suzuki, Yoshihiko Nakano, Reiko Yoshimura, Toshihiro Imada, Takashi Kuboki, Kenji Sano, Mitsuru Udatsu
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Patent number: 11285456Abstract: This invention relates to a Cu-BTC MOF which is water stable. The Cu-BTC MOF has open coordination sites and has been post synthesis modified by partially occupying the open sites with a ligand such as acetonitrile (CH3CN). The resultant MOF retains at least 40% of its as synthesized surface area after exposure to liquid water at 60° C. for 6 hours. This is an unexpected result versus the MOF which has not been post treated with ligands such as acetonitrile. This MOF can be used to abate contaminants such as ammonia in gas streams and especially air streams.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: NuMat Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Paul Wai-Man Siu
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Patent number: 11285437Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems for carbon capture in combination with production of one or more industrially useful materials. The disclosure also provides methods for carrying out carbon capture in combination with an industrial process. In particular, carbon capture can include carrying out calcination in a reactor, separation of carbon dioxide rich flue gases from industrially useful products, and capture of at least a portion of the carbon dioxide for sequestration of other use, such as enhanced oil recovery.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: 8 Rivers Capital, LLCInventors: Xijia Lu, Brock Alan Forrest, Jeremy Eron Fetvedt, Navid Rafati
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Patent number: 11278841Abstract: A process for removing hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide from a fluid stream comprises a) an absorption step in which the fluid stream is contacted with an absorbent comprising an aqueous solution (i) of an amine of the general formula (I) in which R1, R2 and R3 are each independently selected from C1-4-alkyl and C1-4-hydroxyalkyl; each R4 is independently selected from hydrogen, C1-4-alkyl and C1-4-hydroxyalkyl; each R5 is independently selected from hydrogen, C1-4-alkyl and C1-4-hydroxyalkyl; X is OH or NH(CR1R2R3); m is 2, 3, 4 or 5; n is 2, 3, 4 or 5; and o is 0 or 1; and optionally (ii) at least one tertiary amine, where the molar ratio of (i) to (ii) is greater than 0.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Thomas Ingram, Ralf Notz, Gerald Vorberg, Georg Sieder
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Patent number: 11278842Abstract: Disclosed herein are acid gas absorbents that afford high acid gas (CO2) absorption amount per unit volume and high absorption speed and can prevent the absorbent components from diffusing.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Murai, Yukishige Maezawa, Tetsuya Kaseda, Takehiko Muramatsu, Satoshi Saito, Mitsuru Udatsu, Daigo Muraoka, Masatoshi Hodotsuka