Patents Examined by David M. Brunsman
  • Patent number: 11192793
    Abstract: A method for modifying the surface of a molecular sieve, comprising reacting a molecular sieve with an aminosilane, wherein the reaction is carried out in an aqueous solvent. A modified molecular sieve obtained by the method is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company
    Inventors: John Kilmartin, Ashwin Sankaran, David Thompsett
  • Patent number: 11192794
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a pulverulent, porous crystalline metal silicate, comprising the following steps: a) hydrothermal synthesis in an aqueous mixture comprising (A) at least one silicon source, (B) at least one metal source and (C) at least one mineralizer to obtain an aqueous suspension comprising a porous crystalline metal silicate as reaction product; and b) calcination of the reaction product, characterized in that the calcination is conducted by means of flame spray pyrolysis at an adiabatic combustion temperature within a range of 450-2200° C., wherein the suspension having a solids content of 70% by weight which is obtained in step a) is sprayed into a flame generated by combustion of a fuel in the presence of oxygen to form a pulverulent, porous crystalline metal silicate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Schmidt, Johan Anton, Matthias Pascaly, Andrea Heinroth, Stefan Wieland, Heiko Morell, Peter Kress, Michael Hagemann
  • Patent number: 11186491
    Abstract: A novel synthetic crystalline aluminogermanosilicate molecular sieve material, designated SSZ-117, is provided. SSZ-117 can be synthesized using N,N,N,3,5-pentamethyladamantan-1-ammonium cations as a structure directing agent. SSZ-117 may be used in organic compound conversion reactions and/or sorptive processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Stacey Ian Zones, Dan Xie, Cong-Yan Chen
  • Patent number: 11186881
    Abstract: A method of production of a homogeneous powdered product from a starting product in a liquid state, the starting product having sugars as at least 60% of its total solids, the method comprising: in the absence of air; pressurizing the starting product to a pressure greater than 1 bar; injecting a gas into the starting product to form a mixture in which the starting product is substantially saturated by the gas; and degassing the mixture into a continuous stream of transport gas such that, on contact with the transport gas, water from the mixture evaporates to leave the homogeneous powdered product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: BIOMASS TECHNOLOGIES PTY LTD
    Inventors: Maxwell Scott, Rodney Brown
  • Patent number: 11186490
    Abstract: Nanostructured aluminosilicates including aluminosilicate nanorods are formed by heating a geopolymer resin containing up to about 90 mol % water in a closed container at a temperature between about 70° C. and about 200° C. for a length of time up to about one week to yield a first material including the aluminosilicate nanorods. The aluminosilicate nanorods have an average width of the between about 5 nm and about 30 or between about 5 nm and about 60 nm or between about 5 nm and about 100 nm, and a majority of the aluminosilicate nanorods have an aspect ratio between about 2 and about 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Dong-Kyun Seo, Lukas Sorge, Shaojiang Chen
  • Patent number: 11180376
    Abstract: A zeolite having the ferrierite framework structure is produced using one or more of n-propylamine, n-butylamine, isobutylamine, and n-amylamine as a structure directing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventor: Joel Edward Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11167996
    Abstract: A method is provided for synthesizing molecular sieves of SZR framework type using 1,2,3-trimethylimidazolium cations as a structure directing agent and alumina-coated silica as a combined source of silicon and aluminum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Joel Edward Schmidt, Cong-Yan Chen
  • Patent number: 11161741
    Abstract: A method and device for producing a solution of polyphosphoric acid from a feed solution P0 by the wet method is provided. An enriched phosphoric acid solution optionally mixed with a direct feed solution is pulverised in a flame of a combustion chamber in order to form the polyphosphoric acid solution. The combustion gases from the combustion chamber are placed in contact with the feed solution in a gas-acid contactor in order to increase the temperature and the P2O5 concentration thereof and thus to form an enriched phosphoric acid solution. A portion of the enriched phosphoric acid solution is conveyed with a flow rate of Qp into the combustion chamber in order to be pulverised in the flame. The rest of the enriched phosphoric acid solution is conveyed into a recirculation loop in order to be reinjected into the gas-acid contactor with a flow rate of Q2. The ratio of Qp/(Qp+Q2) is controlled with a predefined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: PRAYON
    Inventors: Bernard Heptia, Carl Szocs, Denis Leruth, Damien Gabriel
  • Patent number: 11161749
    Abstract: A small crystal size, high surface area aluminogermanosilicate molecular sieve material, designated SSZ-120, is provided. SSZ-120 can be synthesized using 3,3?-[2,6-naphthalenebis(methylene)]bis[1,2-dimethyl-1H-imidazolium] dications as a structure directing agent. SSZ-120 may be used in organic compound conversion reactions and/or sorptive processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Stacey Ian Zones, Jesus Pascual, Dan Xie, Cong-Yan Chen
  • Patent number: 11161750
    Abstract: A novel synthetic crystalline aluminogermanosilicate molecular sieve material, designated SSZ-121, is provided. SSZ-121 can be synthesized using 1,3-bis(1-adamantyl)imidazolium cations as a structure directing agent. SSZ-121 may be used in organic compound conversion reactions and/or sorptive processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventor: Stacey Ian Zones
  • Patent number: 11155467
    Abstract: Described herein is a process for producing a zeolitic material having an MWW framework structure containing YO2 and B2O3, in which Y stands for a tetravalent element. The process includes the steps of (i) preparing a mixture containing one or more sources for YO2, one or more sources for B2O3, one or more organotemplates, and seed crystals, (ii) crystallizing the mixture obtained in (i) for obtaining a layered precursor of the MWW framework structure, and (iii) calcining the layered precursor obtained in (ii) for obtaining the zeolitic material having an MWW framework structure. Also disclosed herein are synthetic boron-containing zeolites obtain by the process and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Inventors: Andrei-Nicolae Parvulescu, Ulrich Mueller, Stefan Maurer, Yu Dai, Feng-Shou Xiao, Xiangju Meng, Yeqing Wang
  • Patent number: 11148952
    Abstract: A method of increasing hydrophobicity of a molecular sieve is provided. The method includes: (a) providing a metallosilicate molecular sieve having a framework consisting of oxides of silicon (Si) and a metal (M), wherein M is boron or zinc; (b) contacting the metallosilicate molecular sieve with a liquid aqueous system, thereby obtaining a demetallated molecular sieve having silanol nests and empty framework sites; and (c) thermally treating the demetallated molecular sieve, thereby obtaining a thermally-treated molecular sieve, wherein the thermally-treated molecular sieve (i) retains the three-dimensional framework structure of the metallosilicate molecular sieve and (ii) has a higher Si/M molar ratio as compared to the metallosilicate molecular sieve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Cong-Yan Chen, Stacey Ian Zones, Tracy Margaret Davis
  • Patent number: 11148953
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a zeolite composite material composed of a mixture of AFX and BEA zeolites, comprising at least the following steps: i) mixing in aqueous medium, in particular proportions, of an FAU zeolite having an SiO2/Al2O3 mole ratio of between 30 and 100 and a parameter Pze such that: 3250<Pze<7200, with at least one zeolite of FAU structure type having an SiO2/Al2O3 mole ratio of between 2 and 30 (upper limit excluded), of at least one organonitrogen compound R, R being 1,5-bis(methylpiperidinium)pentane dihydroxide, 1,6-bis(methylpiperidinium)hexane dihydroxide and/or 1,7-bis(methylpiperidinium)heptane dihydroxide, of at least one source of at least one alkali metal and/or alkaline-earth metal M of valency n, to obtain a gel, ii) hydrothermal treatment of said gel obtained at a temperature of between 120° C. and 220° C., for a time of between 12 hours and 15 days.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: IFP Energies nouvelles
    Inventors: Raquel Martinez Franco, Bogdan Harbuzaru
  • Patent number: 11148954
    Abstract: A process for preparing a zeolitic material comprising a metal M, having framework type AEI, and having a framework structure which comprises a tetravalent element Y, a trivalent element X, and oxygen, said process comprising (i) providing a zeolitic material comprising the metal M, having a framework type other than AEI, and having a framework structure comprising the trivalent element X, and oxygen; (ii) preparing a synthesis mixture comprising the zeolitic material provided in (i), water, a source of the tetravalent element Y, and an AEI framework structure directing agent; (iii) subjecting the synthesis mixture prepared in (ii) to hydrothermal synthesis conditions comprising heating the synthesis mixture to a temperature in the range of from 100 to 200° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Ahmad Moini, Robert McGuire, Ulrich Mueller
  • Patent number: 11135568
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for regenerating molecular sieves used in an alcohol dehydration process after the molecular sieves have become saturated with water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: POET Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil D. Anderson, James M. Geraets, William Higgins, Spencer Douglas Lyman, Bill Miller, Rodney Duane Pierson, Danika Pollreisz, Brock Weeldreyer
  • Patent number: 11140475
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sound absorbing material. The sound absorbing material comprising MFI-structural-type molecular sieves, the MFI-structural-type molecular sieves comprises frameworks and extra-framework cations, the framework comprising SiO2 and a metal oxide MxOy containing a metal element M, wherein a molar ratio of Si/M is between 220 and 600 in the framework, the metal element M comprises aluminum, and the extra-framework cations are at least one of hydrogen ions, alkali metal ions and alkaline earth metals. The present also provides a method for preparing a sound absorbing material and a speaker box using the sound absorbing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kun Tang, Hongshu Feng, Jiqiang Dai, Hezhi Wang
  • Patent number: 11130917
    Abstract: A modified Y-type molecular sieve has a rare earth content of about 4-11% by weight on the basis of rare earth oxide, a sodium content of no more than about 0.7% by weight on the basis of sodium oxide, a zinc content of about 0.5-5% by weight on the basis of zinc oxide, a phosphorus content of about 0.05-10% by weight on the basis of phosphorus pentoxide, a framework silica-alumina ratio of about 7-14 calculated on the basis of SiO2/Al2O3 molar ratio, a percentage of non-framework aluminum content to the total aluminum content of no more than about 20%, and a percentage of the pore volume of secondary pores having a pore size of 2-100 nm to the total pore volume of about 15-30%. The modified Y-type molecular sieve has a high crystallinity, a structure comprising secondary pores, and a high thermal and hydrothermal stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM PROCESSING, SINOPEC
    Inventors: Hao Sha, Lingping Zhou, Shuai Yuan, Weilin Zhang, Zhenyu Chen, Mingde Xu, Huiping Tian
  • Patent number: 11124421
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing zeolite crystals having a multimodal particle size distribution, and the sizes of which are between 0.02 ?m and 20 ?m, said process comprising a first introduction of one or more seeding agents into the tubular reactor or upstream of the tubular reactor, and at least one second introduction of one or more, identical or different, seeding agents into the tubular reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Arkema France
    Inventors: Serge Nicolas, Cécile Lutz
  • Patent number: 11124422
    Abstract: A zeolite synthesis sol includes particles of an aluminum source with a mean particle diameter of 5 to 500 nm, and a solvent in which the particles are dispersed, the solvent being water that contains a phosphorus source, a structure-directing agent, and a carboxylic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Miyahara, Kenichi Noda
  • Patent number: 11110441
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a catalyst for preparing pyridine base from syngas. The catalyst includes a carrier, an active component, a first auxiliary and a second auxiliary. The carrier is molecular sieves. The active component is Rh. The first auxiliary is one or more of Mn, Fe, Na and La. The second auxiliary is one or more of Zn, Co, Cr, Bi and Cu. The active component Rh is 0.5-3% of a mass of the carrier. The first auxiliary is 0.05-5% of the mass of the carrier. The second auxiliary is 0.5-15% of the mass of the carrier. The present invention further discloses application of the catalyst to preparation of pyridine base by catalyzing syngas, where the syngas and an ammonia donor are used as reaction raw materials for reaction to generate pyridine base products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: NANJING REDSUN BIOCHEMISTRY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xiaopan Liu, Chaoran Luo, Yi Xue, Wenkui Wang, Xiang Du