Patents Examined by Jason M. Greene
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Patent number: 12145101Abstract: The invention relates to a system and method for CO2 capture. The system includes a fleet of CO2 producing assets comprising a fleet of assets having at least two individual assets that produce CO2 containing gas streams, and a set of modular CO2 capture units to capture the CO2 from the CO2 containing gas streams produced by the fleet of assets, wherein at least one of the individual assets is equipped with not less than two modular CO2 capture units, and at least one of the modular CO2 capture units is operated at more than one of the assets during the service life of the modular CO2 capture unit. The method for CO2 capture includes providing the fleet of assets and equipping them with a set of modular CO2 capture units. Advantage over current approaches is performance is optimized across a fleet of assets rather than at an individual site.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2019Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignees: China Energy Investment Corporation Limited, National Institute of Clean-And-Low-Carbon EnergyInventors: Anthony Ku, Surinder Singh, Pingjiao Hao, Jeff Allen
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Patent number: 12145104Abstract: A system for regeneration of acidic gas solvent, the system comprising; a regeneration cell having a solvent chamber arranged to receive a solvent flow, and an internal chamber arranged to receive a steam flow; said regeneration cell including a gas permeable membrane separating the solvent chamber and internal chamber; wherein the regeneration cell is arranged to vent acidic gas stripped from the solvent by the steam.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignees: Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS), Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics China Academy of ScienceInventors: Norfaizah A. Manan, Guodong Kang, Zhe Phak Chan, Syafiqa M. Saleh, Yiming Cao
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Patent number: 12140366Abstract: A refrigerator includes a storage compartment having a front opening and an air sanitation device mounted on a top wall of the storage compartment. The air sanitation device includes: a housing, an air channel located in the housing, a fan, and an air detection device and/or an air purification device located in the air channel. The housing includes a front wall facing the front opening, a rear wall, an upper wall, a lower wall, and a pair of side walls. The air channel includes an air inlet and an air outlet. The fan is configured to force air to enter the air channel from the air inlet, and then be discharged out from the air outlet. The air inlet is located on at least one of the side walls, and the air outlet is located on the rear wall.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Wei Zhong, Haiqing Zhou, Chenli Hu
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Patent number: 12138596Abstract: New carbon nanomaterials, preferably titanium carbide-derived carbon (CDC) nanoparticles, were embedded into a polyamide film to give CDC/polyamide mixed matrix membranes by the interfacial polymerization reaction of an aliphatic diamine, e.g., piperazine, and an activated aromatic dicarboxylate, e.g., isophthaloyl chloride, supported on a sulfone-containing polymer, e.g., polysulfone (PSF), layer, which is preferably previously prepared by dry/wet phase inversion. The inventive membranes can separate CO2 (or other gases) from mixtures of CO2 and further gases, esp. CH4, based upon the generally selective nanocomposite layer(s) of CDC/polyamide.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2024Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALSInventors: Isam H Aljundi, Abdelrahman M Awad
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Patent number: 12138597Abstract: New carbon nanomaterials, preferably titanium carbide-derived carbon (CDC) nanoparticles, were embedded into a polyamide film to give CDC/polyamide mixed matrix membranes by the interfacial polymerization reaction of an aliphatic diamine, e.g., piperazine, and an activated aromatic dicarboxylate, e.g., isophthaloyl chloride, supported on a sulfone-containing polymer, e.g., polysulfone (PSF), layer, which is preferably previously prepared by dry/wet phase inversion. The inventive membranes can separate CO2 (or other gases) from mixtures of CO2 and further gases, esp. CH4, based upon the generally selective nanocomposite layer(s) of CDC/polyamide.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2024Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALSInventors: Isam H. Aljundi, Abdelrahman M. Awad
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Patent number: 12128366Abstract: A monolayer membrane containing gelling polymer particles having at least one of a basic functional group and an acidic functional group, and having a thickness of less than 5 ?m. A composite having a porous carrier and gelling polymer particles having at least any one of a basic functional group and an acidic functional group and filling up the surface pores of the porous carrier. The invention can provide a novel material capable of efficiently separating an acid gas from a mixed gas.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: JCCL, INC.Inventors: Yu Hoshino, Kazushi Imamura, Tomohiro Gyobu, Ikuo Taniguchi, Akira Hamasaki, Chie Yamashita, Takeshi Watanabe, Yoshiko Miura
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Patent number: 12128329Abstract: Solid phase extraction (SPE) disks are manufactured by introducing a series of components and/or liquid suspensions into a mold and evacuating the liquid to form a cohesive filter or SPE disk. After all the free liquid has been substantially removed, the SPE disk is removed from the mold and dried. SPE disks are for use in analytical chemistry procedures.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Inventor: Kevin Dinnean
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Patent number: 12115483Abstract: A ventilation component (1a) includes a supporting portion (10), a gas-permeable membrane (20), and a sealing member (30). The supporting portion (10) has a ventilation path (12) and an annular surface (14). When the ventilation component (1a) is attached to a housing (2), the ventilation path (12) extends in a direction perpendicular to an opening plane of an opening (2a), and extends through the supporting portion (10). The annular surface (14) faces an outer surface (2e) of the housing (2), and surrounds the ventilation path (12) in plan view. The gas-permeable membrane (20) closes the ventilation path (12) in a ventilatable manner. The gas-permeable membrane (20) allows a gas to pass therethrough in a thickness direction of the gas-permeable membrane (20). The sealing member (30) is sandwiched between the outer surface (2e) of the housing (2) and the annular surface (14) to seal a gap between the outer surface (2e) of the housing (2) and the annular surface (14).Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Youzou Yano, Takumi Takahashi, Kenichi Nishikawa
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Patent number: 12115493Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for mixing transmission and separation of hydrogen gas and natural gas recovered based on pressure energy. The method includes: (1) hydrogen compressed natural gas is introduced into the pressure energy recovery system; (2) the low-pressure hydrogen compressed natural gas is introduced into the separation system; (3) the low-hydrogen natural gas and the high concentration hydrogen gas are introduced into a first natural gas buffer tank and a first hydrogen gas buffer tank respectively; (4) the low-hydrogen natural gas and the high concentration hydrogen gas are introduced into the pressure boosting system; (5) the low-hydrogen natural gas and the high concentration hydrogen gas are respectively introduced into a natural gas user end. The method of the present invention is low in energy consumption, so as to realize pressure energy recovery, and energy consumption of hydrogen gas separation is greatly reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: GuangDong QingYi Energy Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Huajie Yu, Jianyun Yin
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Patent number: 12109539Abstract: New carbon nanomaterials, preferably titanium carbide-derived carbon (CDC) nanoparticles, were embedded into a polyamide film to give CDC/polyamide mixed matrix membranes by the interfacial polymerization reaction of an aliphatic diamine, e.g., piperazine, and an activated aromatic dicarboxylate, e.g., isophthaloyl chloride, supported on a sulfone-containing polymer, e.g., polysulfone (PSF), layer, which is preferably previously prepared by dry/wet phase inversion. The inventive membranes can separate CO2 (or other gases) from mixtures of CO2 and further gases, esp. CH4, based upon the generally selective nanocomposite layer(s) of CDC/polyamide.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2024Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALSInventors: Isam H. Aljundi, Abdelrahman M. Awad
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Patent number: 12111072Abstract: An energy exchanger is provided. The exchanger includes a housing having a front and a back. A plurality of panels forming desiccant channels extend from the front to the back of the housing. Air channels are formed between adjacent panels. The air channels are configured to direct an air stream in a direction from the front of the housing to the back of the housing. A desiccant inlet is provided in flow communication with the desiccant channels. A desiccant outlet is provided in flow communication with the desiccant channels. The desiccant channels are configured to channel desiccant from the desiccant inlet to the desiccant outlet in at least one of a counter-flow or cross-flow direction with respect to the direction of the air stream.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Nortek Air Solutions Canada, Inc.Inventors: Robert Besant, Carey Simonson, Blake Norman Erb, Howard Brian Hemingson
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Patent number: 12102966Abstract: New carbon nanomaterials, preferably titanium carbide-derived carbon (CDC) nanoparticles, were embedded into a polyamide film to give CDC/polyamide mixed matrix membranes by the interfacial polymerization reaction of an aliphatic diamine, e.g., piperazine, and an activated aromatic dicarboxylate, e.g., isophthaloyl chloride, supported on a sulfone-containing polymer, e.g., polysulfone (PSF), layer, which is preferably previously prepared by dry/wet phase inversion. The inventive membranes can separate CO2 (or other gases) from mixtures of CO2 and further gases, esp. CH4, based upon the generally selective nanocomposite layer(s) of CDC/polyamide.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2024Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALSInventors: Isam H. Aljundi, Abdelrahman M. Awad
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Patent number: 12102967Abstract: New carbon nanomaterials, preferably titanium carbide-derived carbon (CDC) nanoparticles, were embedded into a polyamide film to give CDC/polyamide mixed matrix membranes by the interfacial polymerization reaction of an aliphatic diamine, e.g., piperazine, and an activated aromatic dicarboxylate, e.g., isophthaloyl chloride, supported on a sulfone-containing polymer, e.g., polysulfone (PSF), layer, which is preferably previously prepared by dry/wet phase inversion. The inventive membranes can separate CO2 (or other gases) from mixtures of CO2 and further gases, esp. CH4, based upon the generally selective nanocomposite layer(s) of CDC/polyamide.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2024Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALSInventors: Isam H Aljundi, Abdelrahman M Awad
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Patent number: 12104247Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for trapping multiple reaction by-products for a semiconductor process, in which in order to separate, with the single trapping apparatus, reaction by-product mixtures contained in unreacted gases discharged after a process of depositing multiple different thin film layers is performed in a process chamber during a semiconductor manufacturing process, a trapping region division part is provided, which divides a heat distribution region into trapping regions for respective reaction by-products while controlling a flow in a movement direction of an introduced unreacted gas, thereby trapping a reaction by-product aggregated in the form of a thin film in a relatively high-temperature region by using a first internal trapping tower in a front region, and trapping a reaction by-product aggregated in the form of powder in a relatively low-temperature region by using a second internal trapping tower in a rear region.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: MILAEBO CO., LTD.Inventors: Che Hoo Cho, Yeon Ju Lee, Jin Woong Kim, Ji Eun Han
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Patent number: 12095103Abstract: An active material container for a functional housing has an air-permeable casing with an interior and an active material arranged inside the interior. One or more rim-side guide elements are arranged at the air-permeable casing and are provided to linearly slidably guide the active material container in an insertion direction in corresponding guide elements of a receptacle of the functional housing. The functional housing is preferably a battery housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbHInventors: Peter Bauditsch, Stephan Niemeyer, Daniel Volkmer, Jochen Linhart, Michael Harenbrock, Heinz Dobusch, Richard Bernewitz, Maximilian Bauch
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Patent number: 12090444Abstract: A membrane distillation (MD) system includes a sweep gas MD (SGMD) module and a knockout chamber. The MD module includes a feed inlet, a feed outlet, a condensing media inlet, and a condensing media outlet. The condensing media is sweep gas. The knockout chamber is positioned after the feed outlet. The knockout chamber includes a liquid inlet, a liquid outlet, and a vapor outlet. Direct gas phase stripping within the SGMD module leads to additional water evaporation at the knockout chamber and contributes to enhanced water or VOCs removal of the MD system.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: NANOSEPEX INC.Inventors: Somenath Mitra, Cheng Li, Sagar Roy, Kabir Mitra
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Patent number: 12083467Abstract: The invention relates to a filter arrangement for cleaning an air stream having at least three filter elements, wherein each filter element has a bellows made of pleated filter medium, wherein the filter elements are arranged in series and any two adjacent filter elements are connected to one another by means of a connecting tab. According to the invention, a fold run-out of all end folds of all bellows is oriented in a particular direction, the connecting tabs are of two different embodiments and the different embodiments of the connecting tabs are arranged alternatingly when viewed in a longitudinal direction of the filter arrangement. Not only is a simple installation of the filter elements in a filter holder thus facilitated but also a defined seating of the filter elements in the filter holder is ensured.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: CARL FREUDENBERG KGInventors: Tobias Beisel, Alexander Oelsner, Christoph Krambs, Peter Zimmermann, Emre Karasu, Peter Capuani
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Patent number: 12085766Abstract: Methods of sequestering carbon dioxide (CO2) are provided. Aspects of the methods include contacting a CO2 containing gaseous stream with an aqueous medium under conditions sufficient to produce a bicarbonate rich product. The resultant bicarbonate rich product (or a component thereof) is then combined with a cation source under conditions sufficient to produce a solid carbonate composition and product CO2 gas, followed by injection of the product CO2 gas into a subsurface geological location to sequester CO2. Also provided are systems configured for carrying out the methods.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Blue Planet Systems CorporationInventors: Brent R. Constantz, Mark A. Bewernitz
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Patent number: 12070717Abstract: A device for passive collection of atmospheric carbon dioxide is disclosed. The device includes a release chamber having an opening and a sorbent regeneration system. The device also includes a capture structure coupled to the release chamber, having at least one collapsible support and a plurality of tiles spaced along the collapsible support. Each tile has a sorbent material. The capture structure is movable between a collection configuration and a release configuration. The collection configuration includes the capture structure extending upward from the release chamber to expose the capture structure to an airflow and allow the sorbent material to capture atmospheric carbon dioxide. The release configuration includes the collapsible support being collapsed and the plurality of tiles being sufficiently enclosed inside the release chamber that the sorbent regeneration system may operate on the plurality of tiles to release captured carbon dioxide from the sorbent material and form an enriched gas.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State UniversityInventors: Klaus Lackner, Shreyans Kedia, Venkatram Choodamani, Robert Page
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Patent number: 12070705Abstract: Articles and methods involving filter media are generally provided. In certain embodiments, the filter media includes at least a first layer, a second layer, and an adhesive resin positioned between the first layer and the second layer. In some embodiments, the first layer may be a pre-filter layer or a support layer. The second layer may, for example, comprise fibers formed by a solution spinning process and/or may comprise fine fibers. In some embodiments, the adhesive resin may be present in a relatively low amount and/or may have a low glass transition temperature. The filter media as a whole may have one or more advantageous properties, including one or more of a high stiffness, a high bond strength between the first layer and the second layer, a high gamma, and/or a low increase in air resistance after being subjected to an IPA vapor discharge. The filter media may be, for example, a HEPA filter and/or an ULPA filter.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2022Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: Hollingsworth & Vose CompanyInventors: Sudhakar Jaganathan, Douglas M. Guimond, Carrie Liu