Patents Examined by Jennifer A. Leung
  • Patent number: 12275006
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of reactor technologies and in particular to a solid-liquid phase reactor for preparing a powder product, which includes a vessel shell, a material-restricting partition net, a solid reactant charge opening, and a reaction solution make-up opening. The material-restricting partition net is disposed in a cavity of the vessel shell and connected to the vessel shell. The material-restricting partition net is enclosed to form a semi-closed material-restricting zone with an upward-facing opening itself or together with an inner wall of a vessel. A frame of the semi-closed material-restricting zone is rigid. The solid reactant charge opening is in communication with the facing-up opening of the semi-closed material-restricting zone, and the reaction solution make-up opening is in communication with an internal space of the semi-closed material-restricting zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Inventor: Li Liu
  • Patent number: 12263474
    Abstract: Fluidized bed reactor apparatus, comprising a cylindrical reactor chamber (10), and a rotating shaft (14) equipped with radially extending fluidization units (16) disposed in the reactor chamber (10), said rotating shaft (14) being connected to a drive unit (42). The apparatus further comprising means for feeding fluidizing bed material into the reactor chamber (10), creating a fluidized bed (28) in the reactor chamber (10), means for feeding organic material that shall be processed into the fluidized bed (28) in the reactor chamber (10), and one or more outlets (22,24) for discharge of material, gases and vapors, wherein the process in the reactor chamber (10) is controlled by a control system (40) connected to at least the drive unit (42). The invention also relates to a method for processing organic material using a fluidized bed reactor apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Thermtech Holding AS
    Inventor: Erik Michelsen
  • Patent number: 12258524
    Abstract: A fuel processing system and method for a sulfur bearing fuel include a hydrodesulfurization reactor followed by an adsorbent bed for removing sulfur or sulfur containing species from the fuel. In certain embodiments, the adsorbent bed is a ZnO bed. In another embodiment, a fuel processing system and method for a sulfur bearing fuel include a steam reformer, a hydrodesulfurization reactor, and an adsorbent bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Paul E. George, II, Vincent J. Contini, Greg A. Whyatt, Douglas A. Thornton
  • Patent number: 12247049
    Abstract: A system and method for solid phase chemical synthesis reduces the overall amount of solvent required for the process. In, for example, solid phase peptide synthesis, during deprotection of the bound peptide, a deprotecting agent, such as piperidine in dimethylformamide (DMF) is introduced to the reaction vessel. After deprotection is complete, pure DMF, or other similar wash solvent, is used to wash away the residual piperidine from the reaction vessel. The used wash solvent can be removed from the reaction vessel, warmed to evaporate off the piperidine, and the purified used wash solvent can be cooled and re-introduced into the reaction vessel for a subsequent washing. Thus, instead of using six volumes of DMF for washing six times, for example, a single volume of DMF can be used, purified and reused, thus substantially reducing the volume of DMF needed for washing the deprotecting agent from the reaction vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: CSBIO INSTRUMENTATION CO.
    Inventors: Yoheng Hanson Chang, Dario Slavazza
  • Patent number: 12241024
    Abstract: This invention relates to a power recovery process in waste steam/CO2 reformers in which a waste stream can be made to release energy without having to burn the waste or the syngas. This invention in some embodiments does not make use of fuel cells as a component but makes use of exothermic chemical reactors using syngas to produce heat, such as Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. It also relates to control or elimination of the emissions of greenhouse gases in the power recovery process of this invention with the goal of producing energy in the future carbonless world economy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Raven SR, INC.
    Inventor: Terry R. Galloway
  • Patent number: 12239754
    Abstract: A sanitizing cabinet system includes ozone distribution passaging in open fluid communication with a sanitizing compartment inside a cabinet. An ozone generator and a sanitizing air mover are located in the ozone distribution passaging. The sanitizing air mover moves air from the sanitizing compartment across the generator to form ozonated air and moves the ozonated air from the ozone distribution passaging into the sanitizing compartment. A control system controls the ozone generator and air mover based on feedback from an ozone sensor indicating ozone exposure over time. An ozone conversion device is mounted on a dividing wall of the cabinet outside the sanitizing compartment. The dividing wall has inlet and outlet holes, and the ozone conversion device has upstream and downstream chambers in communication with the inlet and outlet holes. Selectively openable dampers separate upstream and downstream chambers from an ozone conversion chamber in which ozone conversion catalyst is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: TRUE MANUFACTURING CO. INC
    Inventors: Kevin Knatt, John Friend, Edward Hartman, Steven Trulaske
  • Patent number: 12239972
    Abstract: Reactor for catalytic chemical reactions comprising a catalyst bed with an annular-cylindrical form crossed by a radial flow or mixed axial-radial flow, wherein the bed is delimited by cylindrical walls made gas-permeable by means of slits and the catalyst bed is formed by particles of catalyst with a nominal minimum size such that: the ratio between a transverse dimension of the slits and the nominal minimum size of the particles of catalyst is smaller than or equal to 0.6; the catalyst bed contains no more than 3% by weight of particles with an actual size smaller than said nominal size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: CASALE SA
    Inventors: Sergio Panza, Pierdomenico Biasi, Ermanno Filippi
  • Patent number: 12221344
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an integrated small and medium-sized natural gas steam reforming reactor comprising a furnace body, a combustion module located outside the furnace body, and a conversion reaction module, a steam generation and superheating module, a medium temperature shift module and a desulfurization module arranged inside the furnace body, wherein the combustion module supplies combustion flue gas into an interior of the furnace body, the interior of the furnace body is partitioned into a plurality of flue cavities by a plurality of high-temperature partition plates, and adjacent flue cavities are communicated via gaps between the high-temperature partition plates and an inner wall of the furnace body, thus forming a flue gas channel that zigzags several times; and the flue cavities and the modules arranged therein sequentially form a conversion unit, a steam generation unit, a medium temperature shift unit and a desulfurization unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: ALLY HI-TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Genyin Ye, Yeqin Wang
  • Patent number: 12209061
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for the integrated production of two different urea products. One is an aqueous urea solution suitable for use in NOx abatement (generally indicated as Diesel Exhaust Fluid DEF). The other is a solution used as a fertilizer, viz. Urea Ammonium Nitrate (UAN). The production of DEF and UAN are integrated as follows: ammonia recovered from the production of urea is used as a feed to the production of ammonium nitrate. At least part of an aqueous urea stream from urea production, is mixed with ammonium nitrate so as to obtain UAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: STAMICARBON B.V.
    Inventors: Joey Dobree, Johannes Henricus Mennen
  • Patent number: 12194207
    Abstract: An integrated autonomous air purification device for taking in polluted air, carrying it through the inside of the purification device where it passes through a set of filtering elements (1) that trap the dust particles contained in the air; ultraviolet-light lamps (2) that transform NOX and CO gases in the air into harmless compounds; an activated carbon filter (4) that traps and eliminates the volatile organic compounds and inorganic acidic gases; second filtering elements (5) that carry out a second filtering; and an extraction hood (6) configured to direct the air coming out of the second filtering elements (5) to at least one nozzle (7) that expels the air to the outside of the purification device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: GINSA ELECTRONIC, S.L.
    Inventor: Joaquín Cusí Navarro
  • Patent number: 12180425
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some implementations an apparatus to produce SAF from dry natural gas includes a natural gas reforming area that receives the dry natural gas and that produces synthetic gas from the dry natural gas, a Fischer-Tropsch conversion area that is operably coupled to the natural gas reforming area and that receives the synthetic gas and produces a hydrocarbon chain from the synthetic gas and a product upgrading area that is operably coupled to the Fischer-Tropsch conversion area that receives the hydrocarbon chain and that produces the SAF from the hydrocarbon chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Kepler GTL LLC
    Inventors: Jason Dvorin, Brent Nelson, Michael G. Smith
  • Patent number: 12172118
    Abstract: A miniature gas detection and purification device is disclosed for a user to carry with him, and includes a main body, a purification module, a gas guider and a gas detection module. The gas detection module detects the gas in the environment surrounding the user to obtain a gas detection datum, and controls the gas guider to be operated according to the gas detection datum, so that gas is inhaled into the main body and flows through the purification module for filtration and purification, and the gas purified is finally guided to an area nearby the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: MICROJET TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao-Jan Mou, Yung-Lung Han, Chi-Feng Huang, Chang-Yen Tsai, Wei-Ming Lee, Tsung-I Lin, Yi-Ting Lu
  • Patent number: 12176118
    Abstract: There is provided an organic iodine trapping apparatus that can efficiently trap an organic iodine without using complicated or large equipment. An organic iodine trapping apparatus 30 is an apparatus that traps an organic iodine, including: a trapping vessel 1 through which gas containing an organic iodine is passed; an organic iodine remover 2 (Example: trihexyl (tetradecyl) phosphonium chloride, or the like) that is disposed in or injected into the trapping vessel 1 and decomposes the organic iodine; and a trapping material 3 that is disposed in or injected into the trapping vessel 1 and traps iodine ions generated by decomposition of the organic iodine, in which the trapping material 3 is a metal (Example: silver or the like) or a metal compound (Example: silver chloride, silver oxide, or the like).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI-GE NUCLEAR ENERGY, LTD.
    Inventors: Sohei Fukui, Kazushige Ishida, Kazuo Tominaga, Motoi Tanaka, Tomoharu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 12157103
    Abstract: A system for chemical transformation of 3D state materials is disclosed wherein, a reaction group having a main body arranged to shape a reaction chamber in which a component configured to support a sample of 3D state arranged to be chemically transform is expected. The system further includes an oven arranged to heat the reaction chamber and a GAS supply group arranged to release a first gas in the reaction chamber and/or a casing component, inside the main body, which has a chemical agent suitable for releasing a second gas into the reaction chamber. The main body has at least two turbines arranged to converge into the reaction chamber, the first and/or the second gas on the samples. The invention relates also to a method for chemical transformation of 3D state materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: GREENBONE ORTHO S.P.A.
    Inventors: Lorenzo Giuseppe Pradella, Alberto Ballardini, Lorenzo Santi, Anna Tampieri, Simone Sprio, Andrea Ruffini
  • Patent number: 12139450
    Abstract: A CO2 conversion device reacts CO2 and hydrogen as raw materials to be converted to methanol or dimethyl ether, in which a methanol synthesis catalyst and a methanol conversion catalyst are disposed with the separation membrane, and methanol and water are produced from CO2 and hydrogen by the methanol synthesis catalyst disposed on a high pressure side via the separation membrane, and then the produced methanol and water from a reaction system containing CO2 and hydrogen are selectively subjected to membrane-permeation through the separation membrane, and a mixture of methanol, dimethyl ether, and water is obtained by the methanol conversion catalyst disposed on a low pressure side via the separation membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: eSep Inc.
    Inventor: Kenichi Sawamura
  • Patent number: 12129172
    Abstract: Compositions, methods, and reactors related to hydrogen production are generally described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventor: Laureen Meroueh
  • Patent number: 12121884
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for improved high pressure processing of parts and materials with fast cycle time, clean operation, and easy to change pressure vessels. Applications include but are not limited to pressure vessels for critical point drying of MEMS or SEM samples, parts cleaning, supercritical fluid extraction, and aerogel processing. In a specific embodiment, the pressure vessel can operate near or above the critical pressure and temperature of a fluid in the pressure vessel for parts processing. This includes critical point drying of MEMS or SEM samples in an easy to use processing pressure chamber system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Inventor: Brian Hansen
  • Patent number: 12110229
    Abstract: A heat recovery system for plasma reformers is comprised of a cascade of regenerators and recuperators that are arranged to transfer in stages the heat at high temperatures for storage, transport, and recirculation. Recirculation of heat increases the efficiency of plasma reformers and heat exchanging reduces temperature of the product for downstream applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: MAAT Energy Company
    Inventors: Leslie Bromberg, Kim-Chinh Tran, Jorj Ian Owen
  • Patent number: 12109561
    Abstract: A support structure for a structured catalytic packing is disclosed. The support structure is in a fixed position relative to the reactor tube containing it. It supports catalyzed casings that are free to move relative to the support structure. The support structure and casings are inserted in the reactor tube such that the support structure is located proximate the longitudinal axis of the tube and the casings are located between the support structure and the reactor tube wall. The support structure comprises a central support tube or rod proximate to, and impervious or perforated discs perpendicular to, the longitudinal axis of the reactor tube, and may comprise spacers separating the discs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: ZoneFlow Reactor Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jared Carver, Jonathan Jay Feinstein, James Bruce Boisture
  • Patent number: 12102726
    Abstract: A disinfecting assembly that enables large mobile objects (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Inventors: Martin John Burrows, Brian Scott Clemons