Patents Examined by Magali P Slawski
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Patent number: 11629070Abstract: Water purification systems including an inlet chamber, a purification module, a purified water outlet, and an impure water outlet. The inlet chamber is configured to receive an input water stream. The purification module includes a purification chamber configured to divide the input water stream into a purified water stream fluidly coupled to the purified water outlet and an impure water stream fluidly coupled to the impure water outlet. The purification chamber includes a first hydrophilic surface and a second hydrophilic surface spaced from the first hydrophilic surface. The first hydrophilic surface and the second hydrophilic surface cooperate to establish purified zones of substantially pure water and an impure zone of impurity concentrated water from the input water stream. The purified water stream is supplied by substantially pure water from the purified zones and the impure water stream is supplied by the impurity concentrated water from the impure zone.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Inventors: Kaustubh Chilwarwar, Michael Hall
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Patent number: 11607624Abstract: A method for purifying a nonaqueous liquid substance includes: filling a cartridge container with a macroporous or porous type ion exchange resin in a water-wet state to obtain an ion exchange resin-filled cartridge filled with the macroporous or porous type ion exchange resin before water content reduction; reducing a water content of the macroporous or porous type ion exchange resin in the cartridge container until a water content (A) of the macroporous or porous type ion exchange resin after water content reduction becomes 90 to 97% of a water content (B) of the macroporous or porous type ion exchange resin in a saturated equilibrium state; an initial blowing step of allowing the nonaqueous liquid substance before being purified to pass inside the cartridge container filled with the macroporous or porous type ion exchange resin after water content reduction and discharging an initial blow effluent from inside the cartridge container; and purification.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: ORGANO CORPORATIONInventors: Noriko Takada, Miwa Ito
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Patent number: 11597659Abstract: Disclosed is a device for treating high-concentration organic wastewater by catalyst hydrothermal gasification, including a CHG reactor, a temporary wastewater storage tank and a condensing heat exchanger which are sequentially in loop connection. The CHG reactor includes a shell, a thermocouple, a water distribution device, and a packing support. The device of the present disclosure can quickly convert the high-concentration organic wastewater into clean energy or harmless gas at a low temperature under the action of a catalyst, so that the energy consumption of a treatment process is greatly reduced, and the treatment efficiency is improved. The device has potential application prospect.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignees: Nanjing University, Nanjing University-International Research Institute of Environmental IndustriesInventors: Lu Lv, Linping Wang, Jie Rui, Qianlin Huang, Jingsheng Xu, Weiming Zhang, Bingcai Pan
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Patent number: 11596903Abstract: A hollow fibre membrane having a coiled, a hemihelix, a helical or an undulated native form, in which the membrane can be stretched by up to 4-times its original length with no plastic deformation, and wherein the native form of the membrane is produced by the asymmetric flow of liquid polymer through an opening of a die or nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2017Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: OXYMEM LIMITEDInventors: Eoin Syron, Michael Semmens, Malcolm Whelan, John Geaney, Nigel Coombes, Wayne Byrne, Barry Heffernan
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Patent number: 11584666Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing hydrogen-containing water is disclosed. In one aspect, the apparatus includes a container part formed with a upper space and a lower space positioned vertically from each other around a connecting passage therein. The apparatus also includes an ion exchange membrane configured to close the connecting passage and an electrolytic part comprising a cathode disposed on the upper space and a cathode an anode disposed on the lower space. The apparatus further includes a handle part configured to couple to the container part and to provide a supply passage for water to be supplied to the lower space and a discharge passage to discharge oxygen and ozone generated from the lower space.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2017Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Welltech Korea Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seung Yeol Park, Nam Suck Lee, Pil Jong Kim
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Patent number: 11572509Abstract: Disclosed herein is an oil dispersant composition that contains an acyl amino acid ionic liquid, a dicationic ionic liquid, a fruit acid ionic liquid, a polyacid ionic liquid, and an ethoxylate oleyl ether ionic liquid. The composition may also be diluted with water. The composition is useful for dispersing an oil spill in a body of water, while being less toxic to the aquatic environment and also acting to stimulate bacterial growth in said aquatic environment.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: PETROLIAM NASIONAL BERHADInventors: Muhammad Moniruzzaman, Mohamed Ibrahim Abdul Mutalib, Siti Hawatulaila Baharuddin, Noorul Adawiyah Mustahil, Atikah Aini Abdullah, Magaret a/p Sivapragasam, Cecilia Devi Wilfred
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Patent number: 11565215Abstract: The present invention relates to modification to permeate channels and permeate materials in a cross-flow filtration system to improve performance in counter current filtration having both retentate channels and permeate channels wherein a solution is pumped through one of the channels and drawn through a membrane to one of the other channels to assist in positive pressure driven filtration by using the osmotic pressure, concentration, or preferential solubility difference between the retentate and permeate flow streams thereby increasing or altering the flux through the membrane separating the flow streams.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: SMARTFLOW TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Mark Vander Hoff, Todd Benson, Marc Pugh
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Patent number: 11565956Abstract: Disclosed is a multifunctional continuous hydrothermal oxidation experiment system, comprising a reactor (12), wherein an inlet of the reactor (12) is connected in parallel with an oxidant pipeline and a material pipeline; the oxidant pipeline comprises a gas oxidant delivery pipe and a liquid oxidant delivery pipe connected in parallel, and the gas oxidant pipe comprises an air oxidant delivery pipe and an oxygen delivery pipe connected in parallel; and a heat exchanger and a preheater are sequentially connected in series on the oxidant pipeline and the material pipeline, the oxidant pipeline and the material pipeline are in communication with an inner pipe of the heat exchanger; and the outlet of the reactor (12) is sequentially in communication, by means of piping, with a corrosion experiment device (14), an outer pipe of the heat exchanger, a cooler (16) and a gas-liquid separator (17).Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: JIANGSU INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCEInventors: Weili Jiang, Yanmeng Gong, Jiaang Lu, Shuyang Liu
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Patent number: 11565954Abstract: A device includes a tube body 110 being filled with water; an induction coil 120 installed at a center inside the tube body 110; and a plurality of heating plates 130, 140 arranged around the induction coil 120. The device further includes a high frequency generator 180 for applying high-frequency power to the induction coil 120 to heat the plurality of heating plates 130, 140, resulting in that the water in the tube body 110 is heated and converted into micro-cluster magnetized water; and a tube 150, positioned between a pair of magnets 160, 170 for causing the micro-cluster magnetized water to pass through an N-pole and an S-pole resulting from the pair of magnets 160, 170, thereby providing it as magnetized water exhibiting a high degree of electric conductivity.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Inventor: Keun Soon Kim
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Patent number: 11554332Abstract: The present invention is in the field of a system for gas recovery from wastewater, a method for treating wastewater, and a method wherein ammonia and carbon dioxide are recovered. Typically a wastewater stream is fed into the system, treated and stripped from ammonia and carbon dioxide, and a cleaner stream is released.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFTInventors: Niels Van Linden, Henricus Lambertus Franciscus Spanjers, Julius Bernardus Van Lier
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Patent number: 11554351Abstract: The present invention relates to a porous membrane, process for the manufacture thereof and uses thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2017Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: SOLVAY SPECIALTY POLYMERS ITALY S.P.A.Inventors: Emanuele Di Nicolo', Silvia Rita Petricci, Pasquale Campanelli, Lionel De Beauffort
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Patent number: 11541384Abstract: An ion exchange device main body 3 includes: a tubular body 31 into which an ion exchange resin bag 5 accommodating the ion exchange resin is inserted through an opening and which has a liquid outlet 312 in which a liquid outlet port 314 for discharging an ion exchange target liquid to outside is formed; a lid 32 that is supported by the tubular body 31 and has a gas injection portion 324 in which a gas injection port 325 for injecting a to an inside 311 of the tubular body 31 is formed; a lead-out pipe 42 that is connected to the liquid outlet 312 and guides the ion exchange target liquid to the outside; and a check valve 44 that is provided in the lead-out pipe 42 and prevents the ion exchange target liquid from flowing backward from the outside to the inside.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: SUN MAINTENANCE KOKI CO., LTD.Inventor: Hiroshi Fukai
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Patent number: 11535530Abstract: A purification device is provided that includes a porous container, purification media retained in the porous container, and a flow controller integral to the porous container. A purification device is also provided that includes a porous elastic container, purification media, and a flow controller. The porous elastic container has a pocket formed therein. The purification media is compressibly retained in the porous elastic container. The flow controller is elastically retained in the pocket of the porous elastic container.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: UNGER MARKETING INTERNATIONAL, LLCInventors: Robert Camp, Paul Adams, Stephen Huda
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Patent number: 11529574Abstract: A pipeline strainer is provided having a cavity, a screen assembly disposed in the cavity, the screen assembly having an open first end and an open second end and a screen axis extending from the open first end to the open second end, a fluid inlet arranged at the open first end of the screen assembly, such that the fluid inlet is open to an interior of the screen assembly, a fluid outlet adjacent the open first end of the screen assembly. The fluid outlet is open to a straining surface of the screen assembly. A fluid axis extends from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet where the fluid axis crosses the screen axis at or near the fluid inlet.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Strahman Valves, Inc.Inventor: Samuel Stednitz
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Patent number: 11524911Abstract: A magnetization purifying device is provided. At least one or more accommodation spaces formed inside a housing unit along a preset depth or a width status are formed for accommodating a preset amount of magnetization purifying devices having corresponding status, a covering unit having an outwardly-extended engaging segment is provided and capable of being rotated for being matched with an opening formed at one end of the housing unit, another end of the housing unit capable of accommodating the magnetization purifying devices is formed with a recessed engaging segment, so that the magnetization purifying device can perform a predetermined rapid circulating magnetic force line cutting operation to introduced water or air, thereby enabling the water or air fully magnetized and discharged to be provided with anticipated pure oxygen and negative ions, thus the dissolved oxygen in water in a predetermined route, for example an aquaculture pond, can be increased.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Inventors: Chen-Cheng Su, Chi-Pin Shih
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Patent number: 11511230Abstract: A pervaporation membrane formed on a porous support containing a composition encompassing a polysiloxane, a crosslinker and a catalyst are disclosed and claimed. Also disclosed are the fabrication of membranes which exhibit unique separation properties, and their use in the separation of organic volatiles from biomass and/or organic waste, including butanol, ethanol, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: PROMERUS, LLCInventors: Oleksandr Burtovyy, Wei Zhang
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Patent number: 11485661Abstract: A three-dimensional electrode-ozone oxidation-electrocatalytic membrane coupled wastewater treatment device, including a circulating fluidized bed reactor. The circulating fluidized bed reactor includes a funnel-shaped internal, a truncated cone, a fiber ball filter, a gas-liquid distribution plate, an inner cylinder, an intermediate cylinder and an outer cylinder. The inner cylinder, the intermediate cylinder and the outer cylinder are coaxial. The inner cylinder is an electrocatalytic membrane assembly; the intermediate cylinder is a gas diffusion electrode; and the outer cylinder is a stainless-steel mesh. A particle electrode is filled between the intermediate cylinder and the outer cylinder, and between the intermediate cylinder and the inner cylinder. The intermediate cylinder is connected to a negative electrode. The inner cylinder and the outer cylinder are connected to a positive electrode. A wastewater treatment method using the device is also provided herein.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: ZHEJIANG GONGSHANG UNIVERSITYInventors: Yijing Xia, Huajun Feng, Ling Ye, Xiangjuan Ma, Jihua Dai, Yan Yan
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Patent number: 11478757Abstract: A system for liver dialysis makes use of a high cut-off hemodialysis membrane for removing water-soluble and protein-bound toxins from the blood of a person in need. A high cut-off hollow fiber hemodialysis membrane has improved potential to remove albumin-bound toxins and inflammatory mediators.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2011Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: GAMBRO LUNDIA ABInventors: Markus Storr, Bernd Krause, Hermann Goehl, Thomas Ertl, Alexander Gekeler
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Patent number: 11479481Abstract: A method for processing a metallurgical waste acid, includes the following steps. First, a certain amount of a metallurgical waste acid is added into a reaction kettle. Then, the metallurgical waste acid and magnesium slag are added into the reaction kettle in a weight ratio ranging from 5:1 to 15:1 and are stirred into a mixed waste water. The reaction temperature is the room temperature. Then, a certain amount of sulfuric acid is added into the reaction kettle to control the mixed waste water within a pH range. At last, the mixed waste water is filtered.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignees: MACH TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., MACH TECHNOLOGY (LINYI) CO., LTD.Inventor: Chun-Gen Chang
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Patent number: 11478735Abstract: A filter medium (10) for filtering a fluid, in particular for use in an interior air filter (32), comprises a spun-bonded nonwoven formed at least in part of multi-component segmented pie fibers (1) having at least a first plastic component (2) and a second plastic component (3). The multi-component fibers (1) are largely non-split and in order to manufacture same, segmented pie filaments are spun in a spun-bonding process (S4) to form a spun-bonded nonwoven (10). The segmented pie filaments then form the multi-component fibers (4), the first plastic component (2) and/or the second plastic component (3) being made in particular of a polypropylene.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbHInventors: Stefan Orendt, Thomas Pemsel