Patents Examined by Natasha E Young
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Patent number: 11850564Abstract: A flow reactor includes a flow reactor module having a heat exchange fluid enclosure with an inner surface sealed against a surface of a process fluid module, the inner surface having two or more raised ridges crosswise to a heat exchange flow direction from an inflow port or location to an outflow port or location and having a gap of greater than 0.1 mm between the two or more raised ridges and the surface of the process module.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Sylvain Maxime F Gremetz, Elena Daniela Lavric
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Patent number: 11851403Abstract: Provided are industrial processes for producing an organic acid alky ester from a feedstock containing organic acids and/or saponifiables, comprising: countercurrently contacting a feedstock with an organic alkylating reagent over two or more vessels or stages at temperature between 100° C. and 400° C. and pressure between 0.1 barg and 355 barg while simultaneously removing water and/or glycerin with unreacted alkylating reagent from the final vessel or stage to result in a first reaction method product containing organic acid alkyl esters, followed by a choice of using the alkyl esters as-is, purifying the organic acid alkyl esters from the first reaction product mixture or subjecting the first reaction product mixture to an additional transesterification reaction to convert saponifiables into additional organic acid alkyl esters, then purifying the organic acid alkyl esters from this second reaction method product.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2023Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: INVENTURE RENEWABLES, INC.Inventors: Cory O'Neil Blanchard, Ryan Alexander Long, William Rusty Sutterlin, Timothy Nelson Brown, Endre Mihaly
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Patent number: 11845055Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for conducting chemical reactions and for conducting a multi-step chemical reactions using swellable organically modified silica (SOMS) as nanoreactors.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Appalachian State UniversityInventor: Nicholas N. Shaw
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Patent number: 11839872Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and to a process for the fluidized bed catalytic cracking of a hydrocarbon feedstock, in which: a first feedstock (2) is cracked in a dense fluidized bed reactor (1) in the presence of a catalyst (3) to produce a first effluent; and at least one second feedstock (10) is cracked in a transport fluidized bed reactor (4) in the presence of the catalyst (3) supplied by the dense fluidized bed reactor (1) to produce a second effluent, the second feedstock (10) being a heavier feedstock than the first feedstock (2).Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: IFP Energies NouvellesInventors: Ann Cloupet, Ludovic Raynal
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Patent number: 11833484Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for preparing an oligomer, including: a reactor receiving a monomer stream and performing an oligomerization reaction to prepare a reaction product; a product discharge line for transferring a reaction product stream discharged from the reactor; and a bubble catcher provided in any area of the product discharge line to remove bubbles contained in the reaction product stream.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Moon Sub Hwang, Jeong Seok Lee, Hong Min Lee, Jong Hun Song, Kyung Seog Youk, Min Ho Sun, Hyun Seok Kim
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Patent number: 11833471Abstract: A catalysed filter system for treating particulate-containing exhaust gas from a stationary emission source comprises an elongate filter element comprising porous walls which define a hollow section and a substrate material supporting a catalyst component disposed within the hollow section, the arrangement being such that gas entering the hollow section of the elongate filter element from across the porous walls thereof must contact the substrate material supporting the catalyst component before exiting the hollow section of the elongate filter element.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Inventors: Paul Joseph Andersen, Thomas M. Yeh
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Patent number: 11833499Abstract: A method for revamping a catalytic converter wherein: said catalytic converter comprises a pressure vessel and a catalytic cartridge containing at least one catalyst bed, the pressure vessel includes a cylindrical shell with a full aperture and includes a removable cover of said aperture, and the catalytic cartridge is removable through said upper aperture, and the method includes: installing an additional shell over the aperture of the original shell, thus obtaining an axially extended shell of the pressure vessel; providing an axially extended catalytic cartridge having an axially extended room for holding catalyst in the so obtained axially extended shell.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: CASALE SAInventor: Francesco Formentini
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Patent number: 11826751Abstract: Disclosed is a flow bypass device, a reactor system containing the flow bypass device; a method for operating a fixed bed of solid particles in which gas is re-routed to an interior of the fixed bed, for example, the flow bypass device is used to bypass a portion of the solid particles; and a method for loading solid particles and a flow bypass device into a vessel. The methods and systems can use a single flow bypass device or multiple flow bypass devices that are stacked on top of one another.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LPInventor: Steven R. Horlacher
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Patent number: 11826750Abstract: A dehydrogenation reaction apparatus includes a dehydrogenation reactor having a reaction vessel that stores a chemical hydride; and a methane generator that converts carbon monoxide generated in the dehydrogenation reactor into methane.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Yongwoo Kim, Jin Woo Choung, Jihui Seo, Jaeyong Lee, Pyung Soon Kim, Yoondo Kim, Yu-Jin Lee, Jaewon Kirk, Suk Woo Nam, Hyuntae Sohn, Yongmin Kim, Hyangsoo Jeong
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Patent number: 11819815Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to a reactor for the production of low-carbon syngas from captured carbon dioxide and renewable hydrogen. The hydrogen is generated from water using an electrolyzer powered by renewable electricity or from any other method of low-carbon hydrogen production. The improved catalytic reactor is energy efficient and robust when operating at temperatures up to 1800° F. Carbon dioxide conversion efficiencies are greater than 75% with carbon monoxide selectivity of greater than 98%. The catalytic reactor is constructed of materials that are physically and chemically robust up to 1800° F. As a result, these materials are not reactive with the mixture of hydrogen and carbon dioxide or the carbon monoxide and steam products. The reactor materials do not have catalytic activity or modify the physical and chemical composition of the conversion catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Infinium Technology, LLCInventors: Dennis Schuetzle, Robert Schuetzle, Anja Rumplecker Galloway, Orion Hanbury, James Bucher, Ramer Rodriguez
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Patent number: 11813602Abstract: A method of assembling and/or operating apparatus for undertaking a chemical reaction. The apparatus includes a housing in which a precursor of a receptacle is arranged. A fluid (F1) may be introduced into said precursor to cause the precursor to inflate.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: INNOSPEC LIMITEDInventors: Carl Waterson, Richard David Hayton, Ian Malcolm McRobbie
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Patent number: 11813584Abstract: A combined reforming apparatus is provided. The combined reforming apparatus includes a body, a first catalyst tube disposed inside the body and reacting at a first temperature to reform hydrocarbons (CxHy) having two or more carbon atoms into methane (CH4), a second catalyst tube disposed inside the body, connected to the first catalyst tube, and reacting at a second temperature higher than the first temperature to reform methane (CH4) into synthesis gas comprising hydrogen (H2) and carbon monoxide (CO), and a combustion unit configured to supply heat to the first and second catalyst tubes.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.Inventors: Su Nam You, Bong Keun Kim, Gyeong Mo Nam
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Patent number: 11806706Abstract: Disclosed herein are methane conversion devices that achieve autothermal conditions and related methods using the methane conversion devices.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARKInventors: Dongxia Liu, Su Cheun Oh
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Patent number: 11802091Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed towards a system and method relating to depositing vapor in a sample. For example, a device includes a vapor source chamber configured to contain a vapor source material to generate vapor. An activation chamber is configured to contain a sample. The activation chamber is in fluid communication with the vapor source chamber to receive the vapor. A permeable separator divides the vapor source chamber and the activation chamber, and isolates the sample in the activation chamber while allowing vapor to pass between the vapor source chamber and the activation chamber. The device is sealable and configured to apply vacuum to the vapor and sample, to cause deposition of the vapor into the pumice stone samples.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland SecurityInventor: Inho Cho
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Patent number: 11794162Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heat exchange system which is capable of saving energy consumed in a whole process by exchanging heat of different streams from each other, included in a continuous preparation system of a diester-based composition.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Jae Hun Jeong, Sung Kyu Lee, Yeon Uk Choo, Hyoung Jun, Chan Hyu Jin
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Patent number: 11795140Abstract: The disclosure pertains to a urea production plant and process using a high-pressure CO2 stripper, downstream medium-pressure treatment unit and a medium-pressure dissociator receiving urea synthesis solution from the reactor, wherein gas from the treatment unit and dissociator are condensed in a first condenser and off-gas from the synthesis section is condensed separately in a second condenser. A revamping method is also described.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: STAMICARBON B.V.Inventors: Josef Chroust, Wilhelmus Hubertus Geurts
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Patent number: 11787693Abstract: A water gas shift (WGS) reactor system includes a housing; a reaction tube disposed in the housing, wherein a reaction channel is defined within the reaction tube and a cooling fluid channel is defined between the housing and the reaction tube; a catalyst disposed in the reaction channel, the catalyst configured to catalyze a hydrogen generation reaction; and a heat transfer material disposed in the reaction channel.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: BAYOTECH, INC.Inventors: Herbert Lee Nigg, Robert Charles Moore, Millicent Capstaff, Ranko P. Bontchev, Viswanath Krishnamoorthy
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Patent number: 11767490Abstract: A process and apparatus for extracting plant oil from plant material by cooling an alcohol solvent to a temperature of ?40° C. or lower, contacting the plant material with the cold solvent to extract plant oil to provide a solvent and plant oil mixture, heating the mixture to convert the solvent to a gaseous state to thereby separate the solvent from the plant oil, and cooling the separated gaseous solvent to a liquid to recover the solvent. The apparatus may include a heat exchanger to cool the alcohol solvent, a centrifuge configured to receive and contact a batch of plant material with the cold solvent to extract oil from the plant material to provide a solvent and oil mixture, and a programmable logic controller to monitor and control the temperature of the cold solvent, and control the centrifuge to agitate the solvent in contact with the plant material.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: MACH TechnologiesInventors: Robert N. Wirtz, Jason T. Wirtz, John W. Wirtz, II
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Patent number: 11760950Abstract: A gas purification device includes: a converter packed with a catalyst for hydrolyzing both carbonyl sulfide and hydrogen cyanide; an upstream heat exchanger for heat exchange between a gas to be introduced into the converter and a cooling fluid for cooling the gas; a reaction-temperature estimation member for estimating a reaction temperature inside the converter; and a flow-rate adjustment member for adjusting a flow rate of the cooling fluid flowing into the upstream heat exchanger based on an estimated value of the reaction-temperature estimation member to control the reaction temperature.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd.Inventors: Kaori Yoshida, Rikio Kan, Seiji Kakesako
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Patent number: 11752484Abstract: The invention proceeds from an apparatus for analyzing reactions, comprising a starting material distributor and at least two reactors which are connected in parallel and are each connected via a connecting conduit to an outlet of the starting material distributor. To set the inflow, a pressure regulator and a restrictor are installed in each connecting conduit between the starting material distributor and the reactors or an outlet conduit in which a restrictor and a pressure regulator are installed branches off from each connecting conduit. The invention further relates to a method for analyzing reactions in such an apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: HTE GMBH THE HIGH THROUGHPUT EXPERIMENTATIONInventor: Armin Lange de Oliveira