Patents Examined by Natasha E Young
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Patent number: 11731872Abstract: 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: August 22, 2023Assignee: BAYOTECH, INC.Inventors: Herbert Lee Nigg, Robert Charles Moore, Millicent Capstaff, Ranko P. Bontchev, Viswanath Krishnamoorthy
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Patent number: 11732068Abstract: Disclosed are a method and system for propylene polymerization utilizing a loop slurry reactor. The method can include polymerizing propylene in a loop slurry reactor under bulk polymerization conditions to produce polypropylene. The propylene polymerization system can include i) a loop slurry reactor and a heat exchange system that is configured to cool the legs of the loop slurry reactor and/or ii) an inlet manifold that is configured to connect flashline heaters to a separator.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LPInventors: Bryan M. Garner, Anthony O. Parker
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Patent number: 11731101Abstract: The invention refers to a modular continuous flow device for automated chemical multistep synthesis under continuous flow conditions. The device comprises a plurality of different types of continuous flow modules and a valve assembly for connecting the continuous flow modules to each other in a parallel or radial manner. This arrangement allows conducting chemical reaction sequences by pre-synthesizing and intermediately storing or simultaneously synthesizing at least one intermediate product which is needed in the main synthetic reaction sequence in order to obtain the final product.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.Inventors: Kerry Gilmore, Peter H. Seeberger, Bartholomaus Pieber, Sourav Chatterjee
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Patent number: 11731096Abstract: An upflow reactor (1), includes a housing (20), a catalyst bed layer (30) and a pressing device (10). The housing (20) is internally provided with a reaction chamber (210), a reaction material inlet (220) and a reaction material outlet (230) which are in communication with the reaction chamber (210) are provided on the housing (20). The catalyst bed layer (30) is provided within the reaction chamber (210), the pressing device (10) is provided within the reaction chamber (210) and located above the catalyst bed layer (30). At least a part of the pressing device (10) is movable up and down so that the at least a part of the pressing device (10) can be pressed against the catalyst bed layer (30).Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, DALIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM AND PETROCHEMICALS, SINOPEC CORP.Inventors: Minghua Guan, Xiuna Yang, Zonglin Ruan, Haochen Wang, Yang Jiang, Guoying Cui, Jiawen Zhou
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Patent number: 11731095Abstract: A method for enabling gas exchange and chemical reactions with one or more liquid streams contained in a reactive process vessel are provided. One or more exchange layers within the process vessel can be composed of both collector media and releaser media. The exchange layers allow elements to facilitate increased performance of vessel operations by promoting gas component mixing and diffusion. Improved rates of gas component exchange mean less coking and more gas components available for reaction.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: CRYSTAPHASE PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: John N. Glover, Bradley Glover, Austin Schneider, Peter Gregory Ham
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Patent number: 11717801Abstract: Disclosed herein is a micro-reactor for synthesizing a molecule, for example, compound, a nanoparticle, or a quantum dot. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the apparatus comprises a processor, a storage unit, a reaction unit, a detector, and a collector, in which the storage unit and the reaction unit are independently controlled by the process. Optionally, the present micro-reactor further comprises a diagnostic device for performing a diagnostic test on a biological sample by use of the molecule. Also disclosed wherein are methods of diagnosing and treating a disease in a subject with the aid of the present micro-reactor.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Academia SinicaInventors: Michael Hsiao, Ming-Che Hsieh, Zhen Bao, Ming-Hsien Chan, Ru-Shi Liu, An-Bang Wang, Chia-Chih Chu
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Patent number: 11707723Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a radial flow reactor including a pair of beds configured to produce a product by processing a raw material supplied thereto. A substance being produced or the product is movable between the pair of beds before the product is moved to a separate reservoir. The ratio of the area of an outlet with respect to the area of an inlet in each of the pair of beds is adjusted such that, when the substance being produced or the product is introduced into the outlet of one bed of the pair of beds from the other bed of the pair of beds, limited processing efficiency caused by the limited area of the outlet in each of the pair of beds is overcome.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Inventor: Sang Kook Lee
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Patent number: 11701632Abstract: A feedstock gas, such as natural gas, is introduced into a mixing chamber. A combustible gas is introduced into a combustion chamber, for example simultaneously to the introduction of the feedstock gas. Thereafter, the combustible gas is ignited so as to cause the combustible gas to flow into the mixing chamber via one or more fluid flow paths between the combustion chamber and the mixing chamber, and to mix with the feedstock gas. The mixing of the combustible gas with the feedstock gas causes one or more products to be produced.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: EKONA POWER INC.Inventors: John Benjamin Hinkey, Jr., Timothy John Elder, Kenneth William Kratschmar, Christopher Edwin John Reid
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Patent number: 11702336Abstract: The invention relates to a process and a plant for producing pure hydrogen from an input gas containing hydrogen and hydrocarbons, in particular from a hydrogen-containing refinery off-gas, by steam reforming in a steam reforming stage and multi-stage hydrogen enrichment. According to the invention the input gas containing hydrogen and hydrocarbons is separated in a first hydrogen enrichment stage into a hydrogen-enriched substream and a hydrogen-depleted substream, wherein at least a portion of the hydrogen-enriched substream is supplied to a second hydrogen enrichment stage or introduced into the pure hydrogen product stream and at least a portion of the hydrogen-depleted substream is supplied to the steam reforming stage as a reforming feed stream or as part thereof and/or to the burners as a fuel gas stream.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Société Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procédés Georges ClaudeInventors: Swatantra Kumar Shrivastava, Mirko Huebel, Mrityunjoy Samaddar
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Patent number: 11698189Abstract: According to one aspect of the invention, a catalyst tower is provided, which comprises a gas inlet and a catalyst holding plate set therein. The gas inlet is the opening where the catalyst tower and the upstream piping connects with one another. The distance between the gas inlet and the catalyst holding plate is directly proportional to the difference in diameter between the catalyst tower and the upstream piping.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Inventor: Hsiao-Nan Wang
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Patent number: 11697094Abstract: A method of purifying air polluted by smoke and fumes, such as from wildfires and other hazard, may deploy a series of fluid filled vessels that act as filters to trap and/or neutralize components that would foul an aqueous suspension of gold nanoparticles that is effective in converting toxic carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide. Non-toxic fluids may be used. As the gold nanoparticles are effective in a basic solution, the solution may contain a visible pH indicator or an apparatus that deploys the method may continuously monitor the pH thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Inventors: John Jerome Chambless, Robert Paul French
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Patent number: 11684902Abstract: A catalytic bed for a chemical reactor, said catalytic bed having an annular-cylindrical geometry and comprising at least one collector made with a gas-permeable cylindrical wall, containing at least a first catalyst and a second catalyst, wherein the second catalyst has a finer particle size than the first catalyst, and wherein the first catalyst forms a layer of catalyst adjacent to and in contact with said collector.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2018Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: CASALE SAInventor: Enrico Rizzi
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Patent number: 11684904Abstract: Methods for operating a high pressure olefin polymerization reactor include the steps of introducing an initiator stream containing ethylene and an initiator compound through an initiator nozzle into the reactor, introducing an olefin stream containing ethylene and an optional comonomer through an olefin nozzle into the reactor, and polymerizing ethylene and optionally the comonomer in the presence of the initiator stream in the reactor under high pressure polymerization conditions to produce an ethylene polymer. The amount of ethylene in the initiator stream is from 0.01 to 2 wt. % of the amount of ethylene in the olefin stream. An injection nozzle that can be used in conjunction with the high pressure reactor also is described.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LPInventors: Kenneth A. Dooley, Corey W. Knight, Ralph J. Price, Joel A. Mutchler
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Patent number: 11673106Abstract: A fixed bed arrangement formed as an insert for a reactor for catalytic conversion of reaction media, in particular for catalytic methanation of a gas mixture including hydrogen and carbon dioxide, having a receiving chamber, which extends axially within an outer sleeve, and through which reaction media flows during the reactor operation for receiving a catalyst material, and a heat exchanger arrangement having a fluid flow path for a temperature control fluid, which fluid flow path is spatially separated from the receiving chamber, for removing and supplying heat from/to the process. The outer sleeve is formed by the heat exchanger arrangement, at least in regions. The fixed bed arrangement includes a reactor for the catalytic reaction of reaction media having a pressure chamber for receiving reaction media, and such a fixed bed arrangement inserted into the pressure chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: HITACHI ZOSEN INOVA AGInventors: Freimut Marold, Christoph Hütter, Wolfgang Beez, Adrian Schneider
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Patent number: 11673112Abstract: A processing system and method of producing a particulate material are provided. The processing system includes a system inlet connected to one or more gas lines to deliver one or more gases into the processing system, a buffer chamber, a dispersion chamber, a heating assembly, a reaction chamber and a system outlet for delivering particulate material out of the processing system. The method includes delivering one or more gases via a system inlet into a buffer chamber of a processing system, jetting a liquid mixture into one or more streams of droplets using one or more power jet modules into the processing system, delivering flows of one or more heated gases via a heating assembly, forming a reaction mixture and processing the reaction mixture at a reaction temperature into a product material inside the reaction chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Inventors: Yan Wang, Lu Yang, Liang-Yuh Chen
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Patent number: 11666883Abstract: Plant for the synthesis of melamine starting from urea, wherein the stream of offgas containing NH3 and CO2 produced by the synthesis of melamine is converted into urea in a dedicated urea plant.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Casale SAInventors: Andrea Scotto, Matteo Fumagalli
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Patent number: 11660369Abstract: A light includes a light emitting diode (LED) package to emit visible light, an electronics module coupled to the light emitting diode package, and a dome or fixture having a coating containing Photocatalytic Titanium Dioxide optically coupled to the light emitting diode package such that the coating containing Titanium Dioxide acts as a photo-catalyst responsive to LED emitted light.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Inventor: Deloren E. Anderson
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Patent number: 11654412Abstract: In an apparatus producing hydrogen gas by the decomposition reaction of water using photocatalyst, its miniaturization is achieved while suppressing the decrease of production efficiency of hydrogen gas as low as possible or improving the efficiency. The apparatus 1 comprises a container portion 2 receiving water W; a photocatalyst member 3 immersed in the water, having photocatalyst which generates excited electrons and positive holes when irradiated with light, causes a decomposition reaction of the water and generates hydrogen gas; a light source 4 emitting the light irradiated to the photocatalyst member; and a heat exchange device 7 conducting waste heat of the light source to the water in the container portion; wherein the water to be decomposed on the photocatalyst member in the container portion is warmed by the waste heat of the light source by the heat exchange device.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Taizo Masuda, Kenichi Okumura, Ryota Tomizawa, Atsuki Yoshimura
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Patent number: 11648524Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for controlling an ultrafast chemical reaction using a microfluidic reactor, and more specifically, the present invention relates to a method for controlling an ultrafast chemical reaction such as the Fries rearrangement reaction and the like by using a microfluidic reactor by the 3D metal printing technique.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignees: POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATION, VERSITECH LIMITEDInventors: Dong Pyo Kim, Ji Tae Kim, Hyune Jea Lee
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Patent number: 11648520Abstract: A fluidized bed cooler for cooling a urea-containing granular material may include a cooler chamber having a product inlet opening, a product outlet opening, a perforated plate disposed in the cooler chamber, and at least one cooling medium entry opening disposed beneath the perforated plate. The product inlet opening may be disposed above the perforated plate, and a baffle plate may be disposed between the product inlet opening and the perforated plate. A distributor plate may be disposed between the baffle plate and the perforated plate. An area of the distributor plate may be 10% to 50% greater than an area of the baffle plate.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2019Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP FERTILIZER TECHNOLOGY GMBH, THYSSENKRUPP AGInventors: Rositsa Marianova Rieks, Thomas Gerner