Patents Examined by Phillip Shao
  • Patent number: 9937456
    Abstract: The present invention provides an air purification device which cleans and purifies pollutants contained in air by using a spray liquid sprayed when air is transferred and, particularly, the air purification device can control the transfer speed of the air transferred in a transfer space so as to increase air purification efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Inventor: Byung Yong Yoon
  • Patent number: 9932243
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a simple and improved process for removing aromatic hydrocarbons from deposit water through the use of associated petroleum gas as stripping gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Wintershall Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Hinners, Marc Poschmann, Gerhard Themann, Andreas Wolf
  • Patent number: 9925693
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for degassing elastomer-containing media, such as elastomer solutions and dispersions in particular, and degassing devices (1) for carrying out said method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: ARLANXEO Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Hanns-Ingolf Paul, Joerg Kirchhoff, Udo Wiesner, Luc Timmermans, Nicolai Dieltiens
  • Patent number: 9883782
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an upright liquid filtration vacuum cleaner includes a vacuum nozzle head and a housing moveably coupled to the vacuum nozzle head. The vacuum cleaner further includes a liquid tank that includes a wall defining an interior volume and a tank intake channel positioned in the interior volume. The interior volume is configured to hold a liquid. The tank intake channel is positioned to direct debris received from an intake passageway into the liquid tank so that the liquid in the interior volume of the liquid tank filters the debris into the liquid so that clean air is exhausted. The vacuum cleaner further includes a separator configured to generate an airflow. The vacuum cleaner is configured to seal the intake passageway when the vacuum cleaner is deactivated and further configured to unseal the intake passageway when the vacuum cleaner is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Inventors: Larry D. York, Randy G. Spencer
  • Patent number: 9873077
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for reducing the content of controlled acidic pollutants in clinker kiln emissions are disclosed. The methods and apparatus include introducing bypass dust produced during production of clinker into one or more locations between the preheater exhaust and the inlet to a dust filter including into a gas conditioning tower. Total bypass dust separated from the kiln exhaust gas may be used. The bypass dust can be separated into a fine and coarse portions. Fine or total bypass dust can be mixed with water to form a bypass dust slurry that can be introduced into the gas conditioning tower. Bypass dust can be used to reduce the content of acidic pollutants such as hydrogen chloride HCl and sulfur oxides SOx from clinker kiln emissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: CalPortland Company
    Inventors: Hartmut Riess, Dusting Pham, George Hartman, Zuhair Hasan
  • Patent number: 9844742
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for liquid degassing by means of swirling or centrifugal force coupled with a pressure gradient. This device comprises a cavity. The cavity is furnished with an inlet for liquid-gas mixture, a gas outlet and a liquid outlet. The gas outlet is inserted into the cavity through the top end of the cavity and positioned around 0.1-3 times the maximum diameter of the cavity from the top of the cavity. Specifically, an overflow pipe with the diameter gradually increasing from the bottom to the top was used as the gas outlet. The overflow pipe is further furnished with a bell mouth at the bottom part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: East China University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Qiang Yang, Xiao Xu, Hao Lu, Chaoyang Wang
  • Patent number: 9833728
    Abstract: In one aspect there is provided a fluid treatment system for treating a contaminated fluid having a gaseous contaminant mixed or dissolved in the liquid portion thereof. The system comprises a generally enclosed and substantially airtight container defining an interior volume. The container comprises an inlet to receive the contaminated fluid, a gas outlet to discharge any gaseous contaminant and a liquid outlet to discharge any liquid that may be separated from said contaminated fluid. During operations, the container is sealed to maintain a seal between the interior volume and any outside environment, so as to prevent the escape of any liquids and gasses out of the interior volume, except as may be provided for via the inlet, the gas outlet or the liquid outlet. Also during operations, a continuous headspace is maintained between the at least one inlet and the at least one gas outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Inventor: Sheldon McKee
  • Patent number: 9828556
    Abstract: Systems and methods for separation of hydrocarbon containing fluids are provided. More particularly, the disclosure is relevant to separating fluids having a gas phase, a hydrocarbon liquid phase, and an aqueous liquid phase using indirect heating. In general, the system uses a first three-phase gas separation followed by indirect heating and then a second three-phase gas separation. Pressure reduction of the hydrocarbon containing fluid occurs either before or after the indirect heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: John Zink Company, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Joseph Rehm, Timothy Warren Oneal, Gene Wesley Bittel, Mark Elliot Ferguson, Daniel Todd Wright, Nicholas Lee Jensen, Todd Ethan Earls
  • Patent number: 9816716
    Abstract: Devices are provided for ventilating and/or removing volatile chemicals from liquid (e.g. water) stored in a liquid-containing storage tank (e.g. water-storage tank). The devices include a first fluid flow path that is physically isolated from a second fluid flow path and a convection device for moving a first fluid along the first fluid flow path toward at a desired destination and for exhausting the first fluid at the desired destination at a desired velocity. Methods are also provided for ventilating and/or removing volatile chemicals from liquid (e.g. water) stored in liquid-containing storage tanks (e.g. water-storage tanks). The methods involve blowing a first fluid through a ventilation device into a liquid-containing storage device at a velocity sufficient to achieve a desired mass transfer rate of volatile chemicals from the liquid in the liquid-containing storage device to air in the headspace and flowing the contaminated air back through the ventilation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: PAX Water Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Fiske, Robin Giguere, Ethan Brooke
  • Patent number: 9803460
    Abstract: Example embodiments include systems for use in a wellhead platform. The system may comprise a separator subsystem, a scrubber subsystem, a first stage compressor subsystem, and a second stage compressor subsystem. The separator subsystem may comprise a separator inlet section for receiving multi-phase raw mixtures, a separator container body for housing the received multi-phase raw mixture, and a separator gas outlet section for separating gas. The scrubber subsystem may comprise a scrubber inlet section connected to the separator gas outlet section, a scrubber container body, and a scrubber gas outlet section for separating gas. The first stage compressor subsystem may be operable to receive gas separated from the scrubber subsystem, compress the received gas, and output the compressed gas. The second stage compressor subsystem may be operable to receive compressed gas from the first stage compressor subsystem, further compress the received compressed gas, and output the further compressed gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited
    Inventors: Thitinun Sillapacharn, Choosak Kokanutranont, Chanwith Buntoengpesuchsakul, Tanadcha Therdwikrant, Peeradet Aroonsangob
  • Patent number: 9796603
    Abstract: The invention provides, in one aspect, a system for recirculating ozonated liquid. The system includes a contactor including at least two inlets and at least two outlets. The contactor is in fluid communication with a first liquid source at a first contactor inlet and a second liquid source at a second contactor inlet, and the second contactor inlet receives gas that purges at least a portion of gas from liquid received at the first contactor inlet. The purged gas exits the contactor at a first contactor outlet. The contactor is in fluid communication with the second liquid source at a second contactor outlet, and the contactor drains at least a portion of the liquid in the contactor, the drained liquid exiting the contactor at the second contactor outlet. The contactor includes a third inlet in fluid communication with the first liquid source, the third inlet allowing the first liquid source to release liquid at an ambient pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: MKS Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Johannes Heinrich Seiwert, Ulrich Alfred Brammer, Martin Blacha, Gerhard Joachim Schnaiter
  • Patent number: 9782049
    Abstract: An upright water filtration vacuum containing a antimicrobial particulate for anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties. The water filtration vacuum device draws in the air, forcing it in to the water and mixing it with, e.g., nano-silver, returning clean, fresh air in to the home environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Inventors: Larry D. York, Randy G. Spencer
  • Patent number: 9776124
    Abstract: Acid gas is removed from a high pressure feed gas that contains significant quantities of CO2 and H2S. In especially preferred configurations and methods, feed gas is contacted in an absorber with a lean and an ultra-lean solvent that are formed by flashing rich solvent and stripping a portion of the lean solvent, respectively. Most preferably, the flash vapors and the stripping overhead vapors are recycled to the feed gas/absorber, and the treated feed gas has a CO2 concentration of less than 2 mol % and a H2S concentration of less than 10 ppmv, and more typically less than 4 ppmv.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Fluor Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: John Mak
  • Patent number: 9770690
    Abstract: There is provided an exhaust gas processing apparatus which improves the removal rate of harmful substances and also achieves a compact size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniyuki Takahashi, Tadashi Komatsu
  • Patent number: 9771290
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for working up alkaline waste water which is formed during washing of crude nitrobenzene obtained by nitration of benzene, wherein (i) the alkaline waste water is heated to a temperature of from 150° C. to 500° C. under an increased pressure with respect to atmospheric pressure with exclusion of oxygen; (ii) a base is added to the waste water obtained in (i); and (iii) the waste water obtained in (ii) is purified further by stripping with a stripping gas and the stripping gas stream loaded with impurities is then cooled to a temperature of from 10° C. to 60° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Covestro Deutschland AG
    Inventors: Thomas Knauf, Antoni Mairata, Erik Sluyts, Jan Van Tricht
  • Patent number: 9771291
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for working up alkaline waste water which is formed during washing of crude nitrobenzene obtained by nitration of benzene, wherein (i) the alkaline waste water is heated under an increased pressure with respect to atmospheric pressure with exclusion of oxygen and is then cooled and expanded; (ii) the waste water obtained in (i) is purified further by stripping with a stripping gas and the stripping gas stream loaded with impurities is then cooled to a temperature of from 10° C. to 60° C.; and (iii) the liquid process product obtained in (ii) by cooling the stripping gas stream loaded with impurities is separated into an aqueous and an organic phase and the organic phase is used further in an aniline production process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Covestro Deutschland AG
    Inventors: Thomas Knauf, Antoni Mairata, Erik Sluyts, Jan Van Tricht
  • Patent number: 9765617
    Abstract: A disclosed example embodiment of a fluid extraction system includes a fluid circuit fluidly coupled to a source of a fluid and configured to receive a fluid sample from the source, and a fluid separator arranged in the fluid circuit and configured to receive the fluid sample. The fluid separator includes a body that defines at least one fluid inlet, a flow chamber defined within the body, and is configured to receive and spin the fluid sample from the at least one fluid inlet. The fluid sample spirals inward and forms a vortex, and gases entrained within the fluid sample separate and migrate toward a center of the vortex. An outlet defined in the flow chamber provides a gas outlet that entrains and removes the gases and a liquid outlet receives and removes a remaining portion of the fluid sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Troy Gosney, Mathew Dennis Rowe, Michael Linley Fripp, Stephen Michael Greci, John Charles Gano
  • Patent number: 9764273
    Abstract: A system for absorbing and separating acid gases may include an absorbing tower in which a gas containing an acid gas is supplied, a recycling tower that is disposed close to the absorbing tower, an absorbent that absorbs an acid gas in the absorbing tower and discharges the acid gas back to the recycling tower while circulating through the absorbing tower and the recycling tower, and a condenser that is connected to the recycling tower and condenses an acid gas produced in the recycling tower, wherein a centrifugal separator that separates the absorbent, using a centrifugal force, is disposed at a lower portion in the absorbing tower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Korea Institute of Energy Research
    Inventors: Shin-Tae Bae, Yeoil Yoon, Sungchan Nam, Soonkwan Jung, Sungyeoul Park, Ilsoo Chun, Youngeun Kim
  • Patent number: 9757686
    Abstract: A ship flue gas scrubbing apparatus and scrubbing method are provided. The apparatus includes a housing, an upper scrubbing layer at the upper side inside the housing, and a liquid collecting pool in the lower side inside the housing, a flue gas leading-in port between the scrubbing layer and the liquid collecting pool, a scrubbing seawater inlet above the scrubbing layer, and a cooler located at a flue gas passage between the flue gas inlet outside the housing and the scrubbing layer. The method includes leading flue gas, cooling, injecting scrubbing seawater, scrubbing and other steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Inventor: Sigan Peng
  • Patent number: 9744493
    Abstract: Air filtering devices are disclosed that contain a first filter cartridge having a cartridge inlet and a cartridge outlet and a curved filter bed having a concave surface disposed such that air to be filtered passes through the inlet, the curved filter bed, and the outlet. The air filtering devices also contain a blower assembly having a blower inlet in fluid communication with the cartridge outlet and a blower outlet, the blower assembly includes a motor proximate to the concave surface of the curved filter bed. The motor has a rotational axis such that the rotational axis is adjacent to the center of curvature of the curved filter bed. The air filtering device may be used in powered air purifying respirators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Pierre Legare, Gary E. Dwyer, Andrew Murphy, Simon J. Smith