Patents Examined by Timothy C Vanoy
  • Patent number: 11813567
    Abstract: Provided is a device for removing nitrogen oxide, the device including an inflow path for gas containing nitrogen oxide; and a reversible metal complex compound coming into contact with the gas containing nitrogen oxide which is introduced through the inflow path, wherein the reversible metal complex compound includes a central metal ion reacting and binding with nitrogen oxide; and a ligand coordinating with the central metal ion, wherein when the central metal ion is oxidized, the bound nitrogen oxide is separated, and the oxidized central metal ion is reduced to recombine with nitrogen oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Dong Ki Lee, Hyun Joo Lee, Seojung Han, Heesung Eum, Seokhyeon Cheong
  • Patent number: 11813568
    Abstract: A purification composition, comprising 50-60% by weight of ash and 40-50% by weight of liquid. A method for producing the purification composition, comprising: measuring an amount of ash, combining the ash and liquid, wherein an amount of the liquid is based on the amount of the ash, adjusting a temperature of the combination of the ash and the liquid by adjusting a temperature of the liquid and mixing the ash and the liquid. A method for purifying a flue gas by the purification composition, comprising: combining the purification composition and vapour to form a chute, adding the chute to the flue gas, adding the purification composition to the flue gas and over-pressuring the flue gas and adding more of the purification composition to the flue gas and under-pressuring the flue gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: KLEENER POWER SOLUTIONS OY
    Inventor: Pekka Hiltunen
  • Patent number: 11808189
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a wall-flow filter for removing fine particulate solids from gases, and to the use thereof for cleaning exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine. The invention also relates to a correspondingly produced exhaust-gas filter having a high filtration efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Manuel Gensch, Martin Foerster, Naina Deibel, Antje Oltersdorf, Juergen Koch
  • Patent number: 11807527
    Abstract: A process and a process plant for production of elemental sulfur from a feedstock gas including from 15 vol % to 100 vol % H2S and a stream of sulfuric acid, the process including a) providing a Claus reaction furnace feed stream with a substoichiometric amount of oxygen, b) directing s to a reaction furnace operating at elevated temperature, c) cooling, d) directing to contact a material catalytically active in the Claus reaction, e) withdrawing a Claus tail gas and elemental sulfur, f) directing to a means for sulfur oxidation, g) directing to contact a material catalytically active in SO2 oxidation to SO3, h) converting to concentrated sulfuric acid, i) recycling to the Claus reaction furnace, wherein an amount of combustibles, in the Claus tail gas, is oxidized in the presence of a material catalytically active in sulfur oxidation, at an inlet temperature below 400° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: HALDOR TOPSØE A/S
    Inventors: Morten Thellefsen, Martin Møllerhøj, Mads Lykke
  • Patent number: 11807530
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for reducing the carbon intensity of hydrogen by replacing, at a hydrogen production facility, a fraction of a non-renewable gaseous feedstock with a biomethane feedstock, wherein the non-renewable gaseous feedstock replaced is (a) a feedstock fed to methane reforming and/or (b) a feedstock used to generate heat for the reforming in the hydrogen production, and wherein the fraction of the non-renewable gaseous feedstock replaced by the biomethane feedstock is less than 50% and is at least r defined by Equation A herein. The disclosed process for reducing the carbon intensity of hydrogen is designed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and mitigate climate change. The biomethane feedstock in some examples has a carbon intensity (CI) value within a range that is between 15 g CO2-eq/MJ and ?500 g CO2 eq/MJ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Iogen Corporation
    Inventor: Brian Foody
  • Patent number: 11807813
    Abstract: An installation for the production of oil, gas and char for carbon black, from elastomers, characterized in that, it has a screw dispenser (3) with a shaft (1), which from the loading side is closed hydraulically with a lock (2) by a nitrogen, a reactor (4), which is divided into zones A, B, C, corresponding to the subsequent stages of the pyrolysis process: zone A—the beginning of depolymerization (350° C.), zone B—carbonization (350-400° C.) and zone C—aromatic compounds cracking (400-650° C.), while a bubbler (5) hydraulically closed with a siphon (6) and a separator (7) with a hydraulic closure (8) and an oil separator (9) equipped with a transport screw (10) and an afterburner chamber (20) are installed outside the reactor (4), wherein the oil separator (9) is closed at the outlet by an accumulation shaft (12) and from the side of receiving a solid product—with a shaft (13), which is connected by an U-shaped screw conveyor (14) with economizers (11) and (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: REOIL SP. Z O.O.
    Inventors: Michal Mikuskiewicz, Pawel Mikuskiewicz, Sebastian Zygmunt, Bronislaw Rolnik
  • Patent number: 11801498
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the catalytic processes for rendering harmless the flue gases of the power stations or more precisely to the catalysts for sulfur oxides reduction to elemental sulfur. The novel catalyst presents the binary polycations of copper and zinc or copper and manganese incorporated into the low silica faujasite X (LSX) having transition metals ratio Cu:Zn or Cu:Mn in the range of 2:1 to 4:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignees: M Chemical Company, Inc., N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS (IOKh)
    Inventors: Albert M. Tsybulevski, Eduardo Bolivar, Alexander Avraamovich Greish, Leonid Modestovich Kustov
  • Patent number: 11801476
    Abstract: An efficient low-energy carbon dioxide removal system comprises an automated air mover equipped with sensing devices to measure flow rate, volume, level, pressure, temperature and concentration. Packing materials and air-liquid distributors are used in a multi-stage catalytic reactor. The multi-stage catalytic reactor processes ambient air and generates pure carbon dioxide gas and generates exhausted gas released to ambient air. In operation, air contacts the base solution in the presence of a catalyst via the air mover, distributor, and packing materials. The air reacts with the base solution thereby generating a base solution having carbon dioxide and generating exhaust (absorption reaction). Next, the exhaust is released from the reactor. Next, a catalyst is added, heat is applied to the base solution having carbon dioxide thereby generating carbon dioxide and generating a base solution without carbon dioxide (desorption reaction).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: AirMyne, Inc.
    Inventors: Bart Ludo Scherpbier, Ngoc The Pham, Flynn Corrigan Michael Legg, Aryan Johari, Sophia Elaine Chandler Sperman, Le-Xuan Diec, Joana Cabrera, Mark Patrick Cyffka, Sudip Mukhopadhyay
  • Patent number: 11802051
    Abstract: An improved method of lithium recovery from borax dilute solution is provided. In this method, boron in the borax dilute solution is removed from the medium as borax decahydrate and while this removal process is carried out, liquid-liquid extraction with organic sedimentary chemicals or ion exchange resins are not used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: ETI MADEN ISLETMELERI GENEL MUDURLUGU
    Inventors: Aysun Durdu Aydin, Hasan Can, Melike Yildiran Serin, Fazli Cabbar Metin, Derya Maraslioglu
  • Patent number: 11802046
    Abstract: A unit for recovering hydrogen chloride from an aqueous liquid which includes hydrogen chloride and is contaminated with compounds of low or no volatility, the unit having an evaporation unit for forming, from the liquid, a vapour which contains hydrogen chloride and a liquid concentrate which is contaminated with the compounds of low or no volatility, a first distillation unit for separating the hydrogen-chloride-containing vapour into a first top product and a first bottom product, and a second distillation unit for separating a hydrogen-chloride-containing aqueous fluid into a second top product and a second bottom product, one of these two distillation units being configured to be able to implement therein a distillation above the ambient pressure, and the other of these two distillation units being configured to be able to implement therein a distillation below the ambient pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SGL CARBON SE
    Inventors: Christian Woltz, Odón De Jesús Angeles Palacios, Martin Kibili, Christopher Leuschner
  • Patent number: 11787700
    Abstract: A method for forming an insoluble adduct using an acidic medium is provided. A chemical process utilizes acidic media to change the solubility behavior of metal solutes. The method can utilize Group 1 soluble alkali metals but can also be extended to any other soluble salts discussed under the solubility rules. The insoluble salts can be Group 2 alkaline earth metals or other insoluble salts. The insoluble adduct can have the designation XYZ where X is a soluble metal from a metal hydroxide or a metal oxide, Y is an insoluble metal from an insoluble metal hydroxide or an insoluble metal oxide, and Z is the acid ion from an aqueous acidic media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: CRYSTAPHASE PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Umakant Pravinchandra Joshi, Austin Schneider, Bradley Glover, John N. Glover, Jeffrey Scott Oliver, Krishna K. Rao
  • Patent number: 11779882
    Abstract: A high enthalpy and low-cost Hypersonic Test Facility (HTF), which employs nitrous oxide to generate clean air-like gas; and a method of decomposing nitrous oxide in the presence of a catalyst in a catalytic decomposition chamber in a HTF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Timothee L. Pourpoint, Utkarsh Pandey, Jonathan Poggie
  • Patent number: 11779906
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an exhaust gas treatment system for treating an exhaust gas stream leaving an internal combustion engine, wherein said exhaust gas treatment system comprises (i) a first catalyst comprising a coating and a first substrate, wherein the coating comprises a vanadium oxide supported on a first oxidic support comprising titanium; (ii) a hydrocarbon injector for injecting a fluid comprising hydrocarbons into the exhaust gas stream exiting the outlet end of the first catalyst according to (i); (iii) a second catalyst comprising a coating and a second substrate, wherein the coating comprises palladium on a second oxidic support comprising one or more of zirconium, silicon, aluminum and titanium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventor: Robert Dorner
  • Patent number: 11772971
    Abstract: The disclosure pertains to a nitric acid production process and plant. The process involves supplying an oxygen gas stream and ammonia feedstock to the burner section. In embodiments, a part of the tail gas stream (4) is heated in a tail gas heating section (7) and supplied to the burner section (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: STAMICARBON B.V.
    Inventors: Carmen Pérez Salmerón, Aldo Maria Iaquaniello, Joey Dobree, Maria Paz Muñoz López
  • Patent number: 11772075
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a catalyst for use in the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of nitrogen oxides comprising a monolithic substrate and a coating A, which comprises an oxidic metal carrier comprising an oxide of titanium and a catalytic metal oxide which comprises an oxide of vanadium wherein the mass ratio vanadium/titanium is 0.07 to 0.26.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Kim Hougaard Pedersen, Anders Hjordt Pedersen, Martin Dam
  • Patent number: 11772077
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a material B containing palladium and platinum in a weight ratio of 2:3 to 10:1 for increasing the low-temperature storage of nitrogen oxides by means of a material A containing palladium and zeolite, wherein material A and material B are present on a carrier substrate of the length L, and wherein material A and material B are different from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: UMICORE AG & CO. KG
    Inventor: Anke Woerz
  • Patent number: 11772970
    Abstract: Described is a control process for oxidation air management in a sulfur recovery unit. The sulfur recovery unit includes a gas feedstock inlet, an oxidation air inlet, a reaction furnace, pre-heaters, a Claus section including multiple sulfur condensers and Claus converters, and a SuperClaus section including a catalyzing SuperClaus converter, a SuperClaus sulfur condenser, and an SuperClaus oxidation air flow control valve. The control process includes analyzing one or more parameters in the sulfur recovery unit to determine a switch from the SuperClaus section to the Claus section. Additionally, conditions in the sulfur recovery unit are continuously monitored so that when a condition reaches a predetermined threshold or range, the SuperClaus oxidation air flow control valve to the SuperClaus section is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventor: Farshad Farook
  • Patent number: 11772967
    Abstract: A process for treating an ammonium fluorosulfate byproduct includes providing an ammonium fluorosulfate byproduct including primarily ammonium fluorosulfate and lesser amounts of fluorosulfonic acid and bis(fluorosulfonyl) imide, mixing the ammonium fluorosulfate byproduct with water, reacting the mixture of the ammonium fluorosulfate byproduct and the water at a hydrolysis reaction temperature to hydrolyze the ammonium fluorosulfate, the fluorosulfonic acid and the bis(fluorosulfonyl) imide to form ammonium bisulfate and aqueous hydrogen fluoride; and separating the ammonium bisulfate from the aqueous hydrogen fluoride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Bernard E. Pointner, Matthew H. Luly, James V. Guiheen, Brian Leone
  • Patent number: 11767779
    Abstract: Provided is an exhaust gas purifying filter used with a HC purifying catalyst supported thereon. Numerous pores are formed in partitions of the exhaust gas purifying filter. In a cross-section of the partition, pores are open at a passage surface, having an open end of which the opening diameter is 50 ?m or larger. In the cross-section of the partitions, the partitions include a narrow part where a pore diameter is 5 ?m or more and the pore diameter becomes a minimum in a region. In the cross-section of the partitions, the region is positioned between a pair of virtual lines L1 and L2 extending from opposing sides of the opening end to a passage surface positioned opposite to the opening end along the wall thickness direction X, Z. The pore diameter at the narrow part is 6% or more and less than or equal to 20% of the opening diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kayama, Kazuhiko Koike
  • Patent number: 11766632
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an air filter using glass and aluminum substrates coated with a photocatalyst and a manufacturing method therefor. Disclosed is an air filter, which is more efficient in removing organic gas from air by using optical properties of a glass material and surface reflectance of an aluminum metal material to actively utilize the transmission and reflection of the light that is limitedly provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventor: Tae Young Woo