Patents by Inventor Alex Nikolov

Alex Nikolov has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Stabile invert fuel emulsion compositions and method of making
    Patent number: 7407522
    Abstract: The present method for producing a high stability, low emission, invert fuel emulsion composition comprises blending additives having a surfactant package with a hydrocarbon petroleum distillate fuel in an in-line blending station to create a composition. The surfactant package includes a primary surfactant, a block copolymer, and a polymeric dispersant, and the hydrocarbon petroleum distillate fuel is a continuous phase of the emulsion. The method also comprises blending purified water with the composition in a second in-line blending station to produce a second composition and aging the second composition in a reservoir to produce an aged composition and passing the aged composition through a shear pump to a storage tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Clean Fuels Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward A. Jakush, Gerald N. Coleman, Dennis L. Endicott, Alex Nikolov
  • Stabile invert fuel emulsion compositions and method of making
    Publication number: 20040255509
    Abstract: The present method for producing a high stability, low emission, invert fuel emulsion composition comprises blending additives having a surfactant package with a hydrocarbon petroleum distillate fuel in an in-line blending station to create a composition. The surfactant package includes a primary surfactant, a block copolymer, and a polymeric dispersant, and the hydrocarbon petroleum distillate fuel is a continuous phase of the emulsion. The method also comprises blending purified water with the composition in a second in-line blending station to produce a second composition and aging the second composition in a reservoir to produce an aged composition and passing the aged composition through a shear pump to a storage tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2004
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Applicant: Clean Fuels Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward A. Jakush, Gerald N. Coleman, Dennis L. Endicott, Alex Nikolov
  • Stabile fuel emulsions and method of making
    Patent number: 6607566
    Abstract: An improved method for producing highly stabile aqueous fuel emulsions. The method provides for selectively combining prescribed quantities of diesel fuel, purified water, alcohol, and an additive package and emulsifying the fuel mixture using a high shear mixer. The optimum viscosity and stability in the aqueous fuel emulsion is achieved by bypassing a selected quantity of the fuel emulsion around the high shear mixing device such that the final fuel emulsion includes a bi-modal droplet size distribution having droplet sizes less than about 15 microns in size. Additional stability and performance features of the aqueous fuel emulsion are attributed to the contents of the additive package that includes a combination of surfactants, lubricity additive, cetane improvers, citric acid, and methanol wherein each of the various additives may perform multiple functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Clean Fuel Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald N. Coleman, Dennis L. Endicott, Edward A. Jakush, Alex Nikolov