Patents by Inventor Alex Thompson

Alex Thompson 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).

  • Publication number: 20240100471
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for carbon capture optimization in industrial facilities are disclosed herein. An example carbon capture process involves cooling a flue gas stream using at least one gas-to-air heat exchanger disposed upstream of a carbon dioxide (CO2) absorber. Another example carbon capture process involves heating a heat medium for solvent regeneration and CO2 stripping using a fired heater and/or using at least one waste heat recovery unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Ben Heichelbech, Ivan Van der Walt, Connor Rivard, Alex Thompson
  • Publication number: 20240058746
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for carbon capture optimization in industrial facilities are disclosed herein. An example carbon capture process involves cooling a flue gas stream using at least one gas-to-air heat exchanger disposed upstream of a carbon dioxide (CO2) absorber. Another example carbon capture process involves heating a heat medium for solvent regeneration and CO2 stripping using a fired heater and/or using at least one waste heat recovery unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Ben Heichelbech, Ivan Van der Walt, Connor Rivard, Alex Thompson
  • Publication number: 20240035656
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for flue gas cooling for carbon capture processes are disclosed herein. A flue gas cooling process for carbon capture includes: cooling a flue gas in a direct contact cooler by a cooling water cooled in a closed cooling loop; cooling the cooling water in the closed cooling loop utilizing air-cooled heat exchangers; cooling the flue gas below a water dew point to produce a surplus water when an available cooling duty of the closed cooling loop exceeds a cooling duty required to cool the flue stream to the water dew point; storing the surplus water in a surplus water storage vessel; and directing the surplus water stored in the surplus water storage vessel to the direct contact cooler when the available cooling duty of the closed cooling loop is less than the cooling duty required to cool the flue stream to the water dew point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Connor Rivard, Eunhwa Kim, Sanjeev Agrawal, Alex Thompson, Ben Heichelbech
  • Patent number: 11819797
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for carbon capture optimization in industrial facilities are disclosed herein. An example carbon capture process involves cooling a flue gas stream using at least one gas-to-air heat exchanger disposed upstream of a carbon dioxide (CO2) absorber. Another example carbon capture process involves heating a heat medium for solvent regeneration and CO2 stripping using a fired heater and/or using at least one waste heat recovery unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Ben Heichelbech, Ivan Van der Walt, Connor Rivard, Alex Thompson
  • Patent number: 11806664
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for power plant facilities are disclosed herein. A power plant facility includes a gas turbine; and a power generator that generates electricity from power supplied by the gas turbine. The power plant facility can also include at least one post-combustion capture unit that generates a CO2-rich stream from the combustion products of the gas turbine; and a sequestration compression unit that compresses and conveys at least one CO2-rich stream from a post-combustion capture unit, towards a sequestration site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Ivan Van der Walt, Ben Heichelbech, Alex Thompson, Vikrum Subra, Victor Fernandes, Michael Abegg
  • Publication number: 20230294037
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for carbon capture optimization in industrial facilities are disclosed herein. An example carbon capture process involves cooling a flue gas stream using at least one gas-to-air heat exchanger disposed upstream of a carbon dioxide (CO2) absorber. Another example carbon capture process involves heating a heat medium for solvent regeneration and CO2 stripping using a fired heater and/or using at least one waste heat recovery unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Ben Heichelbech, Ivan Van der Walt, Connor Rivard, Alex Thompson
  • Publication number: 20230235963
    Abstract: A multistage direct contact cooler is configured to cool process gases for downstream process requirements. The multistage direct contact cooler includes a high temperature stage and a low temperature stage. Cooling duties for the high temperature stage of the direct contact cooler are achieved by air cooling. Cooling duties for the low temperature stage of the direct contact cooler are achieved by evaporative cooling with an option to include additional air cooling to reduce evaporative losses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Ivan Van der Walt, Vikrum Subra, Ben Heichelbech, Connor Rivard, Alex Thompson
  • Publication number: 20230226485
    Abstract: A power generation facility includes a process for capturing and sequestering CO2 generated from the facility turbines. The systems may include a heat recovery steam generator, a heat exchanger, a capture unit, and a sequestration compression unit that are configured to cool the flue gas, absorb CO2 therefrom, compress the flue gas, and send the compressed CO2 rich gas stream to sequestration of some form, thereby reducing the overall emissions from the facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Ivan Van der Walt, Vikrum Subra, Ben Heichelbech, Connor Rivard, Alex Thompson
  • Publication number: 20230191313
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for carbon capture optimization in industrial facilities are disclosed herein. An example carbon capture process involves cooling a flue gas stream using at least one gas-to-air heat exchanger disposed upstream of a carbon dioxide (CO2) absorber. Another example carbon capture process involves heating a heat medium for solvent regeneration and CO2 stripping using a fired heater and/or using at least one waste heat recovery unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Ben Heichelbech, Ivan Van der Walt, Connor Rivard, Alex Thompson
  • Publication number: 20220362709
    Abstract: A flue gas can be cooled for carbon capture purposes with the use of a gas-to-gas exchanger, using air as the cooling media, downstream of a heat recovery process, and optionally upstream of a quenching process; the use of an amine chilling process to reduce the required flue gas cooling duties upstream of the CO2 absorber; the use of a gas-to-gas exchanger, using the absorber overhead as the cooling media, downstream of a heat recovery process, and optionally upstream of the quenching process; and/or the use of a quenching process in which heated water and condensate is cooled by an external cooling loop utilizing treated flue gas condensate in an evaporative cooling process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Ivan Van der Walt, Ben Heichelbech, Alex Thompson, Connor Rivard, Victor Fernandes
  • Patent number: 11484825
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for carbon capture optimization in industrial facilities are disclosed herein. An example carbon capture process involves cooling a flue gas stream using at least one gas-to-air heat exchanger disposed upstream of a carbon dioxide (CO2) absorber. Another example carbon capture process involves heating a heat medium for solvent regeneration and CO2 stripping using a fired heater and/or using at least one waste heat recovery unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Ben Heichelbech, Ivan Van der Walt, Connor Rivard, Alex Thompson
  • Patent number: 11484829
    Abstract: A flue gas can be cooled for carbon capture purposes with the use of a gas-to-gas exchanger, using air as the cooling media, downstream of a heat recovery process, and optionally upstream of a quenching process; the use of an amine chilling process to reduce the required flue gas cooling duties upstream of the CO2 absorber; the use of a gas-to-gas exchanger, using the absorber overhead as the cooling media, downstream of a heat recovery process, and optionally upstream of the quenching process; and/or the use of a quenching process in which heated water and condensate is cooled by an external cooling loop utilizing treated flue gas condensate in an evaporative cooling process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Ivan Van der Walt, Ben Heichelbech, Alex Thompson, Connor Rivard, Victor Fernandes
  • Patent number: 11446587
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for liquefied natural gas production facilities are disclosed herein. A liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facility includes a liquefaction unit and a gas turbine. The liquefaction unit condenses natural gas vapor into liquefied natural gas. The LNG production facility further includes at least one post-combustion capture unit that captures a carbon dioxide (CO2)-rich stream from a flue gas stream of the gas turbine. The LNG production facility also includes a sequestration compression unit that compresses at least one CO2-rich stream from the at least one post-combustion capture unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Ivan Van Der Walt, Ben Heichelbech, Alex Thompson, Vikrum Subra, Victor Fernandes, Michael Abegg
  • Publication number: 20220249974
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for liquefied natural gas production facilities are disclosed herein. A liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facility includes a liquefaction unit and a gas turbine. The liquefaction unit condenses natural gas vapor into liquefied natural gas. The LNG production facility further includes at least one post-combustion capture unit that captures a carbon dioxide (CO2)-rich stream from a flue gas stream of the gas turbine. The LNG production facility also includes a sequestration compression unit that compresses at least one CO2-rich stream from the at least one post-combustion capture unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Ivan Van Der Walt, Ben Heichelbech, Alex Thompson, Vikrum Subra, Victor Fernandes, Michael Abegg
  • Publication number: 20220207309
    Abstract: A method for determining event data including: sampling a first data stream within a first time window at a first sensor of an onboard vehicle system coupled to a vehicle, extracting interior activity data from the first data stream; determining an interior event based on the interior activity data; sampling a second data stream within a second time window at a second sensor of the onboard vehicle system; extracting exterior activity data from the second image stream; determining an exterior event based on the exterior activity data; correlating the exterior event and the interior event to generate combined event data; automatically classifying the combined event data to generate an event label; and automatically labeling the first time window of the first data stream and the second time window of the second data stream with the combined event label to generate labeled event data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: Nauto, Inc.
    Inventors: Suchitra Sathyanarayana, Ravi Kumar Satzoda, Alex Thompson, Michael Gleeson-May, Ludmila Levkova
  • Patent number: 11293691
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for liquefied natural gas production facilities are disclosed herein. A liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facility includes a liquefaction unit and a gas turbine. The liquefaction unit condenses natural gas vapor into liquefied natural gas. Fuel to the gas turbine contains at least about 90% hydrogen by volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: NEXT CARBON SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Ivan Van der Walt, Ben Heichelbech, Alex Thompson, Vikrum Subra, Victor Fernandes, Michael Abegg
  • Patent number: 11281944
    Abstract: A method for determining event data including: sampling a first data stream within a first time window at a first sensor of an onboard vehicle system coupled to a vehicle, extracting interior activity data from the first data stream; determining an interior event based on the interior activity data; sampling a second data stream within a second time window at a second sensor of the onboard vehicle system; extracting exterior activity data from the second image stream; determining an exterior event based on the exterior activity data; correlating the exterior event and the interior event to generate combined event data; automatically classifying the combined event data to generate an event label; and automatically labeling the first time window of the first data stream and the second time window of the second data stream with the combined event label to generate labeled event data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Nauto, Inc.
    Inventors: Suchitra Sathyanarayana, Ravi Kumar Satzoda, Alex Thompson, Michael Gleeson-May, Ludmila Levkova
  • Publication number: 20220062821
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for power plant facilities are disclosed herein. A power plant facility includes a gas turbine; and a power generator that generates electricity from power supplied by the gas turbine. The power plant facility can also include at least one post-combustion capture unit that generates a CO2-rich stream from the combustion products of the gas turbine; and a sequestration compression unit that compresses and conveys at least one CO2-rich stream from a post-combustion capture unit, towards a sequestration site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Ivan Van der Walt, Ben Heichelbech, Alex Thompson, Vikrum Subra, Victor Fernandes, Michael Abegg
  • Publication number: 20220065529
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for liquefied natural gas production facilities are disclosed herein. A liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facility includes a liquefaction unit and a gas turbine. The liquefaction unit condenses natural gas vapor into liquefied natural gas. Fuel to the gas turbine contains at least about 90% hydrogen by volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Ivan Van der Walt, Ben Heichelbech, Alex Thompson, Vikrum Subra, Victor Fernandes, Michael Abegg
  • Patent number: D952690
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Ring Automotive Limited
    Inventor: Alex Thompson