Patents by Inventor Alvin Skopp

Alvin Skopp 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).

  • Patent number: 4385970
    Abstract: The present invention encompasses the use of a specific fuel fed electrode in depositing metals from solutions thereof and in the absence of an external applied potential. Basically as shown in FIG. 1, the electrode comprises an electrically conductive porous substrate 3 bearing on one surface thereof a fuel activating catalyst 4. The porosity of the substrate is sufficient that the current density at surface 2 of the substrate 3 opposite the catalyst 4 will assure substantially complete depletion of metal ions very near the surface of the porous substrate, whereby the catalyst surface and the pores remain substantially free of deposited metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1983
    Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Co.
    Inventors: Alvin Skopp, George Ciprios, John S. Batzold
  • Patent number: 4299203
    Abstract: A tubular solar collector system is provided in which a heat absorbing fluid is contained within tubular solar collectors completely separate and independent from a fluid circulated through the manifold to which the tubular collectors are operably attached. The collectors extend downwardly from the generally horizontal manifold so that when the fluid within the tubular collector is heated by incident solar radiation it is circulated to a heat exchanger in the manifold by thermosyphoning action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1981
    Assignee: Exxon Research & Engineering Co.
    Inventor: Alvin Skopp
  • Patent number: 4285193
    Abstract: A novel method for operating gas turbine combustors while minimizing the formation and discharge of pollutants such as NO.sub.x is described. In one embodiment, the use of more than one catalyst in series is employed to effect fuel oxidation at temperatures below flame temperature, thereby minimizing NO.sub.x formation.In another embodiment, a staged catalytic combustor is employed comprising a two zone combustion chamber involving a noncatalytic zone in which fuel is partially combusted under fuel rich conditions and combustion is completed in the second zone, utilizing catalytic oxidation with excess air to complete the combustion and minimize NO.sub.x formation.Still another embodiment concerns the use of a novel design for the primary combustion zone by which fuel is partially burned with substoichiometric amounts of air and, thereafter, the partially burned primary zone effluent is mixed into the secondary air stream where continued combustion proceeds at a temperature below that needed for NO.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1981
    Assignee: Exxon Research & Engineering Co.
    Inventors: Henry Shaw, Alvin Skopp