Patents by Inventor Amos Yudovich

Amos Yudovich 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).

  • Fluid injection method
    Patent number: 4591362
    Abstract: A process for gasifying carbonaceous solids in a rotating zone is disclosed wherein the gasifying agents are injected into a tumbling bed of the solids through an elongated, rotating tubular flow path (19) positioned and supported so as to remain in the tumbling bed during rotation of the zone. The invention is particularly useful in rotary kilns where coal, lignite, peat, heavy oil residual, and other carbonaceous materials are gasified using injected steam, oxygen or air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1986
    Assignee: Phillips Petroleum Company
    Inventors: Amos Yudovich, George E. Hays
  • Upgrading carbonaceous materials
    Patent number: 4539098
    Abstract: Recycle shale oil is used in an extractive pyrolysis process of oil shale. Hot gases from the pyrolyzer are used to preheat the shale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1985
    Assignee: Phillips Petroleum Company
    Inventor: Amos Yudovich
  • Water removal from butylene oxides by liquid extraction with selected extractive solvents
    Patent number: 4379025
    Abstract: A process for removing water from butylene oxides which comprises liquid extraction of crude butylene oxides with a solvent comprising acyclic, paraffinic hydrocarbons having from 7 to 9 carbon atoms per molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1983
    Assignee: Atlantic Richfield Company
    Inventors: Amos Yudovich, Norman H. Sweed
  • Method of treating alpha-methylbenzyl alcohol dehydration residues
    Patent number: 4375570
    Abstract: Residual products obtained in the catalytic dehydration of alpha-methylbenzyl alcohol are treated to recover increased quantities of ethylbenzene by a process which comprises thermally cracking the residual products in the substantial absence of hydrogen under elevated pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1983
    Assignee: Atlantic Richfield Company
    Inventor: Amos Yudovich