Patents by Inventor Barry Van Setten
Barry Van Setten 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).
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Publication number: 20240352201Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a process and an apparatus for the production of glass-fiber paper composites. The process and apparatus of the invention analyze the color of the composite in order to monitor the curing condition of the composite and regulate the processing accordingly.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2023Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: UMICORE AG & CO. KGInventors: Barry van Setten, Etienne Haubrichs, Thomas Holten Kollin
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Patent number: 10406506Abstract: The present invention is directed to a special device for fast mixing and precipitation reactions of chemical substances. In particular, the present invention presents a reactor which allows an extremely fast mixing of at least two liquid streams containing highly concentrated dissolved materials from which solid metal compound particles are formed when at least two reactant streams meet, to which optionally a further stream, advantageously containing a dispersion or suspension, may be added.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2014Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: UMICORE AG & CO. KGInventors: Barry Van Setten, Sebastian Dahm, Liesbet Jongen
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Publication number: 20160288098Abstract: The present invention is directed to a special device for fast mixing and precipitation reactions of chemical substances. In particular, the present invention presents a reactor which allows an extremely fast mixing of at least two liquid streams containing highly concentrated dissolved materials from which solid metal compound particles are formed when at least two reactant streams meet, to which optionally a further stream, advantageously containing a dispersion or suspension, may be added.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: UMICORE AG & CO. KGInventors: Barry VAN SETTEN, Sebastian DAHM, Liesbet JONGEN
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Patent number: 9317307Abstract: The invention relates to a system and method for automating a system wherein an interpreter generates and executes an execution code based on instructions received in form of a tree sequence, and wherein the tree sequence comprises information of parallel operations to define the respective automation procedure. The definition of the tree sequence may be based on a standardized human and machine readable format, such as e.g. an XML document.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2010Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: UMICORE AG & CO. KGInventors: Barry Van Setten, Christian Romeis, Christian Haeske
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Publication number: 20130006392Abstract: The invention relates to a system and method for automating a system wherein an interpreter generates and executes an execution code based on instructions received in form of a tree sequence, and wherein the tree sequence comprises information of parallel operations to define the respective automation procedure. The definition of the tree sequence may be based on a standardized human and machine readable format, such as e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2010Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: Umicore AG & CO. KGInventors: Barry Van Setten, Christian Romeis, Christian Haeske
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Patent number: 7313911Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of removing nitrogen oxides from the exhaust gas of a lean-burn internal combustion engine by selective catalytic reduction (SCR) using ammonia. The exhaust gas is routed first over a platinum-containing pre-catalyst and then over an SCR catalyst. The ammonia needed for the selective catalytic reduction is added to the exhaust gas upstream of the pre-catalyst at an exhaust-gas temperature below 250° C., while it is supplied to the exhaust gas between the pre-catalyst and the SCR catalyst at an exhaust gas temperature above 150° C. By adopting this procedure, a very large temperature range for the selective catalytic reduction with high nitrogen conversion rates is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2004Date of Patent: January 1, 2008Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KGInventors: Markus Pfeifer, Barry Van Setten, Paul Spurk, Yvonne Demel, Tobias Kuhl, Jürgen Gieshoff, Egbert Lox, Thomas Kreuzer
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Publication number: 20070157600Abstract: This invention provides a method of regenerating a diesel particulate filter in an exhaust-gas purification system of a diesel engine using lambda variation. During regeneration on demand, the ratio of air to fuel for the corresponding operating point of the diesel engine is adjusted so as to achieve the substantially highest possible exhaust-gas temperature. For this purpose, the ratio of air to fuel (lambda value) is preferably kept at a minimum and substantially constant over the major part of the load range so that the engine is operated at full load during the regeneration phases.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2004Publication date: July 12, 2007Applicant: UMICORE AG & CO. KGInventors: Paul Spurk, Marcus Pfeifer, Barry Van Setten, Nicola Soger, Gunter Hohenberg, Christof Gietzelt
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Publication number: 20070089403Abstract: The present invention relates to an exhaust-gas purification system for the selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides. The system includes at least one catalyst having catalytically active components for the selective catalytic reduction (SCR components). An NOx storage catalyst (5) is arranged upstream of the SCR catalyst (3) in the exhaust-gas purification system. For performing the selective catalytic reduction, metering means (8) for supplying a compound decomposable into ammonia is provided between the NOx storage catalyst and the SCR catalyst (3). At low exhaust-gas temperatures, the NOx storage catalyst (5) adsorbs the nitrogen oxides contained in the exhaust gas and desorbs them only at rising exhaust-gas temperatures, so that they can afterwards be converted by the SCR catalyst (3) which is active then. This results in an altogether improved conversion rate for the nitrogen oxides.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2004Publication date: April 26, 2007Applicant: UMICORE AG & CO. KGInventors: Markus Pfeifer, Barry Van Setten, Paul Spurk, Jurgen Gieshoff, Egbert Lox, Thomas Kreuzer
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Publication number: 20070051096Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of removing nitrogen oxides from the exhaust gas of a lean-burn internal combustion engine by selective catalytic reduction (SCR) using ammonia. The exhaust gas is routed first over a platinum-containing pre-catalyst and then over an SCR catalyst. The ammonia needed for the selective catalytic reduction is added to the exhaust gas upstream of the pre-catalyst at an exhaust-gas temperature below 250° C., while it is supplied to the exhaust gas between the pre-catalyst and the SCR catalyst at an exhaust gas temperature above 150° C. By adopting this procedure, a very large temperature range for the selective catalytic reduction with high nitrogen conversion rates is obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2004Publication date: March 8, 2007Applicant: UMICORE AG CO. KGInventors: Markus Pfeifer, Barry Van Setten, Paul Spurk, Yvonne Demel, Tobias Kuhl, Jurgen Gieshoff, Egbert Lox, Thomas Kreuzer
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Patent number: 6725647Abstract: The present invention provides an exhaust gas treatment unit for an internal combustion engine. A first catalyst unit produces ammonia from corresponding constituents in a rich exhaust gas composition. A second catalyst unit that is located downstream of the first catalyst unit temporarily stores the ammonia produced by the first catalyst unit in the presence of a rich exhaust gas composition. In the presence of a lean exhaust gas composition, the nitrogen oxides present in the exhaust gas are subjected to a reduction reaction using the temporarily stored ammonia as reducing agent. The exhaust gas treatment unit also contains a third catalyst unit that is located between the other two catalyst units, and oxidizes the nitrogen oxides present in the exhaust gas at lean exhaust gas conditions to a such an extent that 25 to 75 vol. % of the nitrogen oxides entering the second catalyst unit consist of nitrogen dioxide.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2002Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KGInventors: Marcus Pfeifer, Barry Van Setten, Jurgen Gieshoff, Paul Spurk, Egbert Lox, Thomas Kreuzer
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Publication number: 20040037754Abstract: The present invention is directed to the removal of soot particles from the exhaust of a diesel engine. A device is provided that comprises a wall-flow filter having inflow channels and outflow channels, which are connected by pores. Preferably the inflow channels and outflow channels are alternately closed on opposite sides. The flow channels that are closed on the outflow side form the inflow channels and the flow channels that are closed on the inflow side form the outflow channels of the filter. In the inflow channels and/or the outflow channels of the filter, exhaust treatment structures are provided. The walls of the flow channels, as well as the exhaust treatment structures, are preferably coated with a catalyst layer. Since the exhaust does not need to flow through these exhaust treatment structures, the catalyst deposited thereon is not covered by soot. The filter function and the catalytic function of the catalyst layer on the exhaust treatment structures are thus largely separated from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2003Publication date: February 26, 2004Inventors: Barry van Setten, Marcus Pfeifer, Jurgen Gieshoff, Egbert Lox, Thomas Kreuzer
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Publication number: 20030101718Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method and a device for the catalytic conversion of harmful substances contained in the exhaust gas of combustion engines, wherein the exhaust gas is forced to pass through a catalyst-carrying porous support. The support may be comprised of a catalytic material support itself, have a catalytic material coating its pores and/or have a catalytic layer on one or both of the surfaces through which the exhaust gas will travel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2002Publication date: June 5, 2003Inventors: Marcus Pfeifer, Harald Bohnke, Barry van Setten, Bernd Losche, Roger Staab, Jurgen Gieshoff, Egbert Lox, Thomas Kreuzer
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Publication number: 20020170433Abstract: The invention provides a process for removing soot particles from exhaust gas from produced by a diesel engine. The process uses a particle filter that collects soot particles with the aid of nitrogen dioxide which is generated by catalytic oxidation of nitrogen monoxide contained in the exhaust gas. The process is characterized in that the particle filter is a deep-bed particle filter, having a filtration efficiency for the soot particles. The particle filter is coated with a catalytic coating for oxidizing nitrogen monoxide to nitrogen dioxide and the exhaust gas leaving the particle filter subsequently filtered through a particle filter serving as a soot barrier. The filter can have a filtration efficiency of over 95%.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2002Publication date: November 21, 2002Applicant: OMG AG & Co. KGInventors: Marcus Pfeifer, Harald Krieg, Barry van Setten, Roger Staab, Jurgen Gieshoff, Egbert Lox, Thomas Kreuzer
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Publication number: 20020116920Abstract: The present invention provides an exhaust gas treatment unit for an internal combustion engine. A first catalyst unit produces ammonia from corresponding constituents in a rich exhaust gas composition. A second catalyst unit that is located downstream of the first catalyst unit temporarily stores the ammonia produced by the first catalyst unit in the presence of a rich exhaust gas composition. In the presence of a lean exhaust gas composition, the nitrogen oxides present in the exhaust gas are subjected to a reduction reaction using the temporarily stored ammonia as reducing agent. The exhaust gas treatment unit also contains a third catalyst unit that is located between the other two catalyst units, and oxidizes the nitrogen oxides present in the exhaust gas at lean exhaust gas conditions to a such an extent that 25 to 75 vol. % of the nitrogen oxides entering the second catalyst unit consist of nitrogen dioxide.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2002Publication date: August 29, 2002Applicant: OMG AG & Co. KGInventors: Marcus Pfeifer, Barry Van Setten, Jurgen Gieshoff, Paul Spurk, Egbert Lox, Thomas Kreuzer