Patents by Inventor Bingcai Pan

Bingcai Pan 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: 9387458
    Abstract: A method for regulating the structure and properties of the composite nanoabsorbent is provided. This method uses nanoporous chloromethylated polystyrene-divinylbenzene beads as the support material and adopts in situ precipitation method to load dissociative functional nanoparticles thereon; the composite nanoabsorbent of different absorption capacity and absorption speed can be prepared through regulating the pore structure, which is realized herein by means of starting crosslinking reactions through heating chloromethylated beads under existence of the swelling agent and the catalyst; through changing the proportions of different components in the reaction system, modes of heating and time of reaction, the polymer support with different pore structures can be prepared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignees: NANJING UNIVERSITY, JIANGSU YONGTAI ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Bingcai Pan, Jing Wang, Shujuan Zhang, Lu Lv, Weiming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20160096917
    Abstract: A method for synthesizing poly(butylene succinate-co-butylene adipate) (PBSA), including: a) adding raw materials including succinic acid, adipic acid, and 1,4-butanediol into a reaction still; increasing the temperature in the reaction still to 130° C., and stiffing the raw materials, then keeping the temperature in the reaction still at 170-200° C., and dehydrating for 1-3 hours at atmospheric pressure, to yield an oligomer of PBSA; and b) decreasing the temperature of the reaction still to 100° C., and adding a composite catalyst system, the total addition of the composite catalyst system accounting for one ten-thousandth to one ten-millionth of a total weight percentage of the raw materials; uniformly stiffing and mixing the composite catalyst system and reactants, slowly vacuum pumping the reaction still, heating the reaction still to a temperature of 200-240° C. and allowing the composite catalyst system and the reactants to react for 10-20 hrs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Hong LI, Quanxing ZHANG, Na CHENG, Tianrong ZHANG, Wei JIANG, Bingcai PAN
  • Patent number: 9259724
    Abstract: A highly active supported bimetallic nanocatalyst and its preparation method is disclosed. During the preparation, using an ion exchange or adsorption resin bearing basic functional groups as the support of the said catalyst, successively introducing the first metal precursor FeCl4? and the second metal precursor (PdCl42?, NiCl42? or CuCl42?) onto the resin through ion exchange process; then under the protection of nitrogen gas, simultaneously reducing the two metals with either NaBH4 or KBH4; washing the resulting material with deoxygenated water and drying it, and the said catalyst is therefore obtained. The supported bimetallic material is characteristic of independent distribution of the two metals within the support. The independently distributed structure of the two metals enhances the catalytic efficiency of the second metal and the catalytic stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignees: NANJING UNIVERSITY, JIANGSU YONGTAI ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Bingcai Pan, Lei Yang, Shujuan Zhang, Weiming Zhang, Lu Lv
  • Publication number: 20160039782
    Abstract: A technological method for synthesizing optically pure L-/D-lactide by using a biogenic guanidine catalysis method. The method of the present invention comprises: by using biogenic guanidine creatinine (CR) as a catalyst and L-/D-lactic acid (90% of mass content) as a raw material, synthesizing optically pure L-/D-lactide by using a reactive reduced pressure distillation catalysis method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2013
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Hong Li, Quanxing Zhang, Na Cheng, Tianrong Zhang, Wei Jiang, Wei Huang, Bingcai Pan
  • Patent number: 9199865
    Abstract: A method for treatment of dye wastewater by using ultraviolet-acetylacetone oxidation process is provided. This method belongs to the field of dye wastewater treatment, comprising the following steps: A) adding acetylacetone into dye-containing water, stirring and mixing them completely; B) putting the liquid obtained in step A) under ultraviolet irradiation till it is effectively decolorized. Provided is a new method for decolorizing high-concentrated dye wastewater on the basis of ultraviolet-induced oxidation process of phydroxyl radicals. This method can realize complete decolorization of the dye wastewater. During the oxidation process, the dye in the wastewater acts as the photosensitizer and can accelerate the decolorization process as the reaction progresses. The method can also improve BOD5/COD ratio from lower than 0.1 to higher than 0.3, which means that this method can be used not only for high-efficient decolorization of dye wastewater, but also as a preliminary step of microorganism treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shujuan Zhang, Mengshu Wang, Xitong Liu, Bingcai Pan, Lu Lv, Weiming Zhang
  • Patent number: 9138737
    Abstract: A method for regulating the distribution of metallic nanoparticles within the resin support is provided. This method uses the ion exchange or absorption resin bearing basic functional groups as the support; firstly introducing the metal in the form of anionic complexes onto the resin support through the ion exchange process, then realizing the purpose of regulating the distribution of the metal and its compound within the resin support by means of changing the concentration of the reductive or deposition agent in water solution and the reaction time. The regulated distribution of metallic nanoparticles within the resin support is in the form of rings with different depths and densities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Bingcai Pan, Zhenmao Jiang, Weiming Zhang, Lu Lv, Yingmei Xie, Quanxing Zhang
  • Patent number: 9062006
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high molecular weight polylactic acid synthesized by using a method for synthesizing and catalytically-polycondensing bionic creatinine-guanidinium chloride. Creatinine is used as the material in a reaction with aqueous hydrochloric acid to synthesize a bionic creatinine-guanidinium salt catalyst, creatinine-guanidinium chloride (CR.Cl). The creatinine-guanidinium chloride synthesized is used as a catalyst, an industrial grade lactic acid (LA, 85% to 90%, aqueous solution) is used as a monomer, a solvent-free two-step polycondensation method is used to synthesize and afford metal-free and toxic residue-free polylactic acid featuring high biological safety and high molecular weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hong Li, Quanxing Zhang, Wei Huang, Wei Jiang, Xupeng Zong, Bingcai Pan
  • Patent number: 9062159
    Abstract: A method for synthesizing a medical grade biodegradable material, poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid), copolycondensation of lactic acid and glycolic acid catalyzed by biomass creatinine. The present invention uses commercialized creatinine (a type of biomaterial organic guanidine compounds—the arginine metabolite creatinine (CR) in human body) as the catalyst and industrial lactic acid (LA, mass content 85%, aqueous solution) and glycolic acid (GA, 95%) as the monomer to synthesize the high biosafety of medical poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) in terms of two steps polycondensation without solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Nanjing University
    Inventors: Hong Li, Quanxing Zhang, Wei Jiang, Bingcai Pan
  • Publication number: 20150076070
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for advanced treatment of bio-treated coking wastewater, belonging to the field of advanced treatment and recycled use of wastewater. It adopts polymeric ferric sulfate (PFS) and polyacrylamide (PAM) as the flocculant for pre-treatment of bio-treated effluent. After the process of precipitation and filtration, the effluent is guided through an adsorption column filled with environmentally-friendly nano-composites whereby the advanced treatment of the bio-treated coking wastewater is achieved. When the absorption process reaches the breakthrough point, the adsorption operation will be stopped and sodium hydroxide solution is used as the desorption reagent for regenerating the nano-composites; the high-concentrated component of the desorption liquid is sent out for incineration or production of coal water slurry, meanwhile the low-concentrated component of the desorption liquid is used to prepare sodium hydroxid solution for the adsorption process of the next batch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Bingcai Pan, Wenlan Yang, Lu Lv, Weiming Zhang, Yingnan Jiang
  • Publication number: 20140291256
    Abstract: A method for treatment of dye wastewater by using ultraviolet-acetylacetone oxidation process is provided. This method belongs to the field of dye wastewater treatment, comprising the following steps: A) adding acetylacetone into dye-containing water, stirring and mixing them completely; B) putting the liquid obtained in step A) under ultraviolet irradiation till it is effectively decolorized. Provided is a new method for decolorizing high-concentrated dye wastewater on the basis of ultraviolet-induced oxidation process of phydroxyl radicals. This method can realize complete decolorization of the dye wastewater. During the oxidation process, the dye in the wastewater acts as the photosensitizer and can accelerate the decolorization process as the reaction progresses. The method can also improve BOD5/COD ratio from lower than 0.1 to higher than 0.3, which means that this method can be used not only for high-efficient decolorization of dye wastewater, but also as a preliminary step of microorganism treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Shujuan Zhang, Mengshu Wang, Xitong Liu, Bingcai Pan, Lu Lv, Weiming Zhang
  • Patent number: 8846853
    Abstract: A direct polycondensation method for medical biodegradable polylactic acid (PLA). The invention uses commercialized creatinine (a type of biomaterial organic guanidine compounds—the arginine metabolite creatinine in human body) as the catalyst and industrial lactic acid (mass content 85-90%, aqueous solution) as the monomer to synthesize the PLA in terms of second polycondensation without solvent. Instead of tin catalysts having cytotoxicity, the catalyst used in the invention has high biocompatibility and biosafety. The synthesized PLA does not contain any metal and other toxic components; therefore, it can be used as the carrier for targeting drugs and controlled release drugs. The green catalyst and green processing method (no solvent applied and no toxic products produced) are used to synthesize the green biodegradable PLA with high biosafety. The molecular weight distribution for all synthesized products is narrow and the molecular weight is controllable within 1.5-3.0×104.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Nanjing University
    Inventors: Hong Li, Quanxing Zhang, Wei Jiang, Wei Huang, Bingcai Pan
  • Publication number: 20140235428
    Abstract: A highly active supported bimetallic nanocatalyst and its preparation method is disclosed. During the preparation, using an ion exchange or absorption resin bearing basic functional groups as the support of the said catalyst, successively introducing the first metal precursor FeCl4? and the second metal precursor (PdCl42?, NiCl42? or CuCl42?) onto the resin through ion exchange process; then under the protection of nitrogen gas, simultaneously reducing the two metals with either NaBH4 or KBH4; washing the material with deoxygenated water and drying it, and the said catalyst is therefore obtained. The supported bimetallic material is characteristic of independent distribution of the two metals within the support. The independently distributed structure of the two metals enhances the catalytic efficiency of the second metal and the catalytic stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicants: NANJING UNIVERSITY, JIANGSU YONGTAI ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Bingcai Pan, Lei Yang, Shujuan Zhang, Weiming Zhang, LU Lv
  • Publication number: 20140142275
    Abstract: A method for synthesizing a medical grade biodegradable material, poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid), copolycondensation of lactic acid and glycolic acid catalyzed by biomass creatinine. The present invention uses commercialized creatinine (a type of biomaterial organic guanidine compounds—the arginine metabolite creatinine (CR) in human body) as the catalyst and industrial lactic acid (LA, mass content 85%, aqueous solution) and glycolic acid (GA, 95%) as the monomer to synthesize the high biosafety of medical poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) in terms of two steps polycondensation without solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Nanjing University
    Inventors: Hong Li, Quanxing Zhang, Wei Jiang, Bingcai Pan
  • Publication number: 20140121347
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high molecular weight polylactic acid synthesized by using a method for synthesizing and catalytically-polycondensing bionic creatinine-guanidinium chloride. Creatinine is used as the material in a reaction with aqueous hydrochloric acid to synthesize a bionic creatinine-guanidinium salt catalyst, creatinine-guanidinium chloride (CR.Cl). The creatinine-guanidinium chloride synthesized is used as a catalyst, an industrial grade lactic acid (LA, 85% to 90%, aqueous solution) is used as a monomer, a solvent-free two-step polycondensation method is used to synthesize and afford metal-free and toxic residue-free polylactic acid featuring high biological safety and high molecular weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hong Li, Quanxing Zhang, Wei Huang, Wei Jiang, Xupeng Zong, Bingcai Pan
  • Publication number: 20140120253
    Abstract: A method for regulating the structure and properties of the composite nanoabsorbent is provided. This method uses nanoporous chloromethylated polystyrene-divinylbenzene beads as the support material and adopts in situ precipitation method to load dissociative functional nanoparticles thereon; the composite nanoabsorbent of different absorption capacity and absorption speed can be prepared through regulating the pore structure, which is realized herein by means of starting crosslinking reactions through heating chloromethylated beads under existence of the swelling agent and the catalyst; through changing the proportions of different components in the reaction system, modes of heating and time of reaction, the polymer support with different pore structures can be prepared.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicants: JIANGSU YONGTAI ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Bingcai Pan, Jing Wang, Shujuan Zhang, Lu Lv, Weiming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20130341280
    Abstract: A deep purification method for removing trace thallium in water by using polymer-based nanosized manganese oxide is disclosed. This method comprising the following steps: adjusting the pH value of the water polluted with trace thallium to 5-8.5 and filtering it, then channeling the water so treated through a packed tower of filtering bed packed with polymer-based nanosized manganese oxide so that the thallium in water can be selectively adsorbed upon the nanocomposite material, stopping the adsorption process when the thallium in water reaches the leak point, and then using mixed solution of HCl—Ca(NO3)2 or NaOH—NaClO as the desorption agent and starting desorption and regeneration process for the packing material of polymer-based nanosized manganese oxide. This effectively reduces the concentration of thallium in water from 0.01-0.5 mg/L to lower than 0.1 ?g/L, despite the much higher concentration of coexisting competitive cations such as Ca2+, Mg2+, Na+ and Si(IV).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicants: JIANGSU YONGTAI ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Lu Lv, Shunli Wan, Bingcai Pan, Weiming Zhang, Dong An
  • Publication number: 20130310243
    Abstract: A method for regulating the distribution of metallic nanoparticles within the resin support is provided. This method uses the ion exchange or absorption resin bearing basic functional groups as the support; firstly introducing the metal in the form of anionic complexes onto the resin support through the ion exchange process, then realizing the purpose of regulating the distribution of the metal and its compound within the resin support by means of changing the concentration of the reductive or deposition agent in water solution and the reaction time. The regulated distribution of metallic nanoparticles within the resin support is in the form of rings with different depths and densities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Bingcai Pan, Zhenmao Jiang, Weiming Zhang, Lu Lv, Yingmei Xie, Quanxing Zhang
  • Publication number: 20130116400
    Abstract: The present invention provides a direct polycondensation method for medical biodegradable polylactic acid (PLA) using creatinine catalyzed lactic acid. The invention uses commercialized creatinine (a type of biomaterial organic guanidine compounds—the arginine metabolite creatinine (CR) in human body) as the catalyst and industrial lactic acid (LA, mass content 85-90%, aqueous solution) as the monomer to synthesize the high biosafety of medical PLA in terms of second polycondensation without solvent (identity). Instead of tin catalysts having cytotoxicity, the catalyst used in the invention has high biocompatibility and biosafety. The synthesized PLA does not contain any metal and other toxic components; therefore, it can be used as the carrier for targeting drugs and controlled release drugs. In addition, the green catalyst and green processing method (no solvent applied and no toxic products produced) are used in the invention to synthesize the green biodegradable PLA with high biosafety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hong Li, Quanxing Zhang, Wei Jiang, Wei Huang, Bingcai Pan
  • Publication number: 20110155669
    Abstract: The invention discloses a novel method for trace phosphate removal from water by using a composite resin. Firstly, adjusting the pH value of the raw water to 5.0˜9.0 and prefiltering the water, then leading the filtrate through an absorption tower packed with the composite resin, the trace phosphate in the water is therefore absorbed onto the composite resin; stopping the absorption run when it reaches the leakage point, using a binary NaOH-NaCl solution as the regenerant of the exhausted sorbent, followed by rinsing the composite resin-filled absorption tower with saturated carbon dioxide solution to regenerate the resin. In this invention, a composite resin with nanosized hydrated ferric oxide (HFO) or hydrous manganese dioxide (HMO) particles loaded on its surface is adopted as the absorbent for enhanced phosphate removal from water. A significant decrease of phosphate content in the effluent from this treatment system is found from 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: NANJING UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Bingcai Pan, Bingjun Pan, Qingjian Zhang, Hui Qiu, Weiming Zhang, Qing Su, Xinqing Chen, Quanxing Zhang