Patents by Inventor Daryl Bitting
Daryl Bitting 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: 20230235238Abstract: A method of producing synthesis gas is provided. The method includes feeding a waste plastic feedstock into a partial oxidation gasifier. The waste plastic feedstock includes one or more vitrification materials. The method also includes partially oxidizing the waste plastic within the partial oxidation gasifier to produce the synthesis gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2021Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Bruce Roger DeBruin, Michael Paul Ekart, William Lewis Trapp, Daryl Bitting, David Eugene Slivensky, Xianchun Wu
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Publication number: 20230212367Abstract: A process and system for liquefying and dehalogenating a waste plastic are provided. Generally, the process comprises: (a) liquefying solid waste plastic to produce a liquefied waste plastic; (b) heating at least a portion of the molten waste plastic in a heat exchanger to thereby provide a heated liquefied waste plastic; (c) sparging a stripping gas into the heated liquefied waste plastic to produce a multi-phase mixture; and (d) disengaging a gaseous phase from a liquid phase of the multi-phase mixture to thereby provide a halogen-enriched gaseous material and a halogen-depleted liquefied waste plastic.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Bruce Roger DeBruin, Daryl Bitting, David Eugene Slivensky, Xianchun Wu, Michael Paul Ekart, David Milton Lange, Aaron Nathaniel Edens
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Publication number: 20230203268Abstract: Chemical recycling facilities for processing mixed waste plastic are provided herein. Such facilities have the capability of processing mixed plastic waste streams and utilize a variety of recycling facilities, such as, for example, solvolysis facility, a pyrolysis facility, a cracker facility, a partial oxidation gasification facility, an energy recovery facility, and a solidification facility. Streams from one or more of these individual facilities may be used as feed to one or more of the other facilities, thereby maximizing recovery of valuable chemical components and minimizing unusable waste streams.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Bruce Roger DeBruin, Michael Paul Ekart, Xianchun Wu, David Eugene Slivensky, Daryl Bitting, Anne-Martine Sherbeck Jackson, Nathan Mitchell West, Zhufang Liu
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Publication number: 20230134669Abstract: Amorphous polyolefins, such as propylene-ethylene copolymers, having a recycle content value are obtained by reacting a recycle content feedstock to make recycle content amorphous polyolefins or by deducting from a recycle inventory a recycle content value, which is applied to the amorphous polyolefins. At least a portion of the recycle content value in the feedstock or in an allotment obtained by an amorphous polyolefins manufacturer has its origin in recycled waste plastics.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Bruce Roger DeBruin, Daryl Bitting, David Eugene Slivensky, Xianchun Wu, William Lewis Trapp
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Publication number: 20230139587Abstract: A process and system for liquefying and plasticizing a waste plastic in a pyrolysis film reactor are provided. More particularly, a liquefied waste plastic, which may include halogen-depleted molten waste plastics, may be pyrolyzed in a pyrolysis film reactor to form a pyrolysis oil and a pyrolysis gas. The pyrolysis film reactors may include a falling film reactor and/or an upflow film reactor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Bruce Roger DeBruin, Daryl Bitting, David Eugene Slivensky, Xianchun Wu, Michael Paul Ekart, David Milton Lange, Aaron Nathanial Edens
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Publication number: 20230135304Abstract: A polyethylene composition having a recycle content value is obtained by reacting a recycle content feedstock to make a recycle content polyethylene or by deducting from a recycle inventory a recycle content value applied to a polyethylene composition. At least a portion of the recycle content value in the feedstock or in an allotment obtained by a polyethylene manufacturer has its origin in recycled waste plastics.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Bruce Roger DeBruin, Daryl Bitting, David Eugene Slivensky, Xianchun Wu, Michael Paul Ekart, David Milton Lange, Aaron Nathanial Edens
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Publication number: 20230134082Abstract: A hydrogen composition having a recycle content value is obtained by processing a recycle content feedstock to make a recycle content hydrogen or by deducting from a recycle inventory a recycle content value applied to a hydrogen composition. At least a portion of the recycle content value in the feedstock or in an allotment obtained by a hydrogen manufacturer has its origin in recycled waste plastics.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Bruce Roger DeBruin, Daryl Bitting, David Eugene Slivensky, Xianchun Wu
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Publication number: 20230134198Abstract: A polypropylene composition having a recycle content value is obtained by reacting a recycle content feedstock to make a recycle content polypropylene or by deducting from a recycle inventory a recycle content value applied to a polypropylene composition. At least a portion of the recycle content value in the feedstock or in an allotment obtained by a polypropylene manufacturer has its origin in recycled waste plastics.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Bruce Roger DeBruin, Daryl Bitting, David Eugene Slivensky, Xianchun Wu, William Lewis Trapp
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Publication number: 20230117658Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for the conversion of waste plastics into various useful downstream recycle-content products. More particularly, the present system and method involves integrating a pyrolysis facility with a cracker facility by introducing at least a stream of r-pyrolysis gas into the cracker facility. In the cracker facility, the r-pyrolysis gas may be separated to form one or more recycle content products, and can enhance the operation of the facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Daryl Bitting, David Eugene Slivensky, Xianchun Wu, Bruce Roger DeBruin, Damon Ray Billodeaux
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Publication number: 20230110481Abstract: Chemical recycling facilities for processing mixed plastic waste are provided herein. Such facilities have the capability of processing mixed plastic waste streams and utilize a variety of recycling facilities, such as, for example, solvolysis facility, a pyrolysis facility, a cracker facility, a partial oxidation gasification facility, an energy generation/energy production facility, and a solidification facility. Streams from one or more of these individual facilities may be used as feed to one or more of the other facilities, thereby maximizing recovery of valuable chemical components and minimizing unusable waste streams.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2021Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Bruce Roger DeBruin, Daryl Bitting, David Eugene Slivensky, Xianchun Wu, William Lewis Trapp, Travis Wynn Keever, Michael Paul Ekart, Jaclyn Erin Shuman, Timothy Glenn Schaefer, Justin William Murphy, David Milton Lange, Aaron Nathaniel Edens
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Publication number: 20230116183Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for the conversion of waste plastics into various useful downstream recycle-content products. More particularly, the present system and method involves integrating a pyrolysis facility with a cracker facility by introducing at least a stream of r-pyrolysis gas into the cracker facility. In the cracker facility, the r-pyrolysis gas may be separated to form one or more recycle content products, and can enhance the operation of the facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2021Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Daryl Bitting, David Eugene Slivensky, Xianchun Wu, Michael Paul Ekart, Bruce Roger DeBruin
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Publication number: 20230103080Abstract: Chemical recycling facilities for processing mixed plastic waste are provided herein. Such facilities have the capability of processing mixed plastic waste streams and utilize a variety of recycling facilities, such as, for example, solvolysis facility, a pyrolysis facility, a cracker facility, a partial oxidation gasification facility, an energy generation/energy production facility, and a solidification facility. Streams from one or more of these individual facilities may be used as feed to one or more of the other facilities, thereby maximizing recovery of valuable chemical components and minimizing unusable waste streams.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Bruce Roger DeBruin, Daryl Bitting, David Eugene Slivensky, Xianchun Wu, Travis Wynn Keever, Michael Paul Ekart, Jaclyn Erin Shuman, Timothy Glenn Schaefer, Justin William Murphy, David Milton Lange, Aaron Nathaniel Edens
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Publication number: 20230093433Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for the conversion of waste plastics into various useful downstream recycle-content products. More particularly, the present system and method involves pyrolyzing one or more waste plastics into various pyrolysis products, including pyrolysis gas, and then subjecting the pyrolysis gas to partial oxidation (POX) gasification to thereby form a syngas composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Daryl Bitting, David Eugene Slivensky, Xianchun Wu
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Publication number: 20230089058Abstract: Processes and facilities for producing recycled chemical products from waste plastic are described herein. The processes include treating process streams, such as a pyrolysis gas stream and/or at least a portion of a cracker furnace effluent stream, in a caustic scrubber process to remove certain components, such as carbon dioxide. The spent caustic solution from the caustic scrubber process is then recycled and reused in other caustic processes within the facility, which can include a halogen neutralization process from removing halogens from a liquification process off-gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Michael Gary Polasek, Daryl Bitting, Xianchun Wu, David Eugene Slivensky
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Publication number: 20230088250Abstract: Chemical recycling facilities for processing mixed plastic waste are provided herein. Such facilities have the capability of processing mixed plastic waste streams and utilize a variety of recycling facilities, such as, for example, solvolysis facility, a pyrolysis facility, a cracker facility, a partial oxidation gasification facility, an energy generation/energy production facility, and a solidification facility. Streams from one or more of these individual facilities may be used as feed to one or more of the other facilities, thereby maximizing recovery of valuable chemical components and minimizing unusable waste streams.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Bruce Roger DeBruin, Daryl Bitting, David Eugene Slivensky, Xianchun Wu, Jaclyn Erin Shuman, Timothy Glenn Shaefer, Justin William Murphy, David Milton Lange, Aaron Nathanial Edens
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Publication number: 20230081980Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for the conversion of waste plastics into various useful downstream recycle-content products. More particularly, the present system and method involves integrating a pyrolysis facility with a cracker facility by introducing at least a stream of r-pyrolysis gas into the cracker facility, in the cracker facility, the r-pyrolysis gas may be separated to form one or more recycle content products, and can enhance the operation of the facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2021Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Daryl Bitting, David Eugene Slivensky, Xianchun Wu, Bruce Roger DeBruin, Damon Ray Billodeaux
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Publication number: 20230072869Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for the conversion of waste plastics into various useful downstream recycle-content products. More particularly, the present system and method involves integrating a pyrolysis facility with a cracker facility by introducing at least a stream of r-pyrolysis gas into the cracker facility. In the cracker facility, the r-pyrolysis gas may be separated to form one or more recycle content products, and can enhance the operation of the facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2021Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Daryl Bitting, David Eugene Slivensky, Xianchun Wu, Bruce Roger DeBruin, Damon Ray Billodeaux
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Publication number: 20230070315Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for the conversion of waste plastics into various useful downstream recycle-content products. More particularly, the present system and method involves pyrolyzing one or more waste plastics into various pyrolysis products, including a carbon solids-containing pyrolysis residue, and then subjecting the pyrolysis residue to partial oxidation gasification to thereby form a syngas composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2021Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: William Lewis Trapp, Daryl Bitting, David Eugene Slivensky, Xianchun Wu, Bruce Roger DeBruin
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Publication number: 20230068710Abstract: Chemical recycling facilities for processing mixed plastic waste are provided herein. Such facilities have the capability of processing mixed plastic waste streams and utilize a variety of recycling facilities, such as, for example, solvolysis facility, a pyrolysis facility, a cracker facility, a partial oxidation gasification facility, an energy generation/energy production facility, and a solidification facility. Streams from one or more of these individual facilities may be used as feed to one or more of the other facilities, thereby maximizing recovery of valuable chemical components and minimizing unusable waste streams.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2021Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Bruce Roger DeBruin, Daryl Bitting, David Eugene Slivensky, Xianchun Wu, William Lewis Trapp, Travis Wynn Keever, Michael Paul Ekart, Jaclyn Erin Shuman, Timothy Glenn Schaefer, Justin William Murphy, David Milton Lange, Aaron Nathaniel Edens
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Publication number: 20230066496Abstract: Chemical recycling facilities for processing mixed plastic waste are provided herein. Such facilities have the capability of processing mixed plastic waste streams and utilize a variety of recycling facilities, such as, for example, solvolysis facility, a pyrolysis facility, a cracker facility, a partial oxidation gasification facility, an energy generation/energy production facility, and a solidification facility. Streams from one or more of these individual facilities may be used as feed to one or more of the other facilities, thereby maximizing recovery of valuable chemical components and minimizing unusable waste streams.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2021Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Bruce Roger DeBruin, Daryl Bitting, David Eugene Slivensky, Xianchun Wu, Travis Wynn Keever, Michael Paul Ekart, Jaclyn Erin Shuman, Timothy Glenn Schaefer, Justin William Murphy, David Milton Lange, Aaron Nathaniel Edens