Patents by Inventor Demetre Spanos

Demetre Spanos 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).

  • Deicing formulation utilizing co-products from lignocellulose to bio fuel process
    Patent number: 8852450
    Abstract: The use of a side stream and residue from the lignocellulose to ethanol process for use in preventing the formation of ice and in melting ice and snow on roadways. The future lignocellulose to ethanol industry will provide a significant proportion of these streams that provide an organic solution that when added to chloride salts of calcium, magnesium and sodium provides an improved environmentally friendly road deicing product with reduced corrosiveness and increased friction. A deicer composition of calcium chloride aqueous solution containing 25-38% by weight calcium chloride mixed up to 50% by volume of hemicellulose hydrolysis side stream can reduce the corrosivity of calcium chloride to 70% less that of a sodium chloride solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: GreenField Specialty Alcohols Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Bruce Bradt, Richard Romeo Lehoux, Mark Isaac Schwartz, Demetre Spanos
  • DE ICING FORMULATION UTILIZING CO-PRODUCTS FROM LIGNOCELLULOSE TO BIO FUEL PROCESS
    Publication number: 20130175467
    Abstract: The use of a side stream and residue from the lignocellulose to ethanol process for use in preventing the formation of ice and in melting ice and snow on roadways. The future lignocellulose to ethanol industry will provide a significant proportion of these streams that provide an organic solution that when added to chloride salts of calcium, magnesium and sodium provides an improved environmentally friendly road deicing product with reduced corrosiveness and increased friction. A deicer composition of calcium chloride aqueous solution containing 25-38% by weight calcium chloride mixed up to 50% by volume of hemicellulose hydrolysis side stream can reduce the corrosivity of calcium chloride to 70% less that of a sodium chloride solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: GREENFIELD ETHANOL INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Bruce Bradt, Richard Romeo Lehoux, Mark Isaac Schwartz, Demetre Spanos