Patents by Inventor Duncan MacPHERSON

Duncan MacPHERSON 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: 9919265
    Abstract: A pump system for use in a gas dehydration system having an absorber/contactor and a reboiler is used to pump glycol or another fluid through a natural gas dehydration system. The pump system includes a gear pump connected to an electric motor for pumping glycol from the reboiler to the contactor/absorber. The motor may be powered by a thermoelectric generator that uses temperature differences in the gas dehydration system fluid to convert heat into electric energy. The pump system may also include additional pumps for moving fluid from the absorber to the reboiler, for moving a second fluid through a heat trace loop, and/or for driving peripheral components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: KOLD KATCHER INC.
    Inventors: Duncan MacPherson, Terry Jacobi
  • Publication number: 20150044064
    Abstract: A pump system for use in a gas dehydration system having an absorber/contactor and a reboiler is used to pump glycol or another fluid through a natural gas dehydration system. The pump system includes a gear pump connected to an electric motor for pumping glycol from the reboiler to the contactor/absorber, The motor may be powered by a thermoelectric generator that uses temperature differences in the gas dehydration system fluid to convert heat into electric energy, The pump system may also include additional pumps for moving fluid from the absorber to the reboiler, for moving a second fluid through a heat trace loop, and/or for driving peripheral components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Duncan MacPHERSON, Terry JACOBI
  • Patent number: 4030989
    Abstract: Metals from sulfate leach solutions derived from sulfide ores are electrowon in a cell divided by a permionic membrane whereby metal pregnant solution is fed to the cathode compartment and sulfuric acid is generated in the anode compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1977
    Assignee: Anglonor S. A.
    Inventors: Milton Graham Montgomery Atmore, Roy Duncan Macpherson