Patents by Inventor Eddy Isaacs
Eddy Isaacs 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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Patent number: 7507317Abstract: This invention relates to the enhancement of chemical reactions by applying a high frequency electric field to a material. The frequency and amplitude of the electric field are selected in accordance with the properties of the reacting components in the bulk of chemical reactor. In general, the high frequency range is determined by the dielectric properties of reactant(s), that is, at any given temperature, when, for example, the specific conductivity starts to grow from its low frequency value. Typically, frequencies in the range of 100 kHz to 200 MHz or greater are suitable for the enhancement of the reactions. An electric field of any shape having Fourier components that when applied to a chemical process exhibits growth in the real part of conductivity relative to the low frequency value is of particular importance.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2004Date of Patent: March 24, 2009Assignee: Alberta Research Council Inc.Inventors: Alexander Joseph Babchin, Jian-Yang Yuan, Ezra Eddy Isaacs, Haibo Huang, Ross Sam Chow, Richard Anthony McFarlane, Dmytro Vassily Prudkyy
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Publication number: 20040255866Abstract: This invention relates to the enhancement of chemical reactions by applying a high frequency electric field to a material. The frequency and amplitude of the electric field are selected in accordance with the properties of the reacting components in the bulk of chemical reactor. In general, the high frequency range is determined by the dielectric properties of reactant(s), that is, at any given temperature, when, for example, the specific conductivity starts to grow from its low frequency value. Typically, frequencies in the range of 100 kHz to 200 MHz or greater are suitable for the enhancement of the reactions. An electric field of any shape having Fourier components that when applied to a chemical process exhibits growth in the real part of conductivity relative to the low frequency value is of particular importance.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2004Publication date: December 23, 2004Applicant: Alberta Research Council Inc.Inventors: Alexander Joseph Babchin, Jian-Yang Yuan, Ezra Eddy Isaacs, Haibo Huang, Ross Sam Chow, Richard Anthony McFarlane, Dmytro Vassily Prudkyy
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Patent number: 6783633Abstract: This invention relates to the enhancement of chemical reactions by applying a high frequency electric field to a material. The frequency and amplitude of the electric field are selected in accordance with the properties of the reacting components in the bulk of chemical reactor. In general, the high frequency range is determined by the dielectric properties of reactant(s), that is, at any given temperature, when, for example, the specific conductivity starts to grow from its low frequency value. Typically, frequencies in the range of 100 kHz to 200 MHz or greater are suitable for the enhancement of the reactions. An electric field of any shape having Fourier components that when applied to a chemical process exhibits growth in the real part of conductivity relative to the low frequency value is of particular importance.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2001Date of Patent: August 31, 2004Assignee: Alberta Research Council Inc.Inventors: Alexander Joseph Babchin, Jian-Yang Yuan, Ezra Eddy Isaacs, Haibo Huang, Ross Sam Chow, Richard Anthony McFarlane, Dmytro Vassily Prudkyy
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Patent number: 6631761Abstract: A wet electric heating (“WEH”) process involves establishing electrode zones (“e-zones”) around conductors (e.g., wells) for distributing electric current and thereby generating and distributing heat accordingly through a target region in a subterranean formation having hydrocarbons. The inventive WEH process takes into account e-zone geometric shape, spacing and/or spatial orientation to provide a more diffuse distribution of increased temperature values within the target region, compared to conventional electric heating processes, during at least the first 10% of a time interval when an electric potential is applied.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2001Date of Patent: October 14, 2003Assignee: Alberta Science and Research AuthorityInventors: Jian-Yang Yuan, Ezra Eddy Isaacs, Haibo Huang, Deborah G. Vandenhoff
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Publication number: 20030141053Abstract: A wet electric heating (“WEH”) process involves establishing electrode zones (“e-zones”) around conductors (e.g., wells) for distributing electric current and thereby generating and distributing heat accordingly through a target region in a subterranean formation having hydrocarbons. The inventive WEH process takes into account e-zone geometric shape, spacing and/or spatial orientation to provide a more diffuse distribution of increased temperature values within the target region, compared to conventional electric heating processes, during at least the first 10% of a time interval when an electric potential is applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2001Publication date: July 31, 2003Inventors: Jian-Yang Yuan, Ezra Eddy Isaacs, Haibo Huang, Deborah G. Vandenhoff
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Publication number: 20020029970Abstract: This invention relates to the enhancement of chemical reactions by applying a high frequency electric field to a material. The frequency and amplitude of the electric field are selected in accordance with the properties of the reacting components in the bulk of chemical reactor. In general, the high frequency range is determined by the dielectric properties of reactant(s), that is, at any given temperature, when, for example, the specific conductivity starts to grow from its low frequency value. Typically, frequencies in the range of 100 kHz to 200 MHz or greater are suitable for the enhancement of the reactions. An electric field of any shape having Fourier components that when applied to a chemical process exhibits growth in the real part of conductivity relative to the low frequency value is of particular importance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2001Publication date: March 14, 2002Inventors: Alexander Joseph Babchin, Jian-Yang Yuan, Ezra Eddy Isaacs, Haibo Huang, Ross Sam Chow, Richard Anthony McFarlane, Dmytro Vassily Prudkyy
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Patent number: 6230814Abstract: A method for producing hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation comprises injecting steam and an additive into the formation. The additive has at least one nonaqueous fluid, which is selected so that the evaporation temperature of the additive is within about ±150° C. of the steam temperature at the operating pressure. Suitable additives include C1 to C25 hydrocarbons, and combinations thereof. At least a portion of the additive condenses in the formation. The mobility of the hydrocarbons is greater than that obtained using steam alone under substantially similar formation conditions.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 1999Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignee: Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research AuthorityInventors: Tawfik Noaman Nasr, Ezra Eddy Isaacs
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Patent number: 6186232Abstract: A process is disclosed for enhancing oil recovery in oil-containing reservoirs formed of water-wet sand. The process involves placing oil-wet sand in the near-bore region of a production well. The process can be used to provide an improvement to both a conventional pressure driven fluid drive process and a conventional steam-assisted gravity drainage process. In the fluid drive process, the drive fluid is injected intermittently.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1998Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research AuthorityInventors: Eddy Isaacs, Tawfik Nasr, Alex Babchin