Patents by Inventor Efstratios Hatziemmanouil

Efstratios Hatziemmanouil 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).

  • Method for refining vegetable oils and additive therefore, and their use as substitute of diesel fuel
    Patent number: 8333811
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for refining vegetable oils, in particular cottonseed oil or a possible mixture of it with others, as substitute of diesel fuel remarkable in that a sequence of treatment steps to be performed on crude vegetable oil, including: a) a pre-treatment thereof consisting of the removal of oil insoluble impurities from the crude oil, b) removal of oil soluble impurities therefrom, c) a free acid neutralization thereof, and d) a drying, bleaching and filtration thereof. This invention also relates to an Additive of organic basis, containing ether, ketone, toluene, hexane, turpentine, alcohols in specific concentrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Research Committee
    Inventor: Efstratios Hatziemmanouil
  • Method for Refining Vegetable Oils and Additive Therefore, and Their Use as Substitute of Diesel Fuel
    Publication number: 20090313887
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for refining vegetable oils, in particular cottonseed oil or a possible mixture of it with others, as substitute of diesel fuel remarkable in that a sequence of treatment steps to be performed on crude vegetable oil, including: a) a pre-treatment thereof consisting of the removal of oil insoluble impurities from the crude oil, b) removal of oil soluble impurities therefrom, c) a free acid neutralization thereof, and d) a drying, bleaching and filtration thereof. This invention also relates to an Additive of organic basis, containing ether, ketone, toluene, hexane, turpentine, alcohols in specific concentrations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Inventor: Efstratios Hatziemmanouil