Patents by Inventor Elmar Schmid

Elmar Schmid 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: 10119095
    Abstract: A method for processing algae-based products using flue gas heat includes mixing flue gas with water, receiving a heated gas in a first enclosure of a heat exchanger, receiving an algal paste in a second enclosure of the heat exchanger, introducing an organic solvent to the algal paste, extracting an algal oil and a plurality of algal shells from the algal paste by dissipating heat from the first enclosure to the second enclosure; and extracting the algal oil from the organic solvent and the algal shells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: T2 Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Randall, Mark Olson, Elmar Schmid
  • Publication number: 20170233678
    Abstract: A method for processing algae-based products using flue gas heat includes mixing flue gas with water, receiving a heated gas in a first enclosure of a heat exchanger, receiving an algal paste in a second enclosure of the heat exchanger, introducing an organic solvent to the algal paste, extracting an algal oil and a plurality of algal shells from the algal paste by dissipating heat from the first enclosure to the second enclosure; and extracting the algal oil from the organic solvent and the algal shells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: T2 ENERGY, LLC
    Inventors: MARK RANDALL, MARK OLSON, ELMAR SCHMID
  • Patent number: 9458407
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an algal oil based bio-lubricant includes selecting a base algae strain with a fatty acid profile that includes oleic acid, introducing the base algae strain to a flue gas recycling system, introducing a lipid trigger to the flue gas recycling system to enhance the lipid production efficiency of the algae, harvesting the algae, extracting an algal oil from the algae that is more than 40% oleic acid, and converting the algal oil into bio-lubricant using chemical modification and/or the incorporation of stabilizing additives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: T2E ENERGY HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Bhima Vijayendran, Mark Randall, Elmar Schmid
  • Publication number: 20150159113
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an algal oil based bio-lubricant includes selecting a base algae strain with a fatty acid profile that includes oleic acid, introducing the base algae strain to a flue gas recycling system, introducing a lipid trigger to the flue gas recycling system to enhance the lipid production efficiency of the algae, harvesting the algae, extracting an algal oil from the algae that is more than 40% oleic acid, and converting the algal oil into bio-lubricant using chemical modification and/or the incorporation of stabilizing additives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: T2E ENERGY HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: BHIMA VIJAYENDRAN, MARK RANDALL, ELMAR SCHMID
  • Publication number: 20090298151
    Abstract: The disclosed invention relates to an isolated hydrogen gas producing microorganism, termed Enterobacter sp. SGT-T4™ and derivatives thereof. Compositions and methods comprising the disclosed microorganisms are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2008
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: Dr. Elmar Schmid and James Gibson
    Inventors: Elmar Schmid, James Gibson
  • Publication number: 20090137013
    Abstract: The disclosed invention relates to an isolated hydrogen gas producing microorganism, termed Enterobacter sp. SGT-T4™ and derivatives thereof. Compositions and methods comprising the disclosed microorganisms are also provided. The disclosed invention also relates to a method to increase the hydrogen production rate and yield of hydrogen gas producing microorganism in the presence of diatomaceous earth and other absorptive materials. Further, the disclosure relates to the production of high microalgal biomass and microalgal oils suitable for economical industrial scale bio-diesel production from processed bacterial fermentation wastes as feedstock using the green microalga Chlorella protothecoides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: Sustainable Green Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Elmar Schmid, James Gibson
  • Publication number: 20090029433
    Abstract: The disclosed invention relates to an isolated hydrogen gas producing microorganism, termed Enterobacter sp. SGT 06-1™.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: Dr. Elmar Schmid and James Gibson
    Inventors: Elmar Schmid, James Warner Gibson
  • Patent number: 7001302
    Abstract: A differential drive having a drive housing in which a differential carrier (14) is rotatably supported around its longitudinal axis (A). The drive has sideshaft gears (18, 19) which are supported so as to be rotatable relative to the differential carrier (14) around the axis (A), and differential gears (22) which are supported in the differential carrier rotatably around axes (R) extending radially relative to the longitudinal axis (A), which engage the sideshaft gears (18, 19) and which rotate together with the differential carrier (14). The differential carrier (14) forms journals (16, 17) which extend co-axially relative to the longitudinal axis (A) and by means of which the differential carrier (14) is rotatably supported in the sideshaft gears (18, 19) and wherein the sideshaft gears (18, 19), in turn, are rotatably supported in the drive housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: GKN Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Wachter, Bruno Zweier, Elmar Schmid, Jochen Balken, Werner Krude
  • Publication number: 20040127323
    Abstract: A differential drive having a drive housing in which a differential carrier (14) is rotatably supported around its longitudinal axis (A). The drive has sideshaft gears (18, 19) which are supported so as to be rotatable relative to the differential carrier (14) around the axis (A), and differential gears (22) which are supported in the differential carrier rotatably around axes (R) extending radially relative to the longitudinal axis (A), which engage the sideshaft gears (18, 19) and which rotate together with the differential carrier (14). The differential carrier (14) forms journals (16, 17) which extend co-axially relative to the longitudinal axis (A) and by means of which the differential carrier (14) is rotatably supported in the sideshaft gears (18, 19) and wherein the sideshaft gears (18, 19), in turn, are rotatably supported in the drive housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: Christian Wachter, Bruno Zweier, Elmar Schmid, Jochen Balken, Werner Krude