Patents by Inventor Frank Notaro
Frank Notaro 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: 9337636Abstract: A modular fastening kit is provided. The kit includes at least one first connecting unit having a first end including a male connector and an opposite second end including a female connector. The kit includes at least one second connecting unit having a first end including a female connector and an opposite second end including a female connector. The kit includes at least one third connecting unit having a first end extending along a first axis and including a male connector and an opposite second end extending along a second axis and including a male connector. The first axis extends transverse to the second axis. The male connectors each have an exterior fluted surface and the female connectors each have an interior fluted surface. The female connectors are each configured and dimensioned to removably receive one of the male connectors. Systems and methods are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Inventors: Frank Notaro, Samuel J. Notaro
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Publication number: 20150362095Abstract: A modular fastening kit is provided. The kit includes at least one first connecting unit having a first end including a male connector and an opposite second end including a female connector. The kit includes at least one second connecting unit having a first end including a female connector and an opposite second end including a female connector. The kit includes at least one third connecting unit having a first end extending along a first axis and including a male connector and an opposite second end extending along a second axis and including a male connector. The first axis extends transverse to the second axis. The male connectors each have an exterior fluted surface and the female connectors each have an interior fluted surface. The female connectors are each configured and dimensioned to removably receive one of the male connectors. Systems and methods are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2015Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventors: Frank NOTARO, Samuel J. NOTARO
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Publication number: 20130334374Abstract: A modular fastening system includes a plurality of connecting units. Each connecting unit having at least one male connector at a first end and a female connector at an opposite second end. The male connector having an exterior fluted surface and the female connector having an interior fluted surface to form one connecting unit that can be configured and dimensioned in various confutations and to have various angles. The system will include at least one bracket member that is connectable to a connecting unit and is configured to support an electrical or fluid conduit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2012Publication date: December 19, 2013Inventors: Frank Notaro, Samuel J. Notaro
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Patent number: 7537742Abstract: This invention discloses an optimum set of adsorbents for use in H2-PSA processes. Each adsorbent bed is divided into four regions; Region 1 contains adsorbent for removing water; Region 2 contains a mixture of strong and weak adsorbents to remove bulk impurities like CO2; Region 3 contains a high bulk density (>38 lbm/ft3) adsorbent to remove remaining CO2; and most of CH4 and CO present in H2 containing feed mixtures; and Region 4 contains adsorbent having high Henry's law constants for the final cleanup of N2 and residual impurities to produce hydrogen at the desired high purity.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2003Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.Inventors: Mohamed Safdar Allie Baksh, Mark William Ackley, Frank Notaro
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Publication number: 20060254425Abstract: This invention discloses an optimum set of adsorbents for use in H2-PSA processes. Each adsorbent bed is divided into four regions; Region 1 contains adsorbent for removing water; Region 2 contains a mixture of strong and weak adsorbents to remove bulk impurities like CO2; Region 3 contains a high bulk density (>38 lbm/ft3) adsorbent to remove remaining CO2; and most of CH4 and CO present in H2 containing feed mixtures; and Region 4 contains adsorbent having high Henry's law constants for the final cleanup of N2 and residual impurities to produce hydrogen at the desired high purity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2003Publication date: November 16, 2006Inventors: Mohamed Safdar Baksh, Mark Ackley, Frank Notaro
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Patent number: 7122073Abstract: A low void pressure swing adsorption system wherein flow movement and pressure pulse are influenced from the same source comprised of at least one hermetically sealed vessel containing an adsorbent bed with an inlet coupled to the adsorbent bed by way of an inlet header and an outlet coupled to the adsorbent bed by way of an outlet header. Void volume of the inlet and outlet headers can be limited to less than 20% of the adsorbent bed volume, preferably to less than 10%, and most preferably to less than 5%, by mounting high pressure source(s) and/or low pressure sink(s) proximate to, or nearly proximate to, the adsorbent bed/vessel. Low void volumes and reduced cycle times may be achieved in all bed configurations, including flat header beds, segmented beds, and vertical beds. Radial beds may be configured so that the void volume of the inlet and outlet headers is less than 50% of the volume of the radial adsorbent bed, preferably to less than 20%, and most preferably to less than 10%.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2000Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.Inventors: Frank Notaro, Alan Barnard Stewart, Jeffert John Nowobilski, Guoming Zhong, Arun Acharya
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Patent number: 6547859Abstract: A process for making microporous membranes that incorporate selected gas selective species as surface sites in a controlled spacing and orientation manner and such membranes so formed being suitable for separating and purifying the selected gas from selected gas containing gas mixtures. An example is the use of oxygen selective transition element complexes (TECs) as surface sites for separating and purifying oxygen from oxygen-containing gas mixtures.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2000Date of Patent: April 15, 2003Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Timothy Mullhaupt, Neil Andrew Stephenson, Frank Notaro, Ravi Prasad
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Patent number: 6500235Abstract: An improved pressure swing adsorption process and system for producing a high recovery of a highly purified product gas, such as argon, from a feed gas stream containing the product gas and impurity gases employs first and second adsorption stages with beds for adsorbing impurity gases. The system and process provides for sequential steps of: feed pressurization; simultaneous feed pressurization and product pressurization; adsorption; adsorption and purge; adsorption in the absence of purge; pressure equalization between beds; evacuation and depressurization of adsorbent bed; evacuation with product purge; evacuation without purge; and pressure equalization between beds.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2000Date of Patent: December 31, 2002Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.Inventors: Guoming Zhong, Mohamed Safdar Allie Baksh, Frank Notaro, Frederick Wells Leavitt
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Patent number: 6475265Abstract: The present invention is a two stage PSA process for producing high purity oxygen from a feed air stream. Water, carbon dioxide and nitrogen are removed in a first stage. An oxygen selective adsorbent is used to adsorb oxygen in the second stage. High purity oxygen product is recovered during regeneration of the second stage. Importantly, the high purity of the oxygen product is achieved without inclusion of an oxygen rinse step in the process cycle. The high purity oxygen product is obtained by collecting the middle cut of the second stage effluent stream during regeneration.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1998Date of Patent: November 5, 2002Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.Inventors: Mohamed Safdar Allie Baksh, Atanas Serbezov, Frank Notaro, Frederick Wells Leavitt
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Publication number: 20020134240Abstract: An improved pressure swing adsorption process and system for producing a high recovery of a highly purified product gas, such as argon, from a feed gas stream containing the product gas and impurity gases employs first and second adsorption stages with beds for adsorbing impurity gases. The system and process provides for sequential steps of: feed pressurization; simultaneous feed pressurization and product pressurization; adsorption; adsorption and purge; adsorption in the absence of purge; pressure equalization between beds; evacuation and depressurization of adsorbent bed; evacuation with product purge; evacuation without purge; and pressure equalization between beds.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2000Publication date: September 26, 2002Inventors: Guoming Zhong, Mohamed Safdar Allie Baksh, Frank Notaro, Frederick Wells Leavitt
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Patent number: 6444014Abstract: The invention relates to the use of adsorbent materials that have been selected on the basis of their relationship between that material's intrinsic rate and equilibrium properties.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2000Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Timothy Mullhaupt, Frank Notaro
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Patent number: 6251164Abstract: Separation of one or more fluidic components from a feed fluid containing a plurality of components is accomplished by adsorbent powder entrained in a stream of fluid, such as gas, and preferably is operated as a temperature swing adsorption process using waste thermal energy from a plant.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1999Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.Inventors: Frank Notaro, Jeffert John Nowobilski, Dariush Habibollih Zadeh
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Patent number: 6245127Abstract: A low pressure swing adsorption process and apparatus for the recovery of carbon dioxide from multi-component gas mixtures, utilizing the simultaneous purge and evacuation of opposite ends of the adsorber(s) to effect controlled depressurization in the adsorber bed(s) to maintain the constant purity of a carbon dioxide-enriched product stream recovered from the adsorber inlet(s).Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1999Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.Inventors: Michael Scott Kane, Frederick Wells Leavitt, Mark William Ackley, Frank Notaro
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Patent number: 6027548Abstract: The invention comprises a PSA apparatus for the separation of a heavy component from a light component in a feed stream. The apparatus includes an adsorbent bed comprising either a mixture of adsorbents or composite adsorbent particles wherein each particle comprises two or more adsorbents. At least one of the adsorbents is comparatively weak and the other is comparatively strong. Another embodiment of the invention is a PSA prepurifier having a bed of adsorbent material which comprises a mixture of, or composite adsorbent particles wherein each particle comprises at least two adsorbents, at least one of the adsorbents being comparatively strong and at least another of the adsorbents being comparatively weak.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 1998Date of Patent: February 22, 2000Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.Inventors: Mark William Ackley, Alan Barnard Stewart, Gregory William Henzler, Frederick Wells Leavitt, Frank Notaro, Michael Scott Kane
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Patent number: 6007606Abstract: A PSA process involving the storage of products of various purities in segregated storage tanks for subsequent usage is disclosed. Products of increasing purities, admitted at the product end of the bed, are used during purging and repressurization steps. In addition, different composition streams collected at the feed end of the bed during the countercurrent depressurization step are admitted at the feed end of the bed, in the order of increasing product component content, during the rising pressure step(s). This cycle gives higher recovery and lower bed size factor than prior art PSA cycles.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 1997Date of Patent: December 28, 1999Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.Inventors: Mohamed Safdar Allie Baksh, Frank Notaro
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Patent number: 5810909Abstract: An adsorption process and system for the selective adsorption of a more readily adsorbable component, such as nitrogen, as from air or other feed gas mixture is carried out using a composite adsorbent bed containing different adsorbent materials positioned in separate zones in which the temperature conditions favor adsorption performance of the particular adsorbent material under applicable processing conditions in each zone. A method for the selection of the adsorbent materials is based on Adsorption Figure of Merit values.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 1997Date of Patent: September 22, 1998Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.Inventors: Frank Notaro, Joseph Timothy Mullhaupt, Frederick Wells Leavitt, Mark William Ackley
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Patent number: 5766311Abstract: Multiple thermal pulses are employed to regenerate segments of an adsorber bed simultaneously in thermal swing adsorption processes. The invention is particularly applicable to air purification as it helps to reduce purge flow and improve regeneration efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 1996Date of Patent: June 16, 1998Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.Inventors: Mark William Ackley, Frederick Wells Leavitt, Frank Notaro, Jeffert John Nowobilski
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Patent number: 5735938Abstract: A PSA method incorporating the invention is applicable to the separation of a preferred gas from a mixture of the preferred gas and a less preferred gas. The PSA method uses an adsorbent bed including one or more layers of O.sub.2 equilibrium selective adsorbents, and comprises the steps of: pressurizing the adsorbent bed to a high pressure with a feed of air to enable the adsorbent bed to adsorb O.sub.2 ; extracting from the bed at bed pressure, a flow of N.sub.2 and storing at least some of the flow in a product tank; desorbing O.sub.2 from the adsorbent bed by feeding void gas in the bed enclosure to a storage tank and venting the adsorbent bed to a low pressure region; purging the adsorbent bed by feeding thereto the void gas from the storage tank; and repressurizing the adsorbent bed to an intermediate pressure with a flow of void gas from the storage tank.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 1997Date of Patent: April 7, 1998Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.Inventors: Mohamed Safdar Allie Baksh, Frank Notaro
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Patent number: 5674311Abstract: An adsorption process and system for the selective adsorption of a more readily adsorbable component, such as nitrogen, as from air or other feed gas mixture is carried out using a composite adsorbent bed containing different adsorbent materials positioned in separate zones in which the temperature conditions favor adsorption performance of the particular adsorbent material under applicable processing conditions in each zone. A method for the selection of the adsorbent materials is based on Adsorption Figure of Merit values.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1995Date of Patent: October 7, 1997Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.Inventors: Frank Notaro, Joseph Timothy Mullhaupt, Frederick Wells Leavitt, Mark William Ackley
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Patent number: 5565018Abstract: Segregated external gas storage tanks are used to store gases of varying purity for use in the purge and pressure equalization and product repressurization steps of pressure swing adsorption operations, thereby enabling the bed size factor and the power requirements of pressure swing adsorption-gas separation operations to be significantly reduced.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 1995Date of Patent: October 15, 1996Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.Inventors: Mohamed S. A. Baksh, Frank Notaro