Patents by Inventor Frederick J. Kaiser, Jr.

Frederick J. Kaiser, Jr. 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).

  • Catalyst/heat-transfer medium for syngas generation
    Patent number: 5160456
    Abstract: Synthesis gas, hydrogen and carbon monixide, as produced in a fluid-bed or spouted-bed process by reacting methane or a lower alkane with steam and oxygen in the presence of essentially non-catalytic, heat carrying solids with periodic addition of a steam-reforming catalyst for maintaining a level of activity sufficient within 250.degree. F. of the approach to equilibrium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1992
    Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Gerard C. Lahn, Frederick J. Kaiser, Jr., Rocco A. Fiato
  • Catalyst fluidization improvements (C-2546)
    Patent number: 5157054
    Abstract: Three phase reactions are carried out in a slurry bubble column, e.g., hydrocarbon synthesis, wherein rising gas bubbles fluidize a catalytically active solid dispersed in a liquid phase and in the presence of at least one other solid different chemically or physically from the catalytically active solid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1992
    Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Eric Herbolzheimer, Frederick J. Kaiser, Jr., Enrique Iglesia