Patents by Inventor Geoff Orr

Geoff Orr 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).

  • Methods and systems of dewatering tailings
    Patent number: 12269762
    Abstract: Methods of dewatering tailings, including tailings streams that may include a clay, ultra-fine particles, or both. The methods may include providing a tailings stream, dewatering the tailings stream with a dewatering apparatus to produce a first cake and a first residual effluent stream, contacting the first residual effluent stream with one or more additives, and dewatering the first residual effluent stream with a solid bowl centrifuge to produce a second cake and a second residual effluent stream. The methods may include providing a tailings stream, contacting the tailings stream with one or more additives, and dewatering the tailings stream with a solid bowl centrifuge to produce a first cake and a first residual effluent stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Somerset International Finance Designated Activity Company
    Inventors: David Osborne, James Graham, Geoff Orr, James C. Fisher, II
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CLASSIFICATION AND RECOVERY
    Publication number: 20240253060
    Abstract: Methods and systems for classification and recovery of certain solids from streams, such as liquid waste streams. Methods including classification with at least one solid bowl centrifuge, followed by a valorization procedure. The valorization procedure may be a flotation procedure, which may include a single-step or two-step procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: David Osborne, James Graham, Geoff Orr, James C. Fisher, II
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF DEWATERING TAILINGS
    Publication number: 20230373838
    Abstract: Methods of dewatering tailings, including tailings streams that may include a clay, ultra-fine particles, or both. The methods may include providing a tailings stream, dewatering the tailings stream with a dewatering apparatus to produce a first cake and a first residual effluent stream, contacting the first residual effluent stream with one or more additives, and dewatering the first residual effluent stream with a solid bowl centrifuge to produce a second cake and a second residual effluent stream. The methods may include providing a tailings stream, contacting the tailings stream with one or more additives, and dewatering the tailings stream with a solid bowl centrifuge to produce a first cake and a first residual effluent stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: David Osborne, James Graham, Geoff Orr, James C. Fisher, II