Patents by Inventor Geoffrey James Holmes

Geoffrey James Holmes 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).

  • Publication number: 20220096998
    Abstract: Techniques for drift elimination in a liquid-gas contactor system include configuring a pre-fabricated mechanical frame coupled to a drift eliminator material to produce a framed drift eliminator assembly with substantially no air gaps between the drift eliminator material and the pre-fabricated mechanical frame, and coupling the framed drift eliminator assembly to the liquid-gas contactor system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Kenton Robert Heidel, Geoffrey James Holmes, David W. Keith
  • Patent number: 11014043
    Abstract: Techniques for drift elimination in a liquid-gas contactor system include configuring a pre-fabricated mechanical frame coupled to a drift eliminator material to produce a framed drift eliminator assembly with substantially no air gaps between the drift eliminator material and the pre-fabricated mechanical frame, and coupling the framed drift eliminator assembly to the liquid-gas contactor system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Carbon Engineering Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenton Robert Heidel, Geoffrey James Holmes, David W. Keith
  • Publication number: 20190344217
    Abstract: Techniques for drift elimination in a liquid-gas contactor system include configuring a pre-fabricated mechanical frame coupled to a drift eliminator material to produce a framed drift eliminator assembly with substantially no air gaps between the drift eliminator material and the pre-fabricated mechanical frame, and coupling the framed drift eliminator assembly to the liquid-gas contactor system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Kenton Robert Heidel, Geoffrey James Holmes, David W. Keith
  • Patent number: 10421039
    Abstract: Techniques for distributing a liquid in a liquid-gas system include flowing a liquid into a system of nozzles and basin of the liquid-gas contacting system; and operating the nozzles and basin system with a distribution sub-assembly configured to operate the nozzles under a plurality of liquid flow rates and maintaining a consistent spatial liquid distribution of the liquid within the distribution sub-assembly at the plurality of liquid flow rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Carbon Engineering Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenton Robert Heidel, Geoffrey James Holmes, David W. Keith
  • Publication number: 20170354925
    Abstract: Techniques for distributing a liquid in a liquid-gas system include flowing a liquid into a system of nozzles and basin of the liquid-gas contacting system; and operating the nozzles and basin system with a distribution sub-assembly configured to operate the nozzles under a plurality of liquid flow rates and maintaining a consistent spatial liquid distribution of the liquid within the distribution sub-assembly at the plurality of liquid flow rates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Kenton Robert Heidel, Geoffrey James Holmes, David W. Keith
  • Publication number: 20150017706
    Abstract: Enhancing growth of algae in an algaculture facility includes contacting a growth medium with a gas including carbon dioxide, transferring some of the carbon dioxide to the growth medium to yield an enriched growth medium, and providing the enriched growth medium to the algaculture facility. The concentration of dissolved carbon dioxide in the enriched growth medium exceeds the concentration of dissolved carbon dioxide in the growth medium, where dissolved carbon dioxide includes ions formed by the reaction of carbon dioxide with a species in solution. The growth medium may be obtained from the algaculture facility, and may be filtered or otherwise processed before or after contacting the growth medium with the gas. Providing the enriched growth medium to the algaculture facility increases the concentration of dissolved carbon dioxide in the bulk growth medium of the algaculture facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Arvinder Pal Singh Kainth, Kenton Robert Heidel, Matthew Alex Henderson, Geoffrey James Holmes, Jane Anne Ritchie, David William Keith