Patents by Inventor Graeme Richards
Graeme Richards 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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Publication number: 20240109783Abstract: A process and apparatus for reducing wastewater generated during production of ammonia that can have different levels of production (e.g. ammonia production can vary from 10% to 100% production capacity, etc.) can be configured to minimize or eliminate wastewater from ammonia production. Embodiments can be adapted so that wastewater is stored in a vessel and providable to a scrubber used for processing an ammonia vapor containing stream so that ammonia within that stream can be recovered and mixed with other liquid ammonia product for subsequent storage or use. Embodiments can be implemented so the scrubber stream that may utilize a liquid to perform the scrubbing is recyclable in a way that minimizes or even eliminates formation of a wastewater stream, which can significantly improve process efficiency and provide improved environmental operation as compared to conventional approaches.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: KEVIN RICHARD MADTHA, GRAEME RICHARD WILSON
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Publication number: 20240052827Abstract: Controlling a capacity of the compression system in response to the variable incoming gas feed by: i) selectively varying a capacity of a first subset of one or more of the compressor trains by continuously varying the capacity of one or more cylinders of the one or more reciprocating compressor stages of the one or more compressor trains of the first subset between a maximum capacity and a minimum capacity; and/or ii) selectively varying a capacity of a second subset of one or more of the compressor trains by fully loading or fully unloading one or more cylinders of the one or more reciprocating compressor stages of the compressor trains of the second subset, wherein the first and second subsets are mutually exclusive.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2022Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: ZHONG-XIANG ZHU, DAVID M. ESPIE, GRAEME RICHARD WILSON, GREGORY W. HENZLER
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Publication number: 20240053772Abstract: An industrial gas production plant operable to produce a feedstock gas at a variable production rate for supply to the downstream process; and a gas storage resource operable to store produced feedstock gas, the method comprising: determining the pressure of feedstock gas in a supply feed line to the downstream process; selectively controlling, using a control system, a flow of feedstock gas from the supply feed line to the gas storage resource or from the gas storage resource to the supply feed line in response to the determined pressure in order to regulate the pressure of the feedstock gas in the supply feed line to the downstream process at a predetermined set point pressure; and selectively controlling, using a control system, a flow rate of feedstock gas in the supply feed line to the downstream process in dependence upon at least one operational parameter of the gas storage resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2022Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: ZHONG-XIANG ZHU, DAVID M. ESPIE, GRAEME RICHARD WILSON
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Publication number: 20230357279Abstract: The specification relates to compounds of Formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The specification also relates to processes and intermediates used for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of cell proliferative disorders.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: JAMES MICHAEL SMITH, GRAEME RICHARD ROBB, PIOTR ANTONI RAUBO, BERNARD CHRISTOPHE BARLAAM, IAIN ALEXANDER CUMMING
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Patent number: 11656612Abstract: A method of controlling an industrial gas production facility comprising: receiving time-dependent power data receiving time-dependent operational characteristic data; defining one or more power constraints for the operational parameters of the power network; defining one or more process constraints for the operational parameters of each industrial gas plant; generating, based on the power data, the operational characteristic data, the one or more power constraints and the one or more process constraints, control set point values for the one or more industrial gas plants to achieve a pre-determined production parameter for the industrial gas production facility; and sending the control set point values to a control system to control the one or more industrial gas plants by adjusting one or more control set points of the industrial gas plants to achieve the pre-determined production parameter for the industrial gas production facility.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: David M. Espie, Pratik Misra, Graeme Richard Wilson
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Publication number: 20230012835Abstract: A method of controlling an industrial gas production facility comprising: receiving time-dependent power data receiving time-dependent operational characteristic data; defining one or more power constraints for the operational parameters of the power network; defining one or more process constraints for the operational parameters of each industrial gas plant; generating, based on the power data, the operational characteristic data, the one or more power constraints and the one or more process constraints, control set point values for the one or more industrial gas plants to achieve a pre-determined production parameter for the industrial gas production facility; and sending the control set point values to a control system to control the one or more industrial gas plants by adjusting one or more control set points of the industrial gas plants to achieve the pre-determined production parameter for the industrial gas production facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2021Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: David M. Espie, Pratik Misra, Graeme Richard Wilson
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Publication number: 20220397119Abstract: Energy efficiency and/or operational stability of a multistage compression system comprising a plurality (N) of centrifugal compressors that is compressing a gas feed having a variable flow rate is improved by adjusting reversibly the load on each compressor in response to changes in the flow rate of the gas feed using a main recycle system to enable operation of the centrifugal compressors at turndown capacity during periods when the flow rate is below total turndown capacity for all of the compressors, and if necessary, using the local recycle systems in order to avoid activation of anti-surge control, and switching one or more centrifugal compressors into low power mode or shutdown mode as required.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2021Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: David M. Espie, Gregory W. Henzler, Zhong-Xiang (John) Zhu, Graeme Richard Wilson
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Patent number: 11428846Abstract: A system can output a graphical user interface for use in planning or performing a wellbore operation. The system can receive a location of a geological point location of interest for subterranean exploration and a geological time-frame for the geological point location of interest. The system can determine present-day data about the geological point location of interest from the received location. The system can generate a pseudo-well and reconstruct geological-historical parameters in separate time-intervals based on the received location, plate-tectonic models, and paleo-geographic datasets. The system can generate a graphical user interface including present-day data, paleo-geographic data, plate-tectonic data, and plate-interaction data. The system can output the graphical user interface for use in planning or performing a wellbore operation to extract hydrocarbon fluid.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Landmark Graphics CorporationInventors: Jean-Christophe Wrobel-Daveau, Michael Grant Tetley, Graeme Richard Nicoll
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Patent number: 11407765Abstract: The specification relates to compounds of Formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The specification also relates to processes and intermediates used for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of cell proliferative disorders.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: AstraZeneca, ABInventors: Jason Grant Kettle, Sharanjeet Kaur Bagal, Andrew John Eatherton, Shaun Michael Fillery, Graeme Richard Robb, Scott Gibson Lamont, Paul David Kemmitt, Frederick Woolf Goldberg
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Publication number: 20220196876Abstract: A system can output a graphical user interface for use in planning or performing a wellbore operation. The system can receive a location of a geological point location of interest for subterranean exploration and a geological time-frame for the geological point location of interest. The system can determine present-day data about the geological point location of interest from the received location. The system can generate a pseudo-well and reconstruct geological-historical parameters in separate time-intervals based on the received location, plate-tectonic models, and paleo-geographic datasets. The system can generate a graphical user interface including present-day data, paleo-geographic data, plate-tectonic data, and plate-interaction data. The system can output the graphical user interface for use in planning or performing a wellbore operation to extract hydrocarbon fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Jean-Christophe Wrobel-Daveau, Michael Grant Tetley, Graeme Richard Nicoll
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Publication number: 20220127281Abstract: The specification relates to compounds of Formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The specification also relates to processes and intermediates used for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of cell proliferative disorders.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Jason Grant KETTLE, Sharanjeet Kaur BAGAL, Scott BOYD, Andrew John EATHERTON, Shaun Michael FILLERY, Graeme Richard ROBB, Piotr Antoni RAUBO
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Patent number: 11287548Abstract: Analysis and display of source-to-sink information according to some aspects includes grouping geochronological data associated with a sediment sample into optimized subpopulations within a reference population and target populations, and producing Gaussian functions for the reference population and the target populations using the subpopulations as a priori constraints. The Gaussian functions describe a distribution of zircons. The subpopulations within the reference population and the target populations are compared based on at least one statistical attribute from the Gaussian functions to identify areas of sediment provenance, and the areas of sediment provenance are displayed in various ways, for example, on a paleographic map as of an age of deposition of the sediment sample. A sink-to-sink analysis can also be performed to identify dissimilarities between samples.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Landmark Graphics CorporationInventors: Daniel Stanton, Benjamin Stephen Saunders, Graeme Richard Nicoll, Graham Baines
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Patent number: 11269114Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods to assess geological data. The method includes obtaining data associated with a geological state of a geological entity. The method also includes assessing a nature of a geological age constraint of the geological entity. The method further includes generating a first probability distribution of a geological age of the geological entity based on the nature of the geological age constraint of the geological entity. The method further includes selecting a time of interest for analysis of the geological entity. The method further includes assessing a nature of the geological age constraint during the time of interest. The method further includes generating a second probability distribution for the time of interest. The method further includes determining a likelihood that the geological age constraint of the geological entity coincides with the time of interest.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Landmark Graphics CorporationInventors: Graham Baines, Benjamin S. Saunders, Graeme Richard Nicoll, Jean-Christophe Wrobel-Daveau
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Patent number: 11215734Abstract: Analysis and display of source-to-sink information according to some aspects includes grouping target geochronological data and reference geochronological data into distinct population groups representing a reference population and target populations and characterizing subpopulations within the reference population and the target populations according a statistical attribute or statistical attributes. Subpopulations are compared within the reference population and the target populations based on the statistical attribute or attributes to determine correlations between the reference population and the target populations, and the results can be displayed in many different ways. As one example, results can be displayed using a present day geographic map as well as using a geodynamic plate tectonic model to show data points and their paleogeographic locations for the relevant geological time frame of investigation.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Landmark Graphics CorporationInventors: Benjamin Stephen Saunders, Graeme Richard Nicoll, Graham Baines
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Publication number: 20210221823Abstract: The specification relates to compounds of Formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The specification also relates to processes and intermediates used for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of cell proliferative disorders.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2019Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Jason Grant KETTLE, Sharanjeet Kaur BAGAL, Andrew John EATHERTON, Shaun Michael FILLERY, Graeme Richard ROBB, Scott Gibson LAMONT, Paul David KEMMITT, Frederick Woolf GOLDBERG
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Publication number: 20210011192Abstract: Analysis and display of source-to-sink information according to some aspects includes grouping target geochronological data and reference geochronological data into distinct population groups representing a reference population and target populations and characterizing subpopulations within the reference population and the target populations according a statistical attribute or statistical attributes. Subpopulations are compared within the reference population and the target populations based on the statistical attribute or attributes to determine correlations between the reference population and the target populations, and the results can be displayed in many different ways. As one example, results can be displayed using a present day geographic map as well as using a geodynamic plate tectonic model to show data points and their paleogeographic locations for the relevant geological time frame of investigation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2018Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: Benjamin Stephen Saunders, Graeme Richard Nicoll, Graham Baines
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Publication number: 20200241168Abstract: Analysis and display of source-to-sink information according to some aspects includes grouping geochronological data associated with a sediment sample into optimized subpopulations within a reference population and target populations, and producing Gaussian functions for the reference population and the target populations using the subpopulations as a priori constraints. The Gaussian functions describe a distribution of zircons. The subpopulations within the reference population and the target populations are compared based on at least one statistical attribute from the Gaussian functions to identify areas of sediment provenance, and the areas of sediment provenance are displayed in various ways, for example, on a paleographic map as of an age of deposition of the sediment sample. A sink-to-sink analysis can also be performed to identify dissimilarities between samples.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2018Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Daniel STANTON, Benjamin Stephen SAUNDERS, Graeme Richard NICOLL, Graham BAINES
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Publication number: 20200174158Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods to assess geological data. The method includes obtaining data associated with a geological state of a geological entity. The method also includes assessing a nature of a geological age constraint of the geological entity. The method further includes generating a first probability distribution of a geological age of the geological entity based on the nature of the geological age constraint of the geological entity. The method further includes selecting a time of interest for analysis of the geological entity. The method further includes assessing a nature of the geological age constraint during the time of interest. The method further includes generating a second probability distribution for the time of interest. The method further includes determining a likelihood that the geological age constraint of the geological entity coincides with the time of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2020Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Graham Baines, Benjamin S. Saunders, Graeme Richard Nicoll, Jean-Christophe Wrobel-Daveau
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Publication number: 20200109153Abstract: The specification relates to compounds of Formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The specification also relates to processes and intermediates used for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of cell proliferative disorders.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2018Publication date: April 9, 2020Inventors: Jason Grant KETTLE, Sharanjeet Kaur BAGAL, Scott BOYD, Andrew John EATHERTON, Shaun Michael FILLERY, Graeme Richard ROBB, Piotr Antoni RAUBO
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Patent number: 10597405Abstract: The specification relates to compounds of Formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The specification also relates to processes and intermediates used for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of cell proliferative disorders.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: AstraZeneca ABInventors: Jason Grant Kettle, Sharanjeet Bagal, Graeme Richard Robb, James Michael Smith, Frederick Woolf Goldberg, Doyle Joseph Cassar, James Lyman Feron