Patents by Inventor Harold T. Fullam

Harold T. Fullam 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).

  • Oxidation of hydrogen halides to elemental halogens
    Patent number: 4537835
    Abstract: A process for oxidizing hydrogen halides having substantially no sulfur impurities by means of a catalytically active molten salt is disclosed. A mixture of the subject hydrogen halide and an oxygen bearing gas is contacted with a molten salt containing an oxidizing catalyst and alkali metal normal sulfates and pyrosulfates to produce an effluent gas stream rich in the elemental halogen and substantially free of sulfur oxide gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1985
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Charles A. Rohrmann, Harold T. Fullam