Patents by Inventor Henning Reier Nilsen

Henning Reier Nilsen 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).

  • Patent number: 6505467
    Abstract: A process producing electric energy, steam and carbon dioxide in concentrated form from a hydrocarbon feedstock. The process includes forming synthesis gas in an air driven autothermal reactor unit (ATR), heat exchanging the formed synthesis gas and thereby producing steam, treating at least part of the synthesis gas in a CO-shift reactor unit and carbon dioxide separation unit for formation of concentrated carbon dioxide and a lean hydrogen containing gas which is combusted in a combined cycle gas turbine for production of electric energy, and where air from the turbine is supplied to the ATR unit. The exhaust from the gas turbine is heat exchanged for the production of steam which together with steam generated upstream said unit is utilized in a power generator for production of substantially CO2-free electric energy. Steam may be fed to the gas turbine for diluting the hydrogen containing gas mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Norsk Hydro ASA
    Inventors: Henrik O. Fjellhaug, Henning Reier Nilsen, Werner Soyez, Michel Saigne
  • Patent number: 4043789
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of phosphoric acid containing calcium phosphates, i.e. Ca-containing phosphoric acid, by evaporating Ca-containing mother liquor from Odda process, whereby practically all the remaining nitrate and fluorine are removed in the form of HNO.sub.3, HF and SiF.sub.4, in which process the Ca-containing mother liquor is given a Ca/P weight ratio which is lower than 0.45 and is evaporated while recycling Ca-containing phosphoric acid, the recirculation being so controlled that the liquor has a phosphorus concentration during evaporation which is always adequate to prevent the liquor from forming a paste-like mass. Thus, it was discovered that the undesirable paste-like consistency experienced when calcium is present during evaporation can be avoided by controlling the phosphorus content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1977
    Assignee: Norsk Hydro a.s
    Inventors: Rolf Steen Hansen, Ole Hannibal Lie, Henning Reier Nilsen, Thor Sandal