Patents by Inventor Jacob Adriaan Moulijn
Jacob Adriaan Moulijn 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: 20140360493Abstract: A process for converting cellulose to glucose, said process comprising the steps of: providing a hydrated molten salt; contacting the hydrated molten salt with a cellulose-containing material to form dissolved glucose; removing the dissolved glucose from the hydrated molten salt.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: Paul O'CONNOR, Jacob Adriaan MOULIJN, Michiel MAKKEE, Sjoerd DAAMEN, Rafael MENEGASSI DE ALMEIDA
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Publication number: 20140331992Abstract: A method is disclosed for recovering saccharide monomers and/or oligomers from a reaction mixture. The reaction mixture may further comprise water and a molten salt hydrate. The method may comprise adding an anti-solvent, whereby at least the saccharide oligomers are precipitated from the reaction mixture. In an alternate embodiment molten salt hydrate is extracted from the reaction mixture using a suitable extractant.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventors: Roman TSCHENTSCHER, Rafael MENEGASSI DE ALMEIDA, José Rafael Hernández CARUCCI, Johan VAN DEN BERGH, Jacob Adriaan MOULIJN
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Publication number: 20140323746Abstract: A method is disclosed for recovering anhydrosugar alcohols from a mixture comprising closely related compounds, such as sugar alcohols. In the method the mixture is contacted with an adsorbent, whereby the anhydrosugar alcohols are selectively adsorbed. The anhydrosugar alcohols can be recovered by desorption from the adsorbent, using a desorbing solvent.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventors: Johan VAN DEN BERGH, Jacob Adriaan MOULIJN
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Patent number: 8846902Abstract: A process for converting cellulose to glucose, said process comprising the steps of: providing a hydrated molten salt; contacting the hydrated molten salt with a cellulose-containing material to form dissolved glucose; removing the dissolved glucose from the hydrated molten salt.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2008Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignees: BIOeCON International Holding N.V., Petróleo Brasileiro S.A.—PETROBRASInventors: Paul O'Connor, Jacob Adriaan Moulijn, Michiel Makkee, Sjoerd Daamen, Rafael Menegassi de Almeida
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Patent number: 8709239Abstract: A process is disclosed process for converting a solid or highly viscous carbon-based energy carrier material to liquid and gaseous reaction products, said process comprising the steps of: a) contacting the carbon-based energy carrier material with a particulate catalyst material b) converting the carbon-based energy carrier material at a reaction temperature between 200° C. and 450° C., preferably between 250° C. and 350° C., thereby forming reaction products in the vapor phase. In a preferred embodiment the process comprises the additional step of: c) separating the vapor phase reaction products from the particulate catalyst material within 10 seconds after said reaction products are formed. In a further preferred embodiment step c) is followed by: d) quenching the reaction products to a temperature below 200° C.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2013Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: KiOR, Inc.Inventors: Paul O'Connor, Dennis Stamires, Jacob Adriaan Moulijn
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Publication number: 20130245346Abstract: A process is disclosed process for converting a solid or highly viscous carbon-based energy carrier material to liquid and gaseous reaction products, said process comprising the steps of: a) contacting the carbon-based energy carrier material with a particulate catalyst material b) converting the carbon-based energy carrier material at a reaction temperature between 200° C. and 450° C., preferably between 250° C. and 350° C., thereby forming reaction products in the vapor phase. In a preferred embodiment the process comprises the additional step of: c) separating the vapor phase reaction products from the particulate catalyst material within 10 seconds after said reaction products are formed. In a further preferred embodiment step c) is followed by: d) quenching the reaction products to a temperature below 200° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: KiOR, Inc.Inventors: Paul O'Connor, Dennis Stamires, Jacob Adriaan Moulijn
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Publication number: 20130245252Abstract: A process is disclosed for conversion of cellulose in an Ionic Liquid medium. The process is characterized in that a cellulose-containing feedstock and an Ionic Liquid are mixed at a temperature below 80 ° C. The mixture is heated to a conversion temperature in the range of 80 ° C. to 220 ° C. under a hydrogen atmosphere. The presence of hydrogen during the heating step significantly reduces the formation of degradation products.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicants: Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. - PetrobrasInventors: Michiel MAKKEE, Jacob Adriaan MOULIJN, Jianrong LI, Paul O'CONNOR, Jacobus Cornelis RASSER, Armand Eduard ROSHEUVEL, Rafael MENEGASSI DE ALMEIDA
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Patent number: 8460541Abstract: A process is disclosed process for converting a solid or highly viscous carbon-based energy carrier material to liquid and gaseous reaction products, said process comprising the steps of: a) contacting the carbon-based energy carrier material with a particulate catalyst material b) converting the carbon-based energy carrier material at a reaction temperature between 200° C. and 450° C., preferably between 250° C. and 350° C., thereby forming reaction products in the vapor phase. In a preferred embodiment the process comprises the additional step of: c) separating the vapor phase reaction products from the particulate catalyst material within 10 seconds after said reaction products are formed. In a further preferred embodiment step c) is followed by: d) quenching the reaction products to a temperature below 200° C.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2011Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: KiOR, Inc.Inventors: Paul O'Connor, Dennis Stamires, Jacob Adriaan Moulijn
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Patent number: 8440845Abstract: A process is disclosed for converting a polysaccharide-containing biomass material to platform chemicals. The process comprises dissolving the polysaccharides in an inorganic molten salt hydrate, converting the polysaccharides to monosaccharides, and converting the monosaccharides to derivatized (di)anhydro sugars that are easily separable from the inorganic molten salt hydrate. The derivatized (di)anhydro sugars are useful as fuel additives and fuel substitutes.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2011Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: BIOeCON International Holding N.V.Inventors: Michiel Makkee, Jacob Adriaan Moulijn, Rafael Menegassi De Almeida, Paul O'Connor
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Publication number: 20120330074Abstract: A process is disclosed for converting lignocellulosic material to liquid fuels. In the process the cellulose is dissolved in an Ionic Liquid medium. The conversion process may comprise pyrolysis, thermal cracking, hydrocracking, catalytic cracking, hydrotreatment, or a combination thereof. The conversion reaction is carried out in the presence of lignin. The lignin is at least partially converted in the process. The Ionic Liquid medium preferably is an inorganic molten salt hydrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2010Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: KiOR, Inc.Inventors: Jacobus Johannes Heinerman, Jacob Adriaan Moulijn, Paul O'Connor, Jacobus Cornelis Rasser, Armand Eduard Rosheuvel
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Publication number: 20120323057Abstract: A process is disclosed for converting cellulose to liquid fuels. In the process the cellulose is dissolved in an ionic Liquid medium. The conversion process may comprise pyrolysis, thermal cracking, hydrocracking, catalytic cracking, hydrotreatment, or a combination thereof. The Ionic Liquid medium preferably is an inorganic molten salt hydrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2010Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: KiOR, Inc.Inventors: Jacobus Johannes Heinerman, Jacob Adriaan Moulijn, Paul O'Connor, Jacobus Cornelis Rasser, Armand Eduard Rosheuvel
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Publication number: 20120108827Abstract: A process is disclosed for converting a polysaccharide-containing biomass material to platform chemicals. The process comprises dissolving the polysaccharides in an inorganic molten salt hydrate, converting the polysaccharides to monosaccharides, and converting the monosaccharides to derivatized (di)anhydro sugars that are easily separable from the inorganic molten salt hydrate. The derivatized (di)anhydro sugars are useful as fuel additives and fuel substitutes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2011Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventors: Michiel MAKKEE, Jacob Adriaan MOULIJN, Rafael MENEGASSI DE ALMEIDA, Paul O'CONNOR
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Publication number: 20110197511Abstract: A process is disclosed process for converting a solid or highly viscous carbon-based energy carrier material to liquid and gaseous reaction products, said process comprising the steps of: a) contacting the carbon-based energy carrier material with a particulate catalyst material b) converting the carbon-based energy carrier material at a reaction temperature between 200° C. and 450° C., preferably between 250° C. and 350° C., thereby forming reaction products in the vapor phase. In a preferred embodiment the process comprises the additional step of: c) separating the vapor phase reaction products from the particulate catalyst material within 10 seconds after said reaction products are formed. In a further preferred embodiment step c) is followed by: d) quenching the reaction products to a temperature below 200° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2011Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: KIOR INC.Inventors: Paul O'Connor, Dennis Stamires, Jacob Adriaan Moulijn
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Patent number: 7901568Abstract: A process is disclosed process for converting a solid or highly viscous carbon-based energy carrier material to liquid and gaseous reaction products, said process comprising the steps of: a) contacting the carbon-based energy carrier material with a particulate catalyst material b) converting the carbon-based energy carrier material at a reaction temperature between 200° C. and 450° C., preferably between 250° C. and 350° C., thereby forming reaction products in the vapor phase. In a preferred embodiment the process comprises the additional step of: c) separating the vapor phase reaction products from the particulate catalyst material within 10 seconds after said reaction products are formed; In a further preferred embodiment step c) is followed by: d) quenching the reaction products to a temperature below 200° C.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2007Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Kior Inc.Inventors: Paul O'Connor, Dennis Stamires, Jacob Adriaan Moulijn
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Publication number: 20100234586Abstract: A process for converting cellulose to glucose, said process comprising the steps of: providing a hydrated molten salt; contacting the hydrated molten salt with a cellulose-containing material to form dissolved glucose; removing the dissolved glucose from the hydrated molten salt.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2008Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: BIOeCON International Holding N.V.Inventors: Paul O'Connor, Jacob Adriaan Moulijn, Michiel Makkee, Sjoerd Daamen
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Patent number: 7678952Abstract: A process to prepare a gasoline fuel by contacting a Fischer-Tropsch product with a catalyst system of an acidic matrix and a large pore molecular sieve wherein the Fischer-Tropsch product has a weight ratio of compounds having at least 60 or more carbon atoms and compounds having at least 30 carbon atoms in the Fischer-Tropsch product of at least 0.2 and wherein at least 30 wt % of compounds in the Fischer-Tropsch product have at least 30 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2004Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Xander Dupain, Ralph Antoni Krul, Michiel Makkee, Jacob Adriaan Moulijn
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Publication number: 20090308787Abstract: A process is disclosed process for converting a solid or highly viscous carbon-based energy carrier material to liquid and gaseous reaction products, said process comprising the steps of: a) contacting the carbon-based energy carrier material with a particulate catalyst material b) converting the carbon-based energy carrier material at a reaction temperature between 200° C. and 450° C., preferably between 250° C. and 350° C., thereby forming reaction products in the vapor phase. In a preferred embodiment the process comprises the additional step of: c) separating the vapor phase reaction products from the particulate catalyst material within 10 seconds after said reaction products are formed; In a further preferred embodiment step c) is followed by: d) quenching the reaction products to a temperature below 200° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2007Publication date: December 17, 2009Applicant: BIOeCon INTERNATIONAL HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Paul O'Connor, Dennis Stamires, Jacob Adriaan Moulijn
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Patent number: 6214305Abstract: A method and apparatus for the oxidation of liquid or solid contaminants in the exhaust gas from diesel engines is provided. The process is conducted by passing the contaminated diesel engine exhaust gas through a turbulent gas flow, particulate separator, wherein this separator contains a plurality of separate and serially-arranged vertical plates arranged so that there is no net gas flow in the space between two adjacent vertical plates. The plates contain a catalytically active surface of (i) a mixture of metal salts and/or metals oxides, such as a mixture of the oxides of vanadium, molybdenum and alkali metals, which may be in a molten state at the operating temperature of the separator and (ii) one or more catalytically active metal or metal compounds to promote the oxidation of soot, such as metals or metal compounds of iron, platinum and palladium.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1998Date of Patent: April 10, 2001Assignees: Technische Universiteit Delft, Stichting Voor de Technische WetenschappenInventors: Ruud van Harderveld, Michiel Makkee, Jacob Adriaan Moulijn, Sietze Jelle Jelles
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Patent number: 5744035Abstract: The present invention relates to a continuous gastight film of zeolites on a porous underlayer, a zeolite membrane obtainable by calcining the gastight zeolite film, and a module with such a gastight zeolite film, which module consists of a membrane housing and a supported membrane, the whole of membrane housing and supported membrane being composed of not more than two materials.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1995Date of Patent: April 28, 1998Assignee: Exxon Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Eduard Rudolf Geus, Wridzer Jan Willem Bakker, Jacob Adriaan Moulijn, Herman van Bekkum, Jacobus Cornelis Jansen