Patents by Inventor James A. DeBernardi

James A. DeBernardi 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: 4544350
    Abstract: An improved method and burner apparatus for simultaneously incinerating liquid, dry gas and wet gas streams such as the vent streams in a chemical plant or the like are provided. The method comprises combining the dry gas and wet gas streams, heating the resultant combined stream to thereby prevent condensation from occurring, flowing the heated combined stream through a gas distributing nozzle means, flowing the liquid stream through a liquid atomizing and atomized liquid distributing nozzle means positioned adjacent the gas distributing nozzle means, mixing air with the gas and atomized liquid distributed by the nozzle means, and igniting and combusting the resulting air-gas-atomized liquid mixture. Burner apparatus for carrying out the method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1985
    Assignee: Vista Chemical Company
    Inventors: Joseph W. Ware, III, James A. DeBernardi, James R. Holcomb
  • Patent number: 4287089
    Abstract: A method of removing water from activated carbon is disclosed. Briefly, the method comprises (a) passing liquid 1,2-dichloroethane through a bed of activated carbon until a bulk water phase ceases to exit the bed or until from about 60 to about 80 weight percent of the water present in a water-saturated bed has been removed and (b) passing vapor phase 1,2-dichloroethane through the bed of activated carbon to remove substantially all of the remaining water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1981
    Assignee: Conoco, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald J. Convers, David P. Higley, James A. DeBernardi
  • Patent number: 4286390
    Abstract: A method of removing water from activated carbon is disclosed. Briefly, the method comprises (a) passing liquid 1,2-dichloroethane through a bed of activated carbon until a bulk water phase ceases to exit the bed or until from about 60 to about 80 weight percent of the water present in a water-saturated bed has been removed and (b) removing substantially all of the remainder of the water present by use of vacuum or by passing hot air or hot nitrogen through the activated carbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1981
    Assignee: Conoco, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald J. Convers, James A. DeBernardi