Patents by Inventor Jay C. Smith
Jay C. Smith 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: 20190177864Abstract: Various embodiments provide a process roasting a metal bearing material under oxidizing conditions to produce an oxidized metal bearing material, roasting the oxidized metal bearing material under reducing conditions to produce a roasted metal bearing material, and leaching the roasted metal bearing material in a basic medium to yield a pregnant leach solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2019Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: FREEPORT MINERALS CORPORATIONInventors: Joanna M. Robertson, Thomas R. Bolles, Wayne W. Hazen, Lawrence D. May, Jay C. Smith, David R. Baughman
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Patent number: 10246789Abstract: Various embodiments provide a process roasting a metal bearing material under oxidizing conditions to produce an oxidized metal bearing material, roasting the oxidized metal bearing material under reducing conditions to produce a roasted metal bearing material, and leaching the roasted metal bearing material in a basic medium to yield a pregnant leach solution.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: FREEPORT MINERALS CORPORATIONInventors: Joanna M Robertson, Thomas R Bolles, Wayne W Hazen, Lawrence D May, Jay C Smith, David R Baughman
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Publication number: 20160230296Abstract: Various embodiments provide a process roasting a metal bearing material under oxidizing conditions to produce an oxidized metal bearing material, roasting the oxidized metal bearing material under reducing conditions to produce a roasted metal bearing material, and leaching the roasted metal bearing material in a basic medium to yield a pregnant leach solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2016Publication date: August 11, 2016Applicant: FREEPORT MINERALS CORPORATIONInventors: Joanna M. Robertson, Thomas R. Bolles, Wayne W. Hazen, Lawrence D. May, Jay C. Smith, David R. Baughman
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Patent number: 9340849Abstract: Various embodiments provide a process roasting a metal bearing material under oxidizing conditions to produce an oxidized metal bearing material, roasting the oxidized metal bearing material under reducing conditions to produce a roasted metal bearing material, and leaching the roasted metal bearing material in a basic medium to yield a pregnant leach solution.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2012Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: FREEPORT MINERALS CORPORATIONInventors: Joanna M Robertson, Thomas R Bolles, Wayne W Hazen, Lawrence D May, Jay C Smith, David R Baughman
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Patent number: 8920773Abstract: Various embodiments provide a process roasting a metal bearing material under oxidizing conditions to produce an oxidized metal bearing material, roasting the oxidized metal bearing material under reducing conditions to produce a roasted metal bearing material, leaching the roasted metal hearing material in a basic medium to yield a pregnant leach solution, conditioning the pregnant leach solution to thrill a preprocessed metal bearing material; and leaching the preprocessed metal bearing material in acid medium.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Freeport Minerals CorporationInventors: Joanna M. Robertson, Thomas R. Bolles, Wayne W. Hazen, Lawrence D. May, Jay C. Smith, David R. Baughman
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Patent number: 5433925Abstract: A process and apparatus for removing SO.sub.2 from low-volume gas streams containing high concentrations of SO.sub.2 includes a tank scrubber containing an aqueous SO.sub.2 absorbent and an impeller. The tank scrubber has an unpartitioned vessel. The impeller includes a vertical rotating shaft having an upper and lower impeller. The lower impeller serves to agitate the SO.sub.2 absorbent. The upper impeller includes a shroud thereby directing the absorbent and gas outwardly toward the wall of the scrubber. The gas is injected into the absorbent at a point below the shrouded impeller. The shroud prevents gas bypass and thereby promotes gas-liquid mixing and, consequently, markedly improves SO.sub.2 removal efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 1994Date of Patent: July 18, 1995Assignee: Freeport-McMoRan Inc.Inventors: Thomas H. McCord, Jay C. Smith, Robin W. Strickland
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Patent number: 5106603Abstract: A process and apparatus for removing SO.sub.2 from low-volume gas streams containing high concentrations of SO.sub.2 includes a tank scrubber containing an aqueous SO.sub.2 absorbent and an impeller. The impeller includes a vertical rotating shaft having an upper and lower impeller. The lower impeller serves to agitate the SO.sub.2 absorbent. The upper impeller includes a shroud thereby directing the absorbent and gas outwardly toward the wall of the scrubber. The gas is injected into the absorbent at a point below the shrouded impeller. The shroud prevents gas bypass and thereby promotes gas-liquid mixing and, consequently, markedly improves SO.sub.2 removal efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1991Date of Patent: April 21, 1992Assignee: Freeport-McMoRan Inc.Inventors: Thomas H. McCord, Jay C. Smith, Robin W. Strickland
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Patent number: 4919715Abstract: Gold-containing ores, having refractory sulfidic matter or a combination of refractory sulfidic matter and refractory carbonaceous matter, are processed to recover their gold values. The process uses an ore roasting procedure that utilizes a two-state, fluidized bed roaster. The process also employs a pure oxygen atmosphere during roasting. A carbon-in-leach step is desirably used to extract gold values from the roasted ore.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1988Date of Patent: April 24, 1990Assignee: Freeport McMoRan Inc.Inventors: Jay C. Smith, Thomas H. McCord, Gregory R. O'Neil
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Patent number: 4207302Abstract: A method for pretreating phosphoric acid to prevent the formation of a mass of suspended solids (i.e., "crud") during solvent extraction of the acid is described. Prior to solvent extraction, the acid is contacted with a liquid hydrocarbon such as kerosene which collects the crud-forming agents. The mixture of liquid hydrocarbon and collected crud-forming agents is separated from the acid and the liquid hydrocarbon is regenerated for reuse in the first step of the method.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1976Date of Patent: June 10, 1980Assignee: Freeport Minerals CompanyInventor: Jay C. Smith
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Patent number: 4190633Abstract: A method for handling the problem of crud formation in the solvent extraction of wet-process phosphoric acid is described. Crud is the name ordinarily given to the thick interfacial layer of semi-floatable material which tends to form and accumulate, and which interferes with many of the extraction processes and, in particular, with the solvent extraction of wet-process phosphoric acid. The method described provides for the operation of the solvent extraction stages in a manner that allows the formation and temporary accumulation of crud in those stages whereupon the solvent and the crud are then removed from the extraction stages and treated in a series of operations which include a clarification step, an acid removal step, a water wash step and a caustic treatment step, which steps effectively separate the solvent from the crud, and remove the crud components from the system and regenerate otherwise unusable solvent.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1977Date of Patent: February 26, 1980Assignee: Freeport Minerals CompanyInventors: Jay C. Smith, Ronald J. Manuel, James E. McAllister
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Patent number: D519918Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2004Date of Patent: May 2, 2006Assignee: Technuity, Inc.Inventors: Christopher A. Wilson, Benjamin B. Rondot, Jay C. Smith