Patents by Inventor Jerome P. Dow

Jerome P. Dow 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).

  • Method for removing organic liquids from aqueous solutions and mixtures
    Patent number: 6709600
    Abstract: A method for removing organic liquids from aqueous solutions and mixtures. The method employs any porous material preferably in granular form and having small pores and a large specific surface area, that is hydrophobic so that liquid water does not readily wet its surface. In this method, organics, especially organic solvents that mix with and are more volatile than water, are separated from aqueous solution by preferentially evaporating across the liquid/solid boundary formed at the surfaces of the hydrophobic porous materials. Also, organic solvents that are immiscible with water, preferentially wet the surfaces of the hydrophobic material and are drawn within the porous materials by capillary action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Lawrence W. Hrubesh, Paul R. Coronado, Jerome P. Dow
  • Method for removing organic liquids from aqueous solutions and mixtures
    Publication number: 20030060520
    Abstract: A method for removing organic liquids from aqueous solutions and mixtures. The method employs any porous material preferably in granular form and having small pores and a large specific surface area, that is hydrophobic so that liquid water does not readily wet its surface. In this method, organics, especially organic solvents that mix with and are more volatile than water, are separated from aqueous solution by preferentially evaporating across the liquid/solid boundary formed at the surfaces of the hydrophobic porous materials. Also, organic solvents that are immiscible with water, preferentially wet the surfaces of the hydrophobic material and are drawn within the porous materials by capillary action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2001
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Lawrence W. Hrubesh, Paul R. Coronado, Jerome P. Dow
  • Method for establishing high permeability flow path between boreholes
    Patent number: 4106574
    Abstract: A method for linking adjacent boreholes in a subterranean formation, particularly in a coal gasification array, by firing a high velocity terradynamic projectile from one borehole to the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1978
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventor: Jerome P. Dow