Patents by Inventor Jiafei ZHAO

Jiafei ZHAO 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: 11948284
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the technical field of petroleum exploitation engineering, and discloses a 3D modeling method for pore-filling hydrate sediment based on a CT image. Indoor remolding rock cores or in situ site rock cores without hydrate can be scanned by CT; a sediment matrix image stack and a pore image stack are obtained by gray threshold segmentation; then, a series of pore-filling hydrate image stacks with different saturations are constructed through image morphological processing of the pore image stack such as erosion, dilation and image subtraction operation; and a series of digital rock core image stacks of the pore-filling hydrate sediment with different saturations are formed through image subtraction operation and splicing operation to provide a relatively real 3D model for the numerical simulation work of the basic physical properties of a reservoir of natural gas hydrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yongchen Song, Yanghui Li, Peng Wu, Xiang Sun, Weiguo Liu, Jiafei Zhao, Mingjun Yang, Lei Yang, Zheng Ling
  • Patent number: 11926538
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of wastewater treatment, and provides a wastewater treatment method and apparatus based on hydrate-based water vapor adsorption. The apparatus includes a wastewater evaporation zone, a hydrate formation zone, a hydrate decomposition zone, and a data acquisition and control system. Rising water vapor and condensed water formed during evaporation of wastewater at normal temperature react with a hydrate former on a cooling wall surface to form a hydrate, continuous evaporation of the wastewater is promoted, the hydrate is scraped off to a collecting zone below by a scraper after being formed, and the hydrate is decomposed into fresh water, thereby realizing wastewater treatment. The present disclosure provides a method for treating complex wastewater containing a plurality of pollutants, where water vapor is consumed to form the hydrate to promote wastewater evaporation, and water obtained from the decomposition does not contain pollutants theoretically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yongchen Song, Lunxiang Zhang, Huilian Sun, Zheng Ling, Jiafei Zhao, Lingjie Sun, Lei Yang, Mingjun Yang, Yu Liu, Weiguo Liu, Yanghui Li, Xiang Sun, Lanlan Jiang
  • Patent number: 11911786
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a hydrate energy-storage temperature-control material and a preparation method therefor. The material includes a refrigerant hydrate and a cross-linked polymer. The preparation method comprises the following steps: first, preparing a refrigerant hydrate by using a high-pressure reactor, and conducting grinding, crushing and sieving to obtain hydrate particles; then, uniformly spraying polytetrafluoroethylene suspended ultrafine powder onto the surface of the hydrate particles by using an electrostatic spraying device, and putting the hydrate particles into a plasma instrument to modify polytetrafluoroethylene so as to allow free radicals to be formed on the polytetrafluoroethylene powder surface; finally, subjecting monomers to graft polymerization with the free radicals on the polytetrafluoroethylene surface under the irradiation of a high-pressure mercury lamp of UV lighting system to stabilize the structure of the material, preparing a final product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jiafei Zhao, Yongchen Song, Mingzhao Yang, Hongsheng Dong, Lunxiang Zhang, Quan Shi, Lei Yang, Zheng Ling, Xiang Sun, Yanghui Li, Weiguo Liu
  • Patent number: 11879310
    Abstract: An efficient gas hydrate production system using flue gas waste heat/solar absorption heat pump to compensate reservoir heat, includes a heat source absorption system, heat pump heating system and reservoir heat compensation system. The invention uses the low-grade heat energy of offshore platform to solve the problems of heat source and energy consumption in the process of natural gas hydrate exploitation. It provides a commercial feasible scheme for large-scale exploitation of natural gas hydrate. The condenser module, evaporator module and injection well module of the invention can be flexibly increased or decreased, and can adapt to a variety of actual hydrate reservoir distribution; the injection well module adopts ball-nozzle, which can disperse and evenly inject the hot injected water into the reservoir, which is convenient for the rapid and effective transfer of reservoir heat and improves the speed of reservoir heat compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yongchen Song, Mingjun Yang, Xinru Wang, Jianan Zheng, Jiafei Zhao, Lanlan Jiang
  • Patent number: 11859596
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an electric heating thermal management system for an oil and gas transportation pipeline based on renewable energy and CO2 energy storage. It transmits the feedback data value through a data collection device arranged in the pipeline to the early warning device by the control device. After analysis and processing, the early warning device can feed back the data value to the control device and the remote operation device in two modes. Different degrees of heating amount can be generated for the oil and gas transportation pipelines at different positions in different modes. Hierarchical and distributed management control for the oil and gas transportation pipelines can be targetedly conducted in unblocked, easily blocked and blocked positions of the oil and gas transportation pipeline. The present invention couples the renewable energy electricity supply device and the CO2 energy storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Cong Chen, Yongchen Song, Xi Wang, Zherui Chen, Jingyue Sun, Yu Liu, Yi Zhang, Mingjun Yang, Jiafei Zhao, Weiguo Liu, Yan Qin, Zheng Ling, Lanlan Jiang, Lunxiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11819794
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a gas hydrate-based particulate/waste gas simultaneous removal system and method. R134a can be used to synthesize particulates/coking waste gases into gas hydrate, which can realize the simultaneous removal of particulates/coking waste gases with no pollution and low energy consumption. The system comprises a waste heat recovery device, a gas hydrate primary dust removal tower, a solid-liquid separation primary tower, a gas hydrate secondary dust removal tower, a solid-liquid separation secondary tower, a gas hydrate decomposition pool, a gas-solid separation tower and a low temperature fractionation device. The present invention can achieve the removal of harmful substances such as heavy metals and coking waste gases while removing particulates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yongchen Song, Man Li, Jiafei Zhao, Lei Yang, Zhongwang Sun, Lunxiang Zhang, Weiguo Liu, Yanghui Li, Yu Liu, Mingjun Yang, Yi Zhang, Dayong Wang, Zheng Ling, Lanlan Jiang, Cong Chen, Yuechao Zhao
  • Publication number: 20230365431
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus and a method for hydrate-based wastewater treatment and cold storage. The apparatus for hydrate-based wastewater treatment and cold storage includes a water chilling unit, a hydrate-based cold storage tank, an airflow disturbance device, a water layer positioning system, a spraying system, a suction filtration system, a heat exchange system, and a system monitoring device. The water chilling unit provides a secondary refrigerant at a low temperature. The secondary refrigerant flows through an evaporator coil in the hydrate-based cold storage tank for heat exchange. The airflow disturbance device induces hydrate nucleation. The water layer positioning system positions a contact surface between a water layer and a hydrate former after hydrate decomposition to facilitate drawing and separation of the treated upper water layer. The spraying system and the suction filtration system enhance the solid-liquid separation efficiency to improve the removal rate of pollutants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Lunxiang ZHANG, Xiaodong WU, Jiazhu BAO, Xiaohang XIE, Yongchen SONG, Jiafei ZHAO, Ruize CUI, Zisong FAN, Yunhui WANG, Qinjian YU, Jie WANG
  • Publication number: 20230365430
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of wastewater treatment, and provides a wastewater treatment method and apparatus based on hydrate-based water vapor adsorption. The apparatus includes a wastewater evaporation zone, a hydrate formation zone, a hydrate decomposition zone, and a data acquisition and control system. Rising water vapor and condensed water formed during evaporation of wastewater at normal temperature react with a hydrate former on a cooling wall surface to form a hydrate, continuous evaporation of the wastewater is promoted, the hydrate is scraped off to a collecting zone below by a scraper after being formed, and the hydrate is decomposed into fresh water, thereby realizing wastewater treatment. The present disclosure provides a method for treating complex wastewater containing a plurality of pollutants, where water vapor is consumed to form the hydrate to promote wastewater evaporation, and water obtained from the decomposition does not contain pollutants theoretically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yongchen SONG, Huilian SUN, Lunxiang ZHANG, Jiafei ZHAO, Lingjie SUN, Zheng LING, Lei YANG, Yu LIU, Weiguo LIU, Yanghui LI, Xiang SUN, Lanlan JIANG
  • Patent number: 11796526
    Abstract: The invention discloses a gas hydrate pressure maintaining replacement device and method for in-situ Raman analysis. Comprehensive experiments such as the formation/decomposition/displacement of high-pressure gas hydrates can be realized, and in-situ Raman characterization can be performed. Including reaction kettle system with temperature control unit, pressure control gas supply system, pressure holding system, replacement gas system, sample pre-cooling system, vacuum system and data acquisition and processing system. The device can solve the problem that the Raman peak position of the 512 cage is covered by the Raman peak position of the gas when the high-pressure gas hydrate is characterized in situ in the reaction kettle, at the same time, it solves the problems of sampling difficulties in ex-situ Raman characterization and experimental errors caused by sample transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yongchen Song, Jiafei Zhao, Man Li, Lei Yang, Weiguo Liu, Mingjun Yang, Yanghui Li, Zheng Ling, Yu Liu, Yi Zhang, Dayong Wang
  • Publication number: 20230311052
    Abstract: A device for separating and sequestrating carbon dioxide coupled with cold storage in mixed gas via hydrate method, which belongs to the technical field of application of natural gas hydrates includes a gas compression device, a refrigeration cycle device, a hydrate formation/decomposition device, a hydrate cold storage device, a water circulation device and a sensing and monitoring device; taking the separation and sequestration of biogas as an example, the refrigeration cycle device enables the cooling of biogas, decomposition of gas at all levels, hydrate, and circulating water to provide the low-temperature conditions required for hydrate formation; the hydrate cold energy storage device can fully use the latent heat of hydrate phase change to provide the required cooling capacity on the user side; the water circulation device can realize the recycling of decomposition water to ensure the continuous formation of hydrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Yongchen Song, Lanlan Jiang, Mingjun Yang, Zucheng Cheng, Yu Liu, Yingying Liu, Bingbing Chen, Cong Chen, Jiafei Zhao, Yi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230272264
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the technical field of natural gas hydrates (NGHs), and provides an environmentally friendly NGH inhibitor and application. The hydrate inhibitor has a component of nisin, and further comprises chitooligosaccharide and an alcohol thermodynamic hydrate inhibitor, that can enhance the thermostability of the inhibitor and the inhibitory effect for NGHs. The optimal application conditions of the NGH inhibitor of the present invention are: temperatures of ?10 to 100° C., pressures of 0.1 to 25 MPa, and a maximum subcooling degree of 12° C. The inhibitor of the present invention has good NGH inhibitory performance and certain antibacterial effects, which is a low-dose, degradable, high temperature resistant, green, environmental protective, safe and efficient NGH inhibitor, that can be used for the fields of oil-gas transportation and NGHs, and provides a new solution for field application of green natural hydrate inhibitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Jiafei ZHAO, Yuxin JIA, Lei YANG, Yanzhen LIU, Lunxiang ZHANG, Yongchen SONG, Weiguo LIU, Yanghui LI, Yu LIU, Mingjun YANG, Zheng LING, Dayong WANG, Xiang SUN, Tao YU
  • Patent number: 11731374
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for preparing a self-floating transparent nano ultrathin film. According to the present disclosure, the MXene film layer and the nano ultrathin film layer are sequentially subjected to suction filtration on the substrate material by utilizing a vacuum suction filtration technology, and thus a double-film structure is loaded on the substrate material; then an oxidant is subjected to oxidizing and bubbling on the MXene film layer in a permeation way, and thus the substrate material and the nano ultrathin film layer can be separated in a physical isolating manner. Finally, the nano ultrathin film is completely separated in a liquid phase floating separation manner. The nano ultrathin film prepared by the method provided by the present disclosure has a specific thickness and light transmittance through different loading capacities, and the substrate material can be repeatedly utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yongchen Song, Zheng Ling, Fuqiang Wang, Changrui Shi, Lu Wang, Jiafei Zhao, Yanghui Li
  • Publication number: 20230228245
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an electric heating thermal management system for an oil and gas transportation pipeline based on renewable energy and CO2 energy storage. It transmits the feedback data value through a data collection device arranged in the pipeline to the early warning device by the control device. After analysis and processing, the early warning device can feed back the data value to the control device and the remote operation device in two modes. Different degrees of heating amount can be generated for the oil and gas transportation pipelines at different positions in different modes. Hierarchical and distributed management control for the oil and gas transportation pipelines can be targetedly conducted in unblocked, easily blocked and blocked positions of the oil and gas transportation pipeline. The present invention couples the renewable energy electricity supply device and the CO2 energy storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Cong CHEN, Yongchen SONG, Xi WANG, Zherui CHEN, Jingyue SUN, Yu LIU, Yi ZHANG, Mingjun YANG, Jiafei ZHAO, Weiguo LIU, Yan QIN, Zheng LING, Lanlan JIANG, Lunxiang ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11694338
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the technical field of petroleum exploitation engineering, and discloses a 3D modeling method for cementing hydrate sediment based on a CT image. Indoor remolding rock cores or in situ site rock cores without hydrate can be scanned by CT; a sediment matrix image stack and a pore image stack are obtained by gray threshold segmentation; then, a series of cementing hydrate image stacks with different saturations are constructed through image morphological processing of the sediment matrix image stack such as dilation, erosion and image subtraction operation; and a series of digital rock core image stacks of the cementing hydrate sediment with different saturations are formed through image subtraction operation and splicing operation to provide a relatively real 3D model for the numerical simulation work of the basic physical properties of a reservoir of natural gas hydrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yongchen Song, Yanghui Li, Peng Wu, Xiang Sun, Weiguo Liu, Jiafei Zhao, Mingjun Yang, Lei Yang, Zheng Ling
  • Publication number: 20230191718
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for preparing a self-floating transparent nano ultrathin film. According to the present disclosure, the MXene film layer and the nano ultrathin film layer are sequentially subjected to suction filtration on the substrate material by utilizing a vacuum suction filtration technology, and thus a double-film structure is loaded on the substrate material; then an oxidant is subjected to oxidizing and bubbling on the MXene film layer in a permeation way, and thus the substrate material and the nano ultrathin film layer can be separated in a physical isolating manner. Finally, the nano ultrathin film is completely separated in a liquid phase floating separation manner. The nano ultrathin film prepared by the method provided by the present disclosure has a specific thickness and light transmittance through different loading capacities, and the substrate material can be repeatedly utilized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yongchen SONG, Zheng LING, Fuqiang WANG, Changrui SHI, Lu WANG, Jiafei ZHAO, Yanghui LI
  • Patent number: 11561158
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the field of gas solubility measurement, and provides a measuring device and method for gas solubility in a natural gas hydrate solution system. The measuring device mainly comprises a reaction system, a sampling system and a data analysis system. The present invention can be used for measuring gas solubility in a natural gas hydrate solution system at different temperature, pressure and salt ion conditions, and exploring influence of different environmental conditions on the gas solubility when hydrate-liquid water biphase equilibrium is achieved. The present invention in characterized in that the structure is simple, the operation is easy, sampling is carried out at a constant pressure to avoid damage to phase equilibrium and dissolution equilibrium of the systems, and a microfilter is used to ensure that a liquid sample taken does not contain hydrate crystals, so that experimental data has a relatively high accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yongchen Song, Jiafei Zhao, Lunxiang Zhang, Tian Wang, Lingjie Sun, Yi Zhang, Xiang Sun, Lei Yang, Zheng Ling, Yanghui Li, Weiguo Liu
  • Publication number: 20220395848
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a hydrate energy-storage temperature-control material and a preparation method therefor. The material includes a refrigerant hydrate and a cross-linked polymer. The preparation method comprises the following steps: first, preparing a refrigerant hydrate by using a high-pressure reactor, and conducting grinding, crushing and sieving to obtain hydrate particles; then, uniformly spraying polytetrafluoroethylene suspended ultrafine powder onto the surface of the hydrate particles by using an electrostatic spraying device, and putting the hydrate particles into a plasma instrument to modify polytetrafluoroethylene so as to allow free radicals to be formed on the polytetrafluoroethylene powder surface; finally, subjecting monomers to graft polymerization with the free radicals on the polytetrafluoroethylene surface under the irradiation of a high-pressure mercury lamp of UV lighting system to stabilize the structure of the material, preparing a final product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Jiafei ZHAO, Yongchen SONG, Mingzhao YANG, Hongsheng DONG, Lunxiang ZHANG, Quan SHI, Lei YANG, Zheng LING, Xiang SUN, Yanghui LI, Weiguo LIU
  • Publication number: 20220341833
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the field of gas solubility measurement, and provides a measuring device and method for gas solubility in a natural gas hydrate solution system. The measuring device mainly comprises a reaction system, a sampling system and a data analysis system. The present invention can be used for measuring gas solubility in a natural gas hydrate solution system at different temperature, pressure and salt ion conditions, and exploring influence of different environmental conditions on the gas solubility when hydrate-liquid water biphase equilibrium is achieved. The present invention in characterized in that the structure is simple, the operation is easy, sampling is carried out at a constant pressure to avoid damage to phase equilibrium and dissolution equilibrium of the systems, and a microfilter is used to ensure that a liquid sample taken does not contain hydrate crystals, so that experimental data has a relatively high accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Yongchen SONG, Jiafei ZHAO, Lunxiang ZHANG, Tian WANG, Lingjie SUN, Yi ZHANG, Xiang SUN, Lei YANG, Zheng LING, Yanghui LI, Weiguo LIU
  • Publication number: 20220230326
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the technical field of petroleum exploitation engineering, and discloses a 3D modeling method for cementing hydrate sediment based on a CT image. Indoor remolding rock cores or in situ site rock cores without hydrate can be scanned by CT; a sediment matrix image stack and a pore image stack are obtained by gray threshold segmentation; then, a series of cementing hydrate image stacks with different saturations are constructed through image morphological processing of the sediment matrix image stack such as dilation, erosion and image subtraction operation; and a series of digital rock core image stacks of the cementing hydrate sediment with different saturations are formed through image subtraction operation and splicing operation to provide a relatively real 3D model for the numerical simulation work of the basic physical properties of a reservoir of natural gas hydrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Yongchen SONG, Yanghui LI, Peng WU, Xiang SUN, Weiguo LIU, Jiafei ZHAO, Mingjun YANG, Lei YANG, Zheng LING
  • Patent number: 11389766
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and system for separating xenon-krypton mixed gas by hydrate formation process. The system is mainly composed of a gas hydrate generating unit, a heat exchanging unit and a gas-water separating unit: pre-cooled xenon-krypton mixed gas is injected from a bottom of a reaction tower, xenon gas in the mixed gas and water attached to a porous tray generate a xenon gas hydrate; and water is injected from a top of the tower to wet the porous tray, a generated hydrate particle is washed and collected to the bottom of the tower simultaneously to form a hydrate slurry, after passing through the heat exchanging unit, the xenon gas hydrate in the slurry is decomposed to form a gas phase flow and a water phase flow, and then enters the gas-water separating unit, and the xenon gas is separated from decomposed water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yongchen Song, Jiafei Zhao, Xianwei Guo, Lei Yang, Weiguo Liu, Mingjun Yang, Yanghui Li, Zheng Ling, Yu Liu, Yi Zhang, Dayong Wang, Lanlan Jiang, Yuechao Zhao