Patents by Inventor Joel Charles MacMurray

Joel Charles MacMurray 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: 8876955
    Abstract: Method for removing dissolved gases from water to produce boiler feed water in a catalytic steam reforming process where boiler feed water is heated by indirect heat transfer with a reformate stream and/or a combustion product gas stream and the boiler feed water subsequently flash vaporized to form steam and residual liquid water, where the steam formed by flash vaporization strips the dissolved gases from the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel Charles MacMurray, Gary Stuart Roth, Russell Ira Snyder, III, Gerald Michael Loughney
  • Publication number: 20140083838
    Abstract: Method for removing dissolved gases from water to produce boiler feed water in a catalytic steam reforming process where boiler feed water is heated by indirect heat transfer with a reformate stream and/or a combustion product gas stream and the boiler feed water subsequently flash vaporized to form steam and residual liquid water, where the steam formed by flash vaporization strips the dissolved gases from the water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Inventors: Joel Charles MacMurray, Gary Stuart Roth, Russell Ira Snyder, III, Gerald Michael Loughney
  • Publication number: 20140084213
    Abstract: Method for removing dissolved gases from water to produce boiler feed water in a catalytic steam reforming process where boiler feed water is heated by indirect heat transfer with a reformate stream and/or a combustion product gas stream and the boiler feed water subsequently flash vaporized to form steam and residual liquid water, where the steam formed by flash vaporization strips the dissolved gases from the water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel Charles MacMurray, Gary Stuart Roth, Russell Ira Snyder, Gerald Michael Loughney
  • Publication number: 20110308436
    Abstract: Disclosed is a power generation system for high sulfur fuel combustion and a method of generating power from high sulfur fuel. The system includes a boiler for combusting a sulfur containing fuel to form a sulfur containing flue gas, a heat exchanger arranged and disposed to transfer heat from the sulfur containing flue gas to combustion air, a sorbent injector arranged and disposed to inject sorbent into the sulfur containing flue gas, and a second stage heat recovery mechanism arranged and disposed to transfer heat from the sulfur containing flue gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Joel Charles MacMurray, Galip Hakan Guvelioglu
  • Patent number: 7297169
    Abstract: The present invention is an apparatus arranged to maximize heat utilization for a hydrocarbon steam reforming process to produce synthesis gas. The apparatus comprises a refractory lined vessel with partition walls that divide the inside of the vessel into (1) a combustion chamber(s) containing one or more burners, and (2) convection chambers used as a means to remove combustion products from the combustion chamber through one or more openings at the opposite end of the burner end. The combustion chamber contains one or more reformer tubes in which a mixed-feed of hydrocarbon and steam flow co-current with combustion products and receive direct radiant heat from the combustion flame through the tube wall. The convection chambers contain a tube-in-tube device filled with catalyst in the annuli.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Hoanh Nang Pham, David Hon Sing Ying, Shoou-I Wang, Scott David Madara, Joel Charles MacMurray
  • Publication number: 20040134127
    Abstract: The present invention is an apparatus arranged to maximize heat utilization for a hydrocarbon steam reforming process to produce synthesis gas. The apparatus comprises a refractory lined vessel with partition walls that divide the inside of the vessel into (1) a combustion chamber(s) containing one or more burners, and (2) convection chambers used as a means to remove combustion products from the combustion chamber through one or more openings at the opposite end of the burner end. The combustion chamber contains one or more reformer tubes in which a mixed-feed of hydrocarbon and steam flow co-current with combustion products and receive direct radiant heat from the combustion flame through the tube wall. The convection chambers contain a tube-in-tube device filled with catalyst in the annuli.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Hoanh Nang Pham, David Hon Sing Ying, Shoou-l Wang, Scott David Madara, Joel Charles MacMurray