Patents by Inventor Joseph E. Sokolik, Jr.

Joseph E. Sokolik, Jr. 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 and composition for reducing the strength of ice
    Patent number: 4594076
    Abstract: This invention is directed to the reduction of the strength of ice in association with solid particulate materials, such as, for example, coal, by applying to the solid particulate material, prior to exposure to water freezing conditions, a composition comprising a mixture of a glycol derived from ethylene oxide and containing from 1 to 4 oxyethylene units and an alkyl and/or an aryl ether of a glycol derived from ethylene oxide and/or propylene oxide and containing from 1 to 9 oxyalkylene units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1986
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Blake, Joseph E. Sokolik, Jr.
  • Regenerable process for the selective removal of sulfur dioxide from effluent gases
    Patent number: 4389383
    Abstract: A regenerable process for scrubbing SO.sub.2 from effluent gases using an aqueous alkanolamine and the corresponding sulfite as the solvent, such amine having a boiling point below about 250.degree. C. at one atmosphere pressure and wherein the alkanolamine solutions containing heat stable salts (HSS) is regenerated by alkali addition, crystallization and vacuum distillation of the amine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1983
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph E. Sokolik, Jr., Alexander J. M. Kosseim, Gilbert R. Atwood
  • Method of reducing the strength of adhesion of solid particulate materials to metal surfaces
    Patent number: 4339338
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a method for reducing the strength of adhesion of solid particulate materials to metal surfaces as occurs under water freezing conditions by coating the metal surface with a mixture comprising a hydrocarbon liquid which has a solidification or pour point not greater than 0.degree. F. and a saturated or unsaturated fatty acid having from about 10 to about 18 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1982
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Blake, Joseph E. Sokolik, Jr., Samuel Sterman
  • Process for the selective removal of sulfur dioxide from effluent gases
    Patent number: 4201752
    Abstract: Method for scrubbing SO.sub.2 from effluent gases using aqueous monoethanolamine and the corresponding sulfite as the solvent. The method is especially useful where the effluent gases contain an abundance of CO.sub.2 relative to SO.sub.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1980
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander J. M. Kosseim, Gilbert R. Atwood, Joseph E. Sokolik, Jr.