Patents by Inventor Lawrence Mitchell Gambrell

Lawrence Mitchell Gambrell 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).

  • Process for preparing a gasiform hydrocarbon fuel from hydrocarbon fuel oil
    Patent number: 4089805
    Abstract: A process for preparing a gasiform hydrocarbon fuel from a hydrocarbon fuel oil, and maintaining same in such form into a gasiform burner, which comprises:(a) partially vaporizing a liquid hydrocarbon fuel oil having a gravity of about 10.degree.-50.degree. A.P.I. at a temperature of 350.degree.-675.degree. F. in the presence of 5-90 percent by weight of non-oxidizing gas based on the weight of the vaporized portion of said hydrocarbon fuel oil, thereby producing a gasiform hydrocarbon fuel and a liquid residue, said gasiform hydrocarbon fuel consisting essentially of said vaporized liquid hydrocarbon and said non-oxidizing gas;(b) separating said gasiform hydrocarbon from said liquid residue; and(c) superheating said gasiform fuel to maintain said gasiform fuel in the vapor state unitl it is burned, and(d) thereafter burning said gasiform fuel in said gasiform burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1978
    Assignee: Allied Chemical Corporation
    Inventor: Lawrence Mitchell Gambrell