Patents by Inventor Marc Beckers
Marc Beckers 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).
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Patent number: 9393537Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the continuous, homogeneous-catalysis reaction of a liquid with a gas and optionally an additional fluid, wherein the device comprises at least one reactor having an external liquid circulation driven by a pump, and wherein the device has at least one membrane separation stage that preferably holds back the homogeneous catalyst. The aim of the invention is to specify a device that allows homogeneous-catalysis gas/liquid phase reactions, in particular hydroformylations, which operate with membrane separation of the catalyst to be performed economically at an industrially relevant scale. Said aim is achieved in that a jet loop reactor is provided as the reactor, and that the pump and the membrane separation stage are arranged in the same external liquid circuit.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: EVONIK DEGUSSA GmbHInventors: Bart Hamers, Dirk Fridag, Robert Franke, Marc Becker, Markus Priske
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Publication number: 20160200655Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising: a) at least one support material; b) at least one metal selected from transition group VIII of the Periodic Table of the Elements and c) at least one compound of the formula (I) R?-A-R? (I), where A, R? and R? are each an organic radical, where R? and R? have the structural element —O—P(—O—)2 with trivalent P and are bonded covalently to the A radical via the latter, with the proviso that R??R?, to a process for producing such a composition, to the use of the composition and to a process and an apparatus for hydroformylation in which the composition is used.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2014Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicant: EVONIK DEGUSSA GMBHInventors: Katrin Marie DYBALLA, Hanna HAHN, Robert FRANKE, Dirk FRIDAG, Marc BECKER
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Publication number: 20160176792Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of alcohols by hydrogenation of aldehydes, in which use mixture comprising at least one aldehyde and at least one accompanying component is brought into contact, in the presence of hydrogen, with a heterogeneous catalyst, giving a product mixture which comprises at least the alcohol corresponding to the hydrogenated aldehyde, and at least one by-product, where the catalyst comprises a support material, and nickel and copper applied thereto. The invention also includes a chromium-free catalyst suitable for hydrogenating aldehyde mixtures with different chain lengths, in particular those which originate from different hydroformylations and can also comprise substances with C?C double bonds.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2015Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicant: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Florian Klasovsky, Robert Franke, Marc Becker, Thomas Quandt, Frank Geilen
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Publication number: 20160068459Abstract: A composition and the use of said composition as catalytically active composition in processes for synthesis of chemical compounds, especially the hydroformylation of olefinically unsaturated hydrocarbon mixtures.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Katrin Marie DYBALLA, Robert FRANKE, Hanna HAHN, Marc BECKER, Andreas SCHOENWEIZ, Jonas DEBUSCHEWITZ, Simon WALTER, Rene WOELFEL, Marco HAUMANN, Peter WASSERSCHEID, Andre KAFTAN, Mathias LAURIN, Joerg LIBUDA
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Publication number: 20160002136Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing alcohols by homogeneously catalysed hydroformylation of olefins to aldehydes and subsequent hydration of the aldehydes. The invention further relates to a system for carrying out the method. The main focus is on the separation technique for work-up of the hydroformylation mixture. The problem addressed by the invention is that specifying a work-up method for hydroformylation mixtures that utilises the specific advantages of known separation technologies but at the same time largely avoids the specific disadvantages of said separation technologies. The most important objective is to create a catalyst separation system that is as complete and at the same time conservative as possible and that operates in a technically reliable manner and entails low investment and operating costs. The method should be unrestrictedly suitable for processing the reaction output from oxo systems in “world scale” format.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: EVONIK DEGUSSA GMBHInventors: Hans-Gerd LUEKEN, Bart HAMERS, Dirk FRIDAG, Robert FRANKE, Markus PRISKE, Dieter HESS, Marc BECKER, Markus RUDEK
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Publication number: 20150336078Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the continuous, homogeneous-catalysis reaction of a liquid with a gas and optionally an additional fluid, wherein the device comprises at least one reactor having an external liquid circulation driven by a pump, and wherein the device has at least one membrane separation stage that preferably holds back the homogeneous catalyst. The aim of the invention is to specify a device that allows homogeneous-catalysis gas/liquid phase reactions, in particular hydroformylations, which operate with membrane separation of the catalyst to be performed economically at an industrially relevant scale. Said aim is achieved in that a jet loop reactor is provided as the reactor, and that the pump and the membrane separation stage are arranged in the same external liquid circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2015Publication date: November 26, 2015Applicant: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Bart HAMERS, Dirk FRIDAG, Robert FRANKE, Marc BECKER, Markus PRISKE
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Patent number: 9149780Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the continuous, homogeneous-catalysis reaction of a liquid with a gas and optionally an additional fluid, wherein the device comprises at least one reactor having an external liquid circulation driven by a pump, and wherein the device has at least one membrane separation stage that preferably holds back the homogeneous catalyst. The aim of the invention is to specify a device that allows homogeneous-catalysis gas/liquid phase reactions, in particular hydroformylations, which operate with membrane separation of the catalyst to be performed economically at an industrially relevant scale. Said aim is achieved in that a jet loop reactor is provided as the reactor, and that the pump and the membrane separation stage are arranged in the same external liquid circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2012Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Bart Hamers, Dirk Fridag, Robert Franke, Marc Becker, Markus Priske
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Patent number: 9018420Abstract: The present invention provides a composition comprising: a) an inert porous support material, b) an ionic liquid, c) a metal selected from group 9 of the Periodic Table of the Elements, d) a phosphorus-containing organic ligand, e) at least one organic amine. The present invention further provides a process for hydroformylating olefin-containing hydrocarbon mixtures to aldehydes with addition of the inventive composition as a catalytically active composition, wherein: a) the water content of the olefin-containing hydrocarbon mixture is adjusted to not more than 20 ppm, b) the content of polyunsaturated compounds in the olefin-containing hydrocarbon mixture is adjusted to not more than 3000 ppm, c) a molar ratio of organic amines according to claims 10-13 to phosphorus-containing organic ligands according to claims 8-9 of at least 4:1 is established, d) a molar ratio of phosphorus-containing organic ligands according to claims 8-9 to rhodium of at least 10:1 is established.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2011Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Evonik Oxeno GmbHInventors: Robert Franke, Nicole Brausch, Dirk Fridag, Andrea Christiansen, Marc Becker, Peter Wasserscheid, Marco Haumann, Michael Jakuttis, Sebastian Werner, Andreas Schoenweiz
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Publication number: 20140343327Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the continuous, homogeneous-catalysis reaction of a liquid with a gas and optionally an additional fluid, wherein the device comprises at least one reactor having an external liquid circulation driven by a pump, and wherein the device has at least one membrane separation stage that preferably holds back the homogeneous catalyst. The aim of the invention is to specify a device that allows homogeneous-catalysis gas/liquid phase reactions, in particular hydroformylations, which operate with membrane separation of the catalyst to be performed economically at an industrially relevant scale. Said aim is achieved in that a jet loop reactor is provided as the reactor, and that the pump and the membrane separation stage are arranged in the same external liquid circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2012Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Bart Hamers, Dirk Fridag, Robert Franke, Marc Becker, Markus Priske
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Patent number: 8877402Abstract: A system and method for identifying leaks in a cathode sub-system of a fuel cell system. An air flow meter is provided up-stream of a compressor and monitors the air flowing into the compressor. When an air leakage diagnostic is commanded, a fuel cell stack by-pass valve and back-pressure valve are closed so that no air flows through or around the stack, and the recirculation valve is opened so that the air flows around the compressor. By knowing the leakage through the by-pass valve and the back-pressure valve, any flow above those values measured by the air flow meter gives an indication of air leakage out of the cathode sub-system components.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventor: Marc Becker
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Patent number: 8795907Abstract: A fuel cell system is disclosed that employs an expander for recovering mechanical energy from a cathode exhaust fluid produced by the fuel cell system to generate torque. The expander is coupled to a shaft of a compressor with a freewheel mechanism, wherein the freewheel mechanism transfers the torque from the expander to the compressor when a rate of rotation of a driveshaft of the expander is greater than the rate of rotation of the shaft of the compressor, and selectively militates against the expander acting as a restrictor to the shaft of the compressor when a rate of rotation of the driveshaft of the expander is substantially equal to or less than a rate of rotation of the shaft of the compressor.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Marc Becker, Remy Fontaine, Thomas W. Tighe
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Publication number: 20140072895Abstract: A system and method for identifying leaks in a cathode sub-system of a fuel cell system. An air flow meter is provided up-stream of a compressor and monitors the air flowing into the compressor. When an air leakage diagnostic is commanded, a fuel cell stack by-pass valve and back-pressure valve are closed so that no air flows through or around the stack, and the recirculation valve is opened so that the air flows around the compressor. By knowing the leakage through the by-pass valve and the back-pressure valve, any flow above those values measured by the air flow meter gives an indication of air leakage out of the cathode sub-system components.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: GM GLOBEL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Marc Becker
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Publication number: 20130289313Abstract: The present invention provides a composition comprising: a) an inert porous support material, b) an ionic liquid, c) a metal selected from group 9 of the Periodic Table of the Elements, d) a phosphorus-containing organic ligand, e) at least one organic amine. The present invention further provides a process for hydroformylating olefin-containing hydrocarbon mixtures to aldehydes with addition of the inventive composition as a catalytically active composition, wherein: a) the water content of the olefin-containing hydrocarbon mixture is adjusted to not more than 20 ppm, b) the content of polyunsaturated compounds in the olefin-containing hydrocarbon mixture is adjusted to not more than 3000 ppm, c) a molar ratio of organic amines according to claims 10-13 to phosphorus-containing organic ligands according to claims 8-9 of at least 4:1 is established, d) a molar ratio of phosphorus-containing organic ligands according to claims 8-9 to rhodium of at least 10:1 is established.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2011Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicant: EVONIK OXENO GmbHInventors: Robert Franke, Nicole Brausch, Dirk Fridag, Andrea Christiansen, Marc Becker, Peter Wasserscheid, Marco Haumann, Michael Jakuttis, Sebastian Werner, Andreas Schoenweiz
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Patent number: 8568937Abstract: A fuel cell assembly having a flow distribution subassembly that comprises four sets of flow channels, the first set facing an anode for distribution of a fuel reactant to said anode, the second set facing a cathode for distribution of an oxidant to said cathode, the third set in flow communication with said second set and in heat transfer relation with at least one of said anode and said cathode, and the fourth set receiving a coolant different from said oxidant.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2010Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Volker Formanski, Peter Kilian, Thomas Herbig, Marc Becker, Peter Willimowski
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Patent number: 8470479Abstract: A technique for determining the relative humidity of the cathode input airflow to a fuel cell stack that eliminates the need for a dew-point sensor. The cathode input airflow is humidified by a water vapor transfer unit that uses water in the cathode exhaust gas. The technique employs an algorithm that determines the flow of water into the cathode inlet of the stack. In one embodiment, the algorithm determines the volume flow of water through the water vapor transfer unit using the Arrhenius equation, and then converts the water volume flow to a water mole flow. The algorithm then uses the water mole flow through the water vapor transfer unit and the water mole flow of ambient air to determine the water mole flow into the cathode inlet. The algorithm then uses the water mole flow into the cathode inlet to determine the relative humidity of the cathode airflow.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2005Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Marc Becker, Oliver Maier, Peter Willimowski
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Patent number: 8415520Abstract: The invention is a method for processing a mixture containing water, 3-methyl-1-butane and at least one other methylbutene. The method comprises primary distillation of the mixture, giving a gaseous primary overhead product containing methylbutene and water and a water-free primary bottom product containing 3-methyl-1-butene; condensation of the gaseous primary overhead product so as to give a condensate comprising a liquid aqueous phase and a liquid organic phase; separation of the condensate into a liquid aqueous phase and a liquid organic phase; discharge of the liquid aqueous phase; recirculation of the organic phase to the primary distillation; and finally secondary distillation of the water-free primary bottom product from the primary distillation so as to give a secondary overhead product comprising 3-methyl-1-butene and a secondary bottom product. The secondary overhead product obtained has a purity which enables it to be used directly as monomer or comonomer for preparing polymers or copolymers.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Evonik Oxeno GmbHInventors: Markus Winterberg, Alfred Kaizik, Armin Rix, Michael Grass, Wilfried Bueschken, Marc Becker
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Patent number: 8389774Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for the continuous reaction of a liquid and a second fluid, wherein the device comprises at least two jet loop reactors interconnected in parallel and common outer liquid recirculation.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2009Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Evonik Oxeno GmbHInventors: Marc Becker, Robert Franke, Wilfried Bueschken, Armin Boerner, Jens Holz
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Patent number: 8344697Abstract: A method and system for controlling temperature in an electric vehicle battery pack such that battery pack longevity is preserved, while vehicle driving range is maximized. A controller prescribes a maximum allowable temperature in the battery pack as a function of state of charge, reflecting evidence that lithium-ion battery pack temperatures can be allowed to increase as state of charge decreases, without having a detrimental effect on battery pack life. During vehicle driving, battery pack temperature is allowed to increase with decreasing state of charge, and a cooling system is only used as necessary to maintain temperature beneath the increasing maximum level. The decreased usage of the cooling system reduces energy consumption and increases vehicle driving range. During charging operations, the cooling system must remove enough heat from the battery pack to maintain temperatures below a decreasing maximum, but this has no impact on driving range.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: GM Global Technlogy Operations LLCInventors: Sebastian Lienkamp, Remy Fontaine, Marc Becker, Peter Kilian
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Patent number: D758956Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2015Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Vincent Benoit Mathonet, Philippe Joseph Auguste Muller, Marc Becker, Albert Maurice Pol Ghislain Lerusse
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Patent number: D763784Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CompanyInventors: Vincent Benoit Mathonet, Philippe Joseph Auguste Muller, Marc Becker, Albert Maurice Pol Ghislain Lerusse