Patents by Inventor Martin E. Carrera
Martin E. Carrera 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: 10125335Abstract: A lubricating composition comprising a base oil of lubricating viscosity and one or more lubricant additives, wherein the base oil comprises or consists of a base stock which comprises or consists of at least one isoprenoid compound comprising: (i) one or two oxygen-containing moieties independently selected from ether and ester moieties; (ii) a first acyclic isoprenoid moiety containing 1 to 5 isoprenyl units; and (iii) optionally, a second acyclic isoprenoid moiety containing 1 to 5 isoprenyl units with the proviso that at least one isoprenoid moiety contains 3 to 5 isoprenyl units where the isoprenoid compound contains a single ether moiety.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: CASTROL LIMITEDInventors: Martin E. Carrera, John Philip Davies, Sander Gaemers, John William Shabaker, Oliver Williams
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Patent number: 9738617Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to the production of fuels, gasoline additives, and/or lubricants, and precursors thereof. The compounds used to produce the fuels, gasoline additives, and/or lubricants, and precursors thereof may be derived from biomass. The fuels, gasoline additives, and/or lubricants, and precursors thereof may be produced by a combination of intermolecular and/or intramolecular aldol condensation reactions, Guerbet reactions, hydrogenation reactions, and/or oligomerization reactions.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2014Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, BP Corporation North America Inc.Inventors: Eric Sacia, Anbarasan Pazhamalai, Balakrishnan Madhesan, Sanil Sreekumar, F. Dean Toste, Amit A. Gokhale, Martin E. Carrera, Alexis T. Bell, Gorkem Gunbas
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Publication number: 20170198196Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to methods for controlling souring in engineered systems, and more specifically to methods of controlling souring using chemical, physical, and combinatorial treatments of engineered systems to reduce hydrogen sulfide-associated souring in such engineered systems, such as oil reservoirs.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2015Publication date: July 13, 2017Applicants: The Regents of the University of California, BP Corporation North America Inc.Inventors: John D. COATES, Hans CARLSON, Anna ENGELBREKTSON, Mark MULLAN, Martin E. CARRERA
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Publication number: 20160137945Abstract: A lubricating composition comprising a base oil of lubricating viscosity and one or more lubricant additives, wherein the base oil comprises or consists of a base stock which comprises or consists of at least one isoprenoid compound comprising: (i) one or two oxygen-containing moieties independently selected from ether and ester moieties; (ii) a first acyclic isoprenoid moiety containing 1 to 5 isoprenyl units; and (iii) optionally, a second acyclic isoprenoid moiety containing 1 to 5 isoprenyl units with the proviso that at least one isoprenoid moiety contains 3 to 5 isoprenyl units where the isoprenoid compound contains a single ether moiety.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2014Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Martin E. CARRERA, John Philip DAVIES, Sander GAEMERS, John William SHABAKER, Oliver WILLIAMS
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Publication number: 20160115143Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to the production of fuels, gasoline additives, and/or lubricants, and precursors thereof. The compounds used to produce the fuels, gasoline additives, and/or lubricants, and precursors thereof may be derived from biomass. The fuels, gasoline additives, and/or lubricants, and precursors thereof may be produced by a combination of intermolecular and/or intramolecular aldol condensation reactions, Guerbet reactions, hydrogenation reactions, and/or oligomerization reactions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2014Publication date: April 28, 2016Applicants: The Regents of the University of California, BP Corporation North America Inc.Inventors: Eric SACIA, Anbarasan PAZHAMALAI, Balakrishnan MADHESAN, Sanil SREEKUMAR, F. Dean TOSTE, Amit A. GOKHALE, Martin E. CARRERA, Alexis T. BELL, Gorkem GUNBAS
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Patent number: 8969050Abstract: Methods of producing renewable materials may include consuming a fermentation feedstock with a fermentation organism to produce a renewable material in fermentation broth; water may then be separated from the feedstock or broth using one or more phase separations, or the renewable material may be concentrated from the feedstock or broth using one or more phase separations. Methods of producing biofuel components may include consuming a lignocellulosic or sugar fermentation feedstock with a fermentation organism to produce either ethanol or butanol in fermentation broth; cooling the feedstock or broth to solidify at least some water therein; and separating the solidified water from the feedstock or broth using a solid-liquid phase separation.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2012Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: BP Corporation North America Inc.Inventors: Glen Austin, Binita X. Bhattacharjee, Leslie W. Bolton, Jacob Borden, Martin E. Carrera, Amit A. Gokhale, Chris Horler, Aidan Hurley, Eric T. Mack
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Publication number: 20130130335Abstract: Methods of producing renewable materials may include consuming a fermentation feedstock with a fermentation organism to produce a renewable material in fermentation broth; water may then be separated from the feedstock or broth using one or more phase separations, or the renewable material may be concentrated from the feedstock or broth using one or more phase separations. Methods of producing biofuel components may include consuming a lignocellulosic or sugar fermentation feedstock with a fermentation organism to produce either ethanol or butanol in fermentation broth; cooling the feedstock or broth to solidify at least some water therein; and separating the solidified water from the feedstock or broth using a solid-liquid phase separation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2012Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: BP Corporation North America Inc.Inventors: Glen Austin, Binita X. Bhattacharjee, Leslie W. Bolton, Jacob Borden, Martin E. Carrera, Amit A. Gokhale, Chris Horler, Aidan Hurley, Eric T. Mack
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Patent number: 8066852Abstract: Light hydrocarbon enrichment is accomplished using a vertically oriented distillation column having a plurality of vertically oriented, nonselective micro/mesoporous hollow fibers. Vapor having, for example, both propylene and propane is sent upward through the distillation column in between the hollow fibers. Vapor exits neat the top of the column and is condensed to form a liquid phase that is directed back downward through the lumen of the hollow fibers. As vapor continues to ascend and liquid continues to countercurrently descend, the liquid at the bottom of the column becomes enriched in a higher boiling point, light hydrocarbon (propane, for example) and the vapor at the top becomes enriched in a lower boiling point light hydrocarbon (propylene, for example). The hollow fiber becomes wetted with liquid during the process.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Los Alamos National Security, LLCInventors: Dali Yang, David Devlin, Robert S. Barbero, Martin E. Carrera, Craig W. Colling
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Publication number: 20100264012Abstract: Light hydrocarbon enrichment is accomplished using a vertically oriented distillation column having a plurality of vertically oriented, nonselective micro/mesoporous hollow fibers. Vapor having, for example, both propylene and propane is sent upward through the distillation column in between the hollow fibers. Vapor exits neat the top of the column and is condensed to form a liquid phase that is directed back downward through the lumen of the hollow fibers. As vapor continues to ascend and liquid continues to countercurrently descend, the liquid at the bottom of the column becomes enriched in a higher boiling point, light hydrocarbon (propane, for example) and the vapor at the top becomes enriched in a lower boiling point light hydrocarbon (propylene, for example). The hollow fiber becomes wetted with liquid during the process.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2010Publication date: October 21, 2010Applicant: LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLCInventors: Dali Yang, David Devlin, Robert S. Barbero, Martin E. Carrera, Craig W. Colling
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Patent number: 7771569Abstract: Light hydrocarbon enrichment is accomplished using a vertically oriented distillation column having a plurality of vertically oriented, nonselective micro/mesoporous hollow fibers. Vapor having, for example, both propylene and propane is sent upward through the distillation column in between the hollow fibers. Vapor exits neat the top of the column and is condensed to form a liquid phase that is directed back downward through the lumen of the hollow fibers. As vapor continues to ascend and liquid continues to countercurrently descend, the liquid at the bottom of the column becomes enriched in a higher boiling point, light hydrocarbon (propane, for example) and the vapor at the top becomes enriched in a lower boiling point light hydrocarbon (propylene, for example). The hollow fiber becomes wetted with liquid during the process.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2009Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Los Alamos National Security, LLCInventors: Dali Yang, David Devlin, Robert S. Barbero, Martin E. Carrera, Craig W. Colling
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Publication number: 20090236213Abstract: Light hydrocarbon enrichment is accomplished using a vertically oriented distillation column having a plurality of vertically oriented, nonselective micro/mesoporous hollow fibers. Vapor having, for example, both propylene and propane is sent upward through the distillation column in between the hollow fibers. Vapor exits neat the top of the column and is condensed to form a liquid phase that is directed back downward through the lumen of the hollow fibers. As vapor continues to ascend and liquid continues to countercurrently descend, the liquid at the bottom of the column becomes enriched in a higher boiling point, light hydrocarbon (propane, for example) and the vapor at the top becomes enriched in a lower boiling point light hydrocarbon (propylene, for example). The hollow fiber becomes wetted with liquid during the process.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2009Publication date: September 24, 2009Applicant: Los Alamos National Security, LLCInventors: Dali Yang, David Devlin, Robert S. Barbero, Martin E. Carrera, Craig W. Colling
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Publication number: 20080039671Abstract: Processes for chemical conversion of volatile organic compounds to value added products using membrane reactors and recovery of one or more purified conversion product are described. Useful membranes are preselected to control the relative amount of noncondensable co-product in gaseous reactor effluent such that the energy required for the subsequent compression and partial condensation of the reactor effluent is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2006Publication date: February 14, 2008Applicant: Innovene USAInventors: Michael J. Foral, Martin E. Carrera, Craig W. Colling, Brian C. Bahr, C. Francisco Lorenzano-Porras, Bruce D. Alexander
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Publication number: 20040131984Abstract: A process for operating a combustion burner employing a combustion mixture of a carbonaceous fuel, hydrogen and a molecular oxygen-containing gas and at least one solid combustion catalyst is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2003Publication date: July 8, 2004Inventors: Larry C. Satek, Martin E. Carrera, I. A. B. Reid, Geoffrey B. Smith, David Charles Griffiths
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Patent number: 6039792Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved method and apparatus for separating one or more condensable compounds from a mixture of two or more gases of differing volatilities by capillary fractionation in a membrane-type apparatus, and a method of forming porous structures therefor. More particularly, the invention includes methods of forming and using an apparatus consisting, at least in part, of a porous structure having capillary-type passages extending between a plurality of small openings on the first side and larger openings on a second side of the structure, the passages being adapted to permit a condensed liquid to flow therethrough substantially by capillary forces, whereby vapors from the mixture are condensed, at least in part, and substantially in and adjacent to the openings on the first side, and are caused to flow in a condensed liquid state, substantially in the absence of vapor, from the openings on the first side to the openings on the second side.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 1998Date of Patent: March 21, 2000Assignee: Regents of the University of California and BP Amoco CorporationInventors: Narasimhan Calamur, Martin E. Carrera, David J. Devlin, Tom Archuleta