Patents by Inventor Martin R. Cines

Martin R. Cines 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).

  • Production of carbon monoxide from carbonaceous material and zinc oxide
    Patent number: 4132764
    Abstract: A carbon source and zinc oxide are reacted in a reactor to form a gas consisting essentially of carbon monoxide and zinc; the zinc is separated from the gas and reoxidized in indirect heat exchange relationship with the reaction mixture of the carbon source and the zinc oxide. A portion of the carbon monoxide and zinc-comprising gas formed can be recycled to the reactor as a fluidizing gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1979
    Assignee: Phillips Petroleum Company
    Inventors: Martin R. Cines, Forrest L. Poska
  • Production of carbon monoxide
    Patent number: 4115524
    Abstract: A carbon monoxide- and zinc-containing gas is produced by the endothermic reaction of a carbonaceous material with zinc oxide. Zinc separated from the gas is in part reoxidized with air and in part reoxidized with H.sub.2 O to form zinc oxide both in exothermic reactions. Heat developed in these exothermic reoxidations is transferred to the endothermic CO-forming reaction so that the total system is thermally neutral, in other words neither generates nor consumes heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1978
    Assignee: Phillips Petroleum Company
    Inventor: Martin R. Cines
  • Water purification by treating with activated carbon before biochemical treatment
    Patent number: 4066538
    Abstract: Waste water having a high chemical oxygen demand caused primarily by soluble organic matter is treated with activated carbon and thereafter passed to a biochemical treating operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1974
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1978
    Assignee: Phillips Petroleum Company
    Inventors: Martin R. Cines, Ben B. Buchanan
  • Extractive distillation
    Patent number: 4053369
    Abstract: In a process of extractive distillation, the combination of operating with two liquid phases in at least the uppermost trays of the column, preferably while maintaining the column operation at substantially an optimum reflux ratio, results in increased efficiencies and minimum requirements for selective solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1977
    Assignee: Phillips Petroleum Company
    Inventor: Martin R. Cines