Patents by Inventor Mervyn Edward Dennant Turner

Mervyn Edward Dennant Turner 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 separating an acid from a gaseous mixture
    Patent number: 4061714
    Abstract: A process for separating acid gases from gaseous mixtures by absorption in alkaline solutions such as potassium carbonate solution wherin corrosion caused by the absorbing solution is reduced by inclusion therein of an aromatic compound. The aromatic compound has at least one nitro group and at least one hydroxyl group substituted in the same benzene nucleus. The invention is particularly applicable when the absorbent is a potassium carbonate solution activated by arsenic ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1977
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries Limited
    Inventor: Mervyn Edward Dennant Turner
  • Corrosion inhibitors
    Patent number: 4018703
    Abstract: Inhibition of corrosion of steel, especially stainless steel in acid media, using a nitro-aromatic compound which contains a benzene ring substituted by at least one carboxyl substituent, for example dinitrosalicylic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1977
    Assignee: Imperial Chemical Industries Limited
    Inventor: Mervyn Edward Dennant Turner