Patents by Inventor Michael Wilson Nagle

Michael Wilson Nagle 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).

  • Patent number: 9822427
    Abstract: A process for the production of a metal which comprises: carbothermal reduction of the corresponding metal oxide to produce a mixed gas stream comprising the metal and carbon monoxide; maintaining the mixed gas stream at a suitably elevated temperature to prevent reformation of the metal oxide; ejecting the mixed gas stream through a convergent-divergent nozzle in order to cool the mixed gas stream instantaneously to a temperature at which reformation of the metal oxide cannot take place; and separating and collecting the metal, wherein the nozzle is heated by means other than gas flow through the nozzle so that temperature of surfaces of the nozzle in contact with the mixed gas stream are maintained at a temperature sufficient to prevent deposition on the said surfaces of products from the gas stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION
    Inventors: Steven Tassios, Timothy Raymond Douglas Barton, Michael Wilson Nagle, Keri Koulla Constanti-Carey, Leon Hugh Prentice
  • Publication number: 20150368752
    Abstract: A process for the production of a metal which comprises: carbothermal reduction of the corresponding metal oxide to produce a mixed gas stream comprising the metal and carbon monoxide; maintaining the mixed gas stream at a suitably elevated temperature to prevent reformation of the metal oxide; ejecting the mixed gas stream through a convergent-divergent nozzle in order to cool the mixed gas stream instantaneously to a temperature at which reformation of the metal oxide cannot take place; and separating and collecting the metal, wherein the nozzle is heated by means other than gas flow through the nozzle so that temperature of surfaces of the nozzle in contact with the mixed gas stream are maintained at a temperature sufficient to prevent deposition on the said surfaces of products from the gas stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Steven TASSIOS, Timothy Raymond Douglas BARTON, Michael Wilson NAGLE, Keri KouIla CONSTANTI-CAREY, Leon Hugh PRENTICE
  • Patent number: 9090954
    Abstract: A process for the production of a metal which comprises: carbothermal reduction of the corresponding metal oxide to produce a mixed gas stream comprising the metal and carbon monoxide; maintaining the mixed gas stream at a suitably elevated temperature to prevent reformation of the metal oxide; ejecting the mixed gas stream through a convergent-divergent nozzle in order to cool the mixed gas stream instantaneously to a temperature at which reformation of the metal oxide cannot take place; and separating and collecting the metal, wherein the nozzle is heated by means other than gas flow through the nozzle so that temperature of surfaces of the nozzle in contact with the mixed gas stream are maintained at a temperature sufficient to prevent deposition on the said surfaces of products from the gas stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Steven Tassios, Timothy Raymond Douglas Barton, Michael Wilson Nagle, Keri Koulla Constanti-Carey, Leon Hugh Prentice
  • Publication number: 20110179794
    Abstract: A transition duct (94) for routing a gas flow from a combustor to the first stage of a turbine section in a combustion turbine engine is disclosed. The transition duct (94) may have an internal passage (102) extending between an inlet (98) to an outlet (100). An axis (130) of the transition duct body (96) may be generally linear such that gases expelled from the transition duct body (96) flow in a proper direction into the downstream turbine blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventors: Steven Tassios, Timothy Raymond Douglas Barton, Michael Wilson Nagle, Keri Koulla Constanti-Carey, Leon Hugh Prentice
  • Publication number: 20090120239
    Abstract: A process of producing a metal from the corresponding metal halide by reaction of the metal halide with a reducing agent to form the metal and a halide of the reducing agent, the reaction taking place at elevated temperature and at atmospheric pressure in a reactor comprising a fluidised bed of seed particles of the metal, which process comprises: injecting into the reactor an inert gas at a rate and in an amount effective to form a fluidised bed of the seed particles and to ensure that unreacted reductant and the halide of the reducing agent do not condense in the reactor under the prevailing conditions of temperature and pressure; maintaining the maximum temperature in the reactor below the melting point of the metal; and delivering the metal halide and reducing agent into the fluidised bed in a manner that favours formation of the metal on the seed particles over formation of the metal by homogeneous gas phase reaction between the metal halide and reducing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Garry William Jensen, Michael Wilson Nagle