Patents by Inventor Michel Berghmans

Michel Berghmans 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).

  • Heat management in ethylene oligomerization
    Patent number: 10160696
    Abstract: The oligomerization of ethylene using a chromium catalyst having a heteroatomic ligand may be used to provide oligomerization products that are selective towards hexene and/or octene. However, such processes also typically produce some polymer as an undesirable by product. The present invention is directed towards improvements in the selective oligomerization of ethylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Isam Jaber, Ian Ronald Jobe, P Scott Chisholm, Andrzej Krzywicki, Charles Ashton Garret Carter, Vernon Lindsay Strom, Kamal Elias Serhal, Eric Clavelle, Stephen John Brown, Yves Lacombe, Anita Sylvia Magis, Mackenzie Alexander Harris, Russell Kirk Archer, Keith WAyne Besenski, Michel Berghmans, Oleksiy Golovchenko, Dale Alexander Sieben
  • DUCTING FOR MANUFACTURE OF IRON
    Publication number: 20160258687
    Abstract: In the reduction of iron oxides to iron at temperatures greater than about 700° C. the propensity for the formation of coke in the duct work between furnaces is reduced by using steel having a surface comprising a spinel of the formula MnxCr3-xO4 wherein x is from 0.5 to 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Vasily Simanzhenkov, Michel Berghmans, Hany Iskandar Farag
  • HEAT MANAGEMENT IN ETHYLENE OLIGOMERIZATION
    Publication number: 20160237000
    Abstract: The oligomerization of ethylene using a chromium catalyst having a heteroatomic ligand may be used to provide oligomerization products that are selective towards hexene and/or octene. However, such processes also typically produce some polymer as an undesirable by product. The present invention is directed towards improvements in the selective oligomerization of ethylene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Isam Jaber, Ian Ronald Jobe, P. Scott Chisholm, Andrzej Krzywicki, Charles Ashton Garret Carter, Vernon Lindsay Strom, Kamal Elias Serhal, Eric Clavelle, Stephen John Brown, Yves Lacombe, Anita Sylvia Magis, Mackenzie Alexander Harris, Russell Kirk Archer, Keith Wayne Besenski, Michel Berghmans, Oleksiy Golovchenko, Dale Alexander Sieben
  • HEAT MANAGEMENT IN ETHYLENE OLIGOMERIZATION
    Publication number: 20120142989
    Abstract: The oligomerization of ethylene using a chromium catalyst having a heteroatomic ligand may be used to provide oligomerization products that are selective towards hexene and/or octene. However, such processes also typically produce some polymer as an undesirable by product. The present invention is directed towards improvements in the selective oligomerization of ethylene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Inventors: Isam Jaber, Ian Ronald Jobe, P. Scott Chisholm, Andrzej Krzywicki, Charles Ashton Garret Carter, Vernon Lindsay Strom, Kamal l Elias Serhal, Eric Clavelle, Stephen John Brown, Yves Lacombe, Anita Sylvia Magis, Mackenzie Alexander Harris, Russell Kirk Archer, Keith Wayne Besenski, Michel Berghmans, Oleksiy Golovchenko, Dale Alexander Sieben
  • ENHANCED EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE FOAM INSULATION
    Publication number: 20100304075
    Abstract: Partially expanded closed-cell unmatured polystyrene bead with a partial vacuum within the cells inside the bead, which may be coated with an air impervious coating to retain a partial vacuum inside cells for a prolonged period of time. The resulting bead has improved thermal insulating properties and may be used for insulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: NOVA CHEMICALS INC.
    Inventors: Grazyna Petela, Michel Berghmans, Thomas Chee
  • Expandable resins
    Publication number: 20060276558
    Abstract: Resin beads having an average particle size of from 0.001 mm to 10 mm and containing a continuous phase and a particulate dispersed phase are described. The continuous phase includes elastomeric polymers; the dispersed phase includes homopolymers and/or copolymers containing repeat units resulting from the polymerization of one or more aryl polymerizable monomers. The unexpanded polymer resin beads can be prepared by dispersing an organic phase containing elastomeric polymers and one or more monomers, into droplets and polymerizing the monomers in the organic droplets in a low shear flow pattern. The beads can be impregnated with blowing agents, expanded and can be used to make molded articles. Resin beads having a continuous phase comprising a nitrile rubber, and a dispersed phase comprising one or more homopolymers and/or copolymers containing repeat units resulting form the polymerization of one or more aryl polymerizable show prolonged retention of blowing agents in unexpanded form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2006
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventors: Grazyna Petela, Michel Berghmans, Karel Bleijenberg