Patents by Inventor Moinuddin Khan

Moinuddin Khan 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).

  • Tracking feedstock production with micro scale gas-to-liquid units
    Patent number: 8293805
    Abstract: A method of tracking production from an NG source that includes the steps of providing one or more micro-scale GTL units, feeding NG from the source to the micro-scale GTL units, operating the micro-scale GTL units and adjusting the number of micro-scale GTL units employed to track or match the production from the source is provided. In some aspects of the invention, the micro-scale GTL unit includes both syngas manufacture and liquid product synthesis. The liquid product synthesis step may produce methanol, mixed higher carbon number alcohols, dimethyl ether, Fischer-Tropsch liquids, and/or any combination of these products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Moinuddin Khan, Andrew Kurkjian, Stephen C. Leviness, Keith Massie, John Nighswander
  • TRACKING FEEDSTOCK PRODUCTION WITH MICRO SCALE GAS-TO-LIQUID UNITS
    Publication number: 20090299795
    Abstract: A method of tracking production from an NG source that includes the steps of providing one or more micro-scale GTL units, feeding NG from the source to the micro-scale GTL units, operating the micro-scale GTL units and adjusting the number of micro-scale GTL units employed to track or match the production from the source is provided. In some aspects of the invention, the micro-scale GTL unit includes both syngas manufacture and liquid product synthesis. The liquid product synthesis step may produce methanol, mixed higher carbon number alcohols, dimethyl ether, Fischer-Tropsch liquids, and/or any combination of these products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: KYROGEN USA, LLC
    Inventors: Moinuddin Khan, Andrew Kurkjian, Stephen C. Leviness, Keith Massie, John Nighswander