Patents by Inventor Paulo Alfonso Dos Santos Pereira

Paulo Alfonso Dos Santos Pereira 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: 8461286
    Abstract: A process for the production of liquid epoxy resins, including: contacting a polyhydric phenol and an epihalohydrin in the presence of an ionic catalyst to form a halohydrin intermediate reaction product; concurrently: reacting a portion of the halohydrin intermediate reaction product with an alkali hydroxide to form a solid salt suspended in a liquid mixture including a dehydrohalogenated product and unreacted halohydrin intermediate, wherein the alkali hydroxide is used at less than a stoichiometric amount; and removing water and epihalohydrin as a vapor from the reacting mixture; separating the solid salt from the liquid mixture; reacting at least a portion of the unreacted halohydrin intermediate with an alkali hydroxide in the presence of water to form an organic mixture including an epoxy resin and unreacted epihalohydrin and an aqueous solution including a salt; separating the aqueous mixture from the organic mixture; and separating the unreacted epihalohydrin from the liquid epoxy resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Thomas C. Young, Clinton J. Boriack, Elwin G. Collier, Robert M. Drake, Joachim Drewing, Edward J. Kronenberger, Shuji Maeda, Paulo Alfonso Dos Santos Pereira, Andreas Tigges, Roland Werner, Mark S. Burkinshaw
  • Publication number: 20110028744
    Abstract: A process for the production of liquid epoxy resins, including: contacting a polyhydric phenol and an epihalohydrin in the presence of an ionic catalyst to form a halohydrin intermediate reaction product; concurrently: reacting a portion of the halohydrin intermediate reaction product with an alkali hydroxide to form a solid salt suspended in a liquid mixture including a dehydrohalogenated product and unreacted halohydrin intermediate, wherein the alkali hydroxide is used at less than a stoichiometric amount; and removing water and epihalohydrin as a vapor from the reacting mixture; separating the solid salt from the liquid mixture; reacting at least a portion of the unreacted halohydrin intermediate with an alkali hydroxide in the presence of water to form an organic mixture including an epoxy resin and unreacted epihalohydrin and an aqueous solution including a salt; separating the aqueous mixture from the organic mixture; and separating the unreacted epihalohydrin from the liquid epoxy resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas C. Young, Clinton J. Boriack, Elwin G. Collier, Robert M. Drake, Joachim Drewing, Edward J. Kronenberger, Shuji Maeda, Paulo Alfonso Dos Santos Pereira, Andreas Tigges, Roland Werner, Mark S. Burkinshaw