Patents by Inventor Peter Charles Flynn

Peter Charles Flynn 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).

  • Coking of bituminous solids with hot solids recycle
    Patent number: 4082646
    Abstract: Coked solids, produced by coking of tar sands, are contacted in a first zone with air and the minimum amount of supplemental fuel needed to burn all the coke. Part of the hot clean mineral solids produced is then discarded; the balance is moved into a second zone. Here supplemental fuel is burned to increase the temperature of the solids. The hot solids from the second zone are recycled to the coking stage.Only part of the solids is heated with supplemental fuel, thereby reducing consumption of the latter. In addition, the flue gas from the second zone is relatively clean and can be vented directly to the atmosphere in the flue gas from the first zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1978
    Assignees: Petro-Canada Exploration Inc., Her Majesty the Queen in right of the Province of Alberta, Government of the Province of Alberta, Department of Energy and Natural Resources, Alberta Syncrude Equity, Ontario Energy Corporation, Imperial Oil Limited, Canada-Cities Service, Ltd., Gulf Oil Canada Limited
    Inventor: Peter Charles Flynn