Patents by Inventor Peter Krygsman

Peter Krygsman 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).

  • Simultaneous determination of bitumen and water content in oil sand and oil sand extraction process samples using low-field time-domain NMR
    Patent number: 8547096
    Abstract: A method for quantifying bitumen and/or water in a sample comprising bitumen, water and solids using a time-domain nuclear magnetic resonance pulse spectrometer is provided comprising the steps of: initially saturating the magnetization of the sample so that essentially no magnetization remains in the +Z axis; subjecting the sample to a sequence of radio-frequency pulses optimized for the measurement of bitumen and water in the sample; allowing the recording of the transverse relaxation (T2) echo trains after incremental longitudinal relaxation to produce a raw TD-NMR data set for the sample; and determining the amount of bitumen and water by means of a partial least squares optimization based chemometric model relating TD-NMR data sets obtained from a training set of samples comprising bitumen, water and solids to the training samples' corresponding reference values obtained from a standard analysis method for determining bitumen and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignees: Syncrude Canada Ltd., Bruker Corporation, Bruker Ltd.
    Inventors: Hesham Kamar, Supriyo Ghosh, Richard Edmund Paproski, Peter Krygsman, Barjinder Bhalla
  • SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATION OF BITUMEN AND WATER CONTENT IN OIL SAND AND OIL SAND EXTRACTION PROCESS SAMPLES USING LOW-FIELD TIME-DOMAIN NMR
    Publication number: 20110316534
    Abstract: A method for quantifying bitumen and/or water in a sample comprising bitumen, water and solids using a time-domain nuclear magnetic resonance pulse spectrometer is provided comprising the steps of: initially saturating the magnetization of the sample so that essentially no magnetization remains in the +Z axis; subjecting the sample to a sequence of radio-frequency pulses optimized for the measurement of bitumen and water in the sample; allowing the recording of the transverse relaxation (T2) echo trains after incremental longitudinal relaxation to produce a raw TD-NMR data set for the sample; and determining the amount of bitumen and water by means of a partial least squares optimization based chemometric model relating TD-NMR data sets obtained from a training set of samples comprising bitumen, water and solids to the training samples' corresponding reference values obtained from a standard analysis method for determining bitumen and water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicants: SYNCRUDE CANADA LTD., BRUKER LTD., BRUKER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hesham Kamar, Supriyo Ghosh, Richard Edmund Paproski, Peter Krygsman, Barjinder Bhalia