Patents by Inventor Philip A. Atkins

Philip A. Atkins 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).

  • Publication number: 20110160508
    Abstract: A catalytic composition and method for methane dehydroaromatisation, the catalytic composition comprising a catalyst metal active for methane dehydroaromatisation, a zeolite having pores with diameters of at least 10 non-oxygen frame-work atoms, and silicon carbide, and in which the method comprises contacting a methane-containing feedstock with said catalytic composition to produce one or more aromatic compounds and hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventors: Ding Ma, Lijun Gu, Xinhe Bao, Wenjie Shen, Martin Philip Atkins
  • Publication number: 20110144388
    Abstract: A process for producing glycolic acid from carbon monoxide and formaldehyde, optionally in a solvent, using a catalyst comprising an acidic polyoxometalate compound insoluble in formaldehyde, glycolic acid and the optional solvent, wherein the insoluble acidic polyoxometalate compound has a concentration of acid sites of greater than 60 ?mol g?1 on the external surface and/or has a Hammett Acidity value of less than ?12.8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Ying Sun, Hua Wang, Zhongmin Liu, Martin Philip Atkins
  • Patent number: 7955601
    Abstract: An immunogenic agent which comprises a killed strain of Burkholderia pseudomallei, or a combination of components thereof which combination produces a protective immune response in an animal to whom it is administered, and which comprises at least two members selected from the group consisting of (i) a lipopolysaccharide of Burkholderia pseudomallei, (ii) a capsular polysaccharide of Burkholderia pseudomallei and (iii) a protein of Burkholderia pseudomallei or an immunogenic variant thereof or an immunogenic fragment of either of these, or a nucleic acid which expresses said protein, immunogenic variant or immunogenic fragment thereof in a host animal; for use in the prevention or treatment of infection by Burkholderia pseudomallei and/or Burkholderia mallei.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: The Secretary of State for Defence
    Inventors: Stephen John Elvin, Gareth David Healey, Ethel Diane Williamson, James Edward Eyles, Sophie Jane Smither, Mitali Sarkar-Tyson, Timothy Philip Atkins, Michelle Nelson, Richard William Titball
  • Patent number: 7939571
    Abstract: Process for the conversion of carbon oxide(s) and hydrogen-containing feedstocks to C2-oxygenates in the presence of a particulate catalyst, by reacting carbon oxide(s) and hydrogen in the presence of a particulate rhodium-based catalyst in a conversion reactor to form C2-oxygenates. A saturated monocarboxylic acid having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms and/or an ester of a saturated monocarboxylic acid having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms with a monohydiic aliphatic paraffinic alcohol having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms are separated from the ethanol and acetaldehyde produced in the conversion reactor and is/are sent back to the conversion reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: BP Chemicals Limited
    Inventor: Martin Philip Atkins
  • Patent number: 7842844
    Abstract: Process for the conversion of hydrocarbons to ethanol and optionally acetic acid by converting hydrocarbon in a syngas reactor into a stream A comprising a mixture of carbon oxide(s) and hydrogen preferably having a H2/CO molar ratio between 1.5 and 2.5, converting at least part of stream A in the presence of a particulate catalyst in a reactor under a temperature between 150 and 400° C. and a pressure of 5 to 200 bar, into a C2-oxygenates stream B, where stream B includes water, alkanes, ethanol, acetaldehyde, ethyl acetate and acetic acid, which together represent least 80% by weight of the products obtained from the C2-oxygenates conversion reactor. The C2-oxygenates stream B is separated into a stream C comprising H2, CO, CO2 and alkanes, and a stream D including 15 to 40 wt % of acetic acid, 10 to 40 wt % of acetaldehyde and 15 to 40 wt % of ethanol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: BP Chemicals Limited
    Inventor: Martin Philip Atkins
  • Patent number: 7834223
    Abstract: Process for the conversion of carbon oxide(s) and hydrogen containing feedstocks to oxygen-containing hydrocarbon compounds in the presence of a particulate catalyst, by reacting carbon oxide(s) and hydrogen in the presence of a particulate catalyst in a conversion reactor to form oxygen-containing hydrocarbon compounds. A saturated monocarboxylic acid having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms and/or an ester of a saturated monocarboxylic acid having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms with a monohydric aliphatic paraffinic alcohol having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms is added to the conversion reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: BP Chemicals Limited
    Inventors: Martin Philip Atkins, Leslie William Bolton, Benjamin Patrick Gracey, John Glenn Sunley
  • Patent number: 7760264
    Abstract: A method of creating an image 4 obtained from say a camera 1 to obtain a substantially linear representation of the brightness of the image includes, for each of a set of pixels (x, y) in a two dimensional array, calculating, in a computer 3, an estimate of the true image intensity (ixy) as a weighted average of n samples of the apparent image intensity (vn,xy). This is calculated as: i ^ xy = ? n ? ? ( w n , xy ? ( v n , xy - C KT n ) ) ? n ? w n , xy = 1 K ? ? n ? ? ( w n , xy ? ( v n , xy - C T n ) ) ? n ? w n , xy where vn,xy is the apparent intensity measured, Tn is the exposure time, K is the gain of the system, C is an offset and wn,xy is a weighting factor which is defined to maximize the signal to noise ratio and discard insignificant, that is saturated or near zero, values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Synoptics Limited
    Inventor: Philip Atkin
  • Publication number: 20090220548
    Abstract: An immunogenic agent which comprises a killed strain of Burkholderia pseudomallei, or a combination of components thereof which combination produces a protective immune response in an animal to whom it is administered, and which comprises at least two members selected from the group consisting of (i) a lipopolysaccharide of Burkholderia pseudomallei, (ii) a capsular polysaccharide of Burkholderia pseudomallei and (iii) a protein of Burkholderia pseudomallei or an immunogenic variant thereof or an immunogenic fragment of either of these, or a nucleic acid which expresses said protein, immunogenic variant or immunogenic fragment thereof in a host animal; for use in the prevention or treatment of infection by Burkholderia pseudomallei and/or Burkholderia mallei.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2006
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: The Secretary of State for Defence
    Inventors: Stephen John Elvin, Gareth David Healey, Ethel Diane Williamson, James Edward Eyles, Sophie Jane Smither, Mitali Sarkar-Tyson, Timothy Philip Atkins, Michelle Nelson, Richard William Titball
  • Publication number: 20090170966
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved process for the conversion of carbon oxide(s) and hydrogen containing feedstocks to oxygen containing hydrocarbon compounds in the presence of a particulate catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: BP CHEMICALS LIMITED
    Inventors: Martin Philip Atkins, Leslie William Bolton, Benjamin Patrick Gracey, John Glenn Sunley
  • Publication number: 20090170963
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved process in term of selectivity and catalyst activity and operating life for the conversion of hydrocarbons to ethanol and optionally acetic acid in the presence of a particulate catalyst, said conversion proceeding via a syngas generation intermediate step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventor: Martin Philip Atkins
  • Publication number: 20090126275
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved process for the conversion of carbon oxide(s) and hydrogen containing feedstocks to oxygen containing hydrocarbon compounds in the presence of a particulate catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: BP CHEMICALS LIMITED
    Inventor: Martin Philip Atkins
  • Publication number: 20090124710
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved process for the conversion of carbon oxide(s) and hydrogen containing feedstocks to oxygen containing hydrocarbon compounds in the presence of a particulate catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Inventor: Martin Philip Atkins
  • Publication number: 20090118558
    Abstract: A process for producing an olefin and/or an ether is described, which comprises heating an alcohol in the presence of an acidic ionic compound which exists in a liquid state at a temperature of below 150° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2006
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: BP p.l.c.
    Inventors: Martin Philip Atkins, Martyn John Earle, Thomas Stephen Wittrig
  • Patent number: 6687419
    Abstract: A system is provided for creating a larger montage image 8 of an object from a series of smaller source images 7 of different views of an object through, say, a microscope which forms an imaging means for providing images of an object. A data storage means such a framestore board 4 in a computer 5 stores data representative of the montage image of the object. Data representative of a first and subsequent source images is included in that representative of the montage image, in order to increase the data stored representative of the montage image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Synoptics Limited
    Inventor: Philip Atkin
  • Patent number: 6497849
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for purifying a heteropolyacid which comprises: subjecting an aqueous solution comprising (i) the heteropolyacid and (ii) salt impurities to at least one liquid/liquid extraction step with an organic solvent, characterized in that the organic solvent comprises a dihydrocarbyl ether having at least 5 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: BP Chemicals Limited
    Inventors: Martin Philip Atkins, Benjamin Patrick Gracey, James Noel Martin Hegarty, Mark Royston Smith
  • Publication number: 20020186305
    Abstract: A method of creating an image 4 obtained from say a camera 1 to obtain a substantially linear representation of the brightness of the image includes, for each of a set of pixels (x, y) in a two dimensional array, calculating, in a computer 3, an estimate of the true image intensity (ixy) as a weighted average of n samples of the apparent image intensity (&ngr;n,xy).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventor: Philip Atkin
  • Patent number: 6394583
    Abstract: There is disclosed an ejection apparatus for ejecting material from a fluid. An ejection cell (5) contains fluid from which the material is to be ejected and has an ejection upstand (6) which defines a location from which the material is ejected. One or more ejection electrodes (9) are disposed in the cell substantially surrounding the ejection upstand (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Tonejet Corporation Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Daniel Richard Mace, Philip Atkin, Richard Wilhelm Janse Van Rensburg, John Teape, Neil Emerton, Guy Charles Fernley Newcombe
  • Publication number: 20020054847
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for purifying a heteropolyacid which comprises: subjecting an aqueous solution comprising (i) the heteropolyacid and (ii) salt impurities to at least one liquid/liquid extraction step with an organic solvent, characterized in that the organic solvent comprises a dihydrocarbyl ether having at least 5 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2001
    Publication date: May 9, 2002
    Inventors: Martin Philip Atkins, Benjamin Patrick Gracey, James Noel Martin Hegarty, Mark Royston Smith
  • Patent number: 6124506
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for making glycol ethers by reacting an olefin oxide with an alcohol over a catalyst comprising a layered double hydroxide (LDH) clay with its layered structure intact and having interlamellar anions at least some of which are metal anions or (poly)oxometallate anions. In the LDH clays, the interlamellar anions present are inorganic metal anions, oxometallate or polyoxometallate anions and include inter alia one or more of the following anions: chromium, vanadium, molybdenum and phosphorus, and (poly)oxoanions thereof. A copper-chromium hydrotalcite anionic clay or a magnesium-aluminium hydrotalcite anionic clay exchanged with (poly)oxometallate anions are preferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: BP Chemicals Limited
    Inventors: Martin Philip Atkins, Corinne Laurence Depege, Claude Rene Marcel Forano
  • Patent number: 5994602
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for the alkylation of aromatics by reacting an aromatic hydrocarbon with an olefin in the presence of an ionic liquid comprising (a) a compound of the formula R.sub.n MX.sub.3-n wherein R is a C1-C6 alkyl radical, M is aluminium or gallium, X is a halogen atom and n is 0, 1 or 2 and, (b) a hydrocarbyl substituted imidazolium halide or a hydrocarbyl substituted pyridinium halide wherein at least one of the said hydrocarbyl substituents in the imidazolium halide is an alkyl group having 1-18 carbon atoms. The process allows ready separation of reaction products from the ionic liquid and improves selectivity to alkylated products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: BP Chemicals Limited
    Inventors: Ala'a K Abdul-Sada, Martin Philip Atkins, Brian Ellis, Philip Kenneth Gordon Hodgson, Mark Louis Michael Morgan, Kenneth Richard Seddon