Patents by Inventor Ralph Newton Miller

Ralph Newton Miller 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).

  • Purification process for hexafluoroethane products
    Patent number: 5723699
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to removing impurities from hexafluoroethane (CF.sub.3 CF.sub.3), also known as Perfluorocarbon 116 (PFC-116) or Fluorocarbon 116 (FC-116), by using azeotropic distillation such that an overhead product consisting essentially of HCl-hexafluoroethane is formed, optionally combined with a phase separation step to break the HCl-hexafluoroethane azeotropic or azeotrope-like composition thereby permitting recovery of substantially pure hexafluoroethane. Unreacted hydrogen fluoride (HF) may be removed from hexafluoroethane during the above azeotropic distillation with HCl or alternatively by an azeotropic distillation wherein an HF-hexafluoroethane azeotropic or azeotrope-like composition exits overhead and substantially pure HF exits in the bottoms stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Ralph Newton Miller, Mark Richard Deschere, Barry Asher Mahler, Olagappan Muthu
  • Purification process for hexafluoroethane products
    Patent number: 5718807
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to removing impurities from hexafluoroethane (CF.sub.3 CF.sub.3), also known as PerFluoroCarbon 116 (PFC-116) or FluoroCarbon 116 (FC-116), by using azeotropic distillation such that an overhead product containing an HCl-hexafluoroethane is formed, optionally combined with a phase separation step to break the HCl-hexafluoroethane azeotropic or azeotrope-like composition thereby permitting recovery of substantially pure hexafluoroethane. Unreacted hydrogen fluoride (HF) may be removed from hexafluoroethane during the above azeotropic distillation with HCl or alternatively by an azeotropic distillation wherein an HF-hexafluoroethane azeotropic or azeotrope-like composition exits overhead and substantially pure HF exits in the bottoms stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Ralph Newton Miller, Mark Richard Deschere, Barry Asher Mahler, Olagappan Muthu
  • Azeotropic and azeotrope-like compositions with HCL and halocarbon
    Patent number: 5665266
    Abstract: The present invention discloses azeotropic or azeotrope-like compositions which include HCl that can be employed in a distillation or an extractive distillation process for separating HCl from pentafluoroethane, chloropentafluoroethane, chlorotrifluoroethane, trifluoromethane, and other fully saturated and unsaturated fluorocarbons, chlorofluorocarbons and chlorocarbons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Barry Asher Mahler, Vinci Martinez Felix, Ralph Newton Miller