Patents by Inventor Robert Burlingame

Robert Burlingame 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: 9126172
    Abstract: Reforming exchangers for syngas production are provided. The reforming exchangers can have a shell-and-tube configuration and include a shift catalyst on the shell side of the exchanger to reduce a carbon monoxide concentration in a shell side product gas mixture. Processes for forming syngas using the reforming exchangers are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: KELLOGG BROWN & ROOT LLC
    Inventors: Shashi Singh, Kamal Gursahani, Robert Burlingame, Tim Weeks, Jim Gosnell, Avinash Malhotra
  • Publication number: 20150224463
    Abstract: Reforming exchangers for syngas production are provided. The reforming exchangers can have a shell-and-tube configuration and include a shift catalyst on the shell side of the exchanger to reduce a carbon monoxide concentration in a shell side product gas mixture. Processes for forming syngas using the reforming exchangers are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC
    Inventors: SHASHI SINGH, Kamal Gursahani, Robert Burlingame, Tim Weeks, Jim Gosnell, Avinash Malhotra
  • Patent number: 9101899
    Abstract: Reforming exchangers for syngas production are provided. The reforming exchangers can have a shell-and-tube configuration and include a shift catalyst on the shell side of the exchanger to reduce a carbon monoxide concentration in a shell side product gas mixture. Processes for forming syngas using the reforming exchangers are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: KELLOGG BROWN & ROOT LLC
    Inventors: Shashi Singh, Kamal Gursahani, Robert Burlingame, Tim Weeks, Jim Gosnell, Avinash Malhotra
  • Patent number: 8887513
    Abstract: Systems and methods for heating a cryogenic fluid are provided. A cryogenic fluid can be heated to provide a partially cryogenic vaporized fluid having a first temperature. The partially vaporized cryogenic fluid can be partially vaporized to provide a second partially vaporized fluid having a second temperature. At least a portion of the second, partially vaporized, cryogenic fluid can be used to heat the cryogenic fluid to the first temperature. The second, partially vaporized, cryogenic fluid can be partially vaporized to provide a substantially vaporized cryogenic fluid having a third temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC
    Inventors: Heinz J. Kotzot, Felix J. Fernandez de la Vega, Joseph H. Cho, Charles Durr, Robert Burlingame
  • Patent number: 8545775
    Abstract: A reforming exchanger system for syngas production is provided. The reforming exchanger system can have a first and a second reforming exchanger, each with a shell-and-tube configuration, and a shift reactor located intermediate to the first and second reforming exchangers to reduce carbon monoxide concentration in the outlet gas. Processes for forming syngas using the reforming exchanger systems described herein are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC
    Inventors: Shashi Singh, Kamal Gursahani, Robert Burlingame, Tim Weeks, Jim Gosnell, Avinash Malhotra
  • Publication number: 20130099165
    Abstract: Reforming exchangers for syngas production are provided. The reforming exchangers can have a shell-and-tube configuration and include a shift catalyst on the shell side of the exchanger to reduce a carbon monoxide concentration in a shell side product gas mixture. Processes for forming syngas using the reforming exchangers are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC
    Inventors: Shashi Singh, Kamal Gursahani, Robert Burlingame, Tim Weeks, Jim Gosnell, Avinash Malhotra
  • Publication number: 20130099166
    Abstract: A reforming exchanger system for syngas production is provided. The reforming exchanger system can have a first and a second reforming exchanger, each with a shell-and-tube configuration, and a shift reactor located intermediate to the first and second reforming exchangers to reduce carbon monoxide concentration in the outlet gas. Processes for forming syngas using the reforming exchanger systems described herein are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC
    Inventors: Shashi Singh, Kamal Gursahani, Robert Burlingame, Tim Weeks, Jim Gosnell, Avinash Malhotra
  • Patent number: 8216531
    Abstract: Disclosed are a syngas production process and a reforming exchanger 100. The process involves passing a first portion of hydrocarbon feed mixed with steam and oxidant through an autothermal catalytic steam reforming zone to form a first reformed gas of reduced hydrocarbon content, passing a second portion of the hydrocarbon feed mixed with steam through an endothermic catalytic steam reforming zone to form a second reformed gas of reduced hydrocarbon content, and mixing the first and second reformed gases and passing the resulting gas mixture through a heat exchange zone for cooling the gas mixture and thereby supplying heat to the endothermic catalytic steam reforming zone. The endothermic catalytic steam reforming zone and the heat exchange zone are respectively disposed tube side and shell side within a shell-and-tube reforming exchanger 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC
    Inventors: Robert Burlingame, Thomas Czuppon, Larry G. Hackemesser
  • Publication number: 20080202161
    Abstract: Systems and methods for adjusting the heating value of liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) are provided. LNG can be apportioned into at least two portions. A first portion can be warmed to provide a vapor-liquid mixture which can be separated in a first separator to provide a first vapor and a first liquid. The first liquid can be separated to provide ANGL and a second vapor. The first vapor can be compressed and mixed with the second vapor to provide a first effluent. At least a portion of the first effluent can be used to heat the first portion. At least a portion of the first effluent can be used as a first reflux in the first separator. At least a portion of the first effluent can be mixed with a second portion of the LNG to provide an adjusted LNG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: JORGE JAVIER VAZQUEZ-ESPARRAGOZA, Joseph H. Cho, Heinz Kotzot, Felix J. Fernandez De La Vega, Charles Durr, Robert Burlingame
  • Publication number: 20080115508
    Abstract: Systems and methods for heating a cryogenic fluid are provided. A cryogenic fluid can be heated to provide a partially cryogenic vaporized fluid having a first temperature. The partially vaporized cryogenic fluid can be partially vaporized to provide a second partially vaporized fluid having a second temperature. At least a portion of the second, partially vaporized, cryogenic fluid can be used to heat the cryogenic fluid to the first temperature. The second, partially vaporized, cryogenic fluid can be partially vaporized to provide a substantially vaporized cryogenic fluid having a third temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Heinz J. Kotzot, Felix J. Fernandez de la Vega, Joseph H. Cho, Charles Durr, Robert Burlingame
  • Publication number: 20050086864
    Abstract: Disclosed are a syngas production process and a reforming exchanger 100. The process involves passing a first portion of hydrocarbon feed mixed with steam and oxidant through an autothermal catalytic steam reforming zone to form a first reformed gas of reduced hydrocarbon content, passing a second portion of the hydrocarbon feed mixed with steam through an endothermic catalytic steam reforming zone to form a second reformed gas of reduced hydrocarbon content, and mixing the first and second reformed gases and passing the resulting gas mixture through a heat exchange zone for cooling the gas mixture and thereby supplying heat to the endothermic catalytic steam reforming zone. The endothermic catalytic steam reforming zone and the heat exchange zone are respectively disposed tube side and shell side within a shell-and-tube reforming exchanger 100.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Applicant: KELLOGG BROWN AND ROOT, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Burlingame, Thomas Czuppon, Larry Hackemesser
  • Patent number: 6855272
    Abstract: Syngas production process and reforming exchanger. The process involves passing a first portion of hydrocarbon feed mixed with steam and oxidant through an autothermal catalytic steam reforming zone to form a first reformed gas of reduced hydrocarbon content, passing a second portion of the hydrocarbon feed mixed with steam through an endothermic catalytic steam reforming zone to form a second reformed gas of reduced hydrocarbon content, and mixing the first and second reformed gases and passing the resulting gas mixture through a heat exchange zone for cooling the gas mixture and thereby supplying heat to the endothermic catalytic steam reforming zone. The endothermic catalytic steam reforming zone and the heat exchange zone are respectively disposed tube side and shell side within a shell-and-tube reforming exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Burlingame, Thomas A. Czuppon, Larry G. Hackemesser
  • Publication number: 20030064011
    Abstract: Syngas production process and reforming exchanger. The process involves passing a first portion of hydrocarbon feed mixed with steam and oxidant through an autothermal catalytic steam reforming zone to form a first reformed gas of reduced hydrocarbon content, passing a second portion of the hydrocarbon feed mixed with steam through an endothermic catalytic steam reforming zone to form a second reformed gas of reduced hydrocarbon content, and mixing the first and second reformed gases and passing the resulting gas mixture through a heat exchange zone for cooling the gas mixture and thereby supplying heat to the endothermic catalytic steam reforming zone. The endothermic catalytic steam reforming zone and the heat exchange zone are respectively disposed tube side and shell side within a shell-and-tube reforming exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2001
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Inventors: Robert Burlingame, Thomas A. Czuppon, Larry G. Hackemesser