Patents by Inventor Roland VAN UFFELEN

Roland VAN UFFELEN 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: 20230416085
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydrogen plant for producing a hydrogen-comprising gas product comprising—a reformer system comprising at least one heat-recuperating reformer reaction unit (5) or a reformer system comprising two or more reformer units (5,22) in parallel, wherein at least one of said parallel reformer units (5) is present in the radiant section (12) of the reformer system, and at least one reformer unit (22) is located outside the radiant section (12) of the reformer system; —a unit (8) configured to obtain hydrogen product gas; —a carbon dioxide capture unit; the hydrogen plant further comprising a passage way configured to feed a hydrogen-comprising gas stream to the radiant section. The invention further relates to a process for producing a hydrogen-comprising gas product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Jan-Jaap Riegman, Antonio Farace, Roland Van Uffelen, Stéphane Walspurger, Matthew Bowers Pitcher
  • Patent number: 11117110
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for heating a process gas in a top or bottom fired reformer, a method for improving the temperature spread over a top or bottom fired reformer, and to a top or bottom fired reformer wherein these methods can applied. This can be achieved by the lane flow rate of at least one outer tube lane being different from the lane flow rate of at least one inner tube lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Technip France
    Inventors: Roland Van Uffelen, Stephane Walspurger
  • Publication number: 20190076807
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for heating a process gas in a top or bottom fired reformer, a method for improving the temperature spread over a top or bottom fired reformer, and to a top or bottom fired reformer wherein these methods can applied. This can be achieved by the lane flow rate of at least one outer tube lane being different from the lane flow rate of at least one inner tube lane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Roland VAN UFFELEN, Stephane WALSPURGER