Patents by Inventor Sandy K. Debusschere

Sandy K. Debusschere 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).

  • METHOD FOR SOLUTION MINING AND RECOVERY OF BENEFICIAL MINERALS
    Publication number: 20220349287
    Abstract: A method for selective solution mining mineral recovery may include heating a wellfield injection brine to a temperature from about 100° C. to about 250° C.; injecting the heated wellfield injection brine into an underground wellfield to dissolve soluble minerals therein, creating a hot brine solution; removing the hot brine solution from the underground wellfield; and recovering the soluble minerals from the hot brine solution by cooling the hot brine solution to a temperature of from about ?10° C. to about 5° C. and causing the soluble minerals to precipitate recovered minerals in a solid form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Max E. Ramey, Sandy K. Debusschere, John Sheldon McEwan