Patents by Inventor Sergio Peron

Sergio Peron 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).

  • Process for purifying pentafluoroethane from chloropentafluoroethane
    Patent number: 6512150
    Abstract: A gaseous process for reducing the amount of chloropentafluoroethane (CFC 115) impurity present in pentafluoroethane (HFC 125) characterized in that pentafluroethane is allowed to flow on a catalyst formed by a trivalent chromium salt, optionally supported, at temperatures in the range 200° C.-400° C., obtaining the reaction of chloropentafluoroethane with pentafluoroethane with formation of hexafluoroethane (FC 116) and tetrafluorochloroethane (HCFC 124).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Ausimont S.p.A.
    Inventors: Paolo Cuzzato, Sergio Peron
  • Process for eliminating chlorine from chlorofluorocarbons
    Patent number: 6479717
    Abstract: A gaseous process for eliminating chlorine atoms from a chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) of formula CnFxCly, wherein n is an integer from 1 to 3 and x+y=2n+2, wherein said compound is reacted with an hydrofluorocarbon of formula Cn′Fx′Hy′, wherein n′, x′, y′ are as above defined, in the presence of a fluorination catalyst in solid phase at temperatures in the range 200° C.-400° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Ausimont S.p.A.
    Inventors: Paolo Cuzzato, Sergio Peron