Patents by Inventor Shuichi Funatsu

Shuichi Funatsu 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: 8450550
    Abstract: A process for producing propylene, which including feeding at least one of dimethyl ether and methanol to a reactor to be reacted in the presence of a catalyst; supplying an obtained reaction product to a separator by which low-boiling compounds having a boiling point of ?50° C. or lower at atmospheric pressure among the reaction product are separated; and recycling a proportion of at least 70% of a total amount of the separated low-boiling compounds to said reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: JGC Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ito, Jiro Yoshida, Shuichi Funatsu, Koji Ooyama, Nobuyasu Chikamatsu
  • Publication number: 20100200812
    Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a raw gas for ammonia synthesis in which light hydrocarbons from a tube 3, steam from a tube 6 and oxygen-enriched air having an oxygen concentration of 40 to 60% by volume from an oxygen-enriched air supply source 7 are heated and are then introduced to a one-step reforming reactor 5 to thereby carry out a steam reforming reaction and an air partial oxidation reaction at the same time, and the resultant is subsequently passed through a shift reactor 12, a decarbonating device 14 and a methanation reactor 16 to remove carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, thereby yielding a raw gas suitable for ammonia synthesis having a hydrogen to nitrogen molar ratio of about 3:1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicants: JGC CORPORATION, OSAKA GAS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Yamada, Yoshinori Mashiko, Shuichi Funatsu, Yoshiyuki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20100179365
    Abstract: A method for producing propylene including: transferring a feed gas including dimethyl ether and/or methanol and C4 and/or C5 olefins into a reactor, and reacting the feed gas in the presence of a catalyst, the feed gas prior to transferring into the reactor having a (supplied C4 and/or C5 olefins)/(supplied dimethyl ether and methanol) ratio of 0.25 to 7.5, in terms of the molar ratio based on the number of carbon atoms, and the feed gas being contacted with the catalyst at 350° C. to 600° C.; and an apparatus for producing propylene including: a hydrogenation reactor in which alkynes and/or dienes contained in C4 and/or C5 hydrocarbons is partially hydrogenated to be converted into an olefin having one double bond; a reactor in which C4 and/or C5 hydrocarbons is reacted with dimethyl ether and/or methanol in the presence of a catalyst; and a separator for separating propylene from the reaction product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: JGC Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ito, Jiro Yoshida, Shuichi Funatsu, Koji Ooyama, Nobuyasu Chikamatsu
  • Publication number: 20100179366
    Abstract: A process for producing propylene, which including feeding at least one of dimethyl ether and methanol to a reactor to be reacted in the presence of a catalyst; supplying an obtained reaction product to a separator by which low-boiling compounds having a boiling point of ?50° C. or lower at atmospheric pressure among the reaction product are separated; and recycling a proportion of at least 70% of a total amount of the separated low-boiling compounds to said reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: JGC Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ito, Jiro Yoshida, Shuichi Funatsu, Koji Ooyama, Nobuyasu Chikamatsu