Patents by Inventor Stefan Faßbender

Stefan Faßbender 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: 9322104
    Abstract: In an example of a method for recovering lead from a mixed oxidized lead material, methane sulfonic acid is selected as a leaching acid for the mixed oxidized lead material. The mixed oxidized lead material is exposed to a solution including the methane sulfonic acid, which leaches lead from any of a lead oxide or a lead carbonate in the mixed oxidized lead material, and generates a liquid leachate including a lead-methane sulfonate salt. The liquid leachate is purified, and lead is recovered from the purified liquid leachate using electrolysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: The University of British Columbia, BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefan Fassbender, David Dreisinger, Zhenghui Wu
  • Patent number: 9322105
    Abstract: In an example of a method for recovering lead from a lead material including lead sulfide, methane sulfonic acid is selected as a leaching acid for the lead material. The lead material is exposed to a solution including the methane sulfonic acid and i) ferric methane sulfonate or ii) oxygen, which leaches lead from the lead sulfide in the lead material, and generates a liquid leachate including a lead-methane sulfonate salt. The liquid leachate is purified, and lead is recovered from the purified liquid leachate using electrolysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: The University of British Columbia
    Inventors: Stefan Fassbender, David Dreisinger, Zhenghui Wu
  • Publication number: 20140131219
    Abstract: In an example of a method for recovering lead from a mixed oxidized lead material, methane sulfonic acid is selected as a leaching acid for the mixed oxidized lead material. The mixed oxidized lead material is exposed to a solution including the methane sulfonic acid, which leaches lead from any of a lead oxide or a lead carbonate in the mixed oxidized lead material, and generates a liquid leachate including a lead-methane sulfonate salt. The liquid leachate is purified, and lead is recovered from the purified liquid leachate using electrolysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicants: The University of British Columbia, BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefan Fassbender, David Dreisinger, Zhenghui Wu
  • Publication number: 20140131220
    Abstract: In an example of a method for recovering lead from a lead material including lead sulfide, methane sulfonic acid is selected as a leaching acid for the lead material. The lead material is exposed to a solution including the methane sulfonic acid and i) ferric methane sulfonate or ii) oxygen, which leaches lead from the lead sulfide in the lead material, and generates a liquid leachate including a lead-methane sulfonate salt. The liquid leachate is purified, and lead is recovered from the purified liquid leachate using electrolysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicants: The University of British Columbia, BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefan Fassbender, David Dreisinger, Zhenghui Wu
  • Patent number: 8535450
    Abstract: Formulations comprising (A) at least one compound selected from aminocarboxylates and polyaminocarboxylates, and salts and derivatives thereof, (B) at least one salt of bismuth, and (C) at least one homopolymer or copolymer of ethyleneimine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stephan Hueffer, Markus Hartmann, Sonja Fischer, Stefan Fassbender
  • Publication number: 20130102514
    Abstract: Formulations comprising (A) at least one compound selected from aminocarboxylates and polyaminocarboxylates, and salts and derivatives thereof, (B) at least one salt of bismuth, and (C) at least one homopolymer or copolymer of ethyleneimine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventors: Stephan HUEFFER, Markus Hartmann, Sonja Fischer, Stefan Fassbender
  • Publication number: 20120231284
    Abstract: A method of coating surfaces of plastic or metal, which comprises treating the plastic or metal surface in question with an aqueous dispersion comprising (A) at least one ethylene copolymer having a molecular weight Mn in the range from 2000 to 20 000 g/mol, selected from ethylene copolymers comprising as comonomers in copolymerized form (a) 15.5% to 19.9% by weight of at least one ethylenically unsaturated C3-C10 carboxylic acid and (b) 80.1% to 84.5% by weight of ethylene, (B) at least one base, in one step and subsequently providing in at least one further step the metal or plastic surface in question with at least one further coat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Heike Pfistner, Andreas Fechtenkötter, Frank-Olaf Mähling, Helmut Witteler, Frank Dietsche, Stefan Faßbender, Claudia Simon
  • Publication number: 20120186762
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing half-stuffs for the manufacture of papery articles which comprises adding methanesulfonic acid to an aqueous fibrous suspension to set the pH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefan Faßbender, Christoph Lessig
  • Publication number: 20120186766
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for manufacturing papery articles, such as paper, card and board, comprising the pH adjustment of an aqueous composition comprising at least one fiber stock by addition of methanesulfonic acid (MSA).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefan Fassbender, Christoph Lessig
  • Publication number: 20110245521
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing fatty acid esters and/or fatty acid ester mixtures of monohydric alcohols having 1 to 5 carbon atoms by transesterifying fatty acid glycerides with monohydric alcohols in the presence of a basic catalyst, in the course of which methanesulfonic acid is used. The invention further relates to the use of methanesulfonic acid for preparing these fatty acid esters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventor: Stefan Fassbender
  • Publication number: 20110232679
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an acidic, aqueous composition which comprises a thiodiglycol alkoxylate for treating metallic surfaces. The invention furthermore relates to the use of one or more compound(s) of the general formula (I) as a corrosion inhibitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefan Faßbender, Peter Kolb
  • Publication number: 20110108120
    Abstract: A method for handling aqueous solutions of methanesulfonic acid (MSA) having a concentration from 50 to 99% by weight of MSA and a total chlorine content of less than 50 mg/kg in apparatuses in which the aqueous MSA solution is in contact with steel surfaces. The steel comprises austenitic steels having a chromium content of from 15 to 22% by weight and a nickel content of from 9 to 15% by weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefan Fassbender, Peter Petersen, Arnulf Lauterbach, Günter Renz, Frieder Borgmeier, Peter Kolb
  • Publication number: 20090186231
    Abstract: A method of coating surfaces of plastic or metal, which comprises treating the plastic or metal surface in question with an aqueous dispersion comprising (A) at least one ethylene copolymer having a molecular weight Mn in the range from 2000 to 20 000 g/mol, selected from ethylene copolymers comprising as comonomers in copolymerized form (a) 15.5% to 19.9% by weight of at least one ethylenically unsaturated C3-C10 carboxylic acid and (b) 80.1% to 84.5% by weight of ethylene, (B) at least one base, in one step and subsequently providing in at least one further step the metal or plastic surface in question with at least one further coat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Heike Pfistner, Andreas Fechtenkotter, Frank-Olaf Mähling, Helmut Witteler, Frank Dietsche, Stefan Fassbender, Claudia Simon