Patents by Inventor Steven Edward Briley

Steven Edward Briley 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).

  • Recovery and purification of 3,4-epoxy-1-butene using water-miscible solvents
    Patent number: 6596882
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of recovering and purifying 3,4-epoxy-1-butene (epoxybutene) from an epoxidation effluent gas obtained by the vapor phase, catalytic, partial oxidation of 1,3-butadiene (butadiene) with molecular oxygen in the presence of a silver catalyst wherein the epoxybutene-laden epoxidation product gas is reacted with a water-miscible solvent to absorb the epoxybutene. The disclosed process includes a method of separating epoxybutene from the solvent and other reaction by-products by a novel combination of distillation and decantation steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Scott Donald Barnicki, Jerome Leonard Stavinoha, Jr., Robert Sterling Kline, Steven Edward Briley, Jackie Lee Hamilton
  • Recovery and purification of 3,4-epoxy-1-butene using water-miscible solvents
    Publication number: 20030060644
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of recovering and purifying 3,4-epoxy-1-butene (epoxybutene) from an epoxidation effluent gas obtained by the vapor phase, catalytic, partial oxidation of 1,3-butadiene (butadiene) with molecular oxygen in the presence of a silver catalyst wherein the epoxybutene-laden epoxidation product gas is reacted with a water-miscible solvent to absorb the epoxybutene. The disclosed process includes a method of separating epoxybutene from the solvent and other reaction by-products by a novel combination of distillation and decantation steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2001
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Inventors: Scott Donald Barnicki, Jerome Leonard Stavinoha, Robert Sterling Kline, Steven Edward Briley, Jackie Lee Hamilton