Patents by Inventor Terence John O'CONNOR

Terence John O'CONNOR 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).

  • Deriving high value products from waste red mud
    Patent number: 10273561
    Abstract: Disclosed herein, is a process for recovering valuable metals and/or their oxides from red mud bauxite residues or similar. The process comprises: calcining a red mud residue having a pH of less than about 10 to provide a calcinated red mud residue; acid leaching the calcinated red mud residue to provide a silica rich solid component and an acid leachate; separating the silica rich solid component and the acid leachate; precipitating an iron rich solid component from the acid leachate; and separating the precipitated iron rich solid component from the acid leachate to provide an aluminium rich liquor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: PELOTON RESOURCES PTY LTD
    Inventors: Richard Morris, Matthew Charles Leighton Todd, David Adam Lenyszyn, Terence John O'Connor
  • DERIVING HIGH VALUE PRODUCTS FROM WASTE RED MUD
    Publication number: 20160289791
    Abstract: Disclosed herein, is a process for recovering- valuable metals and/or their oxides from red mud bauxite residues or similar. The process comprises: calcining a red mud residue having a pH of less than about 10 to provide a calcinated red mud residue; acid leaching the calcinated red mud residue to provide a silica rich solid component and an acid leachate; separating the silica rich solid component and the acid leachate; precipitating an iron rich solid component from the acid leachate; and separating the precipitated iron rich solid component from the acid leachate to provide an aluminium rich liquor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: PELOTON RESOURCES PTY LTD
    Inventors: Richard MORRIS, Matthew Charles, Leighton TODD, David Adam LENYSZYN, Terence John O'CONNOR