Patents by Inventor Thomas E. Boyd

Thomas E. Boyd 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).

  • Publication number: 20100018218
    Abstract: A power plant including an air separation unit (ASU) arranged to separate nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and argon from air and produce a stream of substantially pure liquid oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and argon; a steam generator, fired or unfired, arranged to combust a fuel, e.g., natural gas, liquefied natural gas, synthesis gas, coal, petroleum coke, biomass, municipal solid waste or any other gaseous, liquid or solid fuel in the presence of air and a quantity of substantially pure oxygen gas to produce an exhaust gas comprising water, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, nitrogen, sulfur oxides and other trace gases, and a steam-turbine-generator to produce electricity, a primary gas heat exchanger unit for particulate/acid gas/moisture removal and a secondary heat exchanger arranged to cool the remainder of the exhaust gases from the steam generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventors: Horace E. Riley, Thomas E. Boyd
  • Patent number: 4400538
    Abstract: The instant invention is directed to a process for the production of an aromatic amino compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is an alkyl substituent of from 1 to about 18 carbon atoms,m is an integer of from 1 to 3, andn is an integer of from 0 to 5,comprising subjecting a nitro compound of the formula: ##STR2## wherein R, m, and n are as defined above, to gaseous hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst, the improvement wherein said catalyst is an activated noble metal in the form of a screen or other coherent body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1983
    Assignee: Mobay Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: David H. Chadwick, Thomas E. Boyd