Patents by Inventor Thomas Edward Spriggs

Thomas Edward Spriggs 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: 6627713
    Abstract: A process for producing polymer in a gas phase reactor by introducing a stream of monomer and gas into a polymerization zone while providing at least one liquid component in the polymerization zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Joseph Noel Bernier, Robert Lorenz Boysen, Robert Cecil Brown, Mark Gregory Goode, John Henry Moorhouse, Robert Darrell Olson, Leonard Sebastian Scarola, Thomas Edward Spriggs, Duan-Fan Wang, Gary Harry Williams, Kevin Joseph Cann, Maria Angelica Apecetche, Natarajan Muruganandam, Gregory George Smith
  • Publication number: 20020198335
    Abstract: A process for producing polymer in a gas phase reactor by introducing a stream of monomer and gas into a polymerization zone while providing at least one liquid component in the polymerization zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Inventors: Robert Joseph Noel Bernier, Robert Lorenz Boysen, Robert Cecil Brown, Mark Gregory Goode, John Henry Moorhouse, Robert Darrell Olson, Leonard Sebastian Scarola, Thomas Edward Spriggs, Duan-Fan Wang, Gary Harry Williams, Kevin Joseph Cann, Maria Angelica Apecetche, Natarajan Muruganandam, Gregory George Smith
  • Patent number: 6384156
    Abstract: A process for producing polymer in a gas phase reactor by introducing a stream of monomer and gas into a polymerization zone while providing at least one liquid component in the polymerization zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Joseph Noel Bernier, Robert Lorenz Boysen, Robert Cecil Brown, Mark Gregory Goode, John Henry Moorhouse, Robert Darrell Olson, Leonard Sebastian Scarola, Thomas Edward Spriggs, Duan-Fan Wang, Gary Harry Williams, Kevin Joseph Cann, Maria Angelica Apecetche, Natarajan Muruganandam, Gregory George Smith
  • Publication number: 20020031451
    Abstract: A falling film of water is applied around the periphery of a fluid bed olefin polymerization reactor to cool the wall and reduce the temperature in the fluid bed near the inside surface of the wall. Cooling has the effect of reducing static in the reactor, which in turn ameliorates a sheeting problem and can enhance production by facilitating control of the relation of the reactor temperature and the dew point of recycled gas. The process may be used concurrently with a gas cooling and condensing recycle system wherein at least some of the condensed recycle gas is injected in the vicinity of the internal wall surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2001
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Inventors: Thomas Edward Spriggs, James Laurence Riley, James Daniel Madden, George William Schwarz, Mark Gregory Goode
  • Patent number: 6300429
    Abstract: A falling film of water is applied around the periphery of a fluid bed olefin polymerization reactor to cool the wall and reduce the temperature in the fluid bed near the inside surface of the wall. Cooling has the effect of reducing static in the reactor, which in turn ameliorates a sheeting problem and can enhance production by facilitating control of the relation of the reactor temperature and the dew point of recycled gas. The process may be used concurrently with a gas cooling and condensing recycle system wherein at least some of the condensed recycle gas is injected in the vicinity of the internal wall surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Edward Spriggs, James Laurence Riley, Jr., James Daniel Madden, George William Schwarz, Jr., Mark Gregory Goode
  • Patent number: 6096840
    Abstract: A process for producing polymer in a gas phase reactor by introducing a stream of monomer and gas into a polymerization zone while providing at least one liquid component in the polymerization zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Joseph Noel Bernier, Robert Lorenz Boysen, Robert Cecil Brown, Mark Gregory Goode, John Henry Moorhouse, Robert Darrell Olson, Leonard Sebastian Scarola, Thomas Edward Spriggs, Duan-Fan Wang, Gary Harry Williams
  • Patent number: 5834571
    Abstract: A process for producing polymer in a gas phase reactor by introducing a stream of monomer and gas into a polymerization zone while providing at least one liquid component in the polymerization zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Joseph Noel Bernier, Robert Lorenz Boysen, Robert Cecil Brown, Mark Gregory Goode, John Henry Moorhouse, Robert Darrell Olson, Leonard Sebastian Scarola, Thomas Edward Spriggs, Duan-Fan Wang, Gary Harry Williams
  • Patent number: 5665818
    Abstract: A process comprising contacting ethylene and at least one alpha-olefin comonomer having 3 to 8 carbon atoms with a transition metal based catalyst system in two fluidized bed reactors connected in series, in the gas phase, under polymerization conditions, with the provisos that:(a) the first reactor is operated at a temperature at or above the dew point of the mixture of monomers, but no higher than about 5 degrees C. above said dew point;(b) the mixture of ethylene copolymer matrix and active catalyst formed in the first reactor in the series is transferred to the second reactor in the series;(c) other than the active catalyst referred to in proviso (b), no additional catalyst is introduced into the second reactor;(d) in the reactor in which a low melt index copolymer is made:(1) the alpha-olefin is present in a ratio of about 0.01 to about 0.4 mol of alpha-olefin per mol of ethylene; and(2) optionally, hydrogen is present in a ratio of about 0.001 to about 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Michael William Tilston, Thomas Edward Spriggs