Patents by Inventor Thomas G. Wolfe

Thomas G. Wolfe 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: 5055260
    Abstract: Gas samples withdrawn from within a reactor vessel (or process in general), as well as from one feed gas thereto, are passed to gas analyzers for particular components or impurities desired to be measured. The response time of the reactor analysis system employed is advantageously minimized by the elimination of dead gas space within the system and the provisions for rapid purging of the system or of individual gas analyzer feed lines. The flexibility of the system to measure both particular gas sample components and periodically present impurities using the same analytical instruments is generated by the addition of an in-line reaction system comprised of reactant addition means and/or catalyst means to individual sample lines leading to particular analytical instruments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Assignee: Union Carbide Industrial Gases Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond P. Roberge, Arthur W. Francis, Jr., Thomas G. Wolfe
  • Patent number: 4891186
    Abstract: Gas samples withdrawn from within a reactor vessel, as well as from the feed gas thereto, are passed to gas analyzers for particular components or impurities desired to be measured. The response time of the reactor analysis system employed is advantageously minimized by the elimination of dead gas space upon the closing of control valves and the provisions for rapid purging of the system or of individual gas analyzer feed lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1990
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond P. Roberge, Arthur W. Francis, Jr., Thomas G. Wolfe