Patents by Inventor Thomas W. Yeung

Thomas W. Yeung 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: 4726818
    Abstract: An improved method for the bulk drying of water-containing organic feedstocks by means of selective adsorption of the water in fixed molecular sieve beds wherein the improvement comprises integrating a series of at least four fixed adsorption beds in a manner such that at least two of the beds are always involved in the adsorption-drying phase of the process cycle, and at least two of the beds are always undergoing some portion of the regeneration phase in such a manner that a closed-loop non-condensible purge gas stream used to heat and to cool the beds undergoing regeneration is passed first through the bed being cooled and thereafter through the bed being heated, with the heat energy removed from the former being imparted to the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1988
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas W. Yeung, Harvey M. Malino