Patents by Inventor Xianming Jimmy Li
Xianming Jimmy Li 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).
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Patent number: 11149703Abstract: An isolation mechanism for isolating a submerged pump in a storage vessel, where the isolation mechanism comprises a primary valve member and a secondary valve member, which are both biased in a fail-closed position. The isolation mechanism allows for redundancy for safety and reliability, and can be operated externally of the storage vessel. Furthermore, the isolation mechanism comprises venting and purging devices for safe operation of removal and installation of the pump in the storage vessel.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignees: China Energy Investment Corporation Limited, National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon EnergyInventors: Kenneth William Kratschmar, Xianming Jimmy Li, Cullen Hall, Edward Youn, Jeff Allen
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Publication number: 20210261010Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of supplying vehicles with energy, and discloses a supply station and a method capable of charging electricity and filling with hydrogen gas simultaneously or separately, the supply station comprising: a power supply unit, a storage battery system, a device capable of converting electric power into hydrogen gas, a hydrogen gas storage system, a device capable of converting hydrogen gas into electric power, a charger and a hydrogen dispenser; the power supply unit is connected with the storage battery system to deliver power; the storage battery system is connected with the device capable of converting electric power into hydrogen gas so as to convert the electric power provided by the storage battery system into hydrogen gas; the device capable of converting electric power into hydrogen gas is connected with the hydrogen gas storage system to store hydrogen gas in the hydrogen gas storage system; the hydrogen gas storage system is connected with the deviceType: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2019Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Jeff PICKLES, Anthony KU, Xianming Jimmy LI, Surinder SINGH, Jeff ALLEN
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Patent number: 11009185Abstract: A method for dispensing liquefied fuel, the method including: providing a non-petroleum fuel as a liquefied fuel to a storage tank; increasing pressure of the liquefied fuel to a target pressure using a pump disposed within the storage tank, where a first portion of the liquefied fuel is bypassed around or at least partially around a heat exchanger, and a second portion of the liquefied fuel is discharged to the heat exchanger, where the heat exchanger is configured to warm the second portion of the liquefied fuel. A dispenser is provided that incorporates a control system that allows coordinated fueling of one or more vehicles simultaneously, where the heat exchanger uses only the fuel itself without external refrigeration to manage final dispensing temperature and the fueling station does not include a storage subsystem disposed between the pump and the dispenser.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignees: China Energy Investment Corporation Limited, National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon EnergyInventors: Xianming Jimmy Li, Jeff Pickles, Edward Youn, Jeff Allen, Anthony Ku, Cullen Hall
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Patent number: 10961109Abstract: A fluid bypass method for controlling the temperature of a non-petroleum fuel, the fluid bypass method includes: providing a fuel at a pressure sufficient to effect a desired flow rate to a vehicle, the fuel being at a liquid or substantially supercritical thermodynamic state requiring further heat addition in a vaporizer; and diverting a bypass stream with partial or no vaporization to a heat exchanger as a cold fluid on a cold side of the heat exchanger. The method further includes providing a remainder stream of the fuel to the vaporizer; mixing the remainder stream outflowed from the vaporizer with the cold fluid outflowed from the cold side of the heat exchanger to form a combined fuel stream; and providing the combined fuel stream to the heat exchanger as a warm fluid on a warm side of the heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignees: China Energy Investment Corporation Limited, National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon EnergyInventors: Xianming Jimmy Li, Edward Youn, Jeff Pickles, Surinder Singh
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Patent number: 10914468Abstract: A burner apparatus (10) includes a fluid-based flame stabilizer for discharging a stabilized flame therefrom, a burner tile (44), and fuel lances associated with the burner tile. Each of the fuel lances has a discharge nozzle (40). A Coanda feature (34) having a Coanda surface directs a portion of the stabilized flame from the passage defined by the burner tile at the discharge end of a primary flow passage (32) toward at least one first fuel lance of the plurality of fuel lances to cross light the at least one first fuel lance. In another embodiment, a method of combustion includes supplying a first gaseous fuel to fuel lances of a burner apparatus and igniting and sustaining combustion of a gaseous fuel by cross lighting at the discharge nozzles of the fuel lances by flow from the fluid-based flame stabilizer along a Coanda surface of a Coanda feature toward the discharge nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignees: TECHNIP BENELUX B.V., AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Izaak Risseeuw, Jeffrey Kloosterman, Xianming Jimmy Li, Robert Gregory Wolf, Reed Jacob Hendershot, Franciscus Arnoldus Maria Jeunink
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Publication number: 20200240379Abstract: An isolation mechanism for isolating a submerged pump in a storage vessel, where the isolation mechanism comprises a primary valve member and a secondary valve member, which are both biased in a fail-closed position. The isolation mechanism allows for redundancy for safety and reliability, and can be operated externally of the storage vessel. Furthermore, the isolation mechanism comprises venting and purging devices for safe operation of removal and installation of the pump in the storage vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2019Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicants: CHINA ENERGY INVESTMENT CORPORATION LIMITED, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CLEAN-AND-LOW-CARBON ENERGYInventors: Kenneth William KRATSCHMAR, Xianming Jimmy LI, Cullen HALL, Edward YOUN, Jeff ALLEN
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Publication number: 20200156923Abstract: A fluid bypass method for controlling the temperature of a non-petroleum fuel, the fluid bypass method includes: providing a fuel at a pressure sufficient to effect a desired flow rate to a vehicle, the fuel being at a liquid or substantially supercritical thermodynamic state requiring further heat addition in a vaporizer; and diverting a bypass stream with partial or no vaporization to a heat exchanger as a cold fluid on a cold side of the heat exchanger. The method further includes providing a remainder stream of the fuel to the vaporizer; mixing the remainder stream outflowed from the vaporizer with the cold fluid outflowed from the cold side of the heat exchanger to form a combined fuel stream; and providing the combined fuel stream to the heat exchanger as a warm fluid on a warm side of the heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicants: CHINA ENERGY INVESTMENT CORPORATION LIMITED, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CLEAN-AND-LOW-CARBON ENERGYInventors: Xianming Jimmy LI, Edward YOUN, Jeff PICKLES, Surinder SINGH
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Publication number: 20200158288Abstract: A method for dispensing liquefied fuel, the method including: providing a non-petroleum fuel as a liquefied fuel to a storage tank; increasing pressure of the liquefied fuel to a target pressure using a pump disposed within the storage tank, where a first portion of the liquefied fuel is bypassed around or at least partially around a heat exchanger, and a second portion of the liquefied fuel is discharged to the heat exchanger, where the heat exchanger is configured to warm the second portion of the liquefied fuel. A dispenser is provided that incorporates a control system that allows coordinated fueling of one or more vehicles simultaneously, where the heat exchanger uses only the fuel itself without external refrigeration to manage final dispensing temperature and the fueling station does not include a storage subsystem disposed between the pump and the dispenser.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicants: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CLEAN-AND-LOW-CARBON ENERGYInventors: Xianming Jimmy LI, Jeff PICKLES, Edward YOUN, Jeff ALLEN, Anthony KU, Cullen HALL
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Publication number: 20190093881Abstract: A burner apparatus (10) includes a fluid-based flame stabilizer for discharging a stabilized flame therefrom, a burner tile (44), and fuel lances associated with the burner tile. Each of the fuel lances has a discharge nozzle (40). A Coanda feature (34) having a Coanda surface directs a portion of the stabilized flame from the passage defined by the burner tile at the discharge end of a primary flow passage (32) toward at least one first fuel lance of the plurality of fuel lances to cross light the at least one first fuel lance. In another embodiment, a method of combustion includes supplying a first gaseous fuel to fuel lances of a burner apparatus and igniting and sustaining combustion of a gaseous fuel by cross lighting at the discharge nozzles of the fuel lances by flow from the fluid-based flame stabilizer along a Coanda surface of a Coanda feature toward the discharge nozzles.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Izaak RISSEEUW, Jeffrey KLOOSTERMAN, Xianming Jimmy LI, Robert Gregory WOLF, Reed Jacob HENDERSHOT, Franciscus Arnoldus Maria JEUNINK
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Patent number: 9967420Abstract: An apparatus and method for thermal imaging of an interior space of a high temperature furnace through an opening in a wall of the furnace. An outer housing houses at least a portion of a rigid borescope. The outer housing has a port for aspirating ambient air through the outer housing to cool the rigid borescope and passing the air through a hole at the end of the outer housing and into the furnace. A camera is operatively connected to a rigid borescope but is located such that it is isolated from the air passing through the outer housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Yan Zhao, Xianming Jimmy Li
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Patent number: 9943818Abstract: Steam-hydrocarbon reforming reactor with a reformer tube containing ceramic-supported catalyst pellets and metal foam particles. The ceramic-supported catalyst pellets have a porous support comprising one or more of alumina, calcium aluminate, and magnesium aluminate. The metal foam particles comprise Fe and/or Ni. The ceramic-supported catalyst pellets and metal foam particles may be layered or interspersed.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Bo Jin, Wenyuan Li, Xianming Jimmy Li, William Robert Licht
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Patent number: 9897493Abstract: A method for determining temperature information for a plurality of tubes in a furnace where one or more digital images provide temperature information for imaged tubes, and temperature information for non-imaged tubes is determined from the temperature information for the imaged tubes and measured temperatures of combined effluent from the imaged and non-imaged tubes.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Yan Zhao, Jeffrey William Kloosterman, Jeremy Charles Lunsford, Xianming Jimmy Li
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Publication number: 20170361291Abstract: Steam-hydrocarbon reforming reactor with a reformer tube containing ceramic-supported catalyst pellets and metal foam particles. The ceramic-supported catalyst pellets have a porous support comprising one or more of alumina, calcium aluminate, and magnesium aluminate. The metal foam particles comprise Fe and/or Ni. The ceramic-supported catalyst pellets and metal foam particles may be layered or interspersed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2016Publication date: December 21, 2017Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Bo Jin, Wenyuan Li, Xianming Jimmy Li, William Robert Licht
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Publication number: 20170284874Abstract: A method for determining temperature information for a plurality of tubes in a furnace where one or more digital images provide temperature information for imaged tubes, and temperature information for non-imaged tubes is determined from the temperature information for the imaged tubes and measured temperatures of combined effluent from the imaged and non-imaged tubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2016Publication date: October 5, 2017Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Yan Zhao, Jeffrey William Kloosterman, Jeremy Charles Lunsford, Xianming Jimmy Li
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Publication number: 20170171418Abstract: An apparatus and method for thermal imaging of an interior space of a high temperature furnace through an opening in a wall of the furnace. An outer housing houses at least a portion of a rigid borescope. The outer housing has a port for aspirating ambient air through the outer housing to cool the rigid borescope and passing the air through a hole at the end of the outer housing and into the furnace. A camera is operatively connected to a rigid borescope but is located such that it is isolated from the air passing through the outer housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2015Publication date: June 15, 2017Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Yan Zhao, Xianming Jimmy Li
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Publication number: 20170081185Abstract: Method of operating a catalytic steam-hydrocarbon reformer where the steam flow rate at which carbon forms on the inner wall of a catalyst-containing reformer tube is determined, and the steam flow rate to the catalytic steam-hydrocarbon reformer is controlled responsive to the determined steam flow rate at which carbon forms on the inner wall of the catalyst-containing reformer tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Bo Jin, Xianming Jimmy Li, Jeremy Charles Lunsford
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Patent number: 9409773Abstract: A steam-hydrocarbon reforming process utilizing a prereformer where a portion of the effluent from the prereformer is conditioned and the C2+ hydrocarbon content in the conditioned effluent measured. The molar flow rate of steam to the prereformer is increased or decreased responsive to measuring the C2+ hydrocarbon content of the conditioned effluent.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2014Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Geoffrey Colling Achilles, Tamara Lynn Daugherty, Michelle Schoonover, Oliver Jacob Smith, IV, Matthew H. MacConnell, Xianming Jimmy Li
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Publication number: 20160130142Abstract: A steam-hydrocarbon reforming process utilizing a prereformer where a portion of the effluent from the prereformer is conditioned and the C2+ hydrocarbon content in the conditioned effluent measured. The molar flow rate of steam to the prereformer is increased or decreased responsive to measuring the C2+ hydrocarbon content of the conditioned effluent.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2014Publication date: May 12, 2016Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Geoffrey Colling Achilles, Tamara Lynn Daugherty, Michelle Schoonover, Oliver Jacob Smith, IV, Matthew H. MacConnell, Xianming Jimmy Li
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Patent number: 9309130Abstract: Process for producing a hydrogen-containing product and one or more liquid water products using catalytic steam-hydrocarbon reforming. In the process, a portion of the make-up water is heated by the reformate and another portion of the make-up water is heated by the combustion product gas prior to introducing the make-up water to a deaerator. Water in the combustion product gas is condensed to form a liquid water product. The process may be integrated with a thermal water desalination process.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2013Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Xiang-Dong Peng, Derek Miller, Geoffrey Colling Achilles, Xianming Jimmy Li
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Publication number: 20150110708Abstract: Process for producing a hydrogen-containing product and one or more liquid water products using catalytic steam-hydrocarbon reforming. In the process, a portion of the make-up water is heated by the reformate and another portion of the make-up water is heated by the combustion product gas prior to introducing the make-up water to a deaerator. Water in the combustion product gas is condensed to form a liquid water product. The process may be integrated with a thermal water desalination process.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICAL INC.Inventors: Xiang-Dong Peng, Derek Miller, Geoffrey Colling Achilles, Xianming Jimmy Li