Patents Issued in November 12, 2019
  • Patent number: 10471366
    Abstract: A system and method to reboil a process or feed water stream in a distillation system does so in a liquid pool zone of a vessel as the stream is removed from a distillation column and comes into contact with a heating medium that is immiscible with and less volatile than the process stream. To keep the pool hot, the heating medium can be recirculated through a heater of a pump-around loop or a heater can be placed in the liquid pool. As the process stream is partially vaporized, any solids present in the process stream together with the unvaporized process or feed water stream move into the heating medium. These solids and unvaporized liquids may be further removed from the heating medium in the pool or in the pump-around loop. The vaporized stream is returned to the distillation column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: CAMERON SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Z. Frank Zheng, Christopher Stephen King, Harihara V. Nemmara, Matthew S. Henley
  • Patent number: 10471367
    Abstract: A desalination system that includes a plurality of evaporators that are fluidly connected in series, a primary compressor that is fluidly connected to the evaporators to provide a compressed vapor to the evaporators to run the desalination system, and a secondary compressor that is arranged in parallel relative to the primary compressor, wherein the secondary compressor extracts a portion of vapor from a first evaporator and/or one intermediate evaporator in the series and delivers the vapor to the first evaporator. Various combinations of embodiments of the desalination system are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Mohammad Abdelkarim Antar, Saddam ElTayib Ajib Jaber
  • Patent number: 10471368
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a combined C3/C4 splitter with a membrane system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a combined C3/C4 splitter column to separate highly pure propylene product from a liquefied petroleum gas stream, which eliminates a C3 splitter having over 120 trays and the additional equipment that a C3 splitter requires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Inventors: Stanley J. Frey, Chunqing Liu, Trung Pham
  • Patent number: 10471369
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a chimney tray (3) for a column (1) for thermal treatment of fluid mixtures, comprising a collecting tray (4) and at least two chimneys (5-1, 5-2) spaced apart horizontally in the collecting tray (4), where each chimney (5-1, 5-2) forms a vertically aligned chimney body (6-1, 6-2) which forms a passage orifice (7-1, 7-2) through the collecting tray (4), and has a cover unit (8-1, 8-2) arranged spaced apart from the chimney body (6-1, 6-2), and where the cover unit (8-1, 8-2) covers the respective passage orifices (7-1, 7-2) in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ulrich Hammon, Thomas Walter
  • Patent number: 10471370
    Abstract: An arrangement of downcomers oriented at a 45-degree angle to a support that is either a wall within a divided wall column or a support beam that allows for reduced spacing of from 0.3 to 0.76 m spacing between trays within a distillation column. The advantages include the use of a single support beam to support two trays as well as more efficient operation and allowing for columns having diameters from 0.9 to 15.2 meters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Kevin J. Richardson, Brian J. Nowak, Michael J. Behm, David M. Wollaber, Shanda G. Fry
  • Patent number: 10471371
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processes are provided for a condenser including flowing a vapor stream including formaldehyde into a tube bundle in a vertical upflow reflux condenser, where a tube in the tube bundle has a length to outside diameter ratio of greater than about 170:1, flowing a cooling fluid on a shell-side of the vertical upflow reflux condenser to condense at least a portion of the vapor stream, where the condensed portion of the vapor stream forms a wetted tube internal surface area on each tube in the generally upright tube bundle; and maintaining the vapor stream velocity at a rate that provides a liquid residence time where formaldehyde condensed on the wetted internal surface area of each tube can react with water to form methylene glycol, removing at least sixty percent (60%) of formaldehyde from the vapor stream fed to the condenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Dow Technology Investments LLC
    Inventors: Fred A. Conneway, Clyde L. Rhodes, II, John F. Szul
  • Patent number: 10471372
    Abstract: An ion exchanger includes a housing, which includes an inlet and an outlet for a coolant and is open upwardly, and a cartridge mounted within the housing so as to be removable upwardly out of the housing. The cartridge includes a first case and a second case respectively located above and below the inlet and the outlet and capable of containing an ion exchange resin. The first case includes a first flow entrance, which is in fluid communication with the inlet of the housing, and a first flow exit, which is in fluid communication with the outlet of the housing. The second case includes a second flow entrance in fluid communication with the inlet of the housing and a second flow exit in fluid communication with the outlet of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Junko Ohira
  • Patent number: 10471373
    Abstract: Disclosed herein a method and an apparatus for disinfecting water. The method comprises pumping the water into a top disinfection section comprising a water distributing tray and a first filtration system, filtering a first set of particles from the water, discharging particles from the first set of particles to a sewage from a bottom of a respective filter box of the plurality of filter boxes by pumping a high-pressure stream of water to a back side of the respective strainer, generating filtered water by filtering a second set of particles from the water by passing the water through a bottom disinfection section, the bottom disinfection section comprising a plurality of filtering layers, removing the second set of particles settled in the bottom disinfection section utilizing a vacuum-cleaning system, and reducing microorganisms and ammonia gases in the filtered water by aerating the filtered water comprising exposing the filtered water to a high-pressure stream of air utilizing a plurality of fans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Inventor: Vahid Atharinia
  • Patent number: 10471374
    Abstract: A filtration system is configured to provide clean fuel to a running combustion engine. The filtration system may be configured to be connected to a main fuel tank for storing contaminated fuel, and to be connected to a fuel supply of a combustion engine. A filtration circuit may include at least one filter, a first auxiliary fuel tank for containing fuel, and a first fuel pump configured to pump the fuel from the first auxiliary fuel tank through the filtration circuit back to the first auxiliary fuel tank. A second auxiliary fuel tank may be connectable to said first auxiliary fuel tank for receiving fuel from the first auxiliary fuel tank via a transfer valve. A control unit may be configured to control the transfer valve such that the first auxiliary tank is fluidly connected to the second auxiliary fuel tank only if fuel of a desired contamination level is contained in the first auxiliary tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Troy D. Cope, Robert Graumuller
  • Patent number: 10471375
    Abstract: A water filter assembly is provided. The assembly includes an outer shell and a filter disposed inside the outer shell. The filter has an upstream portion constructed from a first media and a downstream portion constructed from a second media. A fluid flow meter is located downstream of the filter. An electronic processor is electronically connected to the fluid flow meter and is adapted to transmit a wireless signal to a remote electronic device to display flow information from the fluid flow meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Tern Water, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohamed Zerban, Connor White
  • Patent number: 10471376
    Abstract: A filter assembly for fluidic connection at a function port includes a connection base having a base inlet and a base outlet, the base inlet being fluidly connected to supply channels for supplying a fluid to cartridge inlets of at least two filter cartridges, and the base outlet being fluidly connected to discharge channels to discharge the fluid from cartridge outlets of the filter cartridges. The connection base with the base inlet and the base outlet has a fluidic connection structure corresponding to the filter cartridge with the cartridge inlet and the cartridge outlet such that the connection base or a filter cartridge is fluidly connected at the function port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Marcos Dengler, Alexandre Schneider
  • Patent number: 10471377
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a filtration media with improved filtration, strength, tear resistance and air permeability in the form of a relatively thin and lightweight wet-laid fibrous web that has a wet Mullen ratio of 20% to 90% to ensure that the media is flexible enough to be formed into a fluted structure, and strong enough to retain the fluted structure when would into a roll and to permit further processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: AHLSTROM-MUNKSJĂ– OYJ
    Inventors: Kevin R. Schouweiler, Kent Williamson
  • Patent number: 10471378
    Abstract: Wastewater treatment and conveyance; and other chemical processes result in emission of a wide variety of odorous compounds. Contaminated exhaust air is typically a byproduct emitted from sludge in tanks and wells that are part of a wastewater treatment, conveyance, or chemical process. Said contaminated air has to be treated to capture or reduce odorous compounds or pollutants below human smell recognition threshold levels before the exhaust is discharged to the atmosphere. The present invention is a carbon scrubber used to treat and filter contaminated exhaust air produced in wastewater treatment and conveyance; and other chemical processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Inventor: Reza Afshar
  • Patent number: 10471379
    Abstract: An evaporator is provided that separates, from a degraded substance, an absorbent branched off and introduced, a heating section which is interposed on a circulation line L21 that circulates the absorbent introduced into this evaporator, heats the circulating absorbent to obtain gaseous recovery steam containing a vaporized absorbent and CO2, a concentrate branch line L22 that branches off a part of the absorbent circulating through the circulation line L21 at a bottom of the evaporator from the circulation line L21 as a concentrate, a cooler that is interposed on this concentrate branch line L22 and cools the concentrate, an ionic degraded substance removal section that removes an ionic degraded substance in the cooled concentrate, and a purified absorbent discharge line L23 that reuses the concentrate as a purified absorbent from which the ionic degraded substance is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Akiyori Hagimoto, Tsuyoshi Oishi, Tsutomu Hamada, Atsuhiro Yukumoto
  • Patent number: 10471380
    Abstract: The invention relates to a specific process and apparatus for separation of gas mixtures with reduced maintenance costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Evonik Fibres GmbH
    Inventor: Markus Priske
  • Patent number: 10471381
    Abstract: This invention provides a new facilitated transport membrane comprising a relatively hydrophilic, very small pore, nanoporous support membrane, a hydrophilic polymer inside the very small nanopores on the skin layer surface of the support membrane, a thin, nonporous, hydrophilic polymer layer coated on the surface of the support membrane, and metal salts incorporated in the hydrophilic polymer layer coated on the surface of the support membrane and the hydrophilic polymer inside the very small nanopores, a method of making this membrane, and the use of this membrane for olefin/paraffin separations, particularly for C3=/C3 and C2=/C2 separations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Inventors: Chunqing Liu, Carl W. Liskey, Howie Q. Tran, Nicole K. Karns
  • Patent number: 10471382
    Abstract: An air pollution control system includes a denitration device that removes nitrogen oxide in flue gas from a boiler; a heat transfer tube for recovering part of heat of the flue gas after denitration; a precipitator that removes soot and dust in the flue gas after heat recovery; a desulfurization device that removes sulfur oxide in the flue gas discharged from the precipitator; a heat transfer tube for heating the flue gas discharged from the desulfurization device; a circulation pump that circulates a heat medium between the heat transfer tubes; a heat medium heater provided to the circulation pipe to heat the heat medium; and a control device that controls the heat medium heater based on an ammonia concentration at an outlet of the denitration device. The control device causes the heat medium heater to heat the heat medium when the ammonia concentration is higher than a certain value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Miyachi, Seiji Kagawa, Naoyuki Kamiyama, Tetsu Ushiku
  • Patent number: 10471383
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for denitrification and desulfurization of and dust removal from an FCC tail gas by ammonia-based process. The apparatus may include a first-stage waste heat recovery system a denitrification system, a dust removal and desulfurization system, a tail gas, exhaust system, and an ammonium sulfate post-processing system. The dust removal and desulfurization system may include as deducting tower and an absorption tower disposed separately. The top and the bottom of the absorption tower may be connected respectively to the tail gas exhaust system and the ammonium sulfate post-processing system. The absorption tower may include sequentially, from bottom to top, an oxidation section, an absorption section, and a fine particulate control section. The methods may be implemented with the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Jiangnan Environmental Protection Group Inc.
    Inventors: Jing Luo, Jun Zhang, Yongying Luo, Qiang Tan, Xiangjun Xu
  • Patent number: 10471384
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of emission control equipment for boilers, heaters, kilns, or other flue gas-, or combustion gas-, generating devices (e.g., those located at power plants, processing plants, etc.) and, in particular to a new and useful method and apparatus for: (i) reducing halogen levels necessary to affect gas-phase mercury control; (ii) reducing or preventing the poisoning and/or contamination of an SCR catalyst; and/or (iii) controlling various emissions. In still another embodiment, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for: (A) simultaneously reducing halogen levels necessary to affect gas-phase mercury control while achieving a reduction in the emission of mercury; and/or (B) reducing the amount of selenium contained in and/or emitted by one or more pieces of emission control equipment for boilers, heaters, kilns, or other flue gas-, or combustion gas-, generating devices (e.g., those located at power plants, processing plants, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: The Babcock & Wilcox Company
    Inventors: Mandar R Gadgil, Bryan J Jankura
  • Patent number: 10471385
    Abstract: Herein are disclosed compositions of matter, processes of manufacture and processes of use of solid state admixtures that include an inorganic base and a sulfide selected from the group consisting of an ammonium sulfide, an alkali metal sulfide, an alkali-earth metal sulfide, transition metal sulfide, and a mixture thereof. The composition can include solid state inorganic bases (e.g., calcium hydroxide and sodium sesquicarbonate) and/or gaseous bases (e.g., ammonia) and, optionally, a support material for one or more of the inorganic base and sulfide. The compositions are useful for capturing environmental contaminants, for example, from the flue gas of a coal fired power plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Novinda Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas K. Gale
  • Patent number: 10471386
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of emission control equipment for boilers, heaters, kilns, or other flue gas-, or combustion gas-, generating devices (e.g., those located at power plants, processing plants, etc.) and, in particular to a new and useful method and apparatus for capturing, oxidizing, lowering the concentration and/or level of, and/or eliminating mercury present in any flue gas and/or combustion gas stream. In one embodiment, the method and/or apparatus of the present invention is applied to boilers, heaters, kilns, or other flue gas-, or combustion gas-, generating devices that have connected thereto at least one type of flue gas, or combustion gas, scrubber device (i.e., a wet scrubber or a dry scrubber).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: The Babcock & Wilcox Company
    Inventors: Steven Feeney, Mandar R Gadgil
  • Patent number: 10471387
    Abstract: Provided is a renewable high efficient desulfurization process using a suspension bed, comprising mixing the desulfurization slurry with a hydrogen sulfide containing gas to obtain a first mixture, and passing the first mixture into a suspension bed reactor from bottom to top, with controlling the first mixture to have a dwell time of 5-60 minutes in the suspension bed reactor to allow they contact and react sufficiently with each other; and subjecting a second mixture obtained from the reaction to gas liquid separation to produce a rich solution and a purified gas, feeding the purified gas into a fixed bed reactor for carrying out a second desulfurization to obtain a second purified gas, subjecting the resulting rich solution to flash evaporation and then reacting with an oxygen-containing gas for carrying out regeneration. The process may reduce the sulfur content in the hydrogen sulfide containing gas from 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Beijing Huashi United Energy Technology and Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lin Li, Ke Lin, Gang Zhao, Lixin Guo
  • Patent number: 10471388
    Abstract: A process where a gas, containing SO2 and O2 is brought in contact with a mixture of from 95% vol. to 50% vol. of activated carbon catalyst and from 5% vol. to 50% vol. of an inert filler material, where the SO2 is converted to H2SO4 on the activated carbon catalyst and is then washed from the activated carbon catalyst to obtain a H2SO4 solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: CPPE CARBON PROCESS & PLANT ENGINEERING S.A.
    Inventor: Alain Strickroth
  • Patent number: 10471389
    Abstract: Utilizing the fact that a predetermined adsorbent adsorbs light water at an initial desorption rate higher than heavy water and semi-heavy water, deuterium depleted water having a reduced concentration of heavy water and semi-heavy water is produced easily and in a short time. A method for producing deuterium depleted water by removing heavy water and semi-heavy water from water, the method including: a desorption process in which a relative pressure around a predetermined adsorbent with adsorbed water vapor is reduced, and in which water vapor desorbed from the adsorbent is recovered during a period of time when a desorption rate of light water>a desorption rate of the heavy water and semi-heavy water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignees: SHINSU UNIVERSITY, KOTOBUKI TSUSHOU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsumi Kaneko, Toshio Takagi, Katsuyuki Murata, Ryusuke Futamura
  • Patent number: 10471390
    Abstract: A pump assisted water filtration system comprising a filter assembly, a pump assembly, and a water storage tank, which produces purified water through a reverse osmosis process and stores the purified water for later use. The pump assembly receives water from a water source and delivers pressurized water to the filter assembly. The filter assembly is configured to filter the impurities within the water, producing purified water which is collected in the water storage tank. A water flow interrupt permits the flow of water to the pump when the water level falls within the water storage tank, and blocks the flow of water to the pump when the water storage tank is full. The pump is further configured to activate when the pressure of the water flowing to the pump reaches a pump activation threshold, and deactivate when the pressure of the water falls below the pump activation threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Inventor: Christopher D. Tutsch
  • Patent number: 10471391
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide for flow control devices on a spiral wound membrane, on a device proximal the inlet edge of a spiral wound membrane, or both. The flow directing devices can alter fluid flow characteristics to discourage fouling of the inlet fluid paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Aqua Membranes, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Roderick, Rodney Herrington
  • Patent number: 10471392
    Abstract: A membrane filtration system and a membrane bio reactor including the same are described. In an example, the membrane filtration system includes: a treatment tank; a membrane support frame disposed in the treatment tank and mounted with a separation membrane; a separation membrane module mounted on the membrane support frame; a vane member disposed at a lower end of the membrane support frame and provided to lift sludge accumulated at a lower part of the treatment tank; and a reciprocating portion connected to the membrane support frame and reciprocating the membrane support frame, in which the separation membrane module includes an upper frame and a lower frame and a hollow fiber membrane installed between the upper frame and the lower frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Doosan Heavy Industries Construction Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Woo Nyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 10471393
    Abstract: A gas sparger produces an intermittent flow of bubbles even if provided with a continuous gas flow. The sparger has a housing to collect a pocket of gas and a conduit to release some of the gas from the pocket when the pocket reaches a sufficient size. Optionally, a cover over an outlet from the conduit may break up or distribute the released gas. A large sparger for use with a commercial membrane module can comprise a plurality of smaller units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: BL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Ronald Cumin, Henry Behmann, Yongseck Hong, Reid Bayly
  • Patent number: 10471394
    Abstract: A method for producing a microporous membrane includes providing a microporous starting membrane having outer surfaces and pores with inner surfaces extending between the outer surfaces of the membrane and having a microporous starting membrane permeability. The method impregnates the membrane with an impregnating solution consisting essentially of a solvent and a polymer. The polymer is an organic substance with an average molecular weight of at least 500 g/mol and may be selected from the group consisting of poly(2-ethyloxazoline), polyvinylpyrrolidone-vinyl acetate (PVP-VA) and mixtures thereof. The method then includes irradiating the impregnated membrane with electron beam radiation to provide a crosslinked reaction product constituting a three-dimensional network formed of the microporous starting membrane and the polymer without any decomposition of the microporous starting membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH
    Inventors: Volkmar Thom, Bjoern Hansmann, Tobias Foster
  • Patent number: 10471395
    Abstract: A hollow fiber membrane and a method of preparing the same. The hollow fiber membrane has an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein the inner surface has a zebra-stripe pattern in which a dense portion and a porous portion are alternately formed in a longitudinal direction of the hollow fiber membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: LOTTE CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dong Jun Im, Bum Jin Park, Chang Min Seo
  • Patent number: 10471396
    Abstract: Disclosed are a copolymer, porous membranes made from the copolymer, and a method of treating fluids using the porous membranes to remove metal ions, for example, from fluids originating in the microelectronics industry, wherein the copolymer includes polymerized monomeric units I and II, wherein monomeric unit I is of the formula A-X—CH2—B, wherein A is Rf—(CH2)n, Rf is a perfluoro alkyl group of the formula CF3—(CF2)x—, wherein x is 3-12, n is 1-6, X is O or S, and B is vinylphenyl, the monomeric unit II is haloalkyl styrene, and optionally wherein the halo group of haloalkyl is replaced with an optional substituent, for example, ethylenediamine tetra acetic acid, iminodiacetic acid, or iminodisuccinic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Pall Corporation
    Inventors: Frank Okezie Onyemauwa, Hassan Ait-Haddou
  • Patent number: 10471397
    Abstract: A high performance facilitated transport membrane comprising a metal cation exchanged/chelated carboxylic acid functional group containing functional polyimide, a method of making this a membrane, and the use of this membrane for olefin/paraffin separations, particularly for propylene/propane and ethylene/ethane separations. The facilitated transport membrane has either an asymmetric integrally skinned membrane structure or a thin film composite membrane structure, wherein the top selective layer of the membrane comprises a metal cation exchanged/chelated carboxylic acid functional group containing functional polyimide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Inventors: Chunqing Liu, Nicole K. Karns
  • Patent number: 10471398
    Abstract: Guanidinyl ligand-functionalized polymers, methods of making the same, and substrates bearing a grafted coating of the ligand-functional polymers are described. The grafted polymer has the requisite affinity for binding neutral or negatively charged biomaterials, such as cells, cell debris, bacteria, spores, viruses, nucleic acids, endotoxins and proteins, at pH's near or below the pI's of the biomaterials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Catherine A. Bothof, George W. Griesgraber, James I. Hembre, Jerald K. Rasmussen
  • Patent number: 10471399
    Abstract: A brine maker including a hopper having upper and lower ends with a receiving tank positioned below the hopper. The forward end of the receiving tank has an opening formed therein. An elbow fitting is positioned in the opening in the forward end of the receiving tank and is welded to the forward end of the receiving tank. The elbow fitting includes a vertically disposed hollow upper portion which is positioned in the receiving tank and a horizontally disposed hollow lower portion which is positioned in the opening in the forward end of the receiving tank. The horizontally disposed hollow lower portion of the elbow fitting is fluidly connected to a pump. A shield is secured to the inner side of the forward end of the receiving tank above the upper end of the vertically disposed hollow upper portion of the elbow fitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Inventor: James A. Hellbusch
  • Patent number: 10471400
    Abstract: A portable bubble water bottle of the present application includes a first space, a second space, a one-way gas valve and a gas bottle. The second space is located in the first space along the first projection direction. The one-way gas valve connects the first space with the second space. The gas bottle is located in the second space, and has a gas outlet connected to the one-way gas valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Inventor: Chao-Yu Yueh
  • Patent number: 10471401
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to improved magnetic mixing assemblies and mixing system. The magnetic mixing assemblies can provide improved mixing action, ease of use, and low friction. The mixing assemblies can be adapted for use with a wide variety of containers including narrower neck containers and flexible containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Albert A. Werth, Michael E. Cahill, Anthony P. Pagliaro
  • Patent number: 10471402
    Abstract: A containment assembly for enclosing a medication container may comprise a first housing portion or interface portion having a proximal end and a distal end. The interface portion may include a housing wall which defines a channel spanning from the proximal end to the distal end. The channel may be open at the proximal and distal end. The containment assembly may further comprise only two pierceable septa configured to form a barrier to the channel. The containment assembly may further comprise a variable-volume housing portion having a variable volume chamber. The variable-volume portion chamber of the variable-volume housing portion may be in fluid communication with the distal end of the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: DEKA Products Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Jason A. Demers, Frederick Morgan
  • Patent number: 10471403
    Abstract: An improved insect trapping and barrier adhesive compound having a significantly enhanced mechanical insecticide and insect repelling action. The improved insect trapping and barrier compound is supplied in bulk to be used outdoors for the spot control of insect pests. Alternatively it may be supplied already applied to a disposable media for indoor or very localized outdoor insect control applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Inventor: Arnold Gregory Klein
  • Patent number: 10471404
    Abstract: A valve for dosing and mixing two fluids includes two respective inlet ducts, a double chamber for controlling the flows, at least one actuator configured to regulate the flow rates of the two fluids to be mixed, an electronic control unit and a Brix degrees optical sensor, arranged on the mixing duct of the mixture of the two fluids and operatively connected to the electronic control unit. The optical sensor is configured to send a measurement and control signal to the electronic control unit to drive the actuator so as to proportionally control the flow rates of the two fluids and, therefore, regulate the mixing ratio of the two fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Dolphin Fluidics S.R.L.
    Inventors: Diego Andreis, Francesco Butera
  • Patent number: 10471405
    Abstract: Process for the preparation of a polyolefin in a reaction system comprising a reactor comprising a fluidized bed and a distribution plate, product purge bin, and granular feed bin, wherein the process comprises feeding a polymerization catalyst to the fluidized bed, feeding ?-olefin monomer(s) to the reactor, circulating fluids from the top of the reactor to the bottom of the reactor, withdrawing a stream comprising the polyolefin and fluids from the reactor and passing said stream into the product purge bin, purging the product purge bin with a purge stream comprising an inert gas to obtain a stream comprising a purged polyolefin and a stream comprising fluids, introducing part of the stream comprising fluids back into the reactor, introducing the stream comprising the purged polyolefin into the granular feed bin, and contacting a deactivating stream with purged polyolefin in granular feed bin to obtain the polyolefin free of polymerization catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Mohammed Althukair, Abdulrahman Ashri
  • Patent number: 10471406
    Abstract: A particle separation system for a catalytic chemical reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Haldor Topsoe A/S
    Inventors: Emir Zahirovic, Klaus Risbjerg Jarlkov, Roberta Cenni
  • Patent number: 10471407
    Abstract: A process for starting a multizone circulating reactor containing no polyolefin particles, comprising the steps of conveying gas through the reactor and the gas recycle line, feeding a particulate material comprising a polymerization catalyst and optionally polyolefin into the reactor, controlling the gas flow in a vertical reactor zone equipped with a throttling valve at the bottom so that the upwards gas velocity in the bottom part of this reaction zone is lower than the terminal free-fall velocity of the particulate material fed into the reactor, and, after the weight of the particulate polyolefin in this reactor zone is higher than the drag force of the upward moving gas, controlling the circulation rate of the polymer particles within the multizone circulating reactor by adjusting the opening of the throttling valve and adjusting the flow rate of a dosing gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Gabriele Mei, Massimo Covezzi, Gerhardus Meier, Antonio Mazzucco, Pietro Baita, Ulf Schueller, Lorella Marturano, Enrico Balestra
  • Patent number: 10471408
    Abstract: Devices and methods are provided for spotting an array with fluid. Arrays produced by such methods are also provided. In one aspect of the invention, a spotter device for spotting a plurality of fluids into an array is described, the spotter device comprising a plurality of reservoirs provided in a first configuration, each reservoir holding its respective fluid, a print head having a plurality of positions provided in a second configuration, the second configuration being different from the first configuration, a plurality of tubes, each tube configured to provide fluid communication from a reservoir at a first end of the tube to a position in the print head at the second end of the tube, and a pump for pumping fluid through the tubes from the reservoir to the print head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: BioFire Diagnostics, LLC
    Inventors: David E. Jones, Kirk Max Ririe, Thomas Charles Robbins, Elizabeth Doman Copene, Charles Benjamin Cox
  • Patent number: 10471409
    Abstract: Provided are compositions for and methods of producing hydrogen. For example, the compositions comprise nanocrystals, a catalyst, a source of electrons, and an aqueous medium. The nanocrystals, catalyst, aqueous medium, and, optionally, the source of electrons are present as a mixture. The methods produce hydrogen by exposing the compositions to electromagnetic radiation (e.g., solar flux).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: University of Rochester
    Inventors: Todd D. Krauss, Richard Eisenberg, Patrick Holland, Fen Qiu, Zhiji Han
  • Patent number: 10471410
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing superabsorbent polymer with improved anti-caking, and according to the present invention, a method for preparing superabsorbent polymer that has properties equivalent to or more excellent than the existing superabsorbent polymer but has improved anti-caking, and thus, has excellent processability, and superabsorbent polymer prepared thereby, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Su-Jin Kim, Young Sam Kim, Bo-Hee Park, Young-In Yang
  • Patent number: 10471411
    Abstract: The present invention relates to porous substrate compositions and methods for producing such compositions. In one embodiment, the porous substrate composition of the present invention comprises sintered spherical particles of a substantially uniform size. The porous media compositions of the present invention comprise relatively randomly-ordered particles with a void fraction significantly higher than compositions with a more ordered, close-packed configuration. The present invention further relates to composite porous media compositions comprising two or more relatively discrete layers of sintered particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Advanced Materials Technology
    Inventors: Andrew Scott Lawing, Timothy J. Langlois, Daniel Brian Messick, Jr., Brian M. Wagner
  • Patent number: 10471412
    Abstract: The present invention relates to activated carbon sorbents including nitrogen. In various embodiments, the present invention provides an activated carbon sorbent including a halogen- or halide-promoted activated carbon, the activated carbon sorbent particles including nitrogen in a surface layer of the sorbent particles. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of reducing the pollutant content in a pollutant-containing gas using the activated carbon sorbent. In various embodiments, the activated carbon sorbent can remove mercury from a mercury-containing gas that includes sulfur(VI) such as SO3 more efficiently than other sorbents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Midwest Energy Emissions Corp.
    Inventors: Edwin S. Olson, John Henry Pavlish
  • Patent number: 10471413
    Abstract: Described is a catalyst composition suitable for use as a selective catalytic reduction catalyst, including small-pore molecular sieve particles having a pore structure and a maximum ring size of eight tetrahedral atoms and impregnated with a promoter metal, and metal oxide particles dispersed within the small-pore molecular sieve particles and external to the pore structure of the small-pore molecular sieve particles, wherein the metal oxide particles include one or more oxides of a transition metal or lanthanide of Group 3 or Group 4 of the Periodic Table. A method for preparing the catalyst, a method for selectively reducing nitrogen oxides, and an exhaust gas treatment system are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Jaya L. Mohanan, Gary A. Gramiccioni, John Hochmuth, Kenneth E. Voss
  • Patent number: 10471414
    Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst comprising a support, at least one noble metal M, tin, phosphorus and at least one lanthanide group element, the content of phosphorus element being comprised between 0.4 and 1% by weight, and the content of lanthanide group element(s) being less than 1% by weight with respect to the weight of the catalyst. The invention also relates to the process for the preparation of the catalyst and the use thereof in reforming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: IFP Energies nouvelles
    Inventors: Priscilla Avenier, Fabrice Diehl, Carine Guegan, Eric Sanchez
  • Patent number: 10471415
    Abstract: A family of highly charged crystalline microporous metallophosphate molecular sieves designated PST-16 has been synthesized. These metallophosphates are represented by the empirical formula of: Rp+rAm+MxEyPOz where A is an alkali metal such as potassium, R is an organoammonium cation such as ethyltrimethylammonium, M is a divalent metal such as zinc and E is a trivalent framework element such as aluminum or gallium. The PST-16 family of molecular sieves are stabilized by combinations of alkali and organoammonium cations, enabling unique metalloalumino(gallo)phosphate compositions and exhibit the CGS topology. The PST-17 family of molecular sieves has catalytic properties for carrying out various hydrocarbon conversion processes and separation properties for separating at least one component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Inventors: Gregory J. Lewis, Christopher P. Nicholas, Lisa M. Knight, Seungwan Seo, Suk Bong Hong, Junghwan Lee