Patents Issued in February 20, 2020
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Publication number: 20200054990Abstract: A human load of regularly measuring a pH of a position 4 meters from a discharge point during a term of a commissioning of a ship with a scrubber apparatus is reduced. Provided is an apparatus provided inside a ship having a scrubber, including a first pH measuring instrument which measures a pH value of washing water discharged from the scrubber to outboard, a second pH measuring instrument which measures a pH value of washing water supplied from outboard to the scrubber, and a calculating unit which calculates a pH value of water at a predetermined position outboard, based on a dilution ratio which shows a ratio by which the washing water discharged to outboard is diluted at the predetermined position outboard, the pH value measured by the first pH measuring instrument, and the pH value measured by the second pH measuring instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Hiroyuki TOYAMA, Kuniyuki TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20200054991Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to methods of sorption of H2O from an environment by associating the environment with a porous material such that the association results in the sorption of H2O to the porous material. The porous material includes a (M)-2,4-pyridinedicarboxylic acid coordination polymer, where M is a divalent metal ion selected from the group consisting of Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Mg, and combinations thereof. The coordination polymer has a one-dimensional pore structure and shows reversible soft-crystal behavior. The porous material may be a Mg(II) 2,4-pyridinedicarboxylic acid coordination polymer (i.e., Mg-CUK-1). The methods of the present disclosure may also include one or more steps of releasing the sorbed H2O from the porous material and reusing the porous material after the releasing step for sorption of additional H2O from the environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Simon M. Humphrey, Jong-San Chang, Young Kyu Hwang
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Publication number: 20200054992Abstract: A dryer for a compressed gas provided with a vessel with a drying agent and a drying zone-and a regeneration zone; at least one intermediate zone that, viewed in the direction of rotation of the drum, is situated between the regeneration zone and the drying zone and which is provided with a separate inlet and an outlet that is shared with or connected to the outlet of the regeneration zone; a tap-off pipe that branches off from the outlet of the drying zone and connects to the aforementioned separate inlet of the intermediate zone; one or more blowers in the tap-off pipe for effectuating an intermediate flow from the drying zone, where the dryer is configured such that the entire flow of gas to be dried supplied to the dryer is first guided through the regeneration zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAPInventors: Ewan VAN MINNEBRUGGEN, Danny VERTRIEST, Tim CEYSSENS, Geert HELLEMANS
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Publication number: 20200054993Abstract: An EHS system includes a EHS cell having an anode, a cathode, and a cooling plate disposed proximate at least one of the anode or the cathode, the cooling plate configured to receive water and configured to output steam or a mixture of water and steam. The system further includes a liquid-vapor separator (LVS) configured to receive the steam or the mixture of water and steam from the cooling plate and to separate water and steam. The LVS is configured to output water to the cooling plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Fred C. JAHNKE, Matthew R. LAMBRECH
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Publication number: 20200054994Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed relate to extraction of target materials using a CZTS sorbent. A method of extracting a target material from a medium includes contacting a copper zinc tin sulfur (CZTS) sorbent with the target material in the medium including the target material to form a used CZTS sorbent that includes the target material. The method also includes separating the used CZTS sorbent from the medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Hal Stuhler, Lori Stuhler, Van T. Walworth, Scott Drummond
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Publication number: 20200054995Abstract: A metallic honeycomb body with channels through which a gas may flow, made up of layers of at least partially structured sheet metal, the layers of sheet metal having at least in subregions at least two different structures, of which the first structure, with a greater structure height (H), determines the size of the channels and the second structure has a much smaller structure height (h) between troughs and peaks and the form and/or the structure height (H) of the second structure being chosen such that a ceramic coating applied later may fill the troughs of the second structure on average to at least 10%, in particular at least 50%, of their structure height (h). With the honeycomb body according to the invention, more coating material per unit of volume is durably attached in a metallic honeycomb body without excessively increasing the pressure loss. This is of advantage particularly for applications for reducing nitrogen oxides (NOx) in diesel exhaust gases.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: Vitesco Technologies GMBHInventors: Holger Stock, Peter Hirth, Ferdi Kurth, Olaf Helmer
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Publication number: 20200054996Abstract: A method for joining braids that are used for a braid-reinforced hollow fiber membrane, produced by the method inserting a core material into the hollow parts of ends of two braids to be joined to connect the two braids, covering the joint part with a heat-shrinkable tube, and shrinking the heat-shrinkable tube by heating at 120 to 160° C., thereby joining the braid ends together, and that can exhibit sufficient joint strength when load is applied during spinning, or when a porous hollow fiber membrane is used as a treatment membrane for water purification treatment, sewage and waste water treatment, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventor: Kensuke WATANABE
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Publication number: 20200054997Abstract: A selectively permeable membrane device for separating a first fluid from a second fluid in a flow can include a membrane conduit configured to receive the flow and to allow permeation of the first fluid therethrough, and configured to not allow permeation of the second fluid. The device can include a residence time enhancing structure disposed within the membrane conduit and configured to increase residence time of the flow within the membrane conduit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Haralambos Cordatos, Sergei F. Burlatsky, Zissis A. Dardas
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Publication number: 20200054998Abstract: A tubular membrane comprises a support tube made out of one or more flexible tapes of porous support material which have been helically wound into a tube shape with overlapping tape edges which have been sealed to each other, and a semi-permeable membrane layer made of membrane forming material on an inner wall of the support tube. At least one inwardly projecting helical ridge is provided on said inner wall of the support tube, which helical ridge is covered with or forms part of the membrane layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Radek Oborny, Stefan Koel, Jens Potreck
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Publication number: 20200054999Abstract: The apparatus for making a nanopore in a membrane generally has an electrode configured to connect to one of two opposing surfaces of the membrane; a conductive tip configured to contact a location of the other one of the two opposing surfaces of the membrane; and a voltage source electrically connected between the electrode and the conductive tip and operable to generate an electric potential across the membrane, the electric potential locally removing material of the membrane at the location to make the nanopore.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Peter GRUTTER, Yuning ZHANG, Yoichi MIYAHARA, Walter REISNER
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Publication number: 20200055000Abstract: A permselective membrane includes a support membrane having selective permeability and a lipid membrane containing a channel substance, the lipid membrane being formed on a surface of the support membrane, wherein the support membrane has a permeation flux of 20 L/(m2·h) or more and a desalination capacity of 1% to 20% at a pressure of 0.1 MPa.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2017Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Takahiro KAWAKATSU, Hideto MATSUYAMA, Daisuke SAEKI, Wakana MIYASHITA
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Publication number: 20200055001Abstract: A molecule can be removed from blood by passing the blood through channels that are surrounded by nanotubes with spaces therebetween. Each channel is wide enough for blood to flow through, and the nanotubes are spaced close enough to each other to retain the blood within the channels. Gas passing through the spaces between the nanotubes outside the channels comes into contact with the blood at the outer boundaries of the channels, and the molecule in the blood diffuses into the gas. In other embodiments, a molecule can be introduced into blood by passing the blood through channels that are surrounded by nanotubes with spaces therebetween. Gas that includes the molecule passes through the spaces between the nanotubes outside the channels. The gas comes into contact with the blood at the outer boundaries of the channels, and the molecule in the gas diffuses into the blood.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventor: Yoram PALTI
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Publication number: 20200055002Abstract: The present invention relates to a porous sheet product, to a filter element comprising the porous sheet product, to a method for producing the porous sheet product, to a method for producing the filter element, and to the use of the sheet product and of the filter element.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2017Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbHInventors: Thomas LOEWE, Thomas FRIESE, Sebastian HANDT, Mario STRAUSS, Paschalis NIKOLOUDIS
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Publication number: 20200055003Abstract: Membranes, methods of making the membranes, and methods of using the membranes are described herein. The membranes can comprise a support layer, and a selective polymer layer disposed on the support layer. The selective polymer layer can comprise an oxidatively stable carrier and a borate additive dispersed within a hydrophilic polymer matrix. The oxidatively stable carrier can comprise a quaternaryammonium hydroxide carrier (e.g., a mobile carrier such as a small molecule quaternaryammonium in hydroxide, or a fixed carrier such as a quaternaryammonium hydroxide-containing polymer), a quaternaryammonium fluoride carrier (e.g., a mobile carrier such as a small molecule quaternaryammonium fluoride, or a fixed carrier such as a quaternaryammonium fluoride-containing polymer), or a combination thereof. The borate additive can comprise a borate salt, a boric acid, or a combination thereof. The membranes can exhibit selective permeability to gases.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2017Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: W.S. Winston HO, Varun VAKHARIA, Witopo SALIM
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Publication number: 20200055004Abstract: The present disclosure relates to extracorporeal blood circuits used for gas exchange in blood, in particular circuits for cardiopulmonary bypass.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventor: Kai HARENSKI
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Publication number: 20200055005Abstract: A method of preparing a hybrid membrane, the method including: evenly mixing a granular material and a dispersant, to yield a dispersion solution; evenly mixing a polymer and an organic solvent, to yield a matrix solution; adding the matrix solution to the dispersion solution to yield a mixed solution; heating the mixed solution to remove the dispersant, to yield a casting solution; and coating the casting solution on a substrate, followed by removal of the organic solvent, to yield a hybrid membrane.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Weiming ZHANG, Yi REN, Bingcai PAN, Ming HUA, Lu LV
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Publication number: 20200055006Abstract: A Polyvinylidene fluoride-based microporous membrane comprising: a substrate film; and the following microporous membrane, wherein the microporous membrane is an asymmetric membrane, and has a skin layer in which micropores are formed and a support layer which supports the skin layer and in which pores larger than the micropores are formed, a material of the microporous membrane is a polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin, the skin layer has a plurality of spherical bodies, a plurality of linear binding materials extend three-dimensionally from the respective spherical bodies, the adjacent spherical bodies are connected with each other by the linear binding materials to form a three-dimensional network structure where the spherical bodies serve as intersections, and the number of defects (the number of colored coarse voids) is less than 20.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicants: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Ryuji MATSUMOTO, Tadashi NAGASAKO, Takayuki IWASAKI
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Publication number: 20200055007Abstract: A stabilized, gas-infused liquids containing ultra high concentrations of infused gas, produced by: generating a gas-infused liquid in a sealed vessel under a high pressure of at least 20 psi; stabilizing the gas-infused liquid by passing the liquid while still under the high pressure through a tubular flow path arrangement which compresses the infused gas into nano bubbles in the liquid; infusing an additional amount of the gas into the stabilized liquid by injecting the same, while still under high pressure, back into the sealed pressure vessel along with more of the gas; and again stabilizing the liquid by again passing liquid, while still under the high pressure, through the tubular flow path arrangement to thereby form the additional amount of infused gas into nano bubbles in the liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventor: Cliffton Lee ROE
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Publication number: 20200055008Abstract: A fluid distribution system (208) is provided for a reactor vessel (200) defining a reaction chamber (202). The fluid distribution system (208) may include a radial distribution component (224) positionable within the reaction chamber (202) and adjacent a vessel inlet (212) at an end portion of the reactor vessel (200). The radial distribution component (224) may include one or more annular distribution conduits (230) configured to receive a fluid mixture provided to the reactor vessel (200). The fluid distribution system (208) may also include an axial distribution component (226) positionable within the reaction chamber (202) to extend from the radial distribution component (224) along a longitudinal axis of the reactor vessel (200).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2017Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: William C. Maier, Scott David Wisler
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Publication number: 20200055009Abstract: The proposed multifunctional hydrodynamic vortex type reactor includes—a housing having curvilinear inner sidewalls,—a base attached to the housing, an inverse taper narrowing downward and attached to the top of housing,—a supporting tube passing at least through the housing and base,—a set of washers tapered downward and mounted on an outer surface of the supporting tube such that outer upper edges of the set of washers and the inner sidewalls form predetermined gaps therebetween, and—a number of inlets tangentially attached to the base for introducing, under external pressure, a solid substance and a liquid (or a suspension of their mixture) thereinto, forming a circulating flow therein. The flow forms a high speed bypassing cavitation zone and, changing its direction at the inverse taper, forms a vortex cavitation zone, providing for mixing and grinding the substance up to nanoscale sizes. Methods for intensifying cavitation are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Oleksandr Galaka, Oleksandr Kozlovskyi, Yurii Matvienko
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Publication number: 20200055010Abstract: A flow-through cavitation device having an elongated housing with an inlet and an outlet. An inner annular body and an outer annular body are concentrically and nestingly disposed in the elongated housing. The outer annular body is fixed relative to the housing and the inner annular body is rotatable about a longitudinal axis of the housing. Each annular body has a plurality of channels that pass therethrough. Rotation of the inner body relative to the outer body provides for selective alignment or misalignment of the plurality of channels to control fluid flow from the inlet to the outlet. The device may have a plurality of pairs of inner and outer annular bodies as described.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Roman Gordon, Igor Gorodnitsky, Maxim A. Promtov, Naum Voloshin
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Publication number: 20200055011Abstract: A peanut butter mixer system including: a screw-mixer formed as a continuous rod member having sequential looped coils along a length of said continuous rod member and terminating with a cutting edge; wherein said screw-mixer is powered via a motor and a powerer as manipulated by a user-operator to re-mix peanut butter in a provided container. The screw-mixer is powered via the motor and powerer as manipulated by a user-operator.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventor: Stacey Venables
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Co-Rotating Self-Cleaning Multi-Screw Extruder with Speed Ratio of 2.5 and Extruding Method Therefor
Publication number: 20200055012Abstract: A co-rotating self-cleaning multi-screw extruder with a speed ratio of 2.5 and an extruding method therefor are disclosed. The screw mechanism includes a center screw and peripheral screws which rotate in the same direction. The peripheral screws are each of a double threaded structure, and the center screw is of a quintuple threaded structure. The rotation speed of the peripheral screws is 2.5 times that of the center screw, and the peripheral screws are always meshed with the center screw, whereas the adjacent peripheral screws are intermittently meshed with each other. The extruding method therefor is as follows: there is a periodically open space between adjacent peripheral screws, providing the periodical and intermittent mixing action, so that material from different thread grooves is mixed with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2017Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Baiping Xu, Huiwen Yu, Liang He, Jinwei Chen, Wenliu Zhuang, Mei Li -
Publication number: 20200055013Abstract: Provided is a bubble volume control method and apparatus, and more particularly, to a bubble volume control method and apparatus for controlling the volume of a bubble by increasing or decreasing the volume of the bubble by emitting an ultrasonic wave having a resonance frequency corresponding to the size of the bubble located at the bottom of a container containing a liquid, such as water with bubbles composed of air, vapor, etc., toward the bubble by using an ultrasonic generator above the container, and maximizing a function of adjusting the volume of a bubble through a resonance effect by adjusting a liquid surface height of a liquid with the bubble according to a wavelength of an emitted ultrasonic wave.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: SOGANG UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventors: Gihun SON, Jaewon LEE
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Publication number: 20200055014Abstract: A fast fluidized-bed reactor, device and method for preparing propylene and C4 hydrocarbons from oxygen-containing compounds. The device includes the fast fluidized-bed reactor and a fluidized-bed regenerator for regenerating a catalyst. The method includes: a) feeding a raw material containing the oxygen-containing compounds from reactor feed distributors to a dense phase zone of the fast fluidized-bed reactor, and contacting the raw material with a catalyst, to generate a stream containing target product and a spent catalyst containing carbon; b) sending the stream into a product separation system, obtaining propylene, C4 hydrocarbons, light fractions and the like after separation, returning 70 wt. % or more of the light fractions to the dense phase zone of the fast fluidized-bed reactor from the reactor feed distributor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2016Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCESInventors: Mao YE, Tao ZHANG, Changqing HE, Jinling ZHANG, Xiangao WANG, Hailong TANG, Jinming JIA, Yinfeng ZHAO, Zhongmin LIU
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Publication number: 20200055015Abstract: A method for processing a chemical stream includes contacting a feed stream with a catalyst in a reactor portion of a reactor system causing a reaction which forms a product stream. The method includes separating the product stream from the catalyst, passing the catalyst to a catalyst processing portion of the reactor system, processing the catalyst in the catalyst processing portion, and passing a portion of the catalyst from the catalyst processing portion of the reactor system into a catalyst withdrawal system that includes a catalyst withdrawal vessel and a transfer line coupling the catalyst withdrawal vessel to the catalyst processing portion. Each of the catalyst withdrawal vessel and the transfer line include an outer metallic shell and an inner refractory lining. The method further includes cooling the catalyst in the catalyst withdrawal vessel from greater than or equal to 680° C. to less than or equal to 350° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventor: Matthew T. Pretz
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Publication number: 20200055016Abstract: A differentially coated device for conducting a plurality of nano-volume specified reactions, the device comprising a platen having at least one exterior surface modified to a specified physicochemical property, a plurality of nano-volume channels, each nano-volume channel having at least one interior surface in communication with the at least one exterior surface that is selectively coated with an optionally dissolvable coating agent physisorbed to at least one interior surface, wherein the optionally dissolvable coating agent comprises a coating agent and a first component for the plurality of specified reactions. Methods for preparing and using such devices are also provided, as well as a method of registering a location of a dispenser array in relation to a microfluidic array. A first one of the dispenser array and the microfluidic array is movable in relation to the frame, and the other of the first one of the dispenser array and the microfluidic array is fixed relative to the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Colin BRENAN, Jamie CHO, Javier GARCIA, Robert HESS, Tanya Kanigan, Arrin Katz, Namyong KIM, John LINTON, Shailesh SRIVASTAVA, Karl Yoder
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Publication number: 20200055017Abstract: Technologies for rapid equilibration for water isotope analysis are disclosed. In at least one illustrative embodiment, a vaporizer may include an injection block that defines a chamber and a septum positioned over an inlet of the chamber to seal the chamber. The chamber may be configured to be fluidly coupled to a pump to develop a vacuum within the chamber, and the septum may be configured to receive a needle that is inserted into the chamber. A thermally conductive wool may be positioned within the chamber and may be configured to receive a tip of the needle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: J. Brian Leen, Doug S. Baer, Susan L. Fortson-Gardner
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Publication number: 20200055018Abstract: The present disclosure provides a composition. In an embodiment, the composition includes (A) from 85 wt % to 99 wt % of an olefin-based polymer and (B) from 15 wt % to 1 wt % of an odor suppressant. The odor suppressant is a blend of (i) particles of zinc oxide, and (ii) zinc ionomer. The zinc oxide particles have a D50 particle size from 100 nm to 3000 nm, a surface area from 1 m2/g to 9 m2/g, and a porosity less than 0.020 m3/g. The composition has a methyl mercaptan odor suppression value of less than 70 at 3 days as measured in accordance with ASTM D5504-12.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Arkady L. Krasovskiy, Kefu Sun, Keran Lu, Scott T. Matteucci, Alexander Williamson, Jose Eduardo Ruiz, Harpreet Singh, Michelle Gallagher, Jeffrey E. Bonekamp
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Publication number: 20200055019Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved adsorbent for separating para-xylene from a mixture of xylene isomers, characterized in that the adsorbent contains a barium-containing zeolite of the faujasite type whose exchangeable sites are occupied to an extent of at least 4.0% by magnesium ions. The present invention additionally relates to the production of the adsorbent and to the use thereof in the separation of para-xylene from a mixture of xylene isomers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventor: Stephan J. REITMEIER
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Publication number: 20200055020Abstract: Novel crystalline porous materials known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and methods for their synthesis are provided herein. The MOFs include a M6(?3-OH)8(OH)8(?2,?2-(O2C)2cyclam)8 cluster, and a metal atom coordinated to the one or more cyclam of the cluster, wherein M is Zr or Hf, and the metal atom is any one of Cu, Ni, Cr, Ru, Co, and Gd. The MOFs can be used as an adsorbent, alone or in a medium with other components, of CO2. The MOFs can also be used as a catalyst for the transformation of CO2 and epoxides to cyclic carbonates. The MOFs can also be used in the electrochemical catalytic reduction of CO2. The MOFs can also be used for photocatalytic CO2 reduction for the production of carbon-based fossil fuels. The MOFs can also be used for light-induced nitric oxide (NO) release. The MOFs can also be used as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) agents.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Amanda Morris, Jie Zhu
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Publication number: 20200055021Abstract: The present invention is a solid lubricant treatment medium, usually but not always in bead form, suitable to be brought into contact with lubricants to remediate and to condition them. A key feature of the medium, typically a polymeric resin, is the presence of relatively very large pores, which are able to capture and remove fine lubricant contaminants and breakdown products (such as small phosphate ester varnish, soot, coke, dissolved metal or other small semi-soluble or insoluble particles). Resins and adsorbents of the prior art have proven unable to remove fine contaminants like phosphate ester varnish that have a deleterious impact on industrial equipment performance and reliability. The mean pore size diameter of the medium is between about 8,000 ? and 100,000 ? and, more preferably, in the range of about 20,000 ? to about 80,000 ?.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: 1441413 Alberta Inc. DBA EPTInventors: Matthew Hobbs, Peter T Dufresne
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Publication number: 20200055022Abstract: The present invention is a solid cooling fluid treatment medium, usually but not always in bead form, suitable to be brought into contact with coolants to remediate and to condition them. A key feature of the medium, typically a polymeric resin, is the presence of relatively very large pores, which are able to capture and remove ultrafine coolant contaminants and breakdown products (such as colloids, soot, coke, organics, scale or other small semi-soluble or insoluble particles). Resins and adsorbents of the prior art have proven unable to remove ultrafine contaminants like these that have a deleterious impact on industrial equipment performance and reliability. The mean pore size diameter of the medium is between about 1,500 ? and 100,000 ? and, more preferably, in the range of about 1,500 ? to about 80,000 ?.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: 1441413 Alberta Inc. DBA EPTInventors: Matthew Hobbs, Peter T Dufresne
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Publication number: 20200055023Abstract: Multi-functional materials for use in reversible, high-capacity hydrogen separation and/or storage are described. Also described are systems incorporating the materials. The multi-functional materials combine a hydrogen-absorbing material with a high-efficiency and a non-contact energy-absorbing material in a composite nanoparticle. The non-contact energy-absorbing material include magnetic and/or plasmonic materials. The magnetic or plasmonic materials of the composite nanoparticles can provide localized heating to promote release of hydrogen from the hydrogen storage component of the composite nanoparticles.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Simona H. Murph, Kaitlin Coopersmith Lawrence, Henry T. Sessions, Michael A. Brown
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Publication number: 20200055024Abstract: Catalysts are described. The catalysts comprise a dried extrudate of a mixture of ?-alumina and at least one mixed metal oxide or mixed metal hydroxide, the ?-alumina having a BET surface area of 150 m2/g to 275 m2/g. Processes of making the hydroprocessing catalysts, and hydroprocessing processes using the catalysts are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Steven F. Zink, Joseph T. Kozlowski
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Publication number: 20200055025Abstract: The instant disclosure provides a composition for fluid catalytic cracking of petroleum based feedstock into useful short chain olefins. The composition comprising: 76-86% of a non-zeolitic material; and 2-30% of at least one zeolite material, the percentage being based on weight of the catalyst composition, wherein one of the zeolites has been modified with 0.1-2.5 wt % metal. The said catalyst was found to be selective in enhancing the usable propylene gas content, while reducing the undesirable dry gas content of the cracked olefinic products. The present disclosure also provides a process for the preparation of the composition. The present disclosure also provides an apparatus (100) and process (200) for fluid catalytic cracking to obtain light olefins. The apparatus comprises a second riser (33) that includes a lower dense riser (2) and upper dilute riser (3). Further, the lower dense riser (2) has a diameter that is 1.1 to 2 times that of the upper dilute riser (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2017Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Somanath KUKADE, Pramod KUMAR, Venkata Chalapathi Rao PEDDY, Sriganesh GANDHAM
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Publication number: 20200055026Abstract: A carbon material for a catalyst carrier of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell a porous carbon material with a three-dimensionally branched three-dimensional dendritic structure, has a branch diameter of 81 nm or less, and simultaneously satisfies conditions (A) and (B) whereby: (A) a BET specific surface area SBET is from 400 to 1500 m2/g; and (B) with respect to a relationship between a mercury pressure PHg and a mercury absorption amount VHg measured by mercury porosimetry, an increment ?VHg:4.3-4.8 of the measured mercury absorption amount VHg is from 0.82 to 1.50 cc/g in a case in which the common logarithm Log PHg of the mercury pressure PHg has increased from 4.3 to 4.8. A method of producing this kind of a carbon material for a catalyst carrier is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicants: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL CHEMICAL & MATERIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi IIJIMA, Wakana TADA, Kazuyoshi MASAKI
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Publication number: 20200055027Abstract: Activated carbon monolith catalyst including a finished self-supporting activated carbon monolith having at least one passage therethrough, and including a supporting matrix and substantially discontinuous activated carbon particles dispersed throughout the supporting matrix and at least one catalyst precursor on the finished self-supporting activated carbon monolith. A method for making, and a method for use, of such an activated carbon monolith catalyst in catalytic chemical reactions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Robert L. Mitchell, Lee M. Mitchell, Joseph H. Keller, Jack H. L'Amoreaux
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Publication number: 20200055028Abstract: Disclosed is a catalyst for producing the olefin. The catalyst includes a support including alumina and a sub-support component, and a metal oxide impregnated on the support. The metal oxide includes anyone selected from an oxide of chromium, vanadium, manganese, iron, cobalt, molybdenum, copper, zinc, cerium and nickel; and the sub-support component includes anyone selected from zirconium, zinc and platinum.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2017Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicants: SK GAS CO., LTD., KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGYInventors: Won Choon CHOI, Yong Ki PARK, Su Jin GONG, Seo Hyun SHIM, Deuk Soo PARK, Ung Gi HONG
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Publication number: 20200055029Abstract: The present invention provides a porous metal-containing carbon-based material that is stable at high temperatures under aqueous conditions. The porous metal-containing carbon-based materials are particularly useful in catalytic applications. Also provided, are methods for making and using porous shaped metal-carbon products prepared from these materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: Archer-Daniels-Midland CompanyInventors: Valery Sokolovskii, Alfred Hagemeyer, James A.W. Shoemaker, Elif Ispir Gürbüz, Guang Zhu, Eric L. Dias
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Publication number: 20200055030Abstract: Disclosed herein, inter alia, are novel nickel-iron-magnesium oxide catalyst compositions and methods of making and using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2017Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Robert Cattolica, Tinku Baidya
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Publication number: 20200055031Abstract: Disclosed are various combinations of three different metal-oxide photocatalysts with three different bandgaps that can be used to harvest multiple wavelengths of incident solar radiation and to thus efficiently degrade recalcitrant contaminants. The photocatalysts are from the class of transition metal oxides and are non-toxic compounds based on earth-abundant materials. In some embodiments, particles of the photocatalysts are formed to be greater in diameter than about 0.1 ?m in order to make them easier to filter out after treating the contaminant. In some embodiments, the metal-oxide photocatalysts are zinc oxide which is ultraviolet active, hematite which is active in the visible spectrum, and copper oxide which is active in the near infrared spectrum. Various combinations in various embodiments achieve measured contaminant degradation rates greater than the sum of the degradation rates of the individual photocatalysts that make up the combination.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Emily Asenath-Smith, Emma K Ambrogi
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Publication number: 20200055032Abstract: A process for preparing a catalyst includes impregnating a metal oxide carrier with an aqueous solution to form an impregnated carrier; drying the impregnated carrier to form a dried, impregnated carrier; and heat-treating the dried, impregnated carrier in air to form the catalyst; wherein: the aqueous solution includes a copper salt; and from about 3 wt % to about 15 wt % of a C3-C6 multifunctional carboxylic acid; and the catalyst includes from about 5 wt % to about 50 wt % copper oxide.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: BASF CorporationInventors: Keenan Lee Deutsch, Rostam J. MADON
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Publication number: 20200055033Abstract: An improved process for the hydroconversion of micro carbon residue content of heavy hydrocarbon feedstocks by the use of a catalyst composition that is especially useful in the conversion of micro carbon residue of such feedstocks. The catalyst composition is a low surface area composition that further has a specifically define pore structure the combination of which provides for its enhance micro carbon residue conversion property.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Josiane Marie-Rose GINESTRA, David Edward SHERWOOD, David Andrew KOMAR
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Publication number: 20200055034Abstract: Catalysts and method of preparing the catalysts are disclosed. One of the catalysts includes a zeolite support, a Group VIII metal on the zeolite support, and at least two halides bound to the zeolite support, to the Group VIII metal, or to both, and can have an average crush strength greater than 11.25 lb based on at least two samples of pellets of the catalyst measured in accordance with ASTM D4179.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: An-Hsiang WU, Joseph BERGMEISTER, III
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Publication number: 20200055035Abstract: The invention provides a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst effective in the abatement of nitrogen oxides (NOx), the SCR catalyst comprising a metal-promoted molecular sieve promoted with a metal selected from iron, copper, and combinations thereof, wherein the metal is present in an amount of 2.6% by weight or less on an oxide basis based on the total weight of the metal-promoted molecular sieve. A catalyst article, an exhaust gas treatment system method, and a method treating an exhaust gas stream, each comprising the SCR catalyst of the invention, are also provided. The SCR catalyst is particularly useful for treatment of exhaust from a lean burn gasoline engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicants: BASF Corporation, N. E. CHEMCAT CORPORATIONInventors: Xiaolai Zheng, Mahmuda Choudhury, Patrick Burk, Makoto Nagata, Yasuharu Kanno, Hiroki Nakayama
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Publication number: 20200055036Abstract: The present invention provides a carbon nitride-based photocatalyst and a preparation method thereof. The photocatalyst is prepared by reaction of melem with 3,3?,4,4?-benzophenonetetracarboxylic dianhydride. The photocatalyst according to an embodiment of the present invention achieves energy level matching in structure between the melem structure and the 3,3?,4,4?-benzophenonetetracarboxylic dianhydride, reduces a singlet-triplet energy gap (?EST), promotes an intersystem crossing process, thereby enhancing the singlet oxygen production and improving the selective photocatalytic oxidation ability.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2017Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Wenting WU, Congcong HAN, Mingbo WU, Zhongtao LI, Qinggang ZHANG
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Publication number: 20200055037Abstract: The present disclosure relates to new transition metal isonitrile compounds, processes for the production of the compounds and the use of the compounds as catalysts. The disclosure also relates to the use of the metal isonitrile compounds as catalysts for hydrogenation and transfer hydrogenation of compounds containing one or more carbon-oxygen, and/or carbon-nitrogen and/or carbon-carbon double bonds.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventor: Gerald S. HADEED
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Publication number: 20200055038Abstract: The present invention discloses a catalytic phase change dielectric sphere for methanol combustion and a preparation method therefor. The catalytic phase change dielectric sphere for methanol combustion is mainly prepared from a high-temperature phase change material, an active material, a carrier material, a catalyst, a nano-semiconductor material, a nano-transition metal and an adhesive. A catalytic phase change dielectric solid sphere is prepared with a mixed pressing and sintering process, the methanol energy conversion rate reaches 87.5%, the furnace temperature of methanol combustion reaches 900° C. or higher, and waste heat recovery is realized; or, a catalytic phase change dielectric microporous hollow sphere is prepared through electrostatic adsorption and in-site redox reaction, the methanol energy conversion rate reaches 99% or higher, the furnace temperature of methanol combustion reaches 1000° C. or higher, and waste heat recovery is realized.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventor: BIN SU
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Publication number: 20200055039Abstract: The present invention provides an exhaust gas purifying filter capable of efficiently burning and removing particulates captured by a partition wall, and a production method thereof. This exhaust gas purifying filter (CSF) of the present invention includes at least a honeycomb substrate having a porous partition wall configured to capture particulates (PM) such as soot in exhaust gas, and a catalyst carried by the honeycomb substrate and configured to burn and remove the particulates captured by the partition wall of the honeycomb substrate and deposited within cells, wherein the catalyst is carried concentrically in a shallow portion from the surface of the cell wall on the exhaust gas inflow side of the honeycomb substrate, and 65% or more of the total mass of the catalyst is present in a depth region from the surface of the cell wall of the honeycomb substrate up to 2/10 a with reference to the wall thickness a of the partition wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: N.E. CHEMCAT CORPORATIONInventors: Yuto KAYADA, Ryuji ANDO