Patents Issued in March 17, 2020
  • Patent number: 10589214
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for improving carbon capture by providing particles within an amine solvent. The particles provide for increased turbulence at the interface between the counter-flowing gas and solvent, which allows for increased amine and carbamate salt diffusion between the liquid film and bulk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Leland R. Widger, Guojie Qi, Kun Liu, Jonathan Bryant, Cameron A. Lippert, Kunlei Liu
  • Patent number: 10589215
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for recovering methane from digester biogas or landfill gas. More specifically, the invention pertains to a method for producing biomethane that removes impurities from a compressed digester biogas with staged membrane modules of at least two different types, to produce a biomethane having at least 94% CH4, below 3% of CO2, and below 4 ppm of H2S.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Air Liquide Advanced Technologies U.S. LLC
    Inventors: Yong Ding, Michael J. Mitariten
  • Patent number: 10589216
    Abstract: Membranes, methods of making the membranes, and methods of using the membranes are described herein. The membranes can comprise a gas permeable support and a continuous phase comprising a selective inorganic material disposed within the gas permeable support. In some embodiments, the membranes can exhibit a CO2:N2 selectivity of at least 10 at 24° C. The membranes can be bendable, such that when the membranes are wrapped around a 1.5-inch diameter cylinder and returned to a planar conformation, the CO2:N2 selectivity of the membranes is at least 25% of the CO2:N2 selectivity of the membranes prior to having been wrapped around the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Ohio State Innovation Foundation
    Inventors: Prabir Kumar Dutta, Yanzuo Li, Bo Wang
  • Patent number: 10589217
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for generating liquid water from water vapor present in the atmosphere through use of selectively permeable films that permit water to pass through but that block other liquids and gases, such as atmospheric gases. The systems, devices, and methods employ condensation techniques in which only the water that is passed through the selectively permeable film is cooled, as compared to other atmospheric water generation systems, which cool water and other gases that enter with the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventor: Mark Raizen
  • Patent number: 10589218
    Abstract: A device for drying compressed gas with an inlet for compressed gas to be dried originating from a compressor and an outlet for dried compressed gas, whereby this device comprises a number of vessels that are filled with a regeneratable drying agent and a controllable valve system that connects the aforementioned inlet and outlet to the aforementioned vessels, wherein the device comprises at least three vessels, whereby the aforementioned valve system is such that at least one vessel is always being regenerated, while the other vessels dry the compressed gas, whereby due to the control of the valve system the vessels are each successively regenerated in turn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP
    Inventor: Danny Etienne Andree Vertriest
  • Patent number: 10589219
    Abstract: An environmental control assembly includes a housing including a base layer, a diffusor layer, and an interior space at least partially formed by the base layer and the diffusor layer. The environmental control assembly further includes a desiccant positioned within the interior space and an inlet filter that is formed from a cutout in the base layer that is covered by the diffusor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Brian T. Dahl, Andrew J. Hutchinson
  • Patent number: 10589220
    Abstract: A pressure swing adsorption air dryer system and method is described herein. In some embodiments, the air dryer system receives moist air and dries the air using a desiccant in a pressure swing adsorption method. The resulting dry air may be used as a working fluid for an application and a portion of the dry air may be used to aid in regenerating, or removing moisture from a desiccant. Sensors are strategically placed throughout the air drying system to measure the state of the air. The air and airflow may be controlled throughout the system based on the sensor measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Altec Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: James Vincent DiMaiolo, David K. Boger
  • Patent number: 10589221
    Abstract: In various aspects, systems and methods are provided for integrating molten carbonate fuel cells with a fired heater for production of electrical power while also reducing or minimizing the amount of CO2 present in the flue gas generated by the fired heater. The molten carbonate fuel cells can be integrated for use with fired heater so that at least a portion of the flue gas from fired heater flows through cathodes of the fuel cells and at least a portion of the cathode exhaust is returned to a convection section of the fired heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY
    Inventors: Thomas A. Badgwell, Frank Hershkowitz, Timothy A. Barckholtz, Paul J. Berlowitz
  • Patent number: 10589222
    Abstract: A urea water agitation control device has an agitation control portion and a temperature sensor which detects a temperature of a urea water. The agitation control portion operates an agitation portion in a specified period which includes a part of a period in which the urea water temperature detected by the temperature sensor is kept at a eutectic point and the urea water radiates a latent heat of solidification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Honda, Taiyo Hiroi, Jun Suzuki, Shunsuke Murakami, Saki Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10589223
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure include systems and processes for the recovery of sulfur dioxide (SO2) from tail gas of sulfur recovery plant or from flue gas of a power plant, such as flue gas originating from an H2S-containing fuel gas for a gas turbine. SO2-containing gas is dissolved in chilled water and produce SO2-containing chilled water. The SO2-containing chilled is contacted with H2S-containing gas to aqueously react H2S and SO2 and form elemental sulfur. A water stream with the entrained sulfur is routed to a solid-liquid separate, and separated sulfur may be processed or disposed of. The water is recycled and chilled for use in the reaction. Embodiments also include the generation of sulfur dioxide (SO2) from produced sulfur instead of using tail gas or flue gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Guillaume Raynel, Sebastien A. Duval
  • Patent number: 10589224
    Abstract: A capture device for capturing a target gas from a gas flow is disclosed that can be continuously used without requiring consumption of target gas binding salts. To this end, the device is arranged to generate separate acidic and alkaline streams of fluid by electrolyzing water, binding the target gas to the hydroxide ions in the alkaline fluid stream or the hydronium ions in the acidic stream, and recombining the generated streams to release the bound target gas and regenerating part of the electrolyzed water for further electrolysis. Such a capture device may for instance be used in a gas purification system, e.g. an air purification system for controlling target gas levels in a confined space such as a vehicle cabin, domestic dwelling or office space, a target gas generation system or a target gas enrichment system, e.g. for creating target gas-rich air for horticultural purposes. A method for capturing target gas from a gas flow and optionally utilizing the captured target gas is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Frank Verbakel, Rene Stallenberg, Cornelis Reinder Ronda, Jan Frederik Suijver
  • Patent number: 10589225
    Abstract: A promoted activated carbon sorbent is described that is highly effective for the removal of mercury from flue gas streams. The sorbent comprises a new modified carbon form containing reactive forms of halogen and halides. Optional components may be added to increase reactivity and mercury capacity. These may be added directly with the sorbent, or to the flue gas to enhance sorbent performance and/or mercury capture. Mercury removal efficiencies obtained exceed conventional methods. The sorbent can be regenerated and reused. Sorbent treatment and preparation methods are also described. New methods for in-flight preparation, introduction, and control of the active sorbent into the mercury contaminated gas stream are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Midwest Energy Emissions Corp.
    Inventors: Edwin S. Olson, Michael J. Holmes, John Henry Pavlish
  • Patent number: 10589226
    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 reducing and/or eliminating various liquid discharges from one or more emission control equipment devices (e.g., one or more wet flue gas desulfurization (WFGD) units). In another embodiment, the method and apparatus of the present invention is designed to reduce and/or eliminate the amount of liquid waste that is discharged from a WFGD unit by subjecting the WFGD liquid waste to one or more drying processes, one or more spray dryer (or spray dry) absorber processes, and/or one or more spray dryer (or spray dry) evaporation processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignees: The Babcock & Wilcox Company, GEA Process Engineering A/S
    Inventors: Michael G Klidas, Kevin E. Redinger, Joseph M Mitchell, III, Steven Feeney, Niels Jacobsen, Claus Erik Boilesen
  • Patent number: 10589227
    Abstract: A system for capturing carbon dioxide CO2 by carbonation in a circulating fluidized bed (CFB) carbonation reactor wherein temperature profile is adjusted by recirculation of solid fractions of metal oxide MeO and metal carbonate MeCO3 to the CFB carbonation reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Charles Balfe, Olaf Stallmann, Gerhard Heinz
  • Patent number: 10589228
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for the separation of a gas constituent from a gaseous mixture. The disclosure also provides polyethylene glycol disubstituted siloxane based solvents for use in the method. These solvents are of use for pre-combustion CO2 capture and are capable of replacing glycol-based solvents while offering operation at a higher temperature region. These solvents are also of use for generation of hydrogen from reformed natural gas or syngas, adjusting CO/H2 ratio for Coal & Biomass to Liquids, removal of CO2 from syngas for coal & biomass to NH3/Fertilizer, natural gas sweetening, and upgrading of landfill and biogas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: U.S. Department of Energy
    Inventors: David P. Hopkinson, Nicholas Siefert, Robert L. Thompson, Megan Macala, Lei Hong
  • Patent number: 10589229
    Abstract: A central tube assembly for a filter cartridge and a manufacturing method for the central tube assembly are provided. The central tube assembly includes a first half-tube defines a first flow passage, and having a first water inlet at an end thereof and a water output hole in a side wall thereof a filtering membrane bent to form a first membrane layer and a second membrane layer, the first half-tube being disposed between the first membrane layer and the second membrane layer; an input-water filtering net connected to the first half-tube and disposed between the first membrane layer and the second membrane layer a second half-tube disposed outside of a bending of the filtering membrane, defining a second flow passage, and having a water input hole in a side wall thereof and a first water outlet at an end thereof and a produced-water filtering net.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Inventors: Guodong Song, Xuegang Cai, Peng Gui
  • Patent number: 10589230
    Abstract: The invention comprises a control system for monitoring and operating an existing supply water pre-treatment system for supplying de-chlorinated water to dialysis purification systems. The invention includes a controller and an operator interface for programming and interacting with said control systems. The invention further includes an injection assembly having a flow turbine sensor, a reducing agent injector, and an ORP/pH sensor for monitoring and controlling ORP/pH levels of said supply water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Inventor: Kevin C. Gillespie
  • Patent number: 10589231
    Abstract: Stabilized surfactant-based membranes and methods of manufacture thereof. Membranes comprising a stabilized surfactant mesostructure on a porous support may be used for various separations, including reverse osmosis and forward osmosis. The membranes are stabilized after evaporation of solvents; in some embodiments no removal of the surfactant is required. The surfactant solution may or may not comprise a hydrophilic compound such as an acid or base. The surface of the porous support is preferably modified prior to formation of the stabilized surfactant mesostructure. The membrane is sufficiently stable to be utilized in commercial separations devices such as spiral wound modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: ZNANO LLC
    Inventor: Adrian Brozell
  • Patent number: 10589232
    Abstract: A forward osmosis membrane characterized in that a thin membrane layer having the performance of a semi-permeable membrane is laminated on a polyketone support layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignees: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Toru Morita, Masayuki Kaneda, Masahiro Yasukawa, Hideto Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 10589233
    Abstract: Foam dispensing systems and methods are disclosed. Such systems and methods may include a foamed material dispenser, a dynamic mixer having a gas input, a process material input, and a foamed material output. The foamed material output may be in fluid communication with the foamed material dispenser. A pump having an output may be in fluid communication with the process material input of the dynamic mixer, and a gas injection valve may be in fluid communication with the gas input of the dynamic mixer. A gas pressure regulator may be coupled between the pressurized gas supply and the gas injection valve, and a gas injection cycle timer may be operatively connected to the gas injection valve, the gas injection cycle timer causing the gas injection valve to pulse open and closed to send pulses of pressurized gas into the dynamic mixer through the gas input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Burkley, Raymond M. Fetcenko, Charles P. Ganzer, Derrick O'Kelley, Jeffrey E. Owen, Leslie J. Varga
  • Patent number: 10589234
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a wet disperser for dispersing particulates in a mixture containing at least a dispersing medium and particulates. According to various embodiments, the wet disperser includes a through channel extending from an inflow port to an outflow port, and a mixture-passing plate having at least one passing hole defined. In the wet disperser, the through channel includes, on a downstream side of the through channel from a position provided with the mixture-passing plate, a dispersion part having a vibration body provided such that vibration causes at least a part of the vibration body to come into contact with at least a part of an opening periphery of the passing hole, and an inside surface defining the passing hole of the mixture-passing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: OHKAWARA KAKOHKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ko Higashitani, Masaaki Ohkawara, Tomonao Ohkawara, Takayuki Tanaka, Toshiyuki Koganei
  • Patent number: 10589235
    Abstract: A bubble maker simplifies the creation and distribution of bubbles. The bubble maker includes a mixing basin, a water-inlet tube, an air-inlet tube, a bubble outlet, and a water overflow outlet. The bubble maker does not require an external electric power source to drive the agitation for a mixture of the water and soap as Venturi effect is implemented via water pressure from an external water supply through the water-inlet tube into the air-inlet tube to aerate the water and soap mixture and produce bubbles. The bubble maintains a maximum water level within the mixing basin with a water overflow outlet that allows for sufficient headspace for bubbles to accumulate within the mixing basin. As the bubbles accumulate within the mixing basin, the bubbles flow out of the bubble maker through the bubble outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: RAPT LLC
    Inventor: Jonathan Cole McCurley
  • Patent number: 10589236
    Abstract: A mixing unit includes a mixing body having mixing elements that are stacked in a stacking direction and that extend in an extending direction in which the extending direction is perpendicular to the stacking direction. The mixing elements have a plurality of through holes to form a flow path therein, and are arranged such that part or all of the through holes in one of the mixing elements communicate with through holes in the adjacent mixing elements to allow fluid to be passed in the extending direction in which the mixing elements extend. The mixing unit may be employed in an agitation impeller or an adhesive dispensing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: ISEL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Noboru Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 10589237
    Abstract: A discharge system includes a mixing vessel and a feedstock input in fluid communication with the mixing vessel. A solvent input is in fluid communication with the mixing vessel. A discharge output is in fluid communication with an outlet of the mixing vessel to discharge effluent. A method for generating turbulence on a liquid surface within a discharge system includes supplying a mixing vessel with feedstock fluid and solvent fluid to generate a liquid mixture and a gas pocket in the mixing vessel. The method includes supplying an impinging solvent fluid through a nozzle extending from a first end of the mixing vessel to generate a roiling surface at an interface between the gas pocket and the liquid mixture and permit uptake of gas from the gas pocket into the liquid mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Arthur K. Colling, Jr., Benjamin E. Bishop, Allison B. Thomas
  • Patent number: 10589238
    Abstract: A technique facilitates mixing of cement slurry for use in a cementing application. At least one cement mixer is provided with a tank, e.g. a conical tank, having a powder cement blend inlet and a mixing liquid inlet. A cement slurry discharge may be positioned generally beneath the tank. A mixing assembly also is positioned below the tank and driven by a shaft. The mixing assembly is exposed to an interior of the tank and is used to mix the cement slurry when rotated by the shaft and to direct the cement slurry out through the cement slurry discharge. Additionally, a recirculation system comprises an inlet positioned to receive a portion of the cement slurry mixed in the mixing assembly. The recirculation system also comprises an outlet positioned to direct the portion back into the mixer to enhance mixing effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan Wun Shiung Chong, Kim A. Hodgson, Andrew Marlatt
  • Patent number: 10589239
    Abstract: High accuracy mixing of fluids in a disposable fluid processing system with at least two pumps is provided by a method where a calibration fluid volume is pumped through each pump via a flow meter at at least one calibration pump speed while registering the flow rate using data output from the flow meter, a pump calibration function is calculated from the calibration pump speed and flow rate data and two or more operation fluids are mixed to a predetermined mixture ratio and predetermined flow rate by controlling the pump speed of the respective pumps in accordance with the pump calibration functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences AB
    Inventors: Klaus Gebauer, Patric Fricking, Bjorn Jaderlund
  • Patent number: 10589240
    Abstract: A blender for blending viscous material and additive material by vortex action includes an upper section and a lower section. The upper section has a receiving portion, a viscous material inlet that is in fluid communication with the receiving portion, and an additive inlet that is in fluid communication with the receiving portion. The lower section is attached to and disposed below the upper section, said includes a blending portion that is in fluid communication with the receiving portion of the upper section. The blending portion is shaped so as to facilitate the blending of the additive material entering the receiving portion through the additive inlet with the viscous material entering the receiving portion through the viscous material inlet. The blender includes an outlet for blended material that is in fluid communication with the blending portion of the lower section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Heatec, Inc.
    Inventors: Greg Jones, Andrew Bryson
  • Patent number: 10589241
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the storage of cooling agents without caking, characterized in that the latter are filled into standard packages having a maximum capacity of 25 l, with the proviso that (a) the packages are filled to 50% maximum, and (b) the amount filled into the package does not exceed 10 kg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Symrise AG
    Inventors: Oliver Lenz, Michael Michler, Jörg Niekerken, Jürgen Siewart, Christian Wolter
  • Patent number: 10589242
    Abstract: According to one or more embodiments, a fluid catalytic reactor may include a riser, a lower reactor portion, a transition portion, and a flow director. The riser may include a cross-sectional area, and the lower reactor portion may include a cross-sectional area. The transition portion may attach the riser to the lower reactor portion. The cross-sectional area of the riser may be less than the cross-sectional area of the lower reactor portion such that the transition portion is tapered inward from the lower reactor portion to the riser. The flow director may be positioned at least within an interior region of the transition portion. The flow director may include a body which affects the velocity profile of fluids moving from the lower reactor portion to the riser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Matthew T. Pretz, Mark W. Stewart, Ben J. Freireich, Madhusudhan Kodam, Brien A. Stears
  • Patent number: 10589243
    Abstract: The invention relates to a catalytic reactor suited for exothermal reactions with a radial process fluid flow and process fluid flow guides which ensures an extended fluid flow path and higher flow velocity and thereby enhanced cooling of the catalyst bed in the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Haldor Topsoe A/S
    Inventors: Anders Lindhard Christensen, Emil Andreas Tjärnehov
  • Patent number: 10589244
    Abstract: The hydroprocessing reactor internals (HRI) have reduced height compared to standard HRI designs. In this design, HRI height reduction is achieved by placing a mixing chamber above the collection tray. A ring quench distributor is located around the fluid collection tray between the mixing chamber and reactor shell to eliminate the vertical space occupied by the distributor. The hydroprocessing reactor quench zone internals comprise a collection tray, a mixing chamber, a ring distributor, a rough liquid distribution tray, and a vapor-liquid distribution tray. Fluid mixing occurs in the mixing chamber and above the rough liquid distribution tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventor: Zhanping Xu
  • Patent number: 10589246
    Abstract: A system for processing one or more materials includes a processor having a shell defining a chamber and a plurality of serially stacked pipe assemblies. Each pipe assembly includes a header having at least one substantially straight pipe section receiving a fluid; and a plurality of nozzles in fluid communication with and projecting downwardly from the header. The nozzles direct the fluid into the chamber of the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC
    Inventors: Nan Zhao, William E. Phillips
  • Patent number: 10589247
    Abstract: A reactor apparatus for loading a carrier medium with hydrogen and/or unloading it therefrom includes a reactor housing chargeable with carrier medium and having a carrier medium feed orifice, having a carrier medium removal orifice, having a base and having a hydrogen gas orifice. The reactor apparatus further includes at least one heat transfer element for supplying heat into the reactor housing. Catalyst has been provided in the reactor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: HYDROGENIOUS LOHC TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Kusche, Berthold Melcher, Daniel Teichmann
  • Patent number: 10589248
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a chemical reactor, which can comprise a substrate for facilitating chemical reactions occurring at triple-phase boundaries. One possible substrate may further comprise a set of dynamically controllable sites and/or pixels upon which control signals may affect a desired formation of gas bubbles over an active catalytic (or other desired) solid surface in a liquid flow—wherein a chemical reaction in two or more phase boundaries may occur. In yet another embodiment, a control algorithm may send control signals to controllable sites/pixels to maximize the operation of the reactor according to a desired metric (e.g., product formation) that may input a set of sensor data to affect its control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignees: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Sean Doris, Warren Jackson, Naveen Chopra, Bradley Rupp, Robert Street
  • Patent number: 10589249
    Abstract: A heat exchanger system can be used for removal or introduction of heat from or into a chemical reactor in which a chemical reaction is proceeding. The system further provides an apparatus for controlling the temperature of a reactor and a process for performing a chemical reaction, in each case using a heat exchanger system with a thermally insulated inner tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Willaert, Martina Ludwig, Frank Geilen, Johannes Knossalla, Thomas Quell, Robert Franke
  • Patent number: 10589250
    Abstract: A device for purifying and formulating a radiopharmaceutical compound includes an automated purification subsystem that automates the loading of a sample into a sample loop for downstream purification via HPLC. A column selector valve is provided to select from one of a plurality of columns. Fractions can be collected as well as the desired product. The device includes an automated formulation subsystem that first sends the product to a dilution reservoir prior to being pneumatically pushed onto a solid phase extraction (SPE) cartridge. Automated rinse, elution, and reconstitution are also performed with the automated formulation subsystem. The device may be directly coupled to the output of an automated radiosynthesizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignees: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SOFIE BIOSCIENCES, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Schopf, Melissa Moore, R. Michael van Dam, Brandon Maraglia, Alexander Hsiao
  • Patent number: 10589251
    Abstract: Biomass (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) is processed to produce useful intermediates and products, such as energy, fuels, foods or materials. For example, systems and methods are described that can be used to treat feedstock materials, such as cellulosic and/or lignocellulosic materials, in a vault in which the equipment is protected from radiation and hazardous gases by equipment enclosures. The equipment enclosures may be purged with gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Xyleco, Inc.
    Inventors: Marshall Medhoff, Thomas Craig Masterman, Robert Paradis
  • Patent number: 10589252
    Abstract: A reactor system that includes a single reactor or a plurality of parallel reactors. A method that includes injecting a mixture including liquid water and a gas, into at least one electrically-conductive inlet capillary tube of a continuously-flowing plasma reactor to generate a flowing liquid film region on one or more internal walls of the continuously-flowing plasma reactor with a gas stream flowing through the flowing liquid film region; propagating a plasma discharge along the flowing liquid film region from at least one electrically-conductive inlet capillary to an electrically-conductive outlet capillary tube at an opposing end of the continuously-flowing plasma reactor; dissociating the liquid water in the plasma discharge to form a plurality of dissociation products; producing hydrogen peroxide and nitrogen oxides from the plurality of dissociation products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: Bruce R. Locke, Robert Wandell
  • Patent number: 10589253
    Abstract: A method is described for preparing a sorbent including the steps of: (i) mixing together a particulate copper sulphide material, a particulate support material and one or more binders, (ii) shaping the mixture, and (iii) drying the shaped mixture to form a dried sorbent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Matthew James Evans, Matthew David Gwydion Lunn, Martin Graham Partridge, Christopher John Young
  • Patent number: 10589254
    Abstract: Spheroidal catalyst support, supported catalyst, and method of preparing and using the catalyst for hydrodemetallation of metal-containing heavy oil feedstocks are disclosed. The catalyst supports comprise titania alumina having 5 wt % or less titania and have greater than 30% percent of their pore volume in pores having a diameter of between 200 and 500 ?. Catalysts prepared from the supports contain Group 6, 9 and 10 metals or metal compounds supported on the titania alumina supports. Catalysts in accordance with the invention exhibit improved catalytic activity and stability to remove metals from heavy feedstocks during a hydrotreating process. The catalysts also provide increased sulfur and MCR conversion during a hydrotreating process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Advanced Refining Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Stanislaw Plecha, Narinobu Kagami, Viorel D. Duma, John Everett Creighton
  • Patent number: 10589255
    Abstract: Tantalum vanadate (TaVO5) forms into nanostructures, particularly nanorods, which may range in length between 100 and 600 nm with a length:width ratio between 20:1 to 50:1, and, as a bulk material, have a bandgap of 1.5 to 3.00 eV. Such nanostructures may be prepared by the hydrothermal method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
    Inventor: Muhammad Nawaz
  • Patent number: 10589256
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a Ru—Pd bimetallic catalyst for use in hydrogenation of a compound, and more particularly to a catalyst prepared by loading both ruthenium and palladium on a g-C3N4 support and to a selective hydrogenation process of a pyridine group in a reaction system containing both a pyridine group and a benzene group using the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Ji Hoon Park, Kwan Yong Jeong, Soo Min Kim, Tae Sun Chang, Iljeong Heo
  • Patent number: 10589257
    Abstract: The invention relates to potassium-promoted, Fe2+(Fe3+yAl3+i-y)2o4 [0.3<y?0.7] silica-containing extrudates, processes for the preparation of the extrudates with the aid of colloidal silica, and the use of the extrudates to catalyze processes for producing liquid hydrocarbons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: B.G. Negev Technologies and Applications Ltd., at Ben-Gurion University
    Inventors: Mordechay Herskowitz, Miron Landau, Roksana Vidruk, Meital Amouyal
  • Patent number: 10589258
    Abstract: The preparation of an oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst comprising Mo, V, Nb and Te using a hydrothermal step the activity and reproducibility of the catalyst is improved by conduction the hydrothermal step at higher pressures while permitting gaseous products to leave the reactor. In some instances a condenser may be upstream of the pressure relief valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Vasily Simanzhenkov, Xiaoliang Gao, David Jeffrey Sullivan, Hanna Drag, Marie Annette Barnes
  • Patent number: 10589259
    Abstract: A composition useful in oxidative desulphurization of gaseous hydrocarbons is described. It comprises a CuZnAl—O mixed oxide, and an H form of a zeolite. The mixed oxide can contain one or more metal oxide promoters. The H form of the zeolite can be desilicated, and can also contain one or more transition metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignees: Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Boreskov Institute of Catalysis
    Inventors: Omer Refa Koseoglu, Yaming Jin, Zinfer Ismagilov, Svetlana Yashnik, Mikhail Kerzhentsev, Valentin Parmon
  • Patent number: 10589260
    Abstract: An aluminosilicate molecular sieve of STW framework type, designated herein as SSZ-110, and having a molar ratio of SiO2/Al2O3 of less than 100, is provided. SSZ-110 may be synthesized using an organic structure directing agent selected from one or more of 1,4-bis(2,3-dimethyl-1H-imidazolium)butane dications, 1,5-bis(2,3-dimethyl-1H-imidazolium)pentane dications, and 1,6-bis(2,3-dimethyl-1H-imidazolium)hexane dications. SSZ-110 may be used in organic compound conversion reactions and sorptive processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Stacey Ian Zones, Tracy Margaret Davis, Dan Xie, Cong-Yan Chen, Howard Steven Lacheen
  • Patent number: 10589261
    Abstract: Catalyst articles having a first zone containing a first SCR catalyst and a second zone containing an ammonia slip catalyst (ASC), where the ammonia slip catalyst contains a second SCR catalyst and an oxidation catalyst, and the ASC has DOC functionality, where the first zone is located on the inlet side of the substrate and the second zone is located in the outlet side of the substrate are disclosed. The catalytic articles are useful for selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NOx in exhaust gases, in reducing the amount of ammonia slip and in oxidizing organic residues. Exhaust systems containing the catalyst articles and methods of using the catalytic articles in an SCR process, where the amount of ammonia slip is reduced and hydrocarbon are oxidized by the ASC catalyst, are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company
    Inventor: Mikael Larsson
  • Patent number: 10589262
    Abstract: A highly pure optically active proton pump inhibitor compound can be produced safely and inexpensively in a high yield and enantioselectivity by a method of producing an optically active sulfoxide of Formula 2 or a salt thereof, comprising oxidizing a sulfide of Formula 1 or a salt thereof with hydrogen peroxide using an iron salt in the presence of a chiral ligand of Formula 3; wherein A is CH or N; R1 is hydrogen atom, an alkyl optionally substituted by halogen(s), or an alkoxy optionally substituted by halogen(s); one to three R2 may exist, and each of R2 is independently an alkyl, a dialkylamino, or an alkoxy optionally substituted by halogen(s) or alkoxy(s); each of R3 is independently hydrogen atom, a halogen, cyano or the like; R4 is a tertiary alkyl; and * and ** represent respectively R configuration or S configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, TOWA PHARMACEUTICAL CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Eiichi Nakamura, Laurean Ilies, Yoji Oderaotoshi, Takuhiro Izumi, Shigenobu Nishiguchi
  • Patent number: 10589263
    Abstract: Markovnikov-selective palladium catalyst for carbonylation of alkynes is formed from a bisphosphite having formula (1): The carbonylation catalyst is suited for the preparation of a branched heteroarene-keto product from an alkyne substrate, CO and heterocycle in high yields with low amounts of the linear product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: EVONIK DEGUSSA GMBH
    Inventors: Haoquan Li, Jie Liu, Ralf Jackstell, Matthias Beller, Robert Franke
  • Patent number: 10589264
    Abstract: A method of controlling the regeneration of spent catalyst from an oxygenate-to-olefin reaction zone in order to provide a partially regenerated catalyst. The partially regenerated catalyst has between 1 to 4, or 1 to 3, or, 2 to 3 wt % coke. The regeneration is controlled by adjusting a ratio of air to recycled flue gas in the combustion gas passed to the regeneration zone. CO in the flue gas is removed in a CO oxidation zone which receives oxygen to oxidize CO to CO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Inventor: John J. Senetar