Patents Issued in May 12, 2020
  • Patent number: 10647573
    Abstract: A reformer device including a reaction chamber for carrying out a reaction having a hydrocarbon stream as a reactant gas and with hydrogen rich synthesis gas as a reaction product. The membrane is provided within the reaction chamber. The reformer device further includes a heating reactor for heating the reaction chamber, where the membrane is a semi-permeable membrane arranged to allow CO2 pass through it; the reaction chamber includes a catalyst material arranged to catalyze a steam methane reforming reaction and to catalyze a water gas shift reaction; and the reformer device is arranged to carry out the steam methane reforming reaction at a pressure between about 15 and about 50 barg within the reaction chamber. A method for carrying out a reaction having a hydrocarbon stream as a reactant gas and with hydrogen rich synthesis gas as reaction product, in a reformer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: HALDOR TOPSØE A/S
    Inventors: Peter Mølgaard Mortensen, Martin Østberg
  • Patent number: 10647574
    Abstract: An ozone generator includes a discharge chamber; an inlet opening for feeding air into the discharge chamber; an outlet opening for removing ozone from the discharge chamber; and at least two cylindrical electrode sets in the discharge chamber. Each electrode set includes a ground electrode; a high voltage electrode; a dielectric between the ground electrode and the high voltage electrode; the dielectric separated from the ground electrode by a first discharge gap, and the dielectric separated from the high voltage electrode by a second discharge gap. A high voltage power supply provides a voltage impulse to the high voltage electrode of at least 2 kV (at least 5 kV is most cases), and a peak current of at least 1 ampere (at least 4 amperes in most cases). The high voltage power supply provides a dU/dt of the voltage impulse of between 5 kV/?sec and 50 kV/?sec.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: DM ECO Plasma, Inc.
    Inventor: Dmitry Medvedev
  • Patent number: 10647575
    Abstract: An ozone generator includes a high-voltage electrode and at least one counter electrode, which define an interstice in which at least one dielectric is arranged and through which a gas flows in the flow direction, the high-voltage electrode and the at least one counter electrode being provided with a connection for an electrical voltage supply to generate silent discharges, and a wire fabric being arranged in the gas flow and its density decreasing in the flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: XYLEM IP Management S.à r.l.
    Inventors: Ralf Fiekens, Reiner Fietzek, Manfred Salvermoser, Nicole Brüggemann
  • Patent number: 10647576
    Abstract: A process includes preparing a crude aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution by auto-oxidation of at least one alkylanthraquinone in a working solution that includes at least one organic solvent and the at least one alkylanthraquinone; and washing the crude aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution with a mixture of at least one organic solvent and an organophosphorous chelating agent to create a purified aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution having less than 100 ppb Cr; wherein the organic solvent used for the washing is not part of the working solution and is not recycled into it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Solvay SA
    Inventors: Juan-Teva Carlier, Pierre Dournel, Henk Venbrux, Hooghe Lieven
  • Patent number: 10647577
    Abstract: In a production mode a process for preparing sulfuric acid may involve oxidizing sulfur to sulfur dioxide in a first oxidation stage, and catalytically oxidizing the sulfur dioxide to sulfur trioxide in a second oxidation stage. The sulfur trioxide may be absorbed in at least one absorption stage. In the production mode, process gases from a last of the at least one absorption stage with respect to a flow direction are discharged. In a standby mode of the process, at least one heating stage for heating the process gases is connected. The process gases exiting from the at least one absorption stage are conveyed to the heating stage, and the process gases are circulated via the heating stage, the second oxidation stage, and the absorption stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS AG, THYSSENKRUPP AG
    Inventors: Holger Thielert, Zion Guetta
  • Patent number: 10647578
    Abstract: Solid or liquid N—H free, C-free, and Si-rich perhydropolysilazane compositions comprising units having the following formula [—N(SiH3)x(SiH2—)y], wherein x=0, 1, or 2 and y=0, 1, or 2 when x+y=2; and x=0, 1 or 2 and y=1, 2, or 3 when x+y=3 are disclosed. Also disclosed are synthesis methods and applications for the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: L'Air Liquide, Société Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procédés Georges Claude, American Air Liquide, Inc.
    Inventors: Antonio Sanchez, Gennadiy Itov, Manish Khandelwal, Cole Ritter, Peng Zhang, Jean-Marc Girard, Zhiwen Wan, Glenn Kuchenbeiser, David Orban, Sean Kerrigan, Reno Pesaresi, Matthew Damien Stephens, Yang Wang, Guillaume Husson
  • Patent number: 10647579
    Abstract: The method for producing carbon nanotube pellets according to the present invention can reduce the particle size of the carbon nanotubes contained in the pellet by a repetitive extrusion process to produce pellets having improved dispersion characteristics in a solvent. The present invention can improve the problems of the change of the content generated by scattering of powders and safety issues by using carbon nanotubes in the form of pellet. And since the density of the pellet form is higher than that of the powder form, transport, transfer and improvement become easier. Therefore, it can be more effectively applied to the manufacturing of composite materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Kyung Yeon Kang, Jihee Woo, Seungyong Lee, Hyungsik Jang, Dong Hyun Cho
  • Patent number: 10647580
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a composition of matter includes: a plurality of ligaments each independently comprising one or more layers of graphene; where the plurality of ligaments are arranged according to a deterministic three-dimensional (3D) pattern. In another embodiment, a method of forming a deterministic three-dimensional (3D) architecture of graphene includes: forming or providing a substrate structurally characterized by a predefined 3D pattern; forming one or more layers of metal on surfaces of the substrate; and forming one or more layers of graphene on surfaces of the metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Jianchao Ye, Juergen Biener, Patrick Campbell, Wen Chen, Julie A. Jackson, Bryan D. Moran, James Oakdale, William Smith, Christopher Spadaccini, Marcus A. Worsley, Xiaoyu Zheng
  • Patent number: 10647581
    Abstract: Graphene oxide (GO) is an emerging material for energy, environmental, and many other applications which in the past has been produced using chemical processes involving high-energy consumption and hazardous chemicals. Embodiments of the present invention focus on bioelectrochemical systems (BES) having microorganism(s), an anode (11) and cathode (14) to produce GO (13) from graphite, coal, and other carbonaceous materials under ambient conditions without chemical amendments. In some embodiments, value-added organic compounds (17) and even H2 (16) can be produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: BEGO TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Song Jin, Ran Li, Paul Fallgren, Kylan Jin
  • Patent number: 10647582
    Abstract: The high-efficiency synthesis and purification recycling system of higher silane has a liquid nitrogen cooling system. The liquid nitrogen cooling system has a liquid nitrogen storage tank for being configured to distribute ?196° C. liquid nitrogen via a first cooling tube to the hydrogen column and the mono-silane column for a first cooling process; a second cooling tube is configured to distribute ?160° C. nitrogen after the first cooling process into the first distillation column, the second distillation column, the third distillation column and the recycling drum for a second cooling process, a third cooling tube is configured to distribute ?30° C. nitrogen after the second cooling process into the disilane drum for a third cooling process, and a fourth cooling tube is configured to distribute 25° C. nitrogen after the third cooling process into the silicon particle disposal system for a blowback regeneration process and to generate an anaerobic environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Taiwan Speciality Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Sung-Yueh Shieh, Teng-Chih Lee
  • Patent number: 10647583
    Abstract: The lifetime of a fluidized bed reactor containing silicon particles, for the production of chlorosilanes is greatly extended by armoring at least a portion of the reactor shell interior wall with expanded metal coated with a cement containing ceramic particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: WACKER CHEMIE AG
    Inventors: Maximilian Babl, Sebastian Liebischer
  • Patent number: 10647584
    Abstract: Some embodiments are directed to a method for the preparation of defect-free nanosized synthetic zeolite materials, to the defect-free nanosized synthetic zeolite materials, to stable colloidal suspensions of the defect-free synthetic zeolite materials, and to the use of the defect-free nanosized synthetic zeolite materials and the stable colloidal suspensions in various applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, ÉCOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE D'INGÉNIEURS DE CAEN, UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN / UNIVERSITÉ DE BASSE-NORMANDIE
    Inventors: Svetlana Mintova Lazarova, Siddulu Naidu Talapaneni, Julien Grand, Jean-Pierre Gilson
  • Patent number: 10647585
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the preparation of a synthetic crystalline zeolite material, to said synthetic crystalline zeolite material, and to the uses of said method and said synthetic crystalline zeolite material in various applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Valentin Valtchev, Jean-Pierre Gilson, Zhengxing Qin
  • Patent number: 10647586
    Abstract: The present invention provides an amphiphilic molecular sieve containing a lipophilic group on the outside and a hydrophilic group on the inside and a production method thereof. The production method comprises: dispersing the nano-ZSM-5 molecular sieve into toluene, adding an organosilane containing a lipophilic group and reacting at 60-100° C. for 4-16 h, to obtain a molecular sieve containing a lipophilic group; placing the molecular sieve containing a lipophilic group in a mixed solution of sodium hydroxide solution and ethanol and reacting at 60-95° C. for 20-60 min, to obtain a molecular sieve containing a lipophilic group on the outside; dispersing the molecular sieve containing a lipophilic group on the outside into toluene, adding an organosilane containing a hydrophilic group and reacting at 60-100° C. for 4-16 h, to obtain the amphiphilic molecular sieve containing a lipophilic group on the outside and a hydrophilic group on the inside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: PetroChina Company Limited
    Inventors: Baoliang Peng, Zongtao Zhang, Pingmei Wang, Runwei Wang, Bin Ding, Jianhui Luo, Lipeng He, Ying Wang, Xiangfei Geng
  • Patent number: 10647587
    Abstract: Process and plant for the synthesis of ammonia from a hydrocarbon feedstock, comprising: primary reforming with steam and air-fired secondary reforming wherein primary reforming is performed at a temperature and pressure of at least 790° C. and 50 bar, and secondary reforming is carried out substantially in absence of excess air, the so obtained make-up synthesis gas having a H2 to N2 molar ratio in the range 2.5 to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Casale SA
    Inventors: Ermanno Filippi, Raffaele Ostuni
  • Patent number: 10647588
    Abstract: The various embodiments of the invention provide, a magnesium dichloride support and the magnesium titanium polymerization procatalyst made therefrom, and methods for making and using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A.
    Inventors: Peter Zoricak, Qinyan Wang, Holly Ann Severin, Mohamed Elamine Aiffa, Kevin Dickinson
  • Patent number: 10647589
    Abstract: Provided is a novel polyoxometalate and a method for producing the polyoxometalate. The polyoxometalate is represented by the compositional formula: MxOy in which M is tungsten, molybdenum or vanadium; 4?x?1000; and 2.5?y/x?7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshifumi Kawamura
  • Patent number: 10647590
    Abstract: A removable water dispenser for an appliance having a manifold with a first water connected to a household water supply, a first water outlet connected to the first water inlet, a second water inlet, and a second water outlet connected to the second water inlet. The removable water dispenser also has a dispenser removably attached to a home appliance and having a housing, a cover coupled with the housing, a dispensing outlet, and a filter connected to the first outlet, the second inlet, and the dispensing outlet, and the dispenser dispenses filtered water to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: David P. Cooper, Christopher A. Gregory, James C. Guarino, Beth M. Jackson, Steven J. Kuehl, Joseph R. Peters, Siew Siew Chun
  • Patent number: 10647591
    Abstract: A high-magnesium concentrated liquid is disclosed. In a first embodiment, the high-magnesium concentrated liquid comprises magnesium ranged from 60000-70000 ppm, sodium ranged from 1000-3200 ppm, potassium ranged from 300-3000 ppm, calcium ranged from 100-300 ppm, and the balance of water. In a second embodiment, the high-magnesium concentrated liquid comprises magnesium ranged from 40000-50000 ppm, sodium ranged from 8000-28000 ppm, potassium ranged from 3000-20000 ppm, calcium ranged from 15-500 ppm, and the balance of water. In a third embodiment, the high-magnesium concentrated liquid comprises magnesium ranged from 80000-100000 ppm, sodium ranged from 3200-12000 ppm, potassium ranged from 3000-20000 ppm, calcium ranged from 100-200 ppm, and the balance of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Quality Pure Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guan-Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 10647592
    Abstract: The present invention discloses systems and methods for purifying non-potable water. For some embodiments, the system comprises a chemical filter placed at an outlet where potable water exits the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Inventors: Samuel Geelhood, Clare Han, Joshua Kiduk Han, Joseph Allen Merkel, Teresa Marie Merkel, Marian Pope
  • Patent number: 10647593
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide an adsorbent that can adsorb ammonia with no large volume change between absorption and desorption, that has a high ammonia and/or ammonium ion adsorption capacity, and that can have an additional function by gaining proper control of composition, etc. The invention makes it possible to provide an adsorbent that absorbs ammonia and/or ammonium ions through the use of a metal cyanocomplex as an ammonia adsorbent, experiences no or little volume change, exhibits high enough capacity for adsorbing ammonia and/or ammonium ions, and has a function of decomposing ammonia as well as a function of varying optical responses before and after adsorption, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Akira Takahashi, Tohru Kawamoto, Parajuli Durga, Hisashi Tanaka, Yutaka Sugiyama, Yukiya Hakuta
  • Patent number: 10647594
    Abstract: A reactor system may comprise a housing; and a condensation catalyst layer within the housing comprising a condensation catalyst comprised of at least one of a base-substituted zeolite, a stannous salt, or a phosphonitrile chloride. The condensation catalyst layer may be configured to catalyze a condensation reaction of a plurality of silane diols in water flowing through the housing into a plurality of siloxanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: John W. Steele, Barbara M. Peyton, Tony Rector
  • Patent number: 10647595
    Abstract: A humic acid-derived foam composed of multiple pores and pore walls, wherein the pore walls contain single-layer or few-layer humic acid-derived hexagonal carbon atomic planes or sheets, the few-layer hexagonal carbon atomic planes or sheets have 2-10 layers of stacked hexagonal carbon atomic planes having an inter-planar spacing d002 from 0.3354 nm to 0.40 nm as measured by X-ray diffraction, and the single-layer or few-layer hexagonal carbon atomic planes contain 0.01% to 25% by weight of non-carbon elements, and wherein the humic acid is selected from oxidized humic acid, reduced humic acid, fluorinated humic acid, chlorinated humic acid, brominated humic acid, iodized humic acid, hydrogenated humic acid, nitrogenated humic acid, doped humic acid, chemically functionalized humic acid, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Global Graphene Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Aruna Zhamu, Bor Z. Jang
  • Patent number: 10647596
    Abstract: The improved water purification system includes a water purification unit having a tap water inflow port for receiving a tap water inflow from a water supply system to produce relatively purified water and a brine water outflow having impurities concentrated therein. An RO filter having an RO membrane separates relatively unfiltered water flow into purified water and the brine water outflow. A flush flow activation chamber fluidly coupled to the brine water outflow includes a plunger for substantially occluding brine water outflow through the brine outflow port when seated, and substantially permits brine water outflow to exit the purification unit through the brine outflow port when unseated. Accordingly, the activation chamber generates back pressure within the water purification system to flash flow tap water inflow into the purification unit and through the RO membrane when the plunger moves from being seated to unseated, thereby substantially refreshing said RO membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: DS SERVICES OF AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Bruce D. Burrows
  • Patent number: 10647597
    Abstract: Disclosed is an air conversion and condensation electro-magnetization system which comprises a water production and treatment system, a power source and a control system, wherein the water production and treatment system comprises an air purification and condensation water-production system, a primary filter and storage system, and a water quality optimization system, the output end of the air purification and condensation water-production system is connected with the input end of the primary filter and storage system, and the output end of the primary filter and storage system is connected with the input end of the water quality optimization system. The air conversion and condensation electro-magnetization system can be used for producing high-quality drinking water meeting the drinking standard at reasonable costs in places where energy and electricity are available, and overcome the drinking water difficulty for remote arid areas lacking water sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Inventor: Tat Yung Ng
  • Patent number: 10647598
    Abstract: An antimicrobial and algicidal agent for cooling water system contains an antimicrobial agent and an isothiazolone-based compound that effectively kill and remove the algae grown in the cooling water system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: KURITA WATER INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventor: Akira Morita
  • Patent number: 10647599
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising copper and zinc adhered to reticulated foam is useful for repelling or preventing mollusk infestation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: 060Bio, LLC
    Inventors: John Sawyer, Paul Gregory Coxe
  • Patent number: 10647600
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of reducing at least one of nitrogen, carbon and phosphorous in a lagoon that includes at least three cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: BLUE FROG TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: Griscom Bettle, III
  • Patent number: 10647601
    Abstract: Provided is a method of bioremediation of organic contaminated water within an annulus of an oil lubricated shaft, the method includes: (a) introducing into the annulus of said oil lubricated shaft an amount of a bioremediation combination including (i) a microbial cocktail capable of biodegrading the organic contaminants and (ii) nitrogen source, such that said bioremediation combination is brought into contact with water suspected of being contaminated in said annulus; and (b) supply into said annulus oxygen source for a time sufficient for biodegradation of at least a portion of said organic contaminants in the water within the annulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: MEKOROT WATER COMPANY, LTD
    Inventors: Ram Cohen, Eliora Ron, Eugene Rosenberg
  • Patent number: 10647602
    Abstract: A configuration for water purification undergoes the water supply step of taking in treatment water through a water suction port and pressure-feeding the treatment water, the air supply step of taking in air through an air suction port and supplying the air, the oxygen amount increasing step of pressurizing the air supplied at the air supply step to increase the total amount of oxygen, the ionization step of ionizing the pressurized air subjected to the oxygen amount increasing step, the mixing step of obtaining gas-liquid mixing fluid subjected to first fine air bubble formation by spraying the air into the flow of treatment water, and the accelerated spraying step of performing second fine air bubble formation by accelerating a flow velocity by a narrowed-diameter portion provided at a spray nozzle when the gas-liquid mixing fluid obtained through the mixing step is sprayed into the treatment water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: Kunio FUKUDA, Takahisa FUKUDA
    Inventors: Kunio Fukuda, Takahisa Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10647603
    Abstract: Provided is a method of treating wastewater and recovering resources in acrylic fiber production, comprising the following steps: 1) filtering wastewater from water-washing and filtering unit of acrylic fiber plants by a filter to intercept and recover high-molecular-weight polymer contained therein, and then making the recovered polymer returned back to the acrylic fiber production and entered the finished product, optionally, reusing part of filtered wastewater as low salinity water in the water-washing and filtering unit: 2) removing non-interceptable high-molecular-weight polymer in the wastewater by subjecting the wastewater to coagulation and air floatation treatment; 3) introducing the effluent into biological treatment unit and adding polyvalent metal ions as an adsorption promoter to increase the removal of the non-biodegradable organics in the biological treatment unit; and 4) removing the organics remained in the effluent from the biological treatment unit by an advanced treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences
    Inventors: Yuexi Zhou, Jinyuan Jiang, Yudong Song
  • Patent number: 10647604
    Abstract: Methods and systems of a biosolids concentrator and digester system having an inlet, an equalization/separation tank, an equalization/separation tank-anaerobic tank connector, an anaerobic tank, an anaerobic tank-aerobic tank connector, an aerobic tank, an aerobic tank-clarifier tank connector, and a clarifier tank. The equalization/separation tank has a first aeration tube. The aerobic tank has a second aeration tube. The inlet receives a waste stream and enters the equalization/separation tank at an equalization/separation tank bottom portion and leaves at an equalization/separation tank top portion. The waste stream enters the anaerobic tank at an anaerobic tank bottom portion and leaves at an anaerobic top portion. The waste stream enters the aerobic tank at an aerobic tank bottom portion and leaves at an anaerobic top portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Inventor: Paul Baskis
  • Patent number: 10647605
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the treatment of organic matter, in particular sewage sludge, where the organic matter is first fed to a disintegration system. The organic matter is then subjected to thermal hydrolysis in the disintegration system to form disintegrated matter. The disintegrated matter is fed to a digester in which the disintegrated matter is at least partially digested such that digested sludge is formed, where at least part of the digested sludge obtained is recirculated via a recirculation line to a point upstream of the disintegration system. The invention further relates to a device for the treatment of organic matter, in particular sewage sludge, comprising a disintegration system, a digester downstream thereof, and a recirculation line for at least partially digested disintegrated matter, said recirculation line extending from a point downstream of the digester to a point upstream of the thermal disintegration system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: ELIQUO STULZ GMBH
    Inventors: Ulrich Knoerle, Marianne Buchmueller
  • Patent number: 10647606
    Abstract: Methods and systems for treating oil sands tailings streams at an elevated pH using lime are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the method comprises providing a tailings stream including 10-55% solids by total weight, increasing the pH of the tailings stream by combining the tailings stream with lime to produce a lime-tailings mixture having a pH of at least 11.0, and dewatering the lime-tailings mixture to produce a first stream having 10% or less solids by total weight and a second stream having 50% or more solids by total weight. The first stream can correspond to a release water stream, and the second stream can correspond to a cake. The lime slurry can include about 10% lime by total weight, and can comprise lime hydrate, quicklime, or a combination thereof. Dewatering the lime-tailings mixture can include routing the lime-tailings mixture to a centrifuge unit and/or a pressure or vacuum filtration unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Graymont Western Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Michael John Tate, Jared Ira Leikam, Jesse Wayne Fox, Nikolas Andrei Romaniuk
  • Patent number: 10647607
    Abstract: An ultraviolet transmitting glass containing, in mole percentage based on oxides, 55 to 80% of SiO2, 12 to 27% of B2O3, 4 to 20% of R2O (where R represents an alkali metal selected from a group consisting of Li, Na, and K) in total, 0 to 3.5% of Al2O3, 0 to 5% of R?O (where R? represents an alkaline earth metal selected from a group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba) in total, 0 to 5% of ZnO, and 0 to 10% of ZrO2, wherein transmittance at a wavelength of 254 nm in terms of spectral transmittance at a plate thickness of 0.5 mm is 70% or more. The glass with high ultraviolet light transmittance, in particular, high deep ultraviolet light transmittance is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Takahiro Sakagami, Makoto Shiratori
  • Patent number: 10647608
    Abstract: Provided is a super low melting SnO—SnF2—P2O5-based glass frit for which the firing temperature can be set to 200° C. or less and which has high water resistance and transparency. The fluorinated tin-based glass frit includes, in mol %, 30 to 70% of SnF2, 10 to 30% of P2O5, 10 to 40% of SnO, 0.1 to 10% of SnO2, 0 to 5% of In2O3, 0 to 5% of B2O3, and 0 to 5% of SiO2, and has a glass transition point of 160° C. or lower, a softening point of 180° C. or lower, and a maximum particle size of 100 ?m or less. The fluorinated tin-based glass frit has a visible light transmission rate of 80% or more at 200° C. and a thickness of 0.6 mm of a fired product thereof, and a rate of volume reduction of the fired product due to soaking in hot water at 85° C. for 24 hours is 2 vol. % or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: YEJ GLASS Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kohara, Yoshinari Takao, Seungwoo Lee
  • Patent number: 10647609
    Abstract: A coating composition may include a glass frit including Phosphorus Oxide (P2O5), Silicon Oxide (SiO2), Boron Oxide (B2O3), a group I-based metal oxide, Barium Oxide (BaO), Sodium Fluoride (NaF), Titanium Oxide (TiO2), Stannous Oxide (SnO), Zinc Oxide (ZnO), and an adhesion enhancement component. The P2O5 may be included by about 40 wt % to about 55 wt % based on a total weight of the glass frit. The SiO2 may be included by about 5 wt % to about 15 wt % based on the total weight of the glass frit. The B2O3 may be included by about 5 wt % to about 10 wt % based on the total weight of the glass frit. The group I-based metal oxide may be included by about 3 wt % to about 10 wt % based on the total weight of the glass frit. The ZnO may be included by about 10 wt % to about 25 wt % based on the total weight of the glass frit, and the TiO2 may be included by about 0.1 wt % to about 5 wt % based on the total weight of the glass frit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Wongyu Choi, Youngseok Kim, Suyeon Choi
  • Patent number: 10647610
    Abstract: The present invention relates to fiber glass strands, yarns, fabrics, composites, prepregs, laminates, fiber-metal laminates, and other products incorporating glass fibers formed from glass compositions. The glass fibers, in some embodiments, are incorporated into composites that can be used in reinforcement applications. Glass fibers formed from some embodiments of the glass compositions can have certain desirable properties that can include, for example, desirable electrical properties (e.g. low Dk) or desirable mechanical properties (e.g., specific strength).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: James Carl Peters, Juan Camilo Serrano, Hong Li, Cheryl A. Richards, Steven Joel Parks
  • Patent number: 10647611
    Abstract: An insulating glass (IG) window unit including first and second glass substrates that are spaced apart from each other. At least one of the glass substrate has a triple silver low-emissivity (low-E) coating on one major side thereof, and a dielectric coating for improving angular stability on the other major side thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: GUARDIAN GLASS, LLC
    Inventors: Guowen Ding, Willem Den Boer, Yiwei Lu, Cesar Clavero, Daniel Schweigert, Sang Lee
  • Patent number: 10647612
    Abstract: A composition comprising: (a) fly ash cementitious binder; and (b) a chemical activator selected from sodium silicate, potassium silicate, sodium sulfate, sodium phosphate, calcium sulfate, potassium sulfate, potassium phosphate, CaO, Fe2O3, sodium chloride, calcium chloride, fine fraction of concrete waste from construction or demolition, cement kiln dust, or a combination thereof, wherein the fly ash is the only cementitious binder present in the composition and the CaO activator, if present, is present in an amount ?10 weight percent, based on the total dry weight of the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Washington State University
    Inventors: Xianming Shi, Gang Xu
  • Patent number: 10647613
    Abstract: Disclosed is to a calcium aluminate cement, including a calcium aluminate with a first crystallised mineralogical phase of calcium dialuminate CA2 including one calcium oxide CaO for two aluminium oxides Al2O3 and/or a second crystallised mineralogical phase of dicalcium alumina silicate C2AS including two calcium oxides CaO for one aluminium oxide Al2O3 and one silicon dioxide SiO2. The mass fraction of all of the first and second mineralogical phases in the calcium aluminate is greater than or equal to 80%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: KERNEOS
    Inventors: Bruno Espinosa, Mark Winslow Fitzgerald, Charles Walter Alt, Philippe Thouilleux, Ratana Soth, Michael Lievin
  • Patent number: 10647614
    Abstract: Cutting elements include at least one metal diffused into interbonded grains of diamond. Earth-boring tools include at least one such cutting element. Methods of forming cutting elements may include forming a mixture of the at least one metal salt and a plurality of grains of hard material and sintering the mixture to form a hard polycrystalline material. During sintering, the metal salt may melt or react with another compound to form a liquid that acts as a lubricant to promote rearrangement and packing of the grains of hard material. The metal salt may, thus, enable formation of hard polycrystalline material having increased density, abrasion resistance, or strength. The metal salt may also act as a getter to remove impurities (e.g., catalyst material) during sintering. The methods may also be employed to form cutting elements and earth-boring tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventor: Anthony A. DiGiovanni
  • Patent number: 10647615
    Abstract: A method for producing a thermally insulating mortar includes introducing water, cement and a liquid surfactant containing a foam concentrate that forms a foam in a predetermined mixing ratio into a mixing device provided with a mixing impeller, and rotating the mixing impeller at a very high speed, wherein a homogeneous mixing between the water, the cement and the formed foam occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Inventor: Tanja Thomas
  • Patent number: 10647616
    Abstract: Described is an aqueous composition for repairing and/or sealing of hardened concrete structures, the aqueous composition including colloidal silica and polycarboxylate ether. Also described is a method for repairing and/or sealing a hardened concrete structure, including a step of applying an aqueous composition including colloidal silica and polycarboxylate ether to a hardened concrete structure or a part thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventors: Cristina Valverde, Luz Granizo Fernandez, Ramiro Garcia
  • Patent number: 10647617
    Abstract: An aqueous solution of carbonic anhydrase and calcium chloride is contacted with a cementitious surface defining at least one opening or fissure in the presence of ambient carbon dioxide to thereby cause the calcium chloride and carbon dioxide to react, whereby calcium carbonate precipitate from the solution and seals the opening or fissure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Inventors: Nima Rahbar, Suzanne Frances Scarlata, Jessica Anne Rosewitz
  • Patent number: 10647618
    Abstract: A thermal and environmental barrier coating composed of ceramic hollow microspheres sintered together. In one embodiment the microspheres are sintered together with a powder of another material that acts as a binder, or with a powder of a material that may be the same as the material of the hollow microspheres, forming a matrix in which the hollow microspheres are embedded. The hollow microspheres may be composed of a material with a high temperature capability, and with a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventor: Tobias A. Schaedler
  • Patent number: 10647619
    Abstract: Method for converting brown coals, including leonardite, into humic fertilizers and fuel briquettes, comprising first grinding the raw material to less than 3 mm and subsequently treating it with water or water solutions, using liquid-phase mechanoactivation and/or mechanochemical activation, with a duty of water curve ranging from 0.9 to 2.5 and with reaction composition dispersion by chafing and dynamic shift by exposing the medium to a hydraulic impulse of sonic and infrasonic frequencies, by metered introduction of 10 to 40 MJ per cubic meter of mechanical energy, with automatic limitation of the energy in the sub-cavitation area for preventing the mechanochemical reactors from falling into cavitation modes; the method further comprises separation of converted suspension compositions into solid and liquid phases in the centrifugal force field, optionally acidizing the liquid phase with the withdrawal of humic acids from the liquid phase to the heavy phase and recycling of residual water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Inventors: Vladimir Petrovich Sevast'yanov, Aleksej Ivanovich Petrov, Konstantin Nikolaevich Torop, Vitalij Nikolaevich Vary'gin
  • Patent number: 10647620
    Abstract: Flares with consumable weights connected to a forward end of the grain of the flare are disclosed. Also disclosed are consumable weight components for flares. The consumable weight components include a metal material within a matrix. Also disclosed are methods for fabricating a flare and methods for using a flare. Use of the consumable weights in the flares may reduce the amount of debris falling to ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey F. Widener, Daniel B. Nielson
  • Patent number: 10647621
    Abstract: A method for the production of hydrocarbon(s), such as methane, substituted hydrocarbons, such as methanol, or the production of hydrogen, the method comprising the steps of contacting a first catalyst with water in order to photocatalyse the splitting of at least some of the water into hydrogen and oxygen; and contacting a second catalyst with a gas stream comprising carbon dioxide and at least some of the hydrogen produced from step (a) in order to photocatalyse the reaction between the hydrogen and carbon dioxide to produce hydrocarbon(s), such as methane, and/or substituted hydrocarbons, such as methanol. In an embodiment, the catalyst comprises gold and or ruthenium nanoclusters supported on a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: Adelaide Research and Innovation, The University of Adelaide, Flinders University of South Australia, University of Canterbury, University of South Australia
    Inventors: Gregory F Metha, Gunther Andersson, Vladimir Golovko, Thomas Nann
  • Patent number: 10647622
    Abstract: A simplified processes for producing desired chemicals such as butenes from feedstock mixtures containing ethanol. In one set of embodiments this is performed in a single step, wherein a feed containing ethanol in a gas phase is passed over an acidic metal oxide catalyst having a transition metal dispersion of at least 5% on a metal oxide support. The ethanol content of the feedstock mixture may vary from 10 to 100 percent of the feed and in those non-eat applications the ethanol feed may contain water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Robert A. Dagle, Vanessa M. Dagle