Controls Flow Rate Of A Material To Or From A Contact Zone Patents (Class 422/110)
  • Patent number: 11009503
    Abstract: A biochemical detection device with a controlled reaction incubation time includes a substrate; a probe disposed on the substrate; a dissolvable material layer disposed on the substrate, wherein the dissolvable material layer has a first opening defined therein, wherein the probe is received in the first opening; an absorbing material layer disposed on the dissolvable material layer and having a second opening defined therein, wherein the first opening communicates with the second opening and is smaller than the second opening; and a non-dissolvable material layer disposed on an inner face of the second opening of the absorbing material layer and on an exposed top face of the dissolvable material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Nae Eung Lee, Won Il Lee
  • Patent number: 10814300
    Abstract: The present invention provides an automated modular system and method for production of biopolymers including DNA and RNA. The system and method automates the complete production process for biopolymers. Modular equipment is provided for performing production steps with the individual modules arrange in a linear array. Each module includes a control system and can be rack mounted. One side of the array of modules provides connections for power, gas, vacuum and reagents and is accessible to technicians. On the other side of the array of modules a robotic transport system is provided for transporting materials between module interfaces. The elimination of the requirement for human intervention at multiple steps in the production process significantly decreases the costs of biopolymer production and reduces unnecessary complexity and sources of quality variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Synthego Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Dabrowski, Michael Dabrowski, Fabian Gerlinghaus, Alex Pesch
  • Patent number: 10722844
    Abstract: Presented is a process for the regeneration of a deactivated nitrogen oxide decomposition catalyst of a selective catalytic reduction system that is a component of a flue gas treating system that is one of parallel flue gas treating systems. The selective catalytic reduction system is isolated to provide a closed system in which a regeneration gas is circulated to regenerate the deactivated nitrogen oxide decomposition catalyst. Denitrified flue gas from a parallel flue gas treating system is introduced and used within the closed system as regeneration gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SHELL OIL COMPANY
    Inventor: Guido Seng
  • Patent number: 10710914
    Abstract: A batch process for the treatment of an aqueous solution so that the treated product is more desirable for disposal includes obtaining an influent batch of aqueous solution for treatment, treating the batch of solution by an advanced oxidation process. The advanced oxidation process including causing ozone to be mixed with the solution, maintaining the mixture of solution and ozone at a pressure above atmospheric for a time of at least two seconds. An embodiment of the process includes continuously recirculating the fluid to be treated, through a recirculation conduit, the recirculation conduit including an ozone injector and the ozone injector is adapted to inject ozone into the aqueous solution as the aqueous solution circulates through an ozone injector. Influent to be treated may be selected from the group including sewage, septage, leachate, ballast or other aqueous solutions where it is desirable to treat the fluid prior to disposal, further treatment, or reuse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Great Lakes Clean Water Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Thomas W. Bain, David Fancher
  • Patent number: 10471165
    Abstract: Devices and methods for sterilizing and/or disinfecting workpieces, such as medical and dental instruments. The device can include a chamber that receives the workpieces and can be sealed. The chamber is filled with chlorine dioxide gas to a threshold concentration and for a time sufficient to sterilize and/or disinfect the workpieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: CHEMTREAT, INC.
    Inventors: John Richardson, Kevin White, Benjamin Niemaseck, Douglas McIlwaine, James Wilkins, Rob Bedinger, Yatao Liu, James Liang-Hiong Chia, Stephen C. Fanning, Tim Taylor
  • Patent number: 10088395
    Abstract: The present application relates to a device for extracting volatile components from a sample received in a sample vessel, wherein the sample vessel is closed in a gas-tight manner. The device moreover has a discharge line and a supply line, which protrude into the sample vessel. The supply line comprises a first valve with which a flow of gas through the supply line can be throttled and/or interrupted. A suction opening of a pump is fluidically connected to the discharge line via a first fluid line, such that the pressure conditions in the device can be controlled by the capacity of the pump and by the setting of the first valve. A second fluid line fluidically connects the supply line to an output opening of the pump, such that sample vessel, supply line, discharge line and pump form a closed gas circuit. A trap element with at least one sorption material is fluidically connected to the first fluid line or the second fluid line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: CTC ANALYTICS AG
    Inventors: Kai Heinrich Schueler, Melchior Zumbach, Stefan Anton Cretnik
  • Patent number: 10081832
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for the design and/or production of a probe or primer that is capable of hybridizing to a plurality of sites in a sample comprising nucleic acid. Furthermore, the present invention provides methods for detecting and amplifying nucleic acid using such a probe or primer, for example, for identification of a strain, species or genera. Probe or primer sequences are determined by reference to codon usage bias of a target nucleic acid. In addition, the present invention provides methods for determining codon distribution and/or base pair distance between codons in a nucleic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Ezygene PTY Ltd.
    Inventors: Murali Nayudu, Andrew Franklin, Yafei Zhang, Mark John Gibbs, Terry John Murphy, Adrian John Gibbs, Sheba Khan, Christian Samundsett
  • Patent number: 10029008
    Abstract: A system for the physical manipulation of free magnetic rotors in a circulatory system using a remotely placed magnetic field-generating stator is provided. In one embodiment, the invention relates to the control of magnetic particles in a fluid medium using permanent magnet-based or electromagnetic field-generating stator sources. Such a system can be useful for increasing the diffusion of therapeutic agents in a fluid medium, such as a human circulatory system, which can result in substantial clearance of fluid obstructions, such as vascular occlusions, in a circulatory system resulting in increased blood flow. Examples of vascular occlusions targeted by the system include, but are not limited to, atherosclerotic plaques, including fibrous caps, fatty buildup, coronary occlusions, arterial stenosis, restenosis, vein thrombi, arterial thrombi, cerebral thrombi, embolisms, hemorrhages, other blood clots, and very small vessels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Pulse Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventor: Francis M. Creighton
  • Patent number: 9981055
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for sterilization of the interior surface of packaging containers with electron beam, comprising an emitter provided with an electron exit window. The emitter is adapted to emit charge carriers, such as electrons, through the electron exit window, said electrons forming an electron cloud. The device comprises at least one outlet adapted to provide a flow of sterile gaseous medium adapted to maintain a local aseptic zone around at least an emitter portion including the electron exit window, thus preventing any flow of medium from outside the local aseptic zone from coming into the local aseptic zone. The invention also relates to a method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventor: Philip Sveningsson
  • Patent number: 9920396
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement for pressure and temperature let down of autoclave discharge slurry, in particular in pressure oxidation or high pressure acid leach of metal containing ore. The method of the invention comprises a step of providing autoclave vent gas obtained from the autoclave to the top-entry flash vessel for inducing overpressure to the top-entry flash vessel and preventing boiling of the slurry during the transfer to next top-entry flash vessel. The invention further relates to an autoclave and pressure let-down arrangement adapted for providing autoclave vent gas to one or more top-entry flash vessels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Outotec (Finland) Oy
    Inventor: John O'Callaghan
  • Patent number: 9914341
    Abstract: Provided is a fragrance device for vehicle with an aim to restrain an olfactory adaptation of an occupant, to continuously provide the occupant for a long time with changes in sensory intensity of smell caused by intermittent smell emission, and to provide the occupant for a long time with a relaxation effect due to a smell, the fragrance device for vehicle includes: a fragrance holder holding a fragrance; a blowing means for blowing air to the fragrance holder to blow a smell of the fragrance into a vehicle cabin; and a fragrance blowing control means for sequentially repeating the repeating of a predetermined cycle of blowing a smell of the fragrance and a pause predetermined times by intermittently blowing the smell at each cycle, and then the providing of a stop time for stopping the blowing out of the smell of the fragrance for a predetermined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Ono, Yuzuru Yoshinami, Ryunosuke Ino, Kenichiro Minami
  • Patent number: 9903866
    Abstract: Portable devices for anti-drug antibodies (ADAs) testing are provided. These devices can be used in various applications, including but not restricted to the following: uniform testing of patients for ADAs; selection of therapeutic drug for patient treatment; evaluation of the need to change therapeutic drug or to apply tolerance regimens; selection of patients for clinical trials; comparison of therapeutic drugs marketed for a given disease and also gene therapy; scientific guidance for discovering therapeutic drugs; therapeutic drug development; postmarketing surveillance of therapeutic drugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: ConquerAb Inc.
    Inventor: Maria D. F. S. Barbosa
  • Patent number: 9879310
    Abstract: Techniques, systems, devices and materials are disclosed for capturing, isolating and transporting target biomolecules and living organisms. In one aspect, a device includes a tube structured to include a large opening and a small opening that are on opposite ends of the tube, and a tube body connecting the openings and having a cross section spatially reducing in size from the large opening to the small opening, in which the tube includes a layered wall including an inner layer having a catalyst material that is reactive with a fuel fluid to produce bubbles exiting the tube from the large opening to propel the tube to move in the fuel fluid and an external layer formed of a material capable of being functionalized, and a molecular layer functionalized onto the external layer of the tube and structured to attach to a targeted molecule in the fuel fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Joseph Wang, Shankar Balasubramanian, Daniel Kagan, Susana Campuzano-Ruiz
  • Patent number: 9801963
    Abstract: Provided is a steam sterilizer capable of performing water vapor sterilization without using a vacuum pump as a mechanism for bringing the inside of a pressure vessel into vacuum. The steam sterilizer includes a pressure vessel (32) which stores an object to be sterilized and in which sterilization is performed with water vapor supplied from a steam piping, and vacuum-generating means (34) which is connected to the pressure vessel (32) and brings the inside of the pressure vessel (32) into a vacuum state. The vacuum-generating means (34) includes a water ejector (48), a tank (50) for storing supply water supplied from an outside, and a pump (52) for supplying the supply water inside the tank (50) to the water ejector (48).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SAKURA SEIKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chihiro Kinebuchi, Eiichi Minemura, Satoshi Tanaka, Haruo Machida, Akihiro Miyamoto, Kouji Tanaka, Hiroshi Karasawa
  • Patent number: 9733150
    Abstract: An inspection method for inspecting the water resistance of an electronic device is provided, including providing a vacuum generator, using the vacuum generator to pump air out of the electronic device, stopping the pumping of air out of the electronic device when the air pressure in the electronic device is less than a predetermined pressure value, measuring the air pressure in the electronic device as a first pressure value after the pumping of air out of the electronic device has been stopped for a predetermined time, calculating the pressure difference D by subtracting a second pressure value from the predetermined pressure value, calculating the pressure difference d by subtracting the second pressure value from the first pressure value, and determining whether the electronic device is waterproof or not according to the pressure differences D and d.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: HTC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shen-Chun Fan, Chien-Chuan Ko
  • Patent number: 9714888
    Abstract: The invention discloses a device and method for rapid high-pressure gas sampling includes a main gas line, a sample container filled with liquid and sampling tube, a close loop sampling bypass line coupled with the said main gas line, the upper end of the sampling tube connects with a particulate filter in the sampling bypass line, the sampling tube lower end extending into inside sample container, on top of the sample container a gas outlet line is attached, condensate drain path attaches to the sample container. The fast high pressure gas sampling device significantly minimizes the process gas sampling time to a few seconds range, which will help improve a real-time gas components analysis and process control for high pressure high temperature and dust laden conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Inventor: Ye Li
  • Patent number: 9695817
    Abstract: Methods of and devices for testing medical pumps via tracking induced bubble trajectories within a fluid flow conduit comprising a valve and methods of synchronized corrections of flow data estimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: PRONK TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Karl A. Ruiter, Mirik Hovsepian
  • Patent number: 9694361
    Abstract: The disclosure provides devices, systems and methods for the generation of encapsulated reagents and the partitioning of encapsulated reagents for use in subsequent analyses and/or processing, such as in the field of biological analyses and characterization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: 10X Genomics, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajiv Bharadwaj, Kevin Ness, Debkishore Mitra, Donald Masquelier, Anthony Makarewicz, Christopher Hindson, Benjamin Hindson, Serge Saxonov
  • Patent number: 9689786
    Abstract: A method for determining the size distribution of a mixture of molecule or particle species including the steps of: injecting a sample of the mixture to be analyzed inside a capillary in which an eluent is flowing; transporting the sample injected along the capillary from an injection section to a detection section thereof, in experimental conditions suitable to generate a Taylor dispersion phenomenon that is measurable at the level of the detection section; generating, by a suitable sensor included in the detection section, a signal characteristic of the Taylor dispersion of the transported sample; processing the detection signal in order to obtain an experimental Taylor signal S(t); and analyzing the experimental Taylor signal ?(t), wherein the step of analyzing an experimental Taylor signal ?(t) of a sample of the mixture consists of searching an amplitude distribution P(G(c)) that allows the experimental Taylor signal ?(t)? to be broken down into a sum of Gaussian functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (C.N.R.S.), UNIVERSITE MONTPELLIER 1, UNIVERSITE MONTPELLIER 2, SCIENCES ET TECHNIQUES
    Inventors: Hervé Cottet, Luca Cipelletti, Michel Martin, Jean-Philippe Biron
  • Patent number: 9480962
    Abstract: Compact modular cassette systems and methods for the synthesis of radiopharmaceutical products are provided, the compact modular cassette system including a modular unit having valve plates, a reaction cassette, a reagent pack, and other seal and connector plates to ensure that reagents can be mixed together inside one or more chambers of the reaction cassette in a timely and efficient manner. When a new chamber for each new reaction or process should be used, a valveless modular system having removable reaction cassettes and the reagent packs may be used. In such a system, the reagent container, the reaction cassette, or both, can be removed from the modular cassette system and discarded after a desired reaction or process has taken place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Cardinal Health 414, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Alan Klausing, Brian Charles Kelley, Joseph Edward Zambanini, David Arthur Holley, Jeffrey Taylor Stroup, Mehmet Husnu, Dennis Eshima
  • Patent number: 9435729
    Abstract: A method for degassing a liquid by means of a piston pump unit having a receiving chamber serving for accommodating the liquid to be degassed and connected with at least one supply line and at least one drain line, and a piston seated in the receiving chamber for performing stroke movements. The piston provides a liquid sealing of the receiving chamber on one end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventor: Ralf Bernhard
  • Patent number: 9381264
    Abstract: A steam sterilizer includes a sterilization tank configured to house an object to be sterilized and perform sterilization on the object to be sterilized by maintaining supplied steam at a predetermined temperature and under a predetermined pressure; a steam-supplying pipe configured to supply the steam into the sterilization tank; a steam-supplying pipe valve configured to control an amount of steam flow flowing through the steam-supplying pipe, wherein the steam-supplying pipe is provided so as to have a diameter that allows a pressure-increase rate of 100 kPa/min or more in the sterilization tank; and a control unit configured to control the steam-supplying pipe valve to be fully opened, in a conditioning process for repeatedly performing introduction and discharge of the steam in and from the sterilization tank and to control the steam-supplying pipe valve so as to supply a predetermined amount of steam, in a sterilization process after the conditioning process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Sakura Seiki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiichi Minemura, Haruo Machida, Hiroshi Karasawa
  • Patent number: 9345913
    Abstract: Detailed is an aircraft oxygen emergency device including a chemical oxygen generator, an oxygen supply line including a first line section connecting the chemical oxygen generator with a flow regulator unit, and a second line section connecting the flow regulator unit with at least one oxygen mask for supplying oxygen to a mouth or a nose (or both) of a person at a breathing pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Zodiac Aerotechnics
    Inventors: Wolfgang Rittner, Rudiger Meckes, Gunter Boomgaarden, Mark Niedostatek
  • Patent number: 9200205
    Abstract: A reactor is provided for the preparation of modified bitumen, which reactor comprises a horizontal housing comprising a cylindrical wall and two side walls, wherein a bitumen inlet has been provided at or near one of the side walls of the housing and a bitumen product outlet has been provided at or near the opposite side wall of the housing, wherein a plurality of inlets for the provision of oxygen-containing gas has been provided in the cylindrical wall of the housing between the bitumen inlet and the bitumen product outlet, which multi-purpose reactor is further provided with a mixer arranged inside the housing comprising at least one rotor rotating within at least one stator having a plurality of openings. Also there is provided a process for the preparation of modified bitumen, which comprises contacting bitumen at elevated temperature and pressure with a modifier in a reactor as herein described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Roberto Bran, Cheluva Kumar, Sachin Raj, Daryl Scott
  • Patent number: 9039968
    Abstract: A smart home system having a controller which controls an ozone generator, gas supply outlets connected to gas supply outlets of the ozone generator via a pipe, and solenoid valves which control opening and closing of the gas supply outlets. The controller is connected with each of the solenoid valves and controls opening and closing of each of the solenoid valves. An operation method for the system discloses driving the ozone generator by the controller to generate ozone, controlling opening of the solenoid valves by the central processor when the central processor receives an external signal for opening the solenoid valves, reducing opening level of the solenoid valves when a gas flow sensor detects that the ozone flow rate passing through the gas inlet is greater than the flow rate threshold, and controlling closing of the solenoid valves by the central processor when the central processor receives a signal for closing the solenoid valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Inventor: Hong Jiang
  • Publication number: 20150139859
    Abstract: An exhaust aftertreatment system may include a tank, an injector, a supply conduit, a pump, a pressure sensor, and a control module. The tank may contain a volume of a fluid. The injector may be configured to inject the fluid into a stream of exhaust gas discharged from the combustion engine. The supply conduit may fluidly connect the tank and the injector. The pump may pump the fluid from the tank to the injector. The control module may be in communication with the pressure sensor and the pump and may control the pump based on first and second measurements from the pressure sensor. The first measurement may be indicative of a first pressure within the supply conduit when the pump is operating. The second measurement from the pressure sensor may be indicative of a second pressure within the supply conduit when the pump is not operating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc.
    Inventor: Gary Butzke
  • Publication number: 20150118146
    Abstract: This is a system for generating hydrogen on-board the vehicle from compressed natural gas (CNG) in select ratios to create hydrogen-enriched CNG (HCNG) fuel for use in internal combustion engines. The on-board generation of hydrogen is comprised of a reforming system of CNG fuel with direct contact with exhaust gases. The reforming system controls for production of HCNG fuel mixtures is based on specific engine operating conditions. The vehicle's engine controls and operating parameters are modified for combustion of selective ratios of HCNG fuel mixtures throughout engine operating cycle. The reforming system controls and engine controls modifications are also used to minimize combustion emissions and optimize engine performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Nick K. EDALATI, Daniel K. COLLINSON
  • Publication number: 20150096461
    Abstract: Provided is a method for regenerating a nitric acid active treatment solution comprising: adding a zinc ion-aggregating agent to a nitric acid active treatment solution for a surface of a zinc-based material plated metal member, the nitric acid active treatment solution containing zinc ions, to thereby aggregate the zinc ions in the solution as an insoluble salt; and separating and removing the insoluble salt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: DIPSOL CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuta Kashio, Tomitaka Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20150076036
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling a hydrocracker and fractionator reaction loop is disclosed. The method and system utilizes a sidedraw tray within the fractionator distillation zone upon which liquid is collected. This liquid is withdrawn as a sidedraw stream. The withdrawal of the liquid from the sidedraw tray is controlled based on the level of liquid on the sidedraw tray rather than at a set or determined flow rate. The sidedraw stream is separated into a first stream and a product stream. Unlike other processes where the flow rate of the product stream is set and the internal reflux flow rate varies, the method involves fixing the flow rate of the first stream that is returned to the distillation zone of the fractionators with the flow rate of the product stream being set so as to control the liquid level on the sidedraw tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventor: Robert James REDELMEIER
  • Patent number: 8980181
    Abstract: An ammonia generating and delivery apparatus generating ammonia by heating a precursor material with a heating device controlled by a temperature pulse controller which receives commands from a pressure controller, and delivering ammonia with a flow rate controlled by a three-stage PWM controller. The temperature pulse controller is used in a first feedback loop to create a temperature pulse sequence at a surface of the heating device. A pressure controller in a second feedback loop provides duty-cycle commands to the temperature pulse controller, while in delivering ammonia, effects of pressure variation to delivery accuracy are compensated in the three-stage PWM controller, which includes a flow-rate feedback loop. The ammonia generating and delivery apparatus can also include two containers, in which the precursor material in one container is charged and discharged according to the capability of the other container in generating ammonia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Inventor: Baohua Qi
  • Patent number: 8975303
    Abstract: In a synthesis gas methanation process, at least one first fraction of synthesis gas to treat is fed, together with steam, to a shift reactor where a shift reaction occurs; the gas flow produced in the shift reactor is then fed to a first methanation reactor where a methanation reaction occurs and then to further second methanation reactors in series, where further methanation reactions, performed with the addition of fresh synthesis gas which has not been subjected to the shift reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Foster Wheeler Italiana S.r.l.
    Inventors: Luigi Bressan, Maria Sudiro
  • Patent number: 8956567
    Abstract: A control system for optimizing a chemical loop system includes one or more sensors for measuring one or more parameters in a chemical loop. The sensors are disposed on or in a conduit positioned in the chemical loop. The sensors generate one or more data signals representative of an amount of solids in the conduit. The control system includes a data acquisition system in communication with the sensors and a controller in communication with the data acquisition system. The data acquisition system receives the data signals and the controller generates the control signals. The controller is in communication with one or more valves positioned in the chemical loop. The valves are configured to regulate a flow of the solids through the chemical loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Xinsheng Lou, Abhinaya Joshi, Hao Lei
  • Patent number: 8951480
    Abstract: A modular chemical production system includes multiple modules for performing a chemical reaction, particularly of radiochemical compounds, from a remote location. One embodiment comprises a reaction vessel including a moveable heat source with the position thereof relative to the reaction vessel being controllable from a remote position. Alternatively the heat source may be fixed in location and the reaction vial is moveable into and out of the heat source. The reaction vessel has one or more sealing plugs, the positioning of which in relationship to the reaction vessel is controllable from a remote position. Also the one or more reaction vessel sealing plugs can include one or more conduits there through for delivery of reactants, gases at atmospheric or an elevated pressure, inert gases, drawing a vacuum and removal of reaction end products to and from the reaction vial, the reaction vial with sealing plug in position being operable at elevated pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Nagichettiar Satyamurthy, Jorge R. Barrio, Bernard Amarasekera, R. Michael Van Dam, Sebastian Olma, Dirk Williams, Mark A. Eddings, Clifton Kwang-Fu Shen
  • Patent number: 8951475
    Abstract: A chemical heat accumulator includes a receptacle, a first reaction vessel, and a second reaction vessel. The first reaction vessel is hermetically connected to the receptacle and supplied with water from the receptacle. The first reaction vessel contains a chemical compound that causes a hydration reaction with the water from the receptacle to generate water vapor by a heat of reaction, and causes a dehydration reaction by receiving heat. The second reaction vessel is hermetically connected to the first reaction vessel and supplied with the water vapor from the first reaction vessel. The second reaction vessel contains a chemical heat storage material that generates heat by causing a hydration reaction with the water vapor from the first reaction vessel and stores heat through a dehydration reaction caused by receiving heat. The chemical heat storage material is thermally in contact with an object to be heated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuya Komaki, Hiroshi Mieda, Tadahiro Nakagawa, Takashi Shimazu, Tomohisa Wakasugi, Hiroyuki Mitsui, Hideo Sobukawa
  • Patent number: 8926907
    Abstract: Systems for loading catalyst and/or additives into a fluidized catalytic cracking unit are disclosed. Methods of making and using the systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: W. R. Grace & Co.-Conn
    Inventor: Lenny Lee Albin
  • Patent number: 8926908
    Abstract: Reactor vessels with pressure and heat transfer features for producing hydrogen-based fuels and structural elements, and associated systems and methods. A representative reactor system includes a first reaction zone and a heat path, a reactant source coupled to the first reaction zone, and a first actuator coupled to cyclically pressurize the first reaction zone. A second reaction zone is in fluid communication with the first, a valve is coupled between the first and second reaction zones to control a flow rate therebetween, and a second actuator is coupled in fluid communication with the second reaction zone to cyclically pressurize the second reaction zone. First and second heat exchangers direct heat from products to reactants in the reaction zones. A controller controls the first and second actuators in a coordinated manner based at least in part on a flow rate of the second product from the second reaction zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: McAlister Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Roy Edward McAlister
  • Patent number: 8926720
    Abstract: The mass flow rate of a first reactant stream supplied to a fuel processor is controlled based on a combined feed-forward and feedback control regime. The method is particularly applicable for actively controlling the fuel supply to a fuel processor in a system comprising a combustion engine, in which the fuel processor is fluidly connected to receive at least a portion of an engine exhaust stream from the engine. In embodiments of the system and method, the supply of fuel is controlled based on three mass flow factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Westport Power Inc.
    Inventor: Xuantian Li
  • Patent number: 8920732
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for actively controlling the steam-to-carbon ratio in hydrogen-producing fuel processing systems that include a feedstock delivery system. The feedstock delivery system supplies a combined feedstock stream including steam and carbon-containing feedstock to a hydrogen-producing region, which produces a mixed gas stream including hydrogen gas as a majority component therefrom. The systems and methods may include measuring a thermodynamic property of a steam stream, a carbon-containing feedstock stream, and/or the combined feedstock stream and controlling the flow rate and/or pressure of a water stream, the steam stream, and/or the carbon-containing feedstock stream based on a desired steam-to-carbon ratio in the combined feedstock stream and/or a desired flow rate of the mixed gas stream and may include feedforward and/or feedback control strategies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: DCNS
    Inventors: Zhen Chen, Xun Ouyang
  • Publication number: 20140369891
    Abstract: An ozone-based disinfecting device is provided comprising a mixer having a generally hollow body with a water inlet for water under pressure, a spray nozzle for generating a generally conical spray of water introduced by way of the water inlet, a contact chamber communicating with a gas inlet for ozone rich gases, and an outlet aperture from the contact chamber that is coaxial with the spray nozzle and spaced apart therefrom. An electronic flow sensing device senses the extent of the flow of water through the spray nozzle according to vibration caused by water flowing through the mixer. The electronic flow sensing device is preferably located in a pocket formed in the mixer and preferably comprises a piezoelectric sensor embedded at least around its periphery in a settable material. A preferred construction of the mixer is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Crispin Miles Russell, Mark Gregory Marshall, Clint Les Foster, Derek Hedley Rowles
  • Patent number: 8906314
    Abstract: A bubble column reactor includes a reactor body which contains a slurry having solid catalyst particles suspended in a liquid, an inflow port which is provided at the bottom of the reactor body and allows a synthesis gas including a carbon monoxide gas and a hydrogen gas as the main components to flow into the slurry therethrough, and an outflow port which is provided at the top of the reactor body and allows gaseous hydrocarbons synthesized by a chemical reaction between the synthesis gas and the slurry, an unreacted synthesis gas, and the like to flow out therethrough. The distance in a vertical direction between the liquid surface of the slurry and the outflow port is 1.4 m or more and 10 m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignees: Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, Inpex Corporation, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation, Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd., Cosmo Oil Co., Ltd., Nippon Steel Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Onishi, Yuzuru Kato, Eiichi Yamada, Atsushi Murata, Osamu Wakamura
  • Patent number: 8906326
    Abstract: A biochemical reaction cassette having a structure for uniformizing a liquid flow in a reaction chamber with a simple additional arrangement is provided. A fluid resistive section is arranged in a channel that is constructed to include an injection port, a reaction chamber, and a discharge port. The fluid resistive section decreases the cross-sectional area of the channel to decrease the fluid resistance at ends in the width direction of the fluid resistive section and at positions remote from the injection port and the discharge port, where the flow rate is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takaaki Aoyagi, Tomoyuki Makihira
  • Patent number: 8881748
    Abstract: A dishwasher includes a hydraulically actuated dispenser for dispensing an additive into a treating chamber of the dishwasher. The dispenser includes a storage chamber, a lid, and a hydraulic cylinder that is fluidly connected to a water source external to the dishwasher. The hydraulic cylinder opens the dispenser lid at a predetermined point in a washing operation such that the additive is released into the treating chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Paul E. Beshears, Jr., Elliott V. Stowe
  • Patent number: 8871154
    Abstract: A process unit, having: a) an oligomerization reactor; and b) a control system that enables the reactor to be operated in a distillate mode and in a lubricant mode; and wherein the reactor can switch between modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventor: Sven Ivar Hommeltoft
  • Publication number: 20140308186
    Abstract: Some industrial or fabrication processes generate effluent gas streams that require scrubbing. Scrubbing may include the use of one or more gases to abate the effluents for safer release into the environment. Systems and methods described herein provide a liquid-enclosed reaction chamber where an extended reaction zone or more than one reaction zone is formed. By having an extended reaction zone or more than one reaction zone, the effluent gas stream and the products of upstream reaction zones can be more completely abated. The reaction zones are formed by adding one or more gas ports into the reaction chamber downstream of a main burner nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Airgard, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel L. Messineo, Robert T. LoBianco, Mark W. Johnsgard
  • Patent number: 8852516
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a continuous separation and discharge apparatus and method of solid catalysts and liquid products for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reactions, and more particularly, to a continuous separation and discharge apparatus and method of solid catalysts and products for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reactions involving the conversion of synthetic gas into synthetic oil, by which products of the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis including wax, as a long-chain hydrocarbon, can be stably obtained by continuously separating the products from a slurry comprising solid catalyst particles and the products using periodic pulses of a feeding gas and discharging the products through a lower portion of a reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignees: Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daelim Industrial Co., Ltd., Korea National Oil Corporation, Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd., SK Innovation Co., Ltd., Korea Gas Corporation
    Inventors: Kwang Jae Woo, Ki-won Jun, Suk-Hwan Kang, Seung-Moon Kim, Jong-Wook Bae
  • Patent number: 8844155
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hopper of an injection molding machine, which comprises a combined hopper, an electric heating air-blasting system and a temperature control system, wherein the combined hopper comprises two or more than two sub-hoppers; each sub-hopper is provided with an independent sub-feed inlet, an independent sub-discharge outlet and a branch air-blasting port capable of being controlled independently; all the sub-discharge outlets of the sub-hoppers are communicated with a thermostatic chamber arranged below the sub-discharge outlets; a main discharge outlet and a main air supply port are arranged at the lower part of the thermostatic chamber; and the thermostatic chamber and each sub-hopper are provided with independent temperature control systems respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Inventor: Zhengrong Lou
  • Publication number: 20140286823
    Abstract: A decontamination system for decontaminating at least one contaminant in a process stream. Decontaminant liquid is dispersed into the process stream sing atomization. Differential injection pressure and/or injection flow rate are monitored to help ensure that the atomization process is optimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventor: Lance Witt
  • Publication number: 20140286829
    Abstract: An ammonia generating and delivery apparatus generating ammonia by heating a precursor material with a heating device controlled by a temperature pulse controller which receives commands from a pressure controller, and delivering ammonia with a flow rate controlled by a three-stage PWM controller. The temperature pulse controller is used in a first feedback loop to create a temperature pulse sequence at a surface of the heating device. A pressure controller in a second feedback loop provides duty-cycle commands to the temperature pulse controller, while in delivering ammonia, effects of pressure variation to delivery accuracy are compensated in the three-stage PWM controller, which includes a flow-rate feedback loop. The ammonia generating and delivery apparatus can also include two containers, in which the precursor material in one container is charged and discharged according to the capability of the other container in generating ammonia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventor: Baohua Qi
  • Publication number: 20140286843
    Abstract: A fluid filtration apparatus, which includes a plurality of optical fibers each having a length, wherein one or more of the plurality of optical fibers exhibits frustrated total internal reflection, thereby emitting light along the length of one or more of the optical fibers, in combination with a photocatalyst disposed on the plurality of optical fibers and a light source interconnected to the plurality of optical fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Craig Grossman, Charles Geoffrion
  • Patent number: 8821800
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for catalyst preparation. A system for catalyst preparation may include an agitator disposed inside a polymerization catalyst tank and configured to mix a polymerization catalyst and a solvent to generate a polymerization catalyst solution. The system may also include a heating system coupled to the polymerization catalyst tank and configured to maintain a temperature of the polymerization catalyst solution above a threshold. The system may also include a precontactor configured to receive feed streams comprising an activator and the polymerization catalyst solution from the polymerization catalyst tank to generate a catalyst complex. The system may also include a transfer line configured to transfer the catalyst complex from an outlet of the precontactor to a reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
    Inventors: Elizabeth A Benham, Albert P Masino, Qing Yang, Randy S Muninger, Rebecca A Gonzales