Water Patents (Class 423/580.1)
  • Publication number: 20120275989
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention is to a process for producing a water stream comprising the steps of hydrogenating acetic acid to form a crude ethanol product and separating at least a portion of the crude ethanol product in at least one column of a plurality of columns into a distillate comprising ethanol and a residue comprising the water stream. The water stream preferably is essentially free of organic impurities other than acetic acid and ethanol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: CELANESE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Trinity Horton, Radmila Jevtic, Victor J. Johnston, Lincoln Sarager, R. Jay Warner, Heiko Weiner
  • Publication number: 20120276216
    Abstract: A therapeutic treatment process a source for generating specific frequencies that are able to provide a concentrated specific frequency to individual molecules of a fluid such as water. The specific frequency that is applied to the individual molecules has been determined to cause the molecule to “mimic” the effect of a specific substance or to cause a cell to do so. One such mechanism is the treated molecule acting as an agonist that triggers the receptor of a cell to release the function of the cell. These cell functions may mimic such substances as oxygen, amino acids, antioxidants, as well as substances that help nerves, hormones, bones, muscle, skin, hair, eyes, digestion, sleep and many more. The effects from the substances may include without limitation non-specific effects such as relaxing, energizing, calming, anti-aging and other effects that may benefit widely disparate individuals, as well as therapeutic effects for specific diseases and conditions for specific individuals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventor: Benjamin Johnson
  • Patent number: 8281577
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system, which upgrades exhaust gas purification while curtailing an increase in an operating cost, is disclosed. The exhaust gas purification system comprises an SCR catalyst for reducing and removing nitrogen oxides in an exhaust gas from an engine (10) by bringing the nitrogen oxides into contact with a reducing agent, oxidation catalysts (11, 17) for oxidizing gas components in the exhaust gas, a water electrolysis device (24) for producing oxygen by electrolyzing water, and an oxygen supply pipe (29) for supplying the oxygen produced by the water electrolysis device (24) to the exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masazumi Tanoura, Shuuji Fujii, Masatoshi Katsuki, Daishi Ueno, Yuko Ujihara
  • Publication number: 20120204764
    Abstract: A wellbore servicing method comprises converting a water into an electrochemically activated water, preparing a wellbore servicing composition comprising the electrochemically activated water, and placing the wellbore servicing composition in a wellbore. Also, cement composition comprises a cement and an electrochemically activated water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Jim Weaver, Mark Savery, Billy Slabaugh, Roger Cromwell
  • Publication number: 20120199208
    Abstract: A method of generating a series of successive marked parcels of water in a water distribution network (12) fed by at least one water source (16) supplying water continuously, the method being characterized in that it includes: a step of measuring at least one first physico-chemical parameter of water from the source; a step of comparing the variation of the first parameter and a predetermined threshold; a step of defining parcels of water (L1, L2, L3, L4) during which each parcel of water is constituted by the volume of water supplied by the source between a first time and a second time later than the first time, the second time being determined automatically so as to correspond to a time at which said at least one measured first parameter is subject to a variation greater than the predetermined threshold; a step of acquiring and storing a natural evolution of the measured first parameter between the first and second times; and a step of natural marking of said parcel of water that consists in associating sai
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: VEOLIA EAU- COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES EAUX
    Inventors: Marc Moreau, Cyrille Lemoine
  • Publication number: 20120168157
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for making pure salt comprises recapturing post-drilling flowback water from hydro-fracturing; removing oil from the flowback water; filtering the flowback water using an ultra filter with a pore size of about 0.1 microns or less to remove solid particulates and large organic molecules, such as benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, and xylene, from the water; concentrating the flowback water to produce a brine that contains from about 15 wt % to about 40 wt % of salt relative to the total weight of the flowback brine; performing one or more chemical precipitation process using an effective amount of reagents to precipitate out the desired high quality commercial products, such as, barium sulfate, strontium carbonate, calcium carbonate; and crystallizing the chemically treated and concentrated flowback brine to produce greater than 99.5% pure salt products, such as sodium and calcium chloride.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: FRACPURE HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Frank A. DiTommaso, Peter N. DiTommaso
  • Publication number: 20120148481
    Abstract: A process for the co-production of superheated steam and methane includes reacting a gas containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen in a series of methanation regions to produce a product gas containing methane. The gas containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen flows, in passing through the series of methanation regions, successively through at least a first internally cooled methanation region and a second internally cooled methanation region, cooling the first and second internally cooled methanation region with water, which water is vaporized in the first internally cooled methanation region to produce steam and which steam is subsequently superheated in the second internally cooled methanation region to produce superheated steam. The internally cooled methanation regions include tubes filled with a methanation catalyst and a space surrounding the tubes. The gas containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen and/or product gas flows through the tubes and the water flows through the space surrounding the tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventors: Lloyd Anthony Clomburg, JR., Anand Nilekar
  • Publication number: 20120141351
    Abstract: The emission of volatile organic compounds from apparatus for reclaiming used oils is controlled. Both the apparatus for reclaiming the used oils and the apparatus configured to control the emission of volatile organic compounds that are released at the reclaiming apparatus can be located on an over-the-road vehicle. The apparatus for reclaiming the used oils can be configured to be operatively associated with an electric transformer for reclaiming used oils in the transformer. The volatile organic compounds released in the apparatus for reclaiming used oils can first be heated and thereafter passed through a catalytic oxidizer in the apparatus configured to control the emission of volatile organic compounds, and the volatile organic compounds converted to gaseous products that are free of volatile organic compounds to a selected degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: STEPHANIE ANN DENZER, William Todd Burns, John Michael Engstrom
  • Publication number: 20120100203
    Abstract: Fabrication of yarns or other shaped articles from materials in powder form (or nanoparticles or nanofibers) using carbon nanotube/nanofiber sheet as a platform (template). This includes methods for fabricating biscrolled yarns using carbon nanotube/nanofiber sheets and biscrolled fibers fabricated thereby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventors: Shaoli Fang, Marcio Dias Lima, Xavier N. Lepro-Chavez, Javier Carretero-Gonzalez, Elizabeth Castillo-Martinez, Raquel Ovalle-Robles, Carter Sebastian Haines, David Michael Novitski, Mohammad H. Haque, Chihye Lewis-Azad, Mikhail Kozlov, Anvar A. Zakhidov, Ray H. Baughman
  • Patent number: 8147876
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a medical agent that has an excellent effect on the diseases resulting from one of inflammation and remodeling and that can prevent or treat them in response to various mechanisms of onset and development of the diseases. Thus, the present invention relates to a medical agent for preventing or treating diseases resulting from one of inflammation and remodeling in blood vessel, including nanobubbles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignees: National University Corporation Tokyo Medical and Dental University, REO Laboratory, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Hojo, Kaneo Chiba, Yoshihiro Mano
  • Publication number: 20120039792
    Abstract: Described is a method of water treatment including the steps of: a) Stripping water or dissolved gas by an inert gas b) Subjecting water to oxidation treatment to precipitate metals; and c) Removing precipitates from water. Oxidation treatment is a multi-stage oxidation treatment including the stages of: (1) contacting water with oxidant under pressure to precipitate metals from water; and (2) catalytic oxidation of water with oxidant, oxidation being catalysed by a catalyst, such as a zeolite catalyst, in a bed reactor or filter. Inert gas stripping is aimed at preventing growth of iron bacteria in the treatment system. Pressurised oxidation reduces the amount of oxidant injection required for catalytic oxidation. The method is particularly suited to removal of contaminants such as iron, manganese and arsenic from ground water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventor: Gheorghe Duta
  • Publication number: 20120029120
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods of removing particulate matter from potash tailings fluid. The invention includes providing an activating material capable of being affixed to the particulate matter, affixing the activating material to the particulate matter to form an activated particle, providing an anchor particle and providing a tethering material capable of being affixed to the anchor particle; and attaching the tethering material to the anchor particle and the activated particle to form a removable complex in the potash tailings fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventors: David S. Soane, Nathan Ashcraft, Phyo Nyi Nyi Kyaw
  • Publication number: 20120003135
    Abstract: Methods of treating water, methods of removing radium from water, methods for controlling the amount of at least one target element removed from water and the amount of at least one target element in a pellet, a pellet and treated water. The method may generally include providing water including a principal ion and a target element, contacting the water with a fluidized bed, the fluidized bed including seed material, and controlling at least one of a type and a size of the seed material to remove principal ion and target element from the water. The target element may include radium. The principal ion may include calcium, magnesium, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Inventors: Nicholas Vollendorf, Eric Fessler, Mark Pronley, Erik L. Storvik
  • Publication number: 20110300267
    Abstract: Methods and systems for grouping, recovering, and processing ice obtained from an ice source, i.e., a glacier, ice sheet, ice cap, etc., are described herein. In particular, the ice obtained from the ice source is separated and grouped according to common unique properties and processed as a beverage for consumption having the same unique properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventor: Juan Carlos Szydlowski
  • Publication number: 20110287144
    Abstract: A method of recovering palatable potable storable water from a process for concentrating an extracted juice, the method including the steps of: providing the extracted juice; concentrating the extracted juice to form a concentrated juice stream and a concentrator waste stream, wherein the concentrator waste stream is not palatable, potable or storable; and purifying the concentrator waste stream to provide palatable potable storable water including the step of passing the concentrator waste stream through activated carbon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventor: Ambrosios KAMBOURIS
  • Publication number: 20110236298
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for absorbing and/or desorbing water by contacting water with hybrid inorganic-organic material having high surface area, and pores with the size of molecules or nanometers. More specifically, the water adsorbent has facile adsorption-desorption even below 100° C., having high adsorption capacity, and having high desorption capacity when it is heated up to the temperature below 100° C. The adsorbent of the present invention can be applied to a humidifier, dehumidifier, cooler and heater. The present invention also relates to a technology to control humidity using the adsorbent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jong-San Chang, Sung-Hwa Jhung, Young-Kyu Hwang
  • Publication number: 20110218251
    Abstract: A product has solid stable water clusters including a plurality of water molecules connected with one another by electrical dipole interaction via internal electric field of ions and having a permanent electric dipole moment with an electrical field surrounding the solid stable water clusters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Inventors: Shui Yin Lo, David Gann, Geng Xu
  • Publication number: 20110200897
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system for delivery of a target material and/or energy. The system includes a source configured to provide a mixture containing the target material and a non-target material, a delivery conduit coupled to the source to receive the mixture from the source, and an in-line extraction device concentric to the delivery conduit. The in-line extraction device is configured to selectively extract the target material and/or energy from the mixture in the delivery conduit and to delivery it to a downstream facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: McAlister Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Roy Edward McAlister
  • Patent number: 7993546
    Abstract: An apparatus for forming nano-structures of carbon solids includes a reactor chamber into which extends a plasma torch configured to generate a plasma plume that extends into the interior of the reactor chamber. CO2 from is applied to the plasma plume where the CO2 is dissociated into carbon and oxygen. A plurality of nozzles also extends into the reactor chamber, which sprays liquid water on the plume, cooling at least a portion of the carbon causing it to form solid carbon nano-structures in a mixture of liquid water. The mixture is conveyed to a flocculation tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Plasma Waste Recycling, Inc.
    Inventors: Rodrigo B. Vera, Alexander P. Rutberg
  • Publication number: 20110176991
    Abstract: Electrochemically-treated water having an electron deficiency is described, which may be attained by a process comprising the following steps: a) Electrolysing water, b) Withdrawing a portion of the catholyte from the system, and c) Introducing the remaining catholyte into the anodic chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Manuel Czech, André Philipps, Michael Saefkow
  • Publication number: 20110150751
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing green-energy water, including: conducting water flow through a self-support visible-light photocatalytic reaction device, which decomposes the water into hydrogen ions and hydroxide ions; conducting the hydrogen ions and the hydroxide ions through an ion separation device, which separates the hydrogen ions and the hydroxide ions from each other; and conducting the separated hydroxide ions into an amount of water to form an amount of alkaline green-energy water and conducting the separated hydrogen ions into another amount of water to form an amount of acidulous green-energy water. The green-energy water manufactured in this way is environmentally friendly and can be used in cleaning purposes of photoelectric and semiconductor industries, processing of waste water, organic cultivation, organic agriculture, purification of water, sterilization of medical facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventor: TIEN-TSAI LIN
  • Publication number: 20110150779
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for treating hydrated material in a fluid that contains water in which a stable nitroxide is attached to the hydrated material. A dynamic nuclear polarization process (DNP) is conducted on the hydrated material whereby to hyperpolarize the water. A polarization cell contains the hydrated material to obtain hyperpolarized water free from the nitroxide. The dynamic nuclear polarization process is conducted using components comprising a tunable, solid state high power X-band driver and an X-band resonator for microwave transmission to the hydrated material. The components can also include a radio-frequency nuclear magnetic resonance probe, a permanent magnet formed to receive the hydrated material, a portable nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, and an electron spin resonance detector. The components can be sized to be portable, and include electrical input and output and a lap-size hard-case with access to the electrical input and output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Songi Han, Evan R. McCarney, Brandon D. Armstrong, Ravinath Kausik, Hanna Pavlova, Mark Lingwood, Elliott Brown
  • Publication number: 20110110847
    Abstract: A method for storing, separating or controlled releasing of at least one substance, by up taking the at least one substance by a porous metal organic framework material formed by Mg2+ ions to which 5-tert-buthylisophthalate ions are coordinated to form a framework structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Natalia TRUKHAN, Ulrich Müller, Markus Schubert
  • Publication number: 20110104034
    Abstract: This invention is directed to compositions of matter comprising a hydride ion having a binding energy greater than about 0.8 eV. The claimed hydride ions may be combined with cations, including a proton, to form novel hydrides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventor: Randell L. Mills
  • Publication number: 20110039951
    Abstract: The disclosure describes a method including providing a nano-environment; and confining heavy or light water in the nano-environment such that at least one water cluster forms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: HYDRO ELECTRON VENTURES
    Inventors: Matthew Price-Gallagher, Keith Johnson
  • Publication number: 20110000856
    Abstract: A process for removal of non-polar compounds from water, wherein the non-polar compounds exist in dissolved or dispersed form, wherein the water is led through a preparation tank wherein the temperature is adjusted and wherein possible solid particles are removed. The water is then led via pipe into a reactor tank and is mixed with a hydrate forming compound, wherein simultaneously hydrate seeds are added which have been recycled for continuous use in the process; whereby the drops or molecules of the non-polar compounds are attached or associated to hydrate particles being formed in the reactor tank. The hydrate particles are separated from the water and melted. The hydrate forming compound is recycled to the reactor tank and the non-polar compounds discharged. In addition, a device for use of the process as well as hydrates for removal of non-polar compounds in water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: ECOWAT AS
    Inventors: Tore Skjetne, Roar Larsen, Are Lund
  • Patent number: 7862780
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and method of producing transformed water without contact between the original transformed water and the water to be transformed. This is accomplished by organizing the original transformed water into a geometric contained arrangement such that a central cavity is created that substantially surrounds the water that is to be transformed. The water to be transformed is placed into a confined vessel such as a cylindrical container or a pipe inside the central cavity for about sixty seconds. This water then becomes transformed in the same likeness of the molecular clustering of the original transformed water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Inventors: David Wheeler, Nora Kosztolanyi
  • Publication number: 20100297000
    Abstract: Unsuitable water from coal bed methane production, CBMPW, is ozonated in a reactor to oxidize iron and the manganese content,—iron from ferrous to ferric, and the manganese from +2 to +4—and kill microbes and destroy other organic material. The water after such treatment is run through a separation means and then a rotating filter, followed by capacitive deionization, to yield clean water, which is treated further to adjust the sodium content to render the water suitable for domestic and agricultural purposes. Some product water is returned through the capacitive deionization cells when no voltage is applied to clean the cells for the next voltage application cycle, and some product water may also be run back through the separation means to help clean out the crud. This product water is suitable for irrigation and can depending on local law be used for drinking either without or with further treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventor: Robert L. Campbell
  • Publication number: 20100296999
    Abstract: Water from coal bed methane production which is suitable for almost nothing, is ozonated in a reactor to oxidize the iron content from +2 to +3, that is from ferrous to ferric, and to oxidize the manganese content from +2 to +4. The water after such first treatment is run through a separation means and then through a rotating filter, and then subjected to capacitive deionization, to yield clean water, which is then treated further to adjust he sodium content to render the water suitable for domestic and agricultural purposes. Some of the produced water is run back through the capacitive deionization cells when no voltage is applied to clean the cells for the next voltage application cycle. Some of the water produced may also be run back through the separation means to help clean out the crud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventor: Robert L. Campbell
  • Patent number: 7837974
    Abstract: By means of a method and a system for heating and partial oxidation of not separately pre-heated, pre-reformed steam/natural gas mixture for an NH3 synthesis gas, whereby energy is supplied to the gas stream (raw synthesis gas), in the direction of flow, after a primary reformer, a solution is to be created, with which soot formation is to be prevented as much as possible, whereby the possibility of the addition of variable amounts, for example of N2 and O2 or mixtures thereof, is also supposed to be possible. This is achieved, according to the method, in that the energy is supplied directly after the primary reformer, by way of at least one pore burner positioned in the gas discharge line of the primary reformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: UHDE GmbH
    Inventors: Hartmut Hederer, Joachim Johanning, Evgeni Gorval
  • Publication number: 20100272630
    Abstract: A method of converting non-fresh water to fresh water, referred to as the “Rosenbaum-Weisz Process”, is disclosed. The Process utilizes high temperature electrolysis to decompose the treated non-fresh water into hydrogen and oxygen. The generated hydrogen and oxygen are then combusted at elevated pressure in a high temperature combustor to generate high pressure high temperature superheated steam. The combustion of hydrogen and oxygen at elevated high pressure will prevent air from entering the combustor thereby preventing the creation of nitrous oxide (“NOX”) that might otherwise be created as a result of the high temperature created by the combustion. The heat from the high pressure high temperature superheated steam is then removed by a high temperature heat exchanger system and recycled back to the high temperature electrolysis unit. The superheated steam will condense, as a result of the heat extraction by the heat exchanger system, to produce fresh water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: HTE WATER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Itzhak Rosenbaum
  • Publication number: 20100272629
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a system for giving a substance (101) receptive and/or transmissive properties that allow the substance (101) to be treated by and/or to transmit a signal acquired by intercepting an electromagnetic field originating from a source substance. The substance (101) is subjected, by means of a transmitter (102), to an electromagnetic field and/or a sound (104) emitted at one or more frequencies included in a predetermined frequency spectrum for a predetermined period. The invention makes it possible to give the initially non-receptive and non-transmissive substance (101)y receptive and/or transmissive properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: DIGIBIO SA
    Inventors: Jacques Benveniste, Jerome Benveniste, Vincent Benveniste, Laurent Benveniste, Claire Benveniste, Alice Benveniste
  • Patent number: 7815872
    Abstract: A reactor for generating moisture, with which hydrogen and oxygen fed into the reactor contact with a platinum coating catalyst layer to activate reactivity so that hydrogen and oxygen react under conditions of non-combustion, wherein the reactor includes a cooler comprising a heat dissipation body substrate in which a heater insertion hole is made in the center to fix to the outer surface of the reactor structural component on the outlet side and a cooler on the outlet side made up of a plural number of heat dissipation bodies installed vertically in parallel on the part excluding the area where the afore-mentioned heater insertion hole of the heat dissipation body substrate exists, and a part of the heater to heat the reactor is inserted in the heater insertion hole so as to fix to the outer surface of the reactor structural component on the outlet side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Fujikin Incorporated
    Inventors: Toshirou Nariai, Kouji Kawada, Keiji Hirao, Yukio Minami, Akihiro Morimoto, Nobukazu Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20100233071
    Abstract: [Object] To provide water that is able to suppress proliferation of cancer cells by taking it in the human body through ingestion or injection thereof and is free of side effects and a method for making same. [Solving Means] Soft water generators 10, 12, each having an ion exchange resin 32 therein, an ion generator having tourmaline therein, and a rock accommodating container having a rock 54 selected from igneous rocks and containing a large amount of silicon dioxide are connected in series in this order, and water is passed through the ion exchange resin 32, the tourmaline 46 and the rock 54 selected from igneous rocks and containing a large amount of silicon dioxide in this order. The resulting water contains large amounts of a hydrogen ion (H+) and a hydronium ion (H3O+). When this water is ingested as ordinary drinking water or injected in the human body along with the ingestion, cancer cells can be suppressed from division and proliferation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventor: Toshiharu Fukai
  • Publication number: 20100218507
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for capturing, separating, transforming, and sequestering carbon wherein said apparatus dissociates a carbon containing feedstock material and reacts the resulting gases with a system-produced brine to create four products: 1) a sodium based carbonate or bicarbonate, 2) ammonium chloride, 3) fresh water, and 4) a multi-purpose building material. End product (1) may be sequestered in any of several ways for durable and long term storage. End product (2) may be used for nutrient enrichment. End products (3) and (4) may be distributed to human populations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Inventor: Adam Cherson
  • Patent number: 7785550
    Abstract: A process for separating hydrogen from a gas flow having an oxygen constituent and including predominantly hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane and/or other hydrocarbons, as well as a device for conducting the process, is disclosed. The gas flow undergoes a process to thermally convert oxygen prior to the pressure swing adsorption process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Linde Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Hofmann, Paul Leitgeb, Ulrike Wenning, Hans-joerg Zander, Werner Leitmayr
  • Patent number: 7763086
    Abstract: A hydrogen generation system is disclosed that includes a fuel reforming reactor generating a hydrogen-rich reformate gas at a temperature greater than 150 C, a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) hydrogen purification unit that separates the reformate gas into a relatively pure hydrogen stream and an off-gas stream, and a catalytic reactor down stream of the PSA unit that converts carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H2) contained in the relatively pure hydrogen stream into methane (CH4) and water vapor (H2O). The method of purification involves generating a hydrogen-rich reformate gas at a temperature greater than 150 C in a fuel reforming reactor, separating the reformate gas into a relatively pure hydrogen stream and an off-gas stream in a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) hydrogen purification unit, and converting carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H2) contained in the relatively pure hydrogen stream into methane (CH4) and water vapor (H2O) in a catalytic reactor down stream of the PSA unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Intelligent Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Root Woods, Brook Forest Porter, Kandaswamy Duraiswamy
  • Patent number: 7759275
    Abstract: A sorbent system includes a porous polymer support and a sorbent within the porous polymer support. For example, the sorbent includes a tertiary amine, such as triethanolamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Philip J. Birbara, Timothy A. Nalette
  • Publication number: 20100178237
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process and a system for recovery of isotopologues of water from an aqueous vapour stream optionally containing acidic gases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: GE HEALTHCARE UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Ian Richard Bonnettt, Anthony Busigin
  • Patent number: 7740828
    Abstract: Multimetallic anionic clays (MACs) are prepared using economical raw materials or reactants and a procedure for obtaining a series of multimetallic mixed oxides derived from the thermal decomposition of the MACs which comprises: (1) dissolving water-soluble bimetallic and/or trimetallic sources in water, (2) dispersing and homogenizing separate water-insoluble divalent and/or trivalent metal precursors with a high-speed stirrer in order to obtain small and reactive particles; depending on the nature of the water-insoluble divalent and/or trivalent metal precursors, this process can be adjusted to a desired pH, (3) adding the suspension obtained in (2) to solution (1) with the reaction medium still dispersed to facilitate solid particle's reduction/dissociation, and (4) afterwards the slurry is aged for several hours and finally dried. This process enables raw materials or reactants to be easily handled, and eliminates unit operations involving product washing and/or purification steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo
    Inventors: Jaime Sanchez-Valente, Esteban Lopez-Salinas, Manuel Sanchez-Cantu
  • Publication number: 20100150818
    Abstract: A process and method for liquid-solid separation in raw water by chemical treatment, comprising adding into the water, separately or together, an effective amount of at least one aluminum polymer with an effective amount of an ammonium polymer, including at least one medium, high, or very high molecular weight ammonium polymer, to clarify said raw water to a settled turbidity standard, and including methods for blending and storing solution polymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventor: Richard Alan Haase
  • Publication number: 20100143239
    Abstract: The method for parallel operation of moisture generating reactors according to the present invention operates so that an orifice, provided with an orifice hole having a predetermined opening diameter, is disposed on a mixed-gas inlet side of each of a plurality of moisture generating reactors connected in parallel with each other, and mixed gas G consisting of hydrogen and oxygen is supplied from a mixer to each of the moisture generating reactors through each orifice, and the flows of moisture generated by the moisture generating reactors are combined, and the resulting combined moisture is supplied to an apparatus that uses high-purity water. Thus, a need to increase the amount of high-purity water supply is met by allowing a plurality of moisture generating reactors to perform a parallel water generating operation by branching off a mixed gas consisting of H2 and O2 by using a simple orifice construction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2007
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: FUJIKIN INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yukio Minami, Keiji Hirao, Masaharu Taguchi, Toshiro Nariai, Koji Kawada, Akihiro Morimoto, Nobukazu Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20100143489
    Abstract: A synchronized water is disclosed, in which all single water molecules at the same time are arranged in an identical way to a stable homogeneous microstructure, wherein said synchronized water in a distilled condition and at atmospheric pressure has a) a density of from 0.997855 to 0.998836 g/ml at 220 C. b) a water temperature at the freezing point of from ?6.7° C. to ?8.2° C., c) a melting point of from 0.10 C to 0.20 C, d) a surface tension of from 72.3 to 72.7 dyn/cm at 220 C, and e) a dielectric constant of from 82.4 to 82.6 F/m, as well as a method for preparation thereof and different uses thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventor: Benny Johansson
  • Publication number: 20100112086
    Abstract: An electrolytically reduced water which consists of an alkali ion water prepared by ion exchange and has a dissolved hydrogen concentration of 0.20 ppm or above, an oxidation-reduction potential of ?150 mV to ?500 mV, and a hydrogen ion component of pH6.5-10.5 and which is quantitatively specified in the reducing power capable of inhibiting the oxidative deterioration of fat in the cutis through the elimination of active oxygen due to the characteristics of hydrogen, the oxidation-reduction potential characteristics of high reducing action, and alkaline characteristics and can activate the skin to inhibit the oxidative deterioration and suppress lumpy fat (cellulite).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicants: PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HIROSHIMA, THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Miwa, Hiroshi Tamura, Keisou Iwai, Osamu Mishima, Suehiro Sakai, Katsunori Yuuki, Masanori Akioka
  • Publication number: 20100104493
    Abstract: Devices and components that can interact with or modify propagation of electromagnetic waves are provided. The design, fabrication and structures of the devices exploit the properties of reactive composite materials (RCM) and reaction products thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, Edward K.Y. Jung, Jordin T. Kare, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Thomas J. Nugent, JR., Clarence T. Tegreene, Charles Whitmer, Lowell L. Wood, JR.
  • Patent number: 7700055
    Abstract: A hydrogen combustion system comprising: an external cylinder 1 constituting the exterior of a double tube construction; an internal cylinder 2 formed by a porous metal plate constituting the interior of said double tube construction; hydrogen combustion catalyst 4 supported with precious metals on spherical ceramic support surface, formed in pellet state, being packed in said internal cylinder 2; an insert pipe 3 formed by porous metal plate inserted in the center of said internal cylinder 2; pre-heating heaters 5 installed between said insert pipe 3 and said internal cylinder 2 to preheat said hydrogen combustion catalyst 4 to ambient atmosphere of over catalytic reaction temperatures; a hydrogen introducing port 8 connecting to said insert pipe 3; an air introducing port 9 provided at the bottom of said external cylinder 1 in the area between said external cylinder 1 and said internal cylinder 2, wherein air for hydrogen combustion is introduced by the drift effect resulting from the differential pressure
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Chlorine Engineers Corp., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Manabe, Masaaki Kato, Kazumasa Mochizuki, Masakazu Mimura
  • Publication number: 20100089796
    Abstract: A layered composition which can be used in various processes has been developed. The composition comprises an inner core such as a cordierite core and an outer layer comprising a refractory inorganic oxide, a fibrous component and an inorganic binder. The refractory inorganic oxide layer can be alumina, zirconia, titania, etc. while the fibrous component can be titania fibers, silica fibers, carbon fibers, etc. The inorganic oxide binder can be alumina, silica, zirconia, etc. The layer can also contain catalytic metals such as gold and platinum plus other modifiers. The layered composition is prepared by coating the inner core with a slurry comprising the refractory inorganic oxide, fibrous component, an inorganic binder precursor and an organic binding agent such as polyvinyl alcohol. The composition can be used in various hydrocarbon conversion processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Dean E. Rende, James E. Rekoske, Jeffery C. Bricker, Jeffrey L. Boike, Masao Takayama, Kouji Hara, Nobuyuki Aoi
  • Publication number: 20100086475
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and method of producing transformed water without contact between the original transformed water and the water to be transformed. This is accomplished by organizing the original transformed water into a geometric contained arrangement such that a central cavity is created that substantially surrounds the water that is to be transformed. The water to be transformed is placed into a confined vessel such as a cylindrical container or a pipe inside the central cavity for about sixty seconds. This water then becomes transformed in the same likeness of the molecular clustering of the original transformed water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventors: David Wheeler, Nora Kosztolanyi
  • Publication number: 20100047156
    Abstract: The presently described subject matter provides a method for reducing boron concentration in a process of desalination of high salinity liquid including passing the high salinity liquid through a first pass reverse osmosis (RO) device to produce a first pass permeate, where at least part of the first pass permeate is treated with a scale inhibitor to obtain a modified first pass permeate being fed into at least one additional RO device to produce at least an additional pass permeate, where the at least one additional pass permeate includes a lower boron concentration than that in the high salinity liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: MEKOROT ISRAEL NATIONAL WATER COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Menachem Priel, Nissim Nadav
  • Publication number: 20100034729
    Abstract: An iron composition having a plurality of elemental components is disclosed. The major component is an iron component of at least about 68% to about 92% iron by weight. Other components by weight include manganese; cerium; carbon; phosphorous; sulfur; aluminum; silicon; chromium; copper; and zinc. Combined with layers of sand, brick chips and/or charcoal, the iron composition can be used to create a water filter for filtering inorganic arsenic species and soluble metal ions out of water. To enhance hydrous ferric oxide complexation and precipitation, the iron composition may be treated with food grade acids or a water mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: GEORGE MASON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC.
    Inventor: Abul Hussam