Alkaline Earth Metal (mg, Ca, Sr, Or Ba) Patents (Class 423/635)
  • Patent number: 11344844
    Abstract: Calcium hydroxide-containing compositions can be manufactured by slaking quicklime, and subsequently drying and milling the slaked product. The resulting calcium hydroxide-containing composition can have a size, steepness, pore volume, and/or other features that render the compositions suitable for treatment of exhaust gases and/or removal of contaminants. In some embodiments, the calcium hydroxide-containing compositions can include a D10 from about 0.5 microns to about 4 microns, a D90 less than about 30 microns, and a ratio of D90 to D10 less than 20, wherein individual particles include a surface area greater than or equal to about 25 m2/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Graymont (PA) Inc.
    Inventors: Michael John Tate, Jared Ira Leikam, Michael Roach, Joseph Lewis, Shiaw Tseng
  • Patent number: 10934210
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a highly porous fine powdery slaked lime composition, comprising a fluidification step for forming said highly porous fine powdery slaked lime composition having an Alpine fluidity greater than 50% and which is carried out in a dryer/grinder chosen from the group consisting of a pin-type dryer/grinder, a cage-type dryer/grinder, an instantaneous dryer/disagglomerator and a combination of these until the powdery slaked lime composition has a non-solid residual-phase content of less than or equal to 3.5% by weight and greater than or equal to 0.3% by weight, as well as the product obtained therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: S. A. Lhoist Recherche et Developpement
    Inventor: Marion Lorgouilloux
  • Patent number: 10870585
    Abstract: Methods and systems for producing calcium carbonate from calcium hydroxide and carbon dioxide are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method for producing calcium carbonate comprises (i) providing a first plurality of particles comprising solid-state calcium hydroxide, and (ii) introducing a gas stream comprising carbon dioxide to the first plurality of particles to produce a second plurality of particles comprising calcium carbonate. Individual ones of the first plurality of particles can include a specific surface area of at least 20 m2/g and a free moisture content of from 2% to 20%. The second plurality of particles comprising calcium carbonate are not produced via precipitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: GRAYMONT (PA) INC.
    Inventors: Brent LaMar, Jared Ira Leikam, Joseph Lewis
  • Patent number: 10822544
    Abstract: The invention relates to chemical technologies, specifically nanoparticles of flame retardant magnesium hydroxide, and a process for the preparation thereof. The present nanoparticles of flame retardant magnesium hydroxide, including surface-processed nanoparticles, have a hexagonal plate-like structure with a specific surface area of up to 20 m2/g, an average diameter of the secondary particles of up to 2 ?m, a diameter of 10% of the secondary particles of up to 0.8 ?m, a diameter of 90% of the secondary particles of up to 5 ?m, with a longitudinal size of the primary particles of from 150 to 900 nm, and a thickness of from 15 to 150 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: JOINT STOCK COMPANY KAUSTIK
    Inventors: Elena Petrovna Gordon, Alla Vitalievna Korotchenko, Nadezhda Illarionovna Levchenko, Tatiana Sergeevna Ugnovenok
  • Patent number: 9982195
    Abstract: Provided are a flame retardant which is good in dispersibility in an organic polymeric material, and does not lower, even after mixed with an organic polymeric material, material properties thereof; a flame retardant composition; and a shaped body. The flame retardant of the present invention includes magnesium hydroxide particles subjected to a surface treatment, the particles satisfying the following (A) to (D): (A) an average particle size is 2 ?m or less according to a laser diffraction method; (B) a BET specific surface area is 3 to 15 m2/g; (C) a degree of mono-dispersion is 50% or more, the degree of mono-dispersion being represented by the following equation: Degree of mono-dispersion (%)=(average primary particle size [?m] of particles according to SEM observation/average particle size [?m] of particles according to laser diffraction method)×100; and, (D) just after 1 mL of a 0.1 M solution of nitric acid is dropwise added at a dropping rate of 0.1 mL/minute to a suspension obtained by adding 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Konoshima Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seiji Matsui
  • Patent number: 9771484
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a process for the preparation of an additive with a metallic hydroxide base, and especially of magnesium hydroxide, to be integrated in coatings with the purpose to give them higher flame retarding properties. The hydroxide has an average particle size that is selected from between 1 nanometer and 10 microns preferable with a wide variety, the magnesium hydroxide is submitted to a treatment of washing and dispersion, mainly so that they efficiently are dispersed in, and do not interfere with, the desired properties of the coating. The nature of the coating function is selected from the materials and the conditions of the treatment, as well as the size of the particle. The objective coating can have a base of water, solvents, oil, and alcohol. Compared with coatings formed with other flame retarding compositions, the additive of the invention presents less loss of weight by means of burning through ASTM D1360 standards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: SERVICIOS ADMINISTRATIVOS PENOLES S.A. DE C.V.
    Inventors: Jesus Manuel Martinez Martinez, Ricardo Benavides Perez, Julio Cesar Rangel Mata, Jose Gertrudis Bocanegra Rojas
  • Patent number: 9752014
    Abstract: The invention presented concerns a process for the manufacture of coated, nano-scale, hydrotalcites, where the individual, primary, nano-scale hydrotalcite particles are coated. In order to obtain the corresponding hydrotalcite particles in coated, nano-scale form, the additive precipitation reaction is employed invention-related. Every primary particle indicates its own coating in this case. In a further aspect, the registration is directed toward coated primary, nano-scale, hydrotalcite particles, in particular obtainable in accordance with the invention-related process. A further aspect of the invention is directed toward composites containing nano-scale hydrotalcites, in particular hydrotalcites manufactured in accordance with the invention presented. Finally the registration presented is directed towards compositions containing mixtures of magnesium hydroxide and hydrotalcite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: K+S Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jochen Brod, David Christopher Glende
  • Patent number: 9517471
    Abstract: A sorbent composition with improved acid gas reactivity comprising calcium hydroxide particles is provided. In the calcium hydroxide composition, about 90% percent of the calcium hydroxide particles are less than or equal to about 10 microns; the ratio of 90% of the calcium hydroxide particles below a specified size to the ratio of 10% of the calcium hydroxide particles above a specified size is less than about 8; and the calcium hydroxide particles have a BET surface area of about 18 m2/g or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Mississippi Lime Company
    Inventors: Randy J. Griffard, Mark G. DeGenova, Stephen C. Schweigert, Gerald K. Bequette, William S. Allebach, Zhichao Richard Zhang, Curtiss R. Biehn
  • Patent number: 9346683
    Abstract: A magnesium hydroxide particle having a BET specific surface area of 80 m2/g or more and a manufacturing method thereof. The magnesium hydroxide particle has a BET specific surface area of 80 to 400 m2/g and is represented by the following formula (1): Mg(OH)2-x(CO3)0.5x.mH2O??(1) wherein x and m satisfy the following conditions: 0.02?x?0.7. 0?m?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: KYOWA CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoko Tachifuji
  • Patent number: 8969264
    Abstract: A treatment fluid comprises: a metal oxide, wherein the metal oxide is capable of forming a chelate complex or coordination complex with a ligand, wherein the chelate complex or coordination complex has a setting time of less than 90 minutes at a temperature of 71° F. and a pressure of 1 atmosphere. A method of treating a portion of a subterranean formation comprises: introducing the treatment fluid into the subterranean formation; allowing or causing a chelate complex or coordination complex to form between the metal oxide and a ligand; and allowing or causing the chelate complex or coordination complex to set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale E. Jamison, Donald L. Whitfill, Matthew L. Miller, Kay A. Morris
  • Patent number: 8951495
    Abstract: The present invention relates to odor-inhibiting compositions comprising water-absorbing polymer particles and metal peroxides, and to the production thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Volker Braig, Thomas Daniel, Rupert Konradi, Herbert Platsch, Bettina Sobotka, Axel Jentzsch
  • Patent number: 8945506
    Abstract: A method of producing a hydrated lime. The process hydrates quicklime in conjunction with standard means of hydrating lime. The resulting hydrated lime has highly reduced contents of calcium oxide and magnesium oxide. The hydrated lime has little to no remaining reactivity when placed in contact with water after the process. The hydrated lime can is with stoichiometric volumes of water as required to fully hydrate the quicklime and water mixture as well as with volumes beyond the calculated stoichiometry with some potential for remaining water left after the process without the potential for lime putty or a wet hydrate as the result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Inventors: Gregory S. Hein, Sun Yong Kim
  • Publication number: 20140356461
    Abstract: To provide a plant disease controlling agent and the method for controlling plant diseases using the same, the plant disease controlling agent being commonly applicable to various crop and soil conditions, and ensures safety over a long period throughout the environment. Provided is a plant disease controlling agent including magnesium oxide obtained by baking magnesium hydroxide at 400 to 1000° C. Further, provided is a method for controlling plant diseases using the plant disease controlling agent. The method is preferably any of mixing the plant disease controlling agent with the surface soil, mixing the plant disease controlling agent with the nursery soil, treating foliage with an aqueous suspension of the plant disease controlling agent, immersing plant roots in the plant disease controlling agent, and irrigating plant feet with the plant disease controlling agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: UBE MATERIAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shoji Sakai, Shinichi Ito
  • Publication number: 20140332935
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnesium oxide-based (MgO) inorganic coating intended to electrically insulate semiconductive substrates such as silicon carbide (SiC), and to a method for producing such an insulating coating. The method of the invention comprises the steps of preparing a treatment solution of at least one hydrolysable organomagnesium compound and/or of at least one hydrolysable magnesium salt, capable of forming a homogeneous polymer layer of magnesium oxyhydroxide by hydrolysis/condensation reaction with water; depositing the treatment solution of the hydrolysable organomagnesium compound or of the hydrolysable magnesium salt, onto a surface to form a magnesium oxide-based layer; and densifying the layer formed at a temperature of less than or equal to 1000° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Céline BONDOUX, Philippe PRENE, Philippe BELLEVILLE, Robert JERISIAN
  • Patent number: 8865100
    Abstract: The present application is directed to a method and system for monetizing energy. More specifically, the invention is directed to the economically efficient utilization of remote or stranded natural gas resources. The invention includes importing a high energy density material into an energy market and distributing the high energy density material (HEDM) therein. The HEDM is produced from reduction of a material oxide such as boria into the HEDM, which may be boron. The reduction utilizes remote hydrocarbon resources such as stranded natural gas resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Bruce T. Kelley, Harry W. Deckman, Stephen Mark Davis, Frank Hershkowitz
  • Patent number: 8771633
    Abstract: A composition based on lime comprising at least one mineral agent consisting of slaked lime in the solid phase and of an organic polymer incorporated into said solid phase, a method for its making and the use for its application in the treatment of water and sludge, in particular for conditioning sludge before dewatering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignees: S.A. Lhoist Recherche et Developpement, SNF S.A.S.
    Inventors: Laurent Biotteau, Gaetan Blandin
  • Publication number: 20140155300
    Abstract: A treatment fluid comprises: a metal oxide, wherein the metal oxide is capable of forming a chelate complex or coordination complex with a ligand, wherein the chelate complex or coordination complex has a setting time of less than 90 minutes at a temperature of 71° F. and a pressure of 1 atmosphere. A method of treating a portion of a subterranean formation comprises: introducing the treatment fluid into the subterranean formation; allowing or causing a chelate complex or coordination complex to form between the metal oxide and a ligand; and allowing or causing the chelate complex or coordination complex to set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale E. JAMISON, Donald L. WHITFILL, Matthew L. MILLER, Kay A. MORRIS
  • Patent number: 8728418
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a metal hydroxide fine particle, which can produce metal hydroxide fine particles with favorable crystallinity and small particle sizes. The present invention provides a method for producing a metal hydroxide fine particle by reacting a metal ion with a hydroxide ion in a solvent, which includes a mixing and reacting step of supplying the metal ion, the hydroxide ion, and a silane coupling agent to a reaction field to mix and react the ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Miyoshi, Makoto Koike, Yasunori Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 8703093
    Abstract: A method is described for batchwise slaking of burnt lime in a slaker, in which a lime slurry is produced with a greater degree of fineness and prolonged sedimentation time, comprising the following processing steps: emptying of finished slaked and diluted lime slurry from the slaker; automatic coupling of a control system for automatic operation after the wanted slaking temperature has been reached in the first batch; automatic regulation of the slaking temperature in the subsequent slurry batch; and automatic registering of the remaining amount of slurry in the slaker after complete dosing of lime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Inventor: Poju R. Stephansen
  • Publication number: 20130295000
    Abstract: Process for producing nanomaterials such as graphenes, graphene composites, magnesium oxide, magnesium hydroxides and other nanomaterials by high heat vaporization and rapid cooling. In some of the preferred embodiments, the high heat is produced by an oxidation-reduction reaction of carbon dioxide and magnesium as the primary reactants, although additional materials such as reaction catalysts, control agents, or composite materials can be included in the reaction, if desired. The reaction also produces nanomaterials from a variety of other input materials, and by varying the process parameters, the type and morphology of the carbon nanoproducts and other nanoproducts can be controlled. The reaction products include novel nanocrystals of MgO (percilase) and MgAl2O4 (spinels) as well as composites of these nanocrystals with multiple layers of graphene deposited on or intercalated with them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Robert Wayne Dickinson, Ben Wade Oakes Dickinson, III, Jon K. Myers, Oliver Douglas Ousterhout, Lawrence Joseph Musetti, Douglas Paul DuFaux
  • Patent number: 8568684
    Abstract: Methods are described that have the capability of producing submicron/nanoscale particles, in some embodiments dispersible, at high production rates. In some embodiments, the methods result in the production of particles with an average diameter less than about 75 nanometers that are produced at a rate of at least about 35 grams per hour. In other embodiments, the particles are highly uniform. These methods can be used to form particle collections and/or powder coatings. Powder coatings and corresponding methods are described based on the deposition of highly uniform submicron/nanoscale particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: NanoGram Corporation
    Inventors: Xiangxin Bi, Nobuyuki Kambe, James T. Gardner, Ronald J. Mosso, Shivkumar Chiruvolu, Sujeet Kumar, William E. McGovern
  • Patent number: 8557724
    Abstract: A semiconductor porcelain composition is prepared by separately preparing a composition of (BaR)TiO3 (R is La, Dy, Eu, Gd or Y) and a composition of (BiNa)TiO3, and calcining the composition of (BaR)TiO3 at a temperature of 900° C. through 1300° C. and calcining the composition of (BiNa)TiO3 at a temperature of 700° C. through 950° C., and then mixing, forming and sintering the calcined powders. Similarly, a semiconductor porcelain composition is prepared by separately preparing a composition of (BaM)TiO3 (M is Nb, Ta or Sb) and a composition of (BiNa)TiO3, and calcining the composition of (BaM)TiO3 at a temperature of 900° C. through 1300° C. and calcining the composition of (BiNa)TiO3 at a temperature of 700° C. through 950° C., and then mixing, forming and sintering the calcined powders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Shimada, Koichi Terao, Kazuya Toji
  • Publication number: 20130251608
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to insulation components and their use, e.g., in regenerative reactors. Specifically, a process and apparatus for managing temperatures from oxidation and pyrolysis reactions in a reactor, e.g., a thermally regeneratating reactor, such as a regenerative, reverse-flow reactor is described in relation to the various reactor components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: ChangMin Chun, Frank Hershkowitz, Paul F. Keusenkothen, Robert L. Antram
  • Patent number: 8512673
    Abstract: Magnesium oxide powders having a large diameter of crystallite, and having a favorable crystallinity are provided. Magnesium oxide powders: having peak widths at half-height of the peaks on a (111) plane, a (200) plane and a (220) plane of each no greater than 0.20 degrees as determined with a powder X-ray diffraction method carried out using a Cu—K? ray; and having a crystallite diameter of no less than 700 ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Tateho Chemical Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Ohsaki, Atsuya Kawase, Kaori Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8470282
    Abstract: A method of producing calcium carbonate from lime comprises the steps of: (i) providing an aqueous solution comprising 10% to 35% by weight of dissolved polyhydroxy compound and 1% to 5% by weight of dissolved calcium hydroxide (expressed as Ca(OH)2) and having a pH of at least 11.5; (ii) treating the solution prepared in step (i) to remove solids including suspended solids; (iii) dispersing carbon dioxide through the solution so as to form calcium carbonate with a consequential reduction in the pH of the reaction mixture, (iv) during a time period beginning at the start of a sudden, short rise in pH and ended during a subsequent fall in pH but before it reaches 9.5 terminating the dispersion of carbon dioxide and adding an alkaline reagent to maintain a pH for the product mixture of at least 9.5, and (v) recovering precipitated calcium carbonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: CalciTech Synthetic Minerals Ltd.
    Inventors: Christoph Jensen, Ilka Markwardt
  • Patent number: 8454933
    Abstract: The invention provides a polycrystal magnesium oxide (MgO) sintered body which is capable of having a sintered density close to a theoretical density thereof. The MgO sintered body exhibits excellent mechanical properties and heat conductivity, while reducing contamination of an atmosphere due to gas generation. The invention also provides a production method for the sintered body. The polycrystal MgO sintered body has a unique crystalline anisotropy in which (111) faces are oriented along a surface applied with a uniaxial pressure at a high rate. The polycrystalline MgO sintered body is obtained by a method which includes the steps of: sintering an MgO raw material powder, having a particle size of 1 ?m or less, under a uniaxial pressure and then subjecting the sintered powder to a heat treatment under an atmosphere containing 0.05 volume % or more of oxygen, at a temperature of 1273 K or more for 1 minute or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignees: Nippon Tungsten Co., Ltd., Ube Material Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Nagano, Masanobu Takasu, Yo Arita, Satoru Sano
  • Patent number: 8440163
    Abstract: The invention relates to a slaked lime composition containing Ca(OH)2 particles of platelet crystalline morphology, called platelets, said platelets having a diameter D, this being the diameter of the circle circumscribing the platelet, a thickness e and an aspect ratio given by the ratio of said diameter of the platelet-circumscribing circle to said thickness, said composition having a platelet content of between 50 and 100% relative to the sum of the Ca(OH)2 particles and said aspect ratio being between 10 and 300, and to its manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: S.A. Lhoist Recherche et Development
    Inventors: Marion Gross-Lorgouilloux, Gaetan Blandin, Thierry Chopin
  • Publication number: 20130109147
    Abstract: Some embodiments include methods of forming memory cells. Metal oxide may be deposited over a first electrode, with the deposited metal oxide having a relatively low degree of crystallinity. The degree of crystallinity within the metal oxide may be increased after the deposition of the metal oxide. A dielectric material may be formed over the metal oxide, and a second electrode may be formed over the dielectric material. The degree of crystallinity may be increased with a thermal treatment. The thermal treatment may be conducted before, during, and/or after formation of the dielectric material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Noel Rocklein, D.V. Nirmal Ramaswamy, Dale W. Collins, Swapnil Lengade, Srividya Krishnamurthy, Mark Korber
  • Patent number: 8383072
    Abstract: A process for the separation of carbon dioxide from gas mixtures is disclosed in which a metal oxide sorbent, which is used to capture and release carbon dioxide, is recycled. The process incorporates the regeneration of the carbon dioxide capture capacity of the metal oxide to maintain a high capture capacity over many cycles. The regeneration involves hydrating the metal oxide and then heating the resulting metal hydroxide under a gas atmosphere that is effective to suppress the dehydration of the hydroxide so that dehydration occurs at an elevated temperature. The regeneration may also be used independently from the carbon dioxide separation process to produce, from a metal hydroxide, a metal oxide having an enhanced resistance to attrition and fragmentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Research Limited
    Inventors: Stuart Smedley, Vlatko Materic, Carolyn Mary Henderson
  • Patent number: 8383073
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling emissions of acid forming gases such as sulfur dioxide from cement plants is disclosed. Gaseous effluent from the cement plant pyroprocessing chamber is routed to the plant's raw mill to heat and dry the feed meal used in cement production. When the raw mill is in operation microfine lime particles are sprayed into the raw mill using a nozzle system. The spraying of hydrated lime into the raw mill scrubs acid forming gases in the process gaseous effluent. When the raw mill is not operational, microfine lime is sprayed into a gas conditioning tower that is also used to reduce the temperature of the effluent gases to facilitate efficient collection of dust particles prior to emission of the cleansed effluent flow into the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Envirocare International Inc.
    Inventor: James J. Schwab
  • Patent number: 8367025
    Abstract: The disclosure provides methods and systems for sequestering and/or reducing carbon dioxide present in an industrial effluent fluid stream containing carbon dioxide. A scrubbing material comprising a first component, a second component (distinct from the first component), and preferably water, is contacted with the effluent fluid stream. The first component comprises a source of calcium oxide and a source of alkali metal ions. The second component comprises a slag having one or more reactive silicate compounds. Methods of reducing carbon dioxide from exhaust generated by combustion sources, lime and/or cement kilns, iron and/or steel furnaces, and the like are provided. Carbon dioxide emission abatement systems are also disclosed. Methods of recycling industrial byproducts are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: C-Quest Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Douglas C. Comrie
  • Publication number: 20120316570
    Abstract: The present invention is based on that local administration of strontium ions in bone tissue has been found to improve the bone formation and bone mass upon implantation of a bone tissue implant in said bone tissue. In particular, the invention relates to a bone tissue implant having an implant surface covered by an oxide layer comprising strontium ions and a method for the manufacture thereof. A blasting powder comprising strontium ions, a method for locally increasing bone formation, and the use of strontium ions or a salt thereof for manufacturing a pharmaceutical composition for locally increasing bone formation are also provided by the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: Astra Tech AB
    Inventors: Christina GRETZER, Ingela Petersson
  • Patent number: 8318126
    Abstract: The present invention includes a method of producing a crystalline metal oxide nanostructure. The method comprises providing a metal salt solution and providing a basic solution; placing a porous membrane between the metal salt solution and the basic solution, wherein metal cations of the metal salt solution and hydroxide ions of the basic solution react, thereby producing a crystalline metal oxide nanostructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Inventors: Stanislaus S. Wong, Hongjun Zhou
  • Patent number: 8303928
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fluorine-containing magnesium oxide powder using a vapor phase reaction and a method of preparing the same and more particularly to a fluorine-containing magnesium oxide powder brings about a cathode-luminescence emission having a peak within a wavelength range of 220 to 320 nm upon being excited by electron beams. The present invention provides a fluorine-containing magnesium oxide powder using a vapor phase reaction that sprays fluorine-containing gas and oxygen-containing gas to magnesium vapor, and the purity of magnesium oxide containing fluorine (i.e. the purity of fluorine-containing magnesium oxide) of 0.001 to 2 wt % is at least 98 wt % and a BET specific surface area thereof is 0.1 to 50 m2/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Daejoo Electronic Materials Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-min Oh, Jong-hoon Byun, Yoon-gu Hwang
  • Patent number: 8287828
    Abstract: A process for producing a lithium-containing composite oxide for a positive electrode active material for use in a lithium secondary battery, the oxide having the formula LipQqNxMyOzFa (wherein Q is at least one element selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconium, niobium and tantalum, N is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Co, Mn and Ni, M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Al, alkaline earth metal elements and transition metal elements other than Q and N, 0.9?p?1.1, 0?q<0.03, 0.97?x?1.00, 0?y<0.03, 1.9?z?2.1, q+x+y=1 and 0?a?0.02), which comprises firing a mixture of a lithium, Q element source and N element sources, and an M element source and/or fluorine source when these elements are present, in an oxygen-containing atmosphere, wherein the Q element source is a Q element compound aqueous solution having a pH of from 0.5 to 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: AGC Seimi Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kawasato, Naoshi Saito, Megumi Uchida, Kazushige Horichi, Koji Tatsumi, Kunihiko Terase, Manabu Suhara
  • Patent number: 8268280
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for production of calcium compounds having very low content of phosphorus and boron from an impure calcium chloride, solution containing phosphorus and boron, which method comprises the following steps: a) addition of a FeCl3-solution to the calcium chloride solution, b) adjusting the pH of the solution by addition of a base to between 3 and 9.5 for precipitation of iron hydroxide, iron phosphate and boron compounds, c) removal of the solid precipitate from the solution in step b) obtaining a purified calcium chloride solution, d) precipitation of a calcium compound from the solution from step c), and e) separation of the calcium compound from the solution in step d).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Elkem Solar AS
    Inventors: Torfinn Buseth, Einar Andersen
  • Publication number: 20120230900
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a metal salt-containing composition which is applicable to many metal source materials, and can be used for forming a compact and uniform metal oxide film comparable to those formed according to a sputtering method, as well as to provide a substrate having a metal complex film on the surface thereof obtained using the metal salt-containing composition, and a substrate having a metal complex film on the surface thereof obtained by further heating the substrate. Moreover, another object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a substrate having such a metal complex film on the surface thereof. According to the present invention, a metal salt-containing composition containing a metal salt, a polyvalent carboxylic acid having a cis-form structure, and a solvent, in which: the molar ratio of the polyvalent carboxylic acid to the metal salt is not less than 0.5 and not more than 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: Dai-Ichi Kogyo Seiyaku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuteru Saito, Naoki Ike
  • Publication number: 20120127633
    Abstract: A metal electrolytic capacitor capable of quickly absorbing and immobilizing a belching vapor of a driving electrolyte and widely reducing leakage when an explosion-proof valve operates. An aluminum electrolytic capacitor body is configured by housing a capacitor element in a cylindrical aluminum case, a pair of leads extend from the capacitor body, an explosion-proof valve is formed on a top panel portion of the metal case, a cylindrical cap as a casing is attached from above to the capacitor body, a plurality of small openings are formed on a top panel portion (bottom portion) of the cap, and an absorbent or a mixture of an absorbent and a water molecular compound wrapped in a permeable fiber material, such as unwoven fabric and filter paper, is placed in a space between the cap and the top panel portion of the capacitor body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventors: Koichi Mori, Mitsuru Nozue, Minoru Yagi
  • Publication number: 20120110902
    Abstract: A sulfur compound adsorbent for solvent extraction of coal and methods using the same to adsorb sulfur compounds and refine coal are provided. The adsorbent for solvent extraction of coal serves to remove sulfur compounds from an organic solvent containing a coal's combustible component resulting from solvent extraction of low-grade coal and is composed of any one or a mixture of two or more selected from among alkali earth metal oxide, alkali earth metal hydroxide, aluminum oxide and activated carbon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF ENERGY RESEARCH
    Inventors: Kwang Bok Yi, Jong Nam Kim, Si Hyun Lee, Chang Hyun Ko, Hee Tae Beum, In Baek Kim
  • Patent number: 8153088
    Abstract: A method to prevent build-up of limestone in a slaker that is used for batchwise slaking of burnt lime is described, in which lime slurry is produced with a greater degree of fineness and prolonged sedimentation time, where for immediate cleansing of the slaker before next slaking, after said calibration of the load cell aggregate, a number of valves are opened for given time periods for addition of flushing water to respective nozzles, in that flushing water is supplied sequentially via each valve to associated nozzle(s), until a predetermined amount of flushing water is reached in the slaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Poju R. Stephansen AS
    Inventor: Poju R. Stephansen
  • Patent number: 8141387
    Abstract: The process of making the glass-ceramic includes ceramicizing a starting glass at a heating or cooling rate during the ceramicization of at least 10 K/min, so that the glass-ceramic contains at least 50% by volume of ferroelectric crystallites with a maximum diameter of from 20 to 100 nm and not more than 10% by volume of nonferroelectric crystallitesis. The glass ceramic produced by the process contains no pores or not more than 0.01% by volume of the pores and a value of e?·V2max of the glass-ceramic is at least 20 (MV/cm)2, wherein e? is the dielectric constant at 1 kHz and Vmax is the breakdown voltage per unit thickness. The ferroelectric crystallites preferably have a perovskite structure and are composed of substantially pure or doped BaTiO3 and/or BaTi2O5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Martin Letz, Mark J. Davis, Bernd Ruedinger, Bernd Hoppe, Bianca Schreder, Maria-Louisa Aigner, Daniela Seiler
  • Publication number: 20120068124
    Abstract: Process for producing nanomaterials such as graphenes, graphene composites, magnesium oxide, magnesium hydroxides and other nanomaterials by high heat vaporization and rapid cooling. In some of the preferred embodiments, the high heat is produced by an oxidation-reduction reaction of carbon dioxide and magnesium as the primary reactants, although additional materials such as reaction catalysts, control agents, or composite materials can be included in the reaction, if desired. The reaction also produces nanomaterials from a variety of other input materials, and by varying the process parameters, the type and morphology of the carbon nanoproducts and other nanoproducts can be controlled. The reaction products include novel nanocrystals of MgO (percilase) and MgAl2O4 (spinels) as well as composites of these nanocrystals with multiple layers of graphene deposited on or intercalated with them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Inventors: Robert Wayne Dickinson, Ben Wade Oakes Dickinson, III, Jon K. Myers, Oliver Douglas Ousterhout, Lawrence Joseph Musetti
  • Patent number: 8137844
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a cathode active material for a lithium rechargeable battery, including: selecting a first metal compound from a group consisting of a halide, a phosphate, a hydrogen phosphate and a sulfate of Mg or Al; selecting a second metal compound from a group consisting of an oxide, a hydroxide and a carbonate of Mg or Al; combining the first metal compound and the second metal compound to obtain a metal compound, the metal compound containing either Mg or Al atoms; mixing a lithium compound, a transition metal compound and the metal compound to obtain a mixture; and sintering the mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Nippon Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Awano, Minoru Fukuchi, Yuuki Anbe
  • Publication number: 20120064574
    Abstract: The present invention aims to develop a pretreatment technology for performing efficient saccharification without losing carbohydrates (in particular, free carbohydrates, starch, xylan, or the like) due to solid-liquid separation and washing steps, as a pretreatment for enzymatic saccharification of a lignocellulosic biomass feedstock (including a lignocellulosic biomass feedstock containing readily degradable carbohydrates).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: Incorp Adm Agency, Nat'l Agr & Food Res Org
    Inventors: Ken Tokuyasu, Jeung-yil Park, Riki Shiroma, Muhammad Imran Al-Haq
  • Patent number: 8105558
    Abstract: The disclosure provides methods and systems for sequestering and/or reducing carbon dioxide present in an industrial effluent fluid stream containing carbon dioxide. A scrubbing material comprising a first component, a second component (distinct from the first component), and preferably water, is contacted with the effluent fluid stream. The first component comprises a source of calcium oxide and a source of alkali metal ions. The second component comprises a slag having one or more reactive silicate compounds. Methods of reducing carbon dioxide from exhaust generated by combustion sources, lime and/or cement kilns, iron and/or steel furnaces, and the like are provided. Carbon dioxide emission abatement systems are also disclosed. Methods of recycling industrial byproducts are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: C-Quest Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Douglas C. Comrie
  • Publication number: 20120018673
    Abstract: A material, comprising a garnet having the composition represented by the formula A3?xB5O12:Dx and a barium-containing oxide. In the garnet A3?xB5O12:Dx, A is selected from lutetium, yttrium, gadolinium, terbium, scandium, another rare earth metal or mixtures thereof. B is selected from aluminum, scandium, gallium, indium, boron or mixtures thereof. D is at least one dopant selected from chromium, manganese and rare earth metals, particularly cerium, praseodymium or gadolinium. The dopant is present with x is 0?x?2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Madis Raukas, Karl Krister Bergenek, George C. Wei, Nathan M. Zink, Stefan Lange
  • Patent number: 8101143
    Abstract: A process for producing a lithium-containing composite oxide for a positive electrode active material for use in a lithium secondary battery, the oxide having the formula LipNxMmOzFa (wherein N is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Co, Mn and Ni, M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Al, alkaline earth metal elements and transition metal elements other than N, 0.9?p?1.2, 0.9?x<1.00, 0<m?0.03, 1.9?z?2.2, x+m=1 and 0?a?0.02), which comprises using as an M element source a solution comprising a complex containing the M element dissolved in an organic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Seimi Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kawasato, Megumi Uchida, Toshiaki Abe, Naoshi Saito, Manabu Suhara
  • Publication number: 20110318249
    Abstract: Disclosed is a porous metal oxide obtained by subjecting metal alkoxide and/or a partially hydrolyzed condensate of the metal alkoxide to a sol-gel reaction in the presence of terminally branched copolymer particles represented by the following general formula (1) and having a number average molecular weight of not more than 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Norio Nakayama, Toshihiko Takaki, Haruhiko Fukumoto, Kaori Matoishi, Shiro Nakatsuka, Naoshi Nagai, Eiichi Takahashi, Yukiko Enomoto
  • Patent number: 8067494
    Abstract: Magnesium oxide (MgO) compounded into a polymer can subsequently be hydrated in-situ within the polymer to form magnesium hydroxide. In the case of silane-based or peroxide-based crosslinkable resins, the MgO hydration and polymer crosslinking can be done in a single process step, or in sequential steps. In the case of non-crosslinkable compounds, hydration can be carried out after compounding (no crosslinking step). In all cases, steam CV, sauna, or hot water bath are options for hydration. This approach enables preparation of polymer compounds that are flame retarded with metal hydrates yet free of the traditional limitations posed by shelf instability, extrusion scorch, undesired dehydration, and processing temperature limitations posed by metal hydrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Cogen, Ashish Batra, Geoffrey D. Brown, Paul D. Whaley
  • Patent number: 8058338
    Abstract: An anticorrosive pigment composition containing neither any heavy metal harmful to the environment nor zinc, which may be harmful to the environment. The composition is a product of the reaction of (a) aluminum dihydrogen tripolyphosphate, (b) a calcium compound selected among oxides, hydroxides, and carbonates, and (c) a magnesium compound selected among oxides, hydroxides, and carbonates. The composition exerts no adverse influence on the storage stability of water-based anticorrosive coating materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Tayca Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Kondo, Ikuo Yoshida