Plural Solid Sorbent Beds Patents (Class 96/121)
  • Patent number: 12102957
    Abstract: A device for reducing a carbon dioxide and water content in an enclosed air volume has first and second sorption units for sorbing carbon dioxide and water. The first and second sorption units can be transferred from a sorption mode into a desorption mode and vice versa. In the sorption mode, the first and second sorption units sorb carbon dioxide and water from raw air of the enclosed air volume. In the desorption mode, the first and second desorption units desorb carbon dioxide and water to supplied regeneration air. An air distribution device can switch the first and second sorption units, based on the carbon dioxide and water content, alternately from sorption mode into desorption mode such that, in at least one operating state of the device, one of the first and second sorption units is in sorption mode while the other is in desorption mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Gelase Mbadinga Mouanda, Thomas Jessberger, Achim Janner
  • Patent number: 11850544
    Abstract: An apparatus is used for concentrating malodorous organic pollutant waste gas by using an adsorption method. The specific solution is to provide a plurality of parallel fixed-bed adsorbers and a set of movable hot air desorption apparatuses which can be connected to at least one of the plurality of parallel fixed-bed adsorbers in sequence, and to respectively complete desorption of all parallel fixed adsorbent beds by means of the movable hot air desorption apparatuses. In the improved solution, the movable hot air desorption apparatus is connected to two adsorption units, and a regenerative heat exchange apparatus is provided on an inlet and outlet pipeline of the hot air desorption apparatus. The desorption process of the regenerative fixed-bed adsorbers is changed from concentrated desorption requiring high-power energy consumption to stepwise desorption requiring low-power energy consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI SHENCHENG ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION EQUIPMENT & ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chuanzhong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11779874
    Abstract: The present invention provides an air filter comprising a polymer foam and an adsorbent material wherein said polymer foam comprises metal particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: University of Bath
    Inventors: Semali Priyanthi Perera, Barry David Crittenden, Olivier Camus, Yong-Min Chew, Ramya G
  • Patent number: 11766636
    Abstract: Systems and methods for modular and adaptable carbon dioxide (CO2) capture, separation, and storage in a variety of disparate site locations are provided. The systems and methods include utilizing a plurality of transportable, mass-producible, and stackable CO2 capture modules locally arranged in a cluster serviced by modular or locally fixed utilities modules that are in turn serviced by centralized plant services facilities, which may be dedicated to the CO2 capture system or may alternatively be shared with other co-located operations. The CO2 capture modules comprise a plurality of sorbent reactors, each comprising removable sorbent cartridges which may be easily exchanged for maintenance or upgrade purposes. The CO2 sorbent reactors are alternatively operated in adsorption and desorption modes and synchronized with each other within the sorbent module and the corresponding cluster to achieve continuous operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: CARBON CAPTURE, INC.
    Inventors: Saeb Besarati, Eric Colbert, Brian Holman, Jonas Lee, Noah Liebman
  • Patent number: 11738297
    Abstract: A hydrocarbon absorbing air filter box is provided for absorbing evaporative hydrocarbon emissions from an air intake duct of an internal combustion engine. A combined mass airflow sensor and hydrocarbon trap comprising the hydrocarbon absorbing air filter box includes a duct supporting a hydrocarbon absorbing sheet within an interior of a housing. The duct communicates an airstream from an air filter to the air intake duct during operation of the internal combustion engine. An opening in the housing receives a mass airflow sensor into the duct, such that the mass airflow sensor is disposed within the airstream. Guide vanes extending across the duct reduce air turbulence within the airstream passing by the mass airflow sensor. Ports disposed along the duct allow the evaporative hydrocarbon emissions to be drawn into the interior and arrested by the hydrocarbon absorbing sheet when the internal combustion engine is not operating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: K&N Engineering, Inc.
    Inventor: Steve Williams
  • Patent number: 11628404
    Abstract: A monolithic membrane-type filtration structure for filtering liquids, includes a support formed of a porous inorganic material of permeability Ks, the support having a tubular overall shape with a main axis, an upstream base, a downstream base, a peripheral wall delimiting an internal part and a plurality of passages parallel to the main axis of the support, formed in the internal part of the support, a membrane of permeability Km and of mean thickness tm covering the internal surface of the passages; the external hydraulic diameter of the structure satisfying the relationship Øf=?×[A+B×log10 (Ks×tm/Km)]; in which ? is a coefficient between 0.85 and 1.15, and A=?21570×entint2?18.6×Dh+19.0×eint?2.5×eext+0.1244 B=?11760×Dh×eint+9.7×eint+3.1×eext+0.04517. Dh is the mean hydraulic diameter of the passages, eint is the minimum thickness of the internal walls between the passages, eext is the minimum thickness of the peripheral wall of the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ET D'ETUDES EUROPEEN
    Inventors: Sébastien Pinson, Paul Leplay, Malte Moeller, Ronald Neufert, Michael Faber
  • Patent number: 11471832
    Abstract: A swing bed absorption apparatus including a first absorption bed including a first plurality of solid amine based sorbent beads, a second absorption bed including a second plurality of solid amine based sorbent beads, and a solvent pump configured to alternately pump a liquid solvent through the first absorption bed and the second absorption bed. The liquid solvent is configured to alternately desorb the carbon dioxide from the first plurality of solid amine based sorbent beads and the second plurality of solid amine based sorbent beads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenneth David Smith, Haralambos Cordatos
  • Patent number: 11439946
    Abstract: An adsorbent vessel for removing contaminants from a feed gas upstream from a cryogenic distillation process using pressure swing adsorption, temperature swing adsorption, or thermal-pressure swing adsorption. The adsorbent vessel having an adsorbent bed comprised of multiple layers of adsorbent material, including two layers of adsorbent material that selective adsorbs carbon dioxide. Each of the two layers is formed from an adsorbent material having a different capacity for adsorbing carbon dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Nasim Ul Hassan Malik, King Wai Hung, Gowri Krishnamurthy, William T. Kleinberg, Garrett C. Lau, Edward Landis Weist, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11420149
    Abstract: A method for separating carbon dioxide and water from a gas mixture by cyclic adsorption/desorption, using a unit containing an adsorber structure, comprising the following repeating steps: (a) contacting said mixture with sorbent material; (b) at least one of evacuating said unit and heating said sorbent material and extracting the gaseous carbon dioxide and water vapour and separating gaseous carbon dioxide from water vapour; (c) cooling the adsorber structure and re-pressurisation; wherein (i) in step (c) the heat released is stored in a first heat storage device; (ii) during step (b) the sensible and latent heat of gaseous carbon dioxide and water vapour as product gases is stored in second heat storage device; and (iii) during step (b) the heat required for heating said sorbent material is supplied from heat recovered in at least one of step actions (i) and (ii) of previous sequence(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: CLIMEWORKS AG
    Inventors: Christoph Gebald, Nicolas Repond, Jan André Wurzbacher, Anca Elena Timofte, Istvan Meszaros, Benjamin Keusch
  • Patent number: 11318410
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus are provided for modulating fluid flow in a cyclical swing adsorption system that includes multiple adsorption bed vessels that are in fluid communication. When opening a valve to transition an adsorption bed vessel into a blowdown stage or a re-pressurization stage of a cyclical swing adsorption process, the valve is partially lifted from a closed position prior to being fully lifted. The valve includes a flow restriction aid positioned to restrict flow through the valve when the valve is in the partially lifted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: John W. Fulton, William N. Yunker, Tracy A. Fowler
  • Patent number: 11083865
    Abstract: Portable oxygen concentrator elements are described including integrated sensor/accumulator assemblies, new muffler designs, and improved airflow and internal gas connectivity. The result of the elements is an extremely compact, light reliable portable oxygen concentrator that is easy to assemble and relatively inexpensive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Inogen, Inc.
    Inventors: Brenton Taylor, Peter Hansen, Patrick Burgess, Daniel Chin
  • Patent number: 10937555
    Abstract: The invention relates to a nuclear power plant including a containment vessel including a reactor pressure vessel for receiving fissionable nuclear fuel, an aerosol filter stage a pressure relief conduit through which a gas volume flow which is filtered in the aerosol filter stage is releasable to ambient through a pass through opening in the containment vessel, and an iodine filter stage through which the gas volume flow that is filtered in the aerosol filter stage is filterable before being released to the ambient, wherein the iodine filter stage is arranged within the containment vessel, characterized in that the aerosol filter stage and the iodine filter stage are connected with one another so that transferring the gas volume flow from the aerosol filter stage to the iodine filter stage is performed essentially at an identical pressure level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: CAVERION Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Chafik El Kabali, Hans Felser, Peter Hausch, Claus Schweinheim
  • Patent number: 10118110
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reaction method comprising a step of supplying a liquid containing at least one raw material compound and a low-boiling compound having a standard boiling point lower than a standard boiling point of the raw material compound to a flow channel, a step of heating the liquid to produce a liquid reaction product and a gas component by a reaction of the raw material compound, and a step of separating a liquid phase containing the reaction product from a gas phase containing the gas component and the low-boiling compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Masaaki Shinohata, Takeharu Sasaki, Nobuhisa Miyake
  • Patent number: 9744493
    Abstract: Air filtering devices are disclosed that contain a first filter cartridge having a cartridge inlet and a cartridge outlet and a curved filter bed having a concave surface disposed such that air to be filtered passes through the inlet, the curved filter bed, and the outlet. The air filtering devices also contain a blower assembly having a blower inlet in fluid communication with the cartridge outlet and a blower outlet, the blower assembly includes a motor proximate to the concave surface of the curved filter bed. The motor has a rotational axis such that the rotational axis is adjacent to the center of curvature of the curved filter bed. The air filtering device may be used in powered air purifying respirators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Pierre Legare, Gary E. Dwyer, Andrew Murphy, Simon J. Smith
  • Patent number: 9504964
    Abstract: A method for operation of a filtration module 4 including a housing 5 with at least one filter element 7 positioned therein, the filter element defining a first space 10 in the housing at a feeding side of its filtering surface and a second space 11 at an opposite permeate side thereof, a fluid feed 14 opening out in the first space at the feeding side of the filter element, and a permeate outlet 17 in flow communication with the second space at the permeate side of the filter element, in which the filter element is placed in an upright position. The permeate outlet is positioned at a lower end of the filter element, and a gas feed 18 is provided opening out in the second space at said permeate side of the filter element. During filtration, pressurized gas is fed into the second space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: X-FLOW B.V.
    Inventor: André Mepschen
  • Patent number: 9492628
    Abstract: A system for collecting an anaesthetic agent, having at least one anaesthetic gas scavenging system (AGSS) for receiving exhaust gas from a plurality of sources, the exhaust gas including the anaesthetic agent to be collected, each AGSS comprising at least one power source for providing suction of the exhaust gas from the plurality of sources under negative pressure, and a central collection system for receiving the exhaust gas. The central collection system comprises a disinfection module for disinfecting the exhaust gases and outputting a disinfected exhaust gas and at least one collector for receiving the disinfected exhaust gas, wherein the at least one collector is configured to adsorb the anaesthetic agent from the exhaust gas. The central collection system may be configured to received the exhaust gases from the at least one AGSS, with the central collection system being located downstream of the at least one AGSS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Class 1 Inc.
    Inventors: Barry W. Hunt, Todd Eric Jarrett, Damian Ross Thorne, Katrina Marie Ahchong, Dean Paul Carr, Cesar Laurentino Martinez Vazquez
  • Patent number: 9387271
    Abstract: A system for infusing ion clusters into a target environment includes a housing, a fan, and an ion cluster generation component. The housing has intake and outflow openings. The fan forces air through the intake opening and along a route. The interior surface areas of the housing adjacent to the route are electrically insulating. The route can take either a first path or a second path. The first path goes along a straight path from the fan, through the ion cluster generation component and through the outflow opening. The second path goes along a first segment and a second segment. The first segment runs from the fan and through the ion cluster generation component. The second segment runs from the end of the first segment and extends downwardly through the outflow opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Inventors: Wallace Weston Warren, Tim Zwijack
  • Patent number: 9221006
    Abstract: Embodiments of oxygen concentrators having a sieve bed that includes a vessel filled with a separation medium are disclosed. The sieve bed vessel at least partially supports one chassis component of the oxygen concentrator with respect to another chassis component. of the oxygen concentrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Invacare Corp.
    Inventors: William Chambers, Dennis Sniezek, Thomas Sprinkle
  • Patent number: 9115435
    Abstract: Methods for releasing associated guest materials from a metal organic framework are provided. Methods for associating guest materials with a metal organic framework are also provided. Methods are provided for selectively associating or dissociating guest materials with a metal organic framework. Systems for associating or dissociating guest materials within a series of metal organic frameworks are provided. Gas separation assemblies are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: B. Peter McGrail, Praveen K. Thallapally, Wu Xu
  • Patent number: 9027546
    Abstract: A solar collector receiver tube containing an improved getter system is described. The solar collector receiver tube has a base, pills of getter material that are uniform in height, and a containment metallic mesh having a non-uniform height and presenting at least one depression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: SAES Getters S.p.A.
    Inventors: Mauro Brancaleoni, Andrea Conte, Franco Veronelli
  • Patent number: 9017457
    Abstract: Provided are apparatus and systems having a poppet valve assembly and swing adsorption separation techniques related thereto. A poppet valve includes a valve body, a plurality of static valves fixedly secured to the valve body and a single dynamic poppet valve having a plurality of openings. The plurality of static valves align and mate with the plurality of openings. The single dynamic poppet valve reciprocates to selectively open and close the plurality of static valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventor: Robert F. Tammera
  • Patent number: 8999045
    Abstract: A regenerative air drying system including at least one dryer module including a housing having a inlet air passage, an outlet air passage, and a wash air passage. The air dryer system further includes a desiccant canister mounted to the housing and in communication with the inlet, outlet, and exhaust air passages, and a single controllable valve selectively moveable between a first position and a second position, wherein the single controllable valve, when in the first position, forms a supply air flow path from the inlet air passage, through the desiccant canister in a first direction, and to the outlet air passage, and when in the second position, forms a wash air path from the outlet air passage, through the desiccant canister in a direction opposite the first direction, and to the exhaust air passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Suburban Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Dustin A. Ericson, Brad Barger
  • Patent number: 8992672
    Abstract: A housing for a substance removing an undesired component of a respiratory gas is disclosed herein. The housing includes a first space for the substance and a first wall surrounding part of the first space. The housing also includes a first end, surrounding part of the first space, comprising a first opening for the gas communication with the first space, and a second end, surrounding part of the first space, comprising a second opening for the gas communication with the first space. The housing further includes a first channel between the first and the second end for the gas flow, the first channel comprising a first orifice at the first end and a second orifice at the second end. The first orifice, the first opening, the second orifice and the second opening are in flow communication with outside the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Carefusion Corporation
    Inventors: Erkki Heinonen, Janne Ranta, Mikael Alanen
  • Publication number: 20150075380
    Abstract: An activated carbon filter for a fuel tank supplying a heat engine of an automobile, the carbon filter including a housing including an inlet port capable of being connected to the fuel tank, a discharge port capable of being connected to the heat engine, and a vent port. The housing includes at least one internal wall dividing the inner volume thereof into at least two intercommunicating chambers, at least one activated carbon chamber containing activated carbon capable of trapping hydrocarbon gases, and a storage chamber forming a storage volume of a gas stream entering through the inlet port of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: RENAULT s.a.s.
    Inventors: Belen Lahaye, Gilbert Jain, Caroline Lapierre, Aurelien Monvoisin
  • Patent number: 8979985
    Abstract: A conformal filter is disclosed having a plurality of sorbent beds oriented perpendicular to an inner side surface of the filter which conforms to an adjacent surface, such as a wearer's face when attached to a respirator. The inner side of the filter may approximate the curved shape of an interfacing surface. Because the sorbent beds are oriented perpendicular to the inner side surface, a conformal configuration can be achieved without bending the sorbent beds and while keeping constant bed residence time throughout the entire cross-sectional area of the air flow, thus enforcing even air distribution. Reduced bed depth is also achieved through this configuration which consequently reduces the overall pressure drop through the filter. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Scott Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Ding, Edward Powers Simmonds, Michael Lee Parham
  • Publication number: 20150068401
    Abstract: Provided is a gas adsorbing device that allows a gas adsorbent to sufficiently exert its gas adsorption capacity even if the gas adsorbent absorbs a gas that contains moisture. A gas adsorbing device (1) includes: a gas adsorbing member (2) including a container (5) with an opening, a gas adsorbent (6) housed in the container (5), and a sealing member (7) sealing the opening; a moisture adsorbent (3); and an outer package (4) whose inside is decompressed, the outer package (4) housing the gas adsorbing member (2) and the moisture adsorbent (3). The gas adsorbing member (2) and the moisture adsorbent (3) are arranged inside the outer package (4), such that an end portion of the gas adsorbing member (2) in its longitudinal direction and an end portion of the moisture adsorbent (3) in its longitudinal direction are adjacent to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventor: Masamichi Hashida
  • Patent number: 8950401
    Abstract: A breathing apparatus is operable in self-contained and filtered modes of operation. In the self-contained mode of operation, a breathable gas is delivered to a user from a self-contained source of breathing gas. In a second, filtered mode of operation, a suction source draws ambient air through a filter removing contaminants and delivers filtered ambient air to the user. A method of delivering air to a subject is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Wilcox Industries Corp.
    Inventors: James W. Teetzel, Gary M. Lemire, Daniel A. Desrosiers, Mark A. Hansen
  • Patent number: 8932387
    Abstract: A combustible gas enrichment system includes an adsorption unit charged therein with an adsorbent for selectively adsorbing a combustible gas, a source gas feeding means capable of feeding source gas containing the combustible gas into the adsorption unit from the outside, a suctioning means capable of suctioning the gas from the inside of the adsorption unit and a controlling means for executing an adsorption process for feeding the source gas into the adsorption unit for adsorption of the combustible gas to the adsorbent and a desorption process for desorbing the combustible gas from the adsorbent under the suction force of the suctioning means after the adsorption process and taking the desorbed combustible gas to the outside. The controlling means operates the suctioning means such that the suction force of the suctioning means when no desorption process is effected is smaller than the suction force when the desorption process is effected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Morioka, Takahisa Utaki
  • Publication number: 20140352531
    Abstract: Methods of preparing an impurity-depleted hydrogen stream, methods of analyzing content of an impurity-depleted hydrogen stream from a pressure swing adsorption process, and pressure swing adsorption apparatuses are provided herein. In an embodiment, a method of analyzing content of an impurity-depleted hydrogen stream from a pressure swing adsorption process includes providing a hydrogen-containing feed stream to a pressure swing adsorption zone. The hydrogen-containing feed stream further includes an impurity content including methane and carbon monoxide. Methane and carbon monoxide are adsorbed from the hydrogen-containing feed stream in the pressure swing adsorption zone. The impurity-depleted hydrogen stream is withdrawn from the pressure swing adsorption zone, with the impurity-depleted hydrogen stream having a residual methane content and a residual carbon monoxide content. The residual methane content of the impurity-depleted hydrogen stream is sensed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: UOP LLC
    Inventor: Kirit M. Patel
  • Patent number: 8894751
    Abstract: Lightweight, portable oxygen concentrators that operate using an ultra rapid, sub one second, adsorption cycle based on advanced molecular sieve materials are disclosed. The amount of sieve material utilized is a fraction of that used in conventional portable devices. This dramatically reduces the volume, weight, and cost of the device. Innovations in valve configuration, moisture control, case and battery design, and replaceable sieve module are described. Patients with breathing disorders and others requiring medical oxygen are provided with a long lasting, low cost alternative to existing portable oxygen supply devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Separation Design Group LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Douglas Galbraith, Kenneth J. McGowan, Evonne A. Baldauff, Elise Galbraith, David K. Walker, Robert B. LaCount
  • Patent number: 8888902
    Abstract: Lightweight, small, portable devices and methods are disclosed that provide oxygen-enriched air using an ultra rapid adsorption cycle based on advanced molecular sieve materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Separation Design Group LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Douglas Galbraith, David K. Walker, Kenneth J. McGowan, Elise N. DePetris, Judith C. Galbraith
  • Publication number: 20140326139
    Abstract: A method for producing nitrogen gas from a raw material gas using a PSA system, the method including using a second adsorbent, which is packed in an auxiliary adsorption tank provided in a line connecting two main adsorption tanks packed with a first adsorbent, to reduce the oxygen concentration within a recovered gas discharged from the main adsorption tank performing a depressurization equalization step, and then introducing the gas into the main adsorption tank performing a pressurization equalization step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makiya Kokubu, Hidehisa Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 8858689
    Abstract: A gas separation device is disclosed. In particular, seal assemblies and adsorbent element constructions for a gas separation device such as a pressure swing adsorption device are disclosed. The seal assembly can be part of a rotary valve and can include a seal backer and a floating seal positioned within a bore in the seal backer. The floating seal is configured to press towards and seal against an adjacent rotor. Valve action is provided as apertures in the floating seal and rotor are brought into and then out of alignment as a result of relative rotation therebetween. The seal assembly can include two types of gas chambers to apply balanced sealing pressures over the sealing surface of the valve, one type configured to receive pressurized process gas from within the device and the other configured to receive gas from an independently controlled pressurized gas source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Stoner, Christopher R. McLean, Daryl Musselman
  • Publication number: 20140224126
    Abstract: Methods and system for concentrating oxygen include a plurality of sieve beds configured to absorb nitrogen from air, at least one reservoir configured to store oxygen-enriched gas exiting from the plurality of sieve beds, a compressor configured to deliver air at one or more desired pressures to the plurality of sieve beds, a support member positioned in housing and configured to support the compressor, the plurality of sieve beds and the reservoir, an air manifold providing a plurality of channels therein that at least partially define passages communicating between the compressor and the plurality of sieve beds, and an oxygen delivery manifold providing a plurality of channels therein that at least partially define passages for delivering the oxygen-enriched to a user. The air manifold and the oxygen delivery manifold are integrally formed with the support member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Douglas Adam Whitcher, Bradley Stewart Koeppel, Jeremy Webster Blair
  • Publication number: 20140216261
    Abstract: A regenerative scrubber system is provided for removing a selected gas from an atmosphere within a closed environment. The scrubber system includes a scrubber module having a first scrubber and a second scrubber, each housing a porous mass of regenerative adsorbent material for adsorbing the selected gas, a first flow diversion device disposed upstream of the scrubber module with respect to the gaseous flow from the closed environment, a second flow diversion device disposed downstream of the scrubber with respect to the gaseous flow from the closed environment, and a single actuator operatively associated with each of the first flow diversion device and the second flow diversion device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Carrier Corporation
    Inventor: Malcolm N. Fleming, JR.
  • Patent number: 8778061
    Abstract: The reaction exhaust gas from which chlorosilanes and hydrogen chloride have been removed in a hydrogen chloride absorption unit (30) is introduced to an adsorption unit (50) to recover a purified hydrogen (S105). Activated carbon is packed in the adsorption unit (50), the gas, which is mainly composed of hydrogen, is passed through the activated carbon-packed layer during which unseparated chlorosilanes, hydrogen chloride, nitrogen, carbon monoxide, methane, and monosilane contained in the gas are adsorbed on the activated carbon and removed from the gas, and thereby the purified hydrogen is obtained. Nitrogen, carbon monoxide, methane and monosilane are a compressed gas in the state of adsorption, whereas hydrogen chloride and chlorosilanes are a liquid in the state of adsorption, and require a vaporization heat during desorption. Using these properties, the separation of hydrogen chloride and chlorosilanes from other impurity components is possible merely by separating the pathways for the desorbed gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasushi Kurosawa
  • Patent number: 8771406
    Abstract: A transport tank with high capacity gas scrubbing includes a vertically extending interior wall horizontally dividing the transport tank into a gas scrubbing chamber and a fluid storage chamber. A floor grate is supported within the gas scrubbing chamber at vertically spaced distance from a bottom of the transport tank and defines a gas distribution space between the floor grate and the tank bottom. A gas distribution pipe is disposed within and longitudinally extends the gas distribution space. A gas inlet is fluidically connected to the gas distribution pipe and passes through an exterior wall of the transport tank. A gas scrubbing is material disposed within the gas scrubbing chamber above the floor grate. And a gas outlet is fluidically connected to the gas scrubbing chamber for venting scrubbed gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Inventors: Ken Elliott, Sonya Elliott
  • Patent number: 8771405
    Abstract: A gas filter comprises a housing (30) having a gas inlet (55), a gas outlet (65) and at least one chamber (70) therebetween containing carbon nanotubes (110). The chamber (70) has a port (90) and is configured for simultaneous gas ingress to and gas egress from the carbon nanotubes (110) through the port (90).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Inventor: Dimitris Drikakis
  • Patent number: 8753435
    Abstract: A portable oxygen concentrator includes a pressure swing absorption system defined by a relatively rigid housing adapted to generate a flow of oxygen enriched gas and a battery adapted to provide power to the pressure swing absorption system. The oxygen concentrator has a total weight of less than about 10 lbs, has a maximum flow of 100% O2 equivalent gas of about 0.9 lpm, has a total volume less than about 800 in3, and gas a battery life of at least about 8 hours. The present invention also using a liquefaction or transfill system in combination with such an oxygen concentrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Ric Investments, LLC
    Inventors: Charles R. Atlas, Peter L. Bliss, Robert W. Murdoch, Scott C. Halperin
  • Patent number: 8752390
    Abstract: Both power and H2 are produced from a gaseous mixture, comprising H2 and CO2, using first and second pressure swing adsorption (PSA) systems in series. The gaseous mixture is fed at super-atmospheric pressure to the first PSA system, which comprises adsorbent that selectively adsorbs CO2 at said pressure, and CO2 is adsorbed, thereby providing an H2-enriched mixture at super-atmospheric pressure. A fuel stream is formed from a portion of the H2-enriched mixture, which is combusted and the combustion effluent expanded to generate power. Another portion of the H2-enriched mixture is sent to the second PSA system, which comprises adsorbent that selectively adsorbs CO2 at super-atmospheric pressure, and CO2 is adsorbed, thereby providing a high purity H2 product. In preferred embodiments, the division of H2-enriched mixture between forming the fuel stream and being fed to the second PSA system is adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew David Wright, Jeffrey Raymond Hufton, Vincent White, Timothy Christopher Golden
  • Patent number: 8753427
    Abstract: In various implementations, various feed gas streams which include hydrogen and carbon monoxide may be processed for conversion to product streams. For example, the feed gas stream may be processed using the Fischer-Tropsch process or a methanol synthesis process. Unconverted hydrogen and carbon monoxide can be recycled at high recovery and/or inert components removed to prevent build-up in the recycle system by using an arrangement of pressure swing adsorption systems designed to recover impure product gas streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: GTLpetrol LLC
    Inventor: Rodney J. Allam
  • Patent number: 8747529
    Abstract: A device for drying medium flow (8), in particular an air flow, includes a device housing (2), in which at least first and second drying agents (4, 6) are received. The first and second drying agents have a high moisture absorption capacity in the case of low and high moisture values of the medium flow (8), respectively. The amount of the respective drying agent (4, 6) can be selectively set depending on the actual moisture present in the medium flow (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Hydac Filtertechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Backes, Achim Pfeiffer, Jan Weber
  • Patent number: 8741227
    Abstract: An isolator includes a workroom having a first sterilizing material supply port, a first sterilizing material discharge port, a first gas supply port and a first gas discharge port, a sterilization chamber having a second sterilizing material supply port, a second sterilizing material discharge port, a second gas supply port and a second gas discharge port, a sterilizing material supply unit, a first sterilizing material supply path connecting the sterilizing material supply unit to the first sterilizing material supply port, a second sterilizing material supply path connecting the sterilizing material supply unit to the second sterilizing material supply port, a first circulating path connecting the first sterilizing material discharge port to the sterilizing material supply unit, a second circulating path connecting the second sterilizing material discharge port to the sterilizing material supply unit, a first gas supply path, a second gas supply path, a first gas discharge path, a second gas discharge path
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Healthcare Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Yokoi, Jiro Ohnishi, Shinji Fukui, Akifumi Iwama
  • Patent number: 8734576
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to a composite hydrogen storage material comprising active material particles and a binder, wherein the binder immobilizes the active material particles sufficient to maintain relative spatial relationships between the active material particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Societe BIC
    Inventor: Joerg Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 8728215
    Abstract: A cyclic adsorption process is provided having pressurization and depressurization steps and driven by one or more centrifugal machines operating under acceleration and deceleration conditions wherein the deceleration rate of the machine is controlled to minimize power consumption and maximize the efficiency of the process. The operating speed of the centrifugal machine during deceleration is matched to the measured pressure ratio conditions so that the centrifugal machine arrives at its minimum operating speed near the point required to begin acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael S. Manning, Andrew C. Rosinski, Paul W. Belanger
  • Patent number: 8709135
    Abstract: An off gas extraction system cleans common sources of off gas, such as storage tanks and polluted soils. Off gas is extracted, followed by compression and condensation. Compression and condensation produce an off gas that can be reintroduced as a treated gas into the off gas source. Alternatively, a regenerative absorber cleans the treated gas by adsorbing residual chemical vapor and concentrates the removed chemical vapors and reprocesses them. If the treated gas is not reintroduced into the off gas source, conventional scrubbers may used on the back end of the system to produce a final exhaust as prescribed by environmental regulation. Methods of accomplishing the same are similarly provided, including novel methods for degassing storage tanks and treating polluted soils to meet current environmental regulations, as well as green technology and sustainability initiatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Inventor: Carol Diane Krumbholz
  • Publication number: 20140109879
    Abstract: A tank ventilation system of a fuel tank (2) has at least one housing (20) with a tank-side fuel vapor inlet opening (22), an engine-side fuel vapor outlet opening (26) and an atmosphere opening (24). The housing (20) has at least one first adsorption region (32) and a second adsorption region (34) upstream of the fuel vapor outlet opening (26). The second adsorption region (32) has a substantially lower absorption capacity than the first adsorption region (32), which is placed in a direction of flow toward the atmosphere opening (24).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Andreas Menke
  • Patent number: 8702845
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a system for purification of a carbon dioxide rich flue gas generated in a boiler combusting a fuel in the presence of a gas containing oxygen, and being contaminated by NOx gases, wherein the system comprising one or more gas drier(s) comprising desiccants for removal of at least a portion of water content of the further compressed carbon dioxide rich flue gas; and a closed loop connected to the drier(s) for regeneration of desiccants of the drier(s) wherein the NOx gases are removed substantially separately from the water vapor. The invention pertains also to a method for removing the NOx gases substantially separately from the water vapor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventor: Olaf Stallmann
  • Patent number: 8685151
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to contaminant removal from gas streams. In certain embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a process for removing one or more contaminants from a gas stream via contact with a regenerable sorbent at high temperature and pressure, utilizing a unique arrangement of reactors operating in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Lummus Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald E. Brown, Daniel T. Fernald
  • Patent number: 8663367
    Abstract: A system for isolating a greenhouse gas from an exhaust gas includes a vessel having an inlet to receive an exhaust gas, and an outlet to discharge a process stream, an adsorbent contained in the vessel to selectively adsorb the greenhouse gas from the exhaust gas under suitable conditions, and a heat source to heat the adsorbent and desorb the adsorbed greenhouse gas therefrom to produce a process stream of greenhouse gas for release through the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Bhupender S. Minhas, Ian A. Cody