Quotables
"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?"
The Quarterly Review ; March edition, 1825
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6082118 | Storage and transport of gas hydrates as a slurry suspenion under metastable conditions A suitable slurry composition allows gas hydrates to be stored or transported under metastable conditions. The slurry includes gas hydrate particles and a carrier liquid for the gas hydrate particles. Suitable carrier liquids have a specific gravity in th... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6028234 | Process for making gas hydrates The present invention provides a process for continuously producing clathrate hydrate. This process includes comprising the steps of: (a) pressurizing a hydrate-forming gas to an elevated pressure and cooling the hydrate-forming gas below the gas-water-hydrate... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6028235 | Gas hydrate regassification method and apparatus using steam or other heated gas or liquid A method and apparatus for safely, conveniently, and inexpensively liberating gas from gas hydrates includes the use of a device, provided adjacent to or in the bulk gas hydrates, for exposing the gas hydrates to heat from a gas or liquid (preferably stea... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6025403 | Process for heat integration of an autothermal reformer and cogeneration power plant A process for integration of an autothermal reforming unit and a cogeneration power plant in which the reforming unit has two communicating fluid beds. The first fluid bed is a reformer reactor containing inorganic metal oxide and which is used to react o... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6004074 | Marine riser having variable buoyancy A variable-buoyancy marine riser and a method for providing and adjusting the buoyancy for such a riser. The riser is comprised of a main riser conduit on which a plurality of cans are affixed. A slurry of buoyant material, e.g. small, hollow spheres, is ... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5997728 | Catalyst system for maximizing light olefin yields in FCC A process for catalytically cracking a heavy feed in an FCC unit, with large amounts of shape selective cracking additive is disclosed. The catalyst inventory preferably contains at least 10 wt % additive, of 12-40% ZSM-5 on an amorphous support, equivale... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5964093 | Gas hydrate storage reservoir A gas hydrate storage reservoir includes at least one insulated wall defining an opening and a sunlight permeable top covering the opening. A gas-tight, gas hydrate storage cavity is defined within the top and the wall(s). A cover element is provided to c... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5954942 | Catalytic cracking with delayed quench A process for thermally and catalytically upgrading a heavy feed in a single riser reactor FCC unit is disclosed. A heavy feed is cracked in the base of the riser at higher than normal cracking temperatures for at least 1.0 seconds of vapor residence time... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5846503 | Process for rejuvenating used alkanolamaine solutions The present invention provides a method for rejuvenating an aqueous alkanolamine solution being at least partially deactivated from contact with an acid gas, said rejuvenation method comprising contacting said aqueous alkanolamine solution with hydrogen i... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5824214 | Method for hydrotreating and upgrading heavy crude oil during production Heavy crude oil containing at least 1% by weight water is hydrotreated and upgraded while being produced downhole in a production well. During production the heavy crude oil containing water is subjected to sonic energy at a low frequency of 400 Hz to 10 ... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5799482 | Process for improved heat integration of an oxidant-supplemented autothermal reformer and cogeneration power plant A process for integration of an autothermal reforming unit and a cogeneration power plant in which the reforming unit has two communicating fluid beds. The first fluid bed is a reformer reactor containing inorganic metal oxide and supplemental oxidant gas... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5790473 | High fidelity vibratory source seismic method for use in vertical seismic profile data gathering with a plurality of vibratory seismic energy sources A method for recording and pre-processing vertical seismic profile high fidelity vibratory seismic data includes the steps of measuring the motion of the vibrator which is related to the vibrator applied force times a transfer function of minimum phase, c... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5779746 | Underflow cyclone with perforated barrel A cyclone and process for fluidized catalytic cracking of heavy oils is disclosed. Gas and entrained solids are added tangentially around a vapor outlet tube in a cylindrical tube cyclone body. Solids and some gas is withdrawn via a plurality of openings ... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5705053 | FCC regenerator NOx reduction by homogeneous and catalytic conversion Oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions from an FCC regenerator are reduced by operating the regenerator in partial CO burn mode and controlled thermal and catalytic processing of the flue gas. Partial CO burn FCC catalyst regeneration produces flue... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5661236 | Pad production log tool A production logging tool includes a plurality of pads affixed on a log tool so that the pads are located on the outer periphery of the well and are directed toward the borehole center. In the preferred embodiment, eight pads are used, with two groups of ... | 08/26/1997 |
