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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6565715 | Land-based desalination using buoyant hydrate Methods and apparatus for desalination of salt water (and purification of polluted water) are disclosed. Salt water is pumped to a desalination installation and down to the base of a desalination fractionation column, where it is mixed with hydrate-formin... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6363743 | Method for formulating particles Method for formulating particles from solutions, wherein cooling the solution down to the initial freezing point, to mix the solution under pressure with an inert medium, to expand the solution to solid, fluidable frozen particles comprising the insert me... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6336334 | Device for crystallization by isentropic expansion and its use A device for crystallization of a component from a liquid mixture comprising a chamber, a first conduit connected to said chamber for supplying said mixture, a second conduit connected to and in connection with said chamber for introducing cold gas, a thi... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6158239 | Desalination through gas hydrate In one embodiment, this invention pertains to desalination of seawater by eding methane into seawater at a depth generally exceeding 100 meters to form methane hydrate which rises to where it is decomposed into methane and water, and recoverig water. Meth... | 12/12/2000 |
| 5873262 | Desalination through methane hydrate In one embodiment, this invention pertains to desalination of seawater by eding methane into seawater at a depth exceeding 100 meters to form methane hydrate which rises to where it is decomposed into methane and water, and recovering water. Methane is re... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5553456 | Clathrate freeze desalination apparatus and method A clathrate freeze desalination system and method in which a clathrate forming agent is injected through a submerged pipeline to a predetermined ocean depth at which the surrounding ocean temperature is less than the clathrate forming temperature. The age... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5444986 | Method of producing ice by using fluorinated pentane An ice making refrigerant mainly consists of at least one compound selected from the group of normal perfluoropentane, cycloperfluoropentane, isoperfluoropentane, and fluorohydropentane. The refrigerant may also consists of pentane mixed with a sufficient... | 08/29/1995 |
| 4952750 | Process for making p-xylene with a purity of at least 99.5% This process is an improvement of a process described in German Open Patent Application No. 3703646 for obtaining a p-xylene product with a purity of at least 99.5%. The inert fluid used as a cold carrier is mixed with a crude product starting material, w... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4438634 | Freeze concentration apparatus Disclosed is an apparatus useful in freeze concentration processes such as in the concentration of fruit juices. The apparatus performs both the recrystallization and ice-liquid separation steps of conventional freeze concentration systems. The apparatus ... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4327059 | Apparatus for dispersing a liquid into another liquid A hollow, rotating drum is horizontally supported in a vessel or crystallizer containing a brine such as sea water and has a plurality of nozzles projecting radially outwardly therefrom and having orifices having a smaller diameter than the nozzles. A liq... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4256717 | Silicon purification method A method for purifying silicon comprises the steps of providing a body of molten silicon-rich material and extracting heat therefrom to provide a solid phase containing silicon in crystal form and to concentrate impurities in a molten phase. After a desir... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4252549 | Crystallization via porous tube heat transfer In crystallization units such as wax crystallization units where a scraped surface double pipe heat exchanger type chiller is used, the improvement of replacing the scraped surface chiller tube with a porous tube to provide positive flow of coolant throug... | 02/24/1981 |
| 4164854 | Desalination method with mercury refrigerant A salt water purification apparatus and process utilizes a vertically arranged elongated tank in which salt water is first frozen into a solid block and then melted to provide pure water. The freezing is accomplished by injecting into a column of salt wat... | 08/21/1979 |
| 4153555 | Cryogenic beach cleaner An improved method and apparatus are disclosed herein for cryogenically cleaning and restoring sandy beaches which have become contaminated by oil spills. In the method, a mixture of particulate, pulverized and recycled rubber and wood fines is applied to... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4129583 | Process for separating crystallizable fractions from mixtures thereof In a continuous process for separating crystallizable organic components from mixtures thereof in solution, a feedstock of such components is mixed with at least one solvent therefor and the resulting feedstock mixture is continuously fed into a vessel in... | 12/12/1978 |
| 4129431 | Cryothermal manipulation of petroleum The subject invention relates to method and apparatus for controlling or manipulating a body of crude, refined, or used petroleum as, for example: in the herding and recovery of an oil spill in a body of water; in temporarily stopping a leak in an oil tan... | 12/12/1978 |
| 4092834 | Freeze separation plant A plant for reducing the impurity content of impure water by the immiscible refrigerant freeze process, for example a secondary refrigerant freezing plant employed for desalination, has its crystallizer sub-divided into a plurality of tiers of passageways... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4043140 | Cryogenic beach cleaner A method and machine are disclosed herein for cleaning and restoring sand beaches which have become contaminated by oil spills. The machine travels on the beach and sprays liquid nitrogen onto the contaminated area, thereby solidifying the oil and sand mi... | 08/23/1977 |
| 4031707 | Cryothermal manipulation of petroleum spills on water The subject invention relates to method and apparatus for controlling or manipulating a body of crude, refined, or used petroleum as, for example: in the herding and recovery of an oil spill in a body of water; in temporarily stopping a leak in an oil tan... | 06/28/1977 |
