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Class 95/114 - With plural indirect heat transfer steps on solid sorbent or gaseous fluid mixture or constituent thereof


Subclass of Class 95 - Gas separation: processes
Definition: Process in which there is more than one step of heating
No. of patents: 77
Last issue date: 03/29/2011


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NumberTitleIssue Date
7914606System for separating a waste liquid and a hydrocarbon gas from a produced gas
Produced natural gas containing carbon dioxide is dehydrated and chilled to liquefy the carbon dioxide and then fractionated to produce a waste stream of liquid carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide. Natural gas liquids may be first separated and removed before fracti...
03/29/2011
7785399Heat integration for hot solvent stripping loop in an acid gas removal process
Systems and processes utilize one or more methods of providing overhead waste process heat to increase the feed temperature of the hot solvent stripping regeneration loop in an acid gas removal process. A heated rich solvent stream can be the primary feed for the ho...
08/31/2010
7766999Process for vaporizing the product COat two different pressures during COseparation
An improved process for the separation of carbon dioxide from the flue gas of an oxy-combustion power plant is provided. At least a first product stream and a second product stream are separated from a flue gas stream, wherein the pressure of the first product strea...
08/03/2010
7744677Systems and methods for processing methane and other gases
Systems and methods for processing methane and other gases are disclosed. A representative method in accordance with one embodiment includes directing a first portion of a gas stream through a first adsorbent while exchanging heat between a second adsorbent and a th...
06/29/2010
7611566Direct gas recirculation heater for optimal desorption of gases in cryogenic gas storage containers
A cryogenic gas storage system for optimal desorption of adsorbed gases, wherein a gas storage material is subjected to enhanced, ample selected recirculation of gas of the same type as the adsorbed gas, at suitable temperature and pressure, so as to supply of heat ...
11/03/2009
7384454Combined water-from-air and water-from-exhaust system
A water production unit is provided having two modes of operation for extracting water from exhaust and air. ...
06/10/2008
7326278Advanced contaminate treatment system
Decontamination systems and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system comprises a first adsorption/desorption subsystem that is configured to receive a contaminated gaseous solution and remove substantially all of the contaminants from the contaminated gase...
02/05/2008
7316731Adsorption of contaminants from gaseous stream and in situ regeneration of sorbent
Contaminant is removed from a gaseous stream, especially an air stream bearing the contaminant, by adsorption on a sorbent which is a resiliently compressible, electrically conductive, activated carbon cloth material, leaving a gaseous stream liberated of the contam...
01/08/2008
7314506Fluid purification system with low temperature purifier
A system and method for processing a matrix fluid to remove one or more impurities (such as moisture from a process gas). The purifier includes a pre-cooler that receives the matrix fluid and cools the matrix fluid to a second, lower temperature. A container is prov...
01/01/2008
7311757Analyte pre-concentrator for gas chromatography
An analyte pre-concentrator for gas chromatography is disclosed generally comprising a tube having a restricted outlet and packed with an adsorbent, wherein the tube serves as the liner of a chromatographic injector, as an adsorbent trap coupled to a chromatographic...
12/25/2007
7305849Sorptive heat exchanger and related cooled sorption process
A sorptive heat exchanger (E), which presents a plurality of heat exchange channels (10) in thermal contact with respective sorption channels (11), where sorption material (12) is fixed on the internal surfaces of channels (11). ...
12/11/2007
7303606Oxy-fuel combustion process
Production of oxygen-enriched gas streams is disclosed herein. Air streams contact an oxygen-selective mixed conductor particularly a perovskite material whereby oxygen is retained or adsorbed on the perovskite and can be employed in a variety of processes such as i...
12/04/2007
7285154Xenon recovery system
A first aspect of a process of recovering xenon from feed gas includes: providing an adsorption vessel containing adsorbent having a Xe/N2 selectivity ratio 50% and...
10/23/2007
7160366Filter element
An improved filter element which can be used in gas masks is formed of short lengths of porous monolithic carbon formed by partially curing a phenolic resin to a solid, comminuting the partially cured resin, extruding the comminuted resin, sintering the extruded res...
01/09/2007
7153344Process for the preparation and recovery of carbon dioxide from waste gas or fumes produced by combustible oxidation
A process for the separation and recovery of carbon dioxide from waste gases produced by combustible oxidation is described comprising the steps of feeding a flow of waste gas to a gas semipermeable material, separating a gaseous flow comprising high concentrated ca...
12/26/2006
7141092Regenerable adsorption system
A method for regenerable adsorption includes providing a substrate that defines at least one layer of ultra short channel length mesh capable of conducting an electrical current therethrough, coating at least a portion of the substrate with a desired sorbent for tra...
11/28/2006
7135059Portable gas fractionalization system
A portable gas fractionalization apparatus that provides oxygen rich air to patients is provided. The apparatus is compact, lightweight, and low-noise. The components are assembled in a housing that is divided into two compartments. One compartment is maintained at ...
11/14/2006
7118606Fossil fuel combined cycle power system
A system for converting fuel energy to electricity includes a reformer for converting a higher molecular weight gas into at least one lower molecular weight gas, at least one turbine to produce electricity from expansion of at least one of the lower molecular weight...
10/10/2006
7080505Vehicular atmosphere cleansing method
A vehicular atmosphere cleansing system utilizes a regenerative wheel having flow channels extending through the wheel coated with an adsorbant. An atmosphere stream passes through a first position dependent portion of the wheel where VOC's including HC's are adsorb...
07/25/2006
7066986Apparatus for use in regenerating adsorbent
An adsorber vessel for use in the adsorption of a component from a gas and subsequent regeneration by thermally induced desorption of the component comprises an inlet for regeneration gas having an inlet nozzle containing at least one heater element, and an outlet f...
06/27/2006
7048785Adsorbents for low vapor pressure fluid storage and delivery
A fluid storage and delivery system utilizing a porous metal matrix that comprises at least one Group VIIIB metal therein. In one embodiment, the porous metal matrix forms a solid-phase metal adsorbent medium, with an average pore diameter of from about 0.5 nm to ab...
05/23/2006
7029517Devices and methods for hydrogen storage and generation
Disclosed herein is a method for the storage of hydrogen comprising contacting a hydrogen storage composition with a gaseous mixture comprising hydrogen; and irradiating the hydrogen storage composition with radio frequency radiation or microwave radiation in an amo...
04/18/2006
7022168Device for removing carbon dioxide from exhaust gas
In a method for removing carbon dioxide from the exhaust gas from a gas turbine plant (11), which exhaust gas is subjected to a downstream heat recovery process (12, 33), preferably in the heat recovery steam generator (33) of a water/steam cycl...
04/04/2006
7011695Barium-and calcium-based zeolitic adsorbent for gas purification in particular air
Zeolite adsorbent, and method of production, exchanged with calcium and barium cations, for purifying or separating a gas or gas mixture, in particular air, so as to remove therefrom the impurities found therein, such as hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides (Nx
03/14/2006
7001445Ambient air pollution trap
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for cleaning ambient air of a vehicular adsorption unit (8). The vehicle includes a combustion engine (1) and a passenger ventilation system (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11). Adsorption takes place wheth...
02/21/2006
6974495Analyte pre-concentrator for gas chromatography
An analyte pre-concentrator for gas chromatography is disclosed generally comprising a tube having a restricted outlet and packed with an adsorbent, wherein the tube serves as the liner of a chromatographic injector, as an adsorbent trap coupled to a chromatographic...
12/13/2005
RE38893Method and apparatus for dehumidifying air
A novel method and apparatus to dehumidify air provides enhanced dehumidification efficiency over conventional dehumidification apparatuses. A reusable dehumidification element disk provides a disk section to strip water from an air stream. The disk is rotated so th...
11/29/2005
6939518Purifier and garbage disposer
A purifier to purify exhaust gas includes a case, a plurality of metal sheets disposed in the case, a catalyst held to each of the metal sheets, partition plates disposed between the respective metal sheets, a metallic pipe disposed piercing through the metal sheets...
09/06/2005
6939395ADSORBER FOR CLEANING RAW GASES, FILTER MODULE COMPRISING SUCH AN ADSORBER, FILTER UNIT COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO SUCH FILTER MODULES, AND DEVICE FOR CONDITIONING OUTER AIR OR FOR TREATMENT OF ESCAPING AIR WITH SUCH FILTER MODULES
An adsorber for cleaning raw gas has at least one filter element wherein the at least one filter element is made of electrically conducting adsorber material. A filter module has a module housing in which such an adsorber is arranged. The housing has at least one in...
09/06/2005
6863711Temperature swing humidity collector using powerplant waste heat
A system for recovering water from the atmosphere includes water sorbent assembly composed of a water adsorbent material and a heat exchanger. The water adsorbent material traps water present within the air drawn through the sorbent assembly. Once the sorbent assemb...
03/08/2005
6814781Methods for separation/purification utilizing rapidly cycled thermal swing sorption
The present invention provides apparatus and methods for separating fluid components. In preferred embodiments, the apparatus and methods utilize microchannel devices with small distances for heat and mass transfer to achieve rapid cycle times and surprisingly large...
11/09/2004
6733571Gas purification system with an integrated hydrogen sorption and filter assembly
The present invention provides a gas purification system with improved efficiency, simpler construction, cost reduction, form factor improvements, and increased durability. The present invention provides cost and form factor improvements through fewer components ove...
05/11/2004
6596248Method for removing carbon dioxide from exhaust gas
In a method for removing carbon dioxide from the exhaust gas from a gas turbine plant (11), which exhaust gas is subjected to a downstream heat recovery process (12, 33), preferably in the heat recovery steam generator (33) of a water/steam cycle (12), a ...
07/22/2003
6547853Circulating condensation treatment of dry dehumidifier regenerating gas
A method for removing moisture from gas containing vapor of a solvent using a dry dehumidifier, includes removing moisture from at least a part of dehumidifier regenerating outlet gas and reusing the dehumidified gas as regenerating gas. Reuse of partial ...
04/15/2003
6537348Method of adsorptive separation of carbon dioxide
Adsorptive separation of carbon dioxide from a gaseous mixture comprising carbon dioxide and gases less polar than carbon dioxide comprising contacting the gaseous mixture with a zeolite adsorbent is effected wherein carbon dioxide present in the gaseous ...
03/25/2003
6517610Microelectromechanical gas concentrator
A microelectromechanical gas concentrator is fabricated for extracting a gaseous component from a gas mixture. The gas concentrator consists of an adsorbent member that alternatively moves between two regions on a single substrate. When the adsorbent memb...
02/11/2003
6508858Method and apparatus for treating exhaust gases
An apparatus for treating exhaust gases. The apparatus includes an adsorbing tower containing an adsorbent to adsorb an impurity gas included in the exhaust gases. A desorbing tower heats the adsorbent to desorb the impurity gas from the adsorbent so that...
01/21/2003
6440196Method for purifying and concentrating a gas mixture into a minor constituent, method for detecting this constituent, and installation
A method for purifying a minority constituent and concentrating it in a majority constituent of a gas mixture that also contains one or more other minority constituent(s) employs (i) a selective permeation step, (ii) next, a purification step, and (iii) f...
08/27/2002
6409800Temperature swing adsorption process
Nitrogen oxides and low molecular weight hydrocarbons are removed from air by subjecting the air to a temperature swing adsorption process using as the adsorbent a composite zeolite product containing both zeolite A and zeolite X. The composite zeolite pr...
06/25/2002
6395069Aqueous solution which can be used in an ion-exchange process
An aqueous solution with a pH of greater than 5, preferably of at least 6.5, can be used in an ion-exchange process, in particular a process for the manufacture of a zeolite. This aqueous solution comprises metal cations, such as zinc, and an agent for co...
05/28/2002
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