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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7442239 | Fuel-conditioning skid A fuel-conditioning skid for an engine. The fuel-conditioning skid includes an inlet that is connectable to a source to receive a flow of fuel containing undesirable compounds. An outlet is connectable to the engine to deliver a flow of fuel that is substantially fr... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7377956 | Method and system for processing natural gas using a rotary screw compressor Method and system for processing natural gas containing contaminants through the use of one or more rotary screw compressors. A natural gas containing a contaminant (e.g., water or carbon dioxide and/or hydrogen sulfide) and a contaminant removing agent are combined... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7198715 | Device for separating fluid mixtures A device for separating fluid mixtures, in particular for separating water from oil, includes a vacuum container (10) with several sub-chambers (26, 44, 40). At least one liquid constituent of the fluid mixture can be transported from the vacuum contai... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7185447 | Drying device for drying a gas A drying device for drying a gas comprises parallel cooling branches, at least one of which is in its active state at any given time. A gas-coolant heat exchanger arranged in each of the cooling branches has a first channel through which the gas to be dried flows in... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7056371 | Liquid cleaning device A liquid cleaning device comprises a vessel (1), a bottom plate (3), a heating device and a tubular riser (12) arranged in the vessel for heated liquid ascending through the riser, the heated liquid from the upper, open end of the riser running ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7033420 | Process and apparatus for the thermal degassing of the working medium of a two-phase process A process is disclosed for thermally degassing a condensate or feedwater by heating the condensate or feedwater in a feedwater vessel/degassing means, to which preheated condensate is fed and from which feedwater for heating surfaces heated in a heat recovery steam ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6979362 | Apparatus and process for the treatment, delivery and recycle of process fluids used in dense phase carbon dioxide applications The present invention relates generally to providing an apparatus for on-site CO2 process fluids management. A standardized and universal platform is described which provides CO2 process fluids at various capacities, purity levels, pressures, t... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6955705 | Method and system for compressing and dehydrating wet natural gas produced from low-pressure wells Method and system for compressing and dehydrating wet natural gas produced from a low-pressure well using a rotary screw compressor. A dehydrating agent is combined with wet natural gas within a rotary screw compressor. Operation of the rotary screw compressor cause... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6644334 | Method and system for reducing the viscosity of crude oil employing engine exhaust gas A method and system for treating crude oil to improve its flowability includes operating an internal combustion engine to produce exhaust gas, reducing the temperature of the exhaust gas, injecting cooled exhaust gas into a separator in which water is ext... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6464861 | Apparatus for treating flora and fauna waste with hydrothermal reaction An arrangement for treating flora and fauna waste such as garbage under subcritical pressure and temperature. A slurry preparation unit (10) mixes the flora and fauna waste (11) with water (12) and sodium hydroxide (13) to prepare a slurry. A diaphragm pu... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6436710 | Headspace sampling and monitoring systems and methods A headspace sampling system monitors materials in wastewater. The headspace sampling system comprises a sample receptacle that can contain a wastewater sample; a sparger chamber vapor column; a sample receptacle cover assembly that connects the sparger ch... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6398850 | Gas extraction device for extracting gas from a microfluidics system A thermally-activated gas extraction device that comprises a bubble capture chamber, an exhaust manifold, a tapered extraction chamber and an extraction heater associated with the tapered extraction chamber. The tapered extraction chamber extends from the... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6395064 | System and method for purifying and distributing chemical gases Provided is a novel system for vaporizing and purifying a gas to produce ultrapure chemical gases employed at a semiconductor processing facility. The system includes a liquified gas source, a vaporization purification bed, and a buffer tank. The liquefie... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6299673 | Gas extraction device for extracting gas from a microfluidics system A thermally-activated gas extraction device that comprises a bubble capture chamber, an exhaust manifold, a tapered extraction chamber and an extraction heater associated with the tapered extraction chamber. The tapered extraction chamber extends from the... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6245553 | Method and apparatus for limiting emissions from a contained vessel The need to filter gas emanating from a containment vessel is reduced or eliminated by maintaining, within the vessel, a gradient that concentrates most of the gaseous contaminants away from the vessel exits. This is achieved by reducing the density of ga... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6228153 | Solvent delivery pump assembly A solvent delivery pump assembly for use in high performance liquid chromatography systems, which accurately delivers a solvent (eluent) drawn from a reservoir, and having removed gases, dissolved in the eluent, and then delivering the eluent as desired f... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6048452 | Waste treatment device and method employing the same A waste treatment device for treating waste having both liquids and solids therein includes a primary waste reservoir, a solids processor operably connected to the primary waste reservoir to receive waste therefrom in a manner to permit combustion of a su... | 04/11/2000 |
| 5840101 | Method and apparatus for treatment of an endless web of material with vacuum A method and an apparatus for the treatment of an endless web, wherein exhaust vapors, formed in a treatment chamber, are withdrawn together with returned gases with a vacuum from the treatment chamber and are led into a separator to be separated into gas... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5810074 | Serial heat exchanger and cascade circuitry A serial heat exchanger. The heat exchanger comprises a serial passage extending from an inlet to an outlet and a plurality of vapor liquid separators extracting vapor from the passage.... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5766313 | Hydrocarbon recovery system Apparatus for treating emissions from a reboiler used to remove glycol from water laden glycol wherein the emissions are condensed; pressurized and separated so that hydrocarbon vapors may be directed to a burner used to supply heat to a reboiler. Control... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5676802 | Apparatus for treating waste water An improved apparatus for treating waste water containing volatile and corrosive substances by steam-stripping to remove the volatile and corrosive substances from the waste water. The apparatus has a liquid pooling zone installed at a part over the waste... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5634963 | Degassing apparatus and use thereof An apparatus suitable in particular for degassing fluoropolymers which have been subjected to thermal degradation contains--in the direction of flow of the product--a product intake, a coolable conveyor section, a comminution apparatus, a heated conveyor ... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5616156 | Device for the cleansing of the flue gases from waste incineration installations The device is provided with a cyclone connected to the incineration installation intended for the collection of flyash, a heat exchanger to which the cyclone is connected and intended for the reduction of the temperature of the collected flue gases and th... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5520723 | Method and system for reducing air pollution from natural gas dehydrators A method and system for reducing emissions from glycol dehydrators which employ a vapor-liquid contactor operated under ambient conditions to treat the organic vapors and liquids exiting from a condenser attached to the vapor vent of the glycol reboiler. ... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5340383 | Reduction of particulate sulfur emissions from liquid sulfur storage tanks In accordance with the method of this invention, sulfur is removed from the gas stream exiting a sulfur storage tank through condensation and impingement of droplets and/or particles of elemental sulfur on the baffles and wall(s) of indirectly cooled scru... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5240593 | Apparatus for the purification of fluids A purification method and device for purifying industrial liquid such as oil from contaminates including first container housing for receiving the industrial liquid in bulk and separating liquid and particulate contaminates therefrom by reversing a flow d... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5203286 | Apparatus for heating and degassing water An apparatus for heating and degassing water by means of steam, consisting of two columns (1, 17) with a co-current arrangement and counter-current arrangement of water and steam, and having packing or internals arranged therein, having a water distributo... | 04/20/1993 |
| 4995945 | Counter-current gas-liquid contacting device A counter-current contacting device which includes a number of features which increase the efficiency and/or increase the pressure differential across the device is disclosed. Systems for reducing the alcohol content of an alcohol containing beverage or w... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4965062 | Hydrogen sulfide removal and sulfide recovery A process and apparatus for removing hydrogen sulfide from high pressure gas and recovering liquid sulfur, which includes reacting the H2 S with sulfite ions and an acetic acid-acid salt buffering system in an aqueous stream whereby liquid sulf... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4953694 | Distilling apparatus A distilling apparatus includes an evaporation section which heats raw water and causes the generation of vapor from said raw water, and a hydrophobic porous film through which the thus generated vapor is filtered. Because vapor separated from the raw wat... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4946559 | Removal of dissolved volatile impurities from liquid A method and device for removing, from liquid such as water, dissolved volatile substances and gases when water is being distilled or evaporated. Feed water of a distilling apparatus or evaporator is heated to a sufficiently high temperature, whereby part... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4824447 | Enhanced oil recovery system All energy resources available from a geopressured geothermal reservoir are used for the production of pipeline quality gas using a high pressure separator/heat exchanger and a membrane separator, and recovering waste gas from both the membrane separator ... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4773921 | Process and device for selective extraction of H2 S from an H2 S-containing gas The disclosed method for the selective removal of H2 S from a H2 S-containing gas comprises contacting the gas in an absorption area (1) with a selective regeneratable absorbing liquid which absorbs the H2 S and regenerati... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4756724 | Extracting radon gases from a domestic water supply A water supply system for a building provides extraction of radon from the water using a hot water tank which is supplied with cold inlet water via a float valve with the tank closed apart from hot water outlet and a vent to the atmosphere of sufficient s... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4744808 | Liquid level sensing and control A fluid flow chamber including a housing defining a chamber, a chamber inlet and a chamber outlet for flow of liquid therethrough, a float in the chamber, and a magnet and magnetic position sensor, one of which is carried by the float for movement with th... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4511378 | Liquid-gas contacting apparatus and pump therefor A glycol dehydrator having a contacting vessel, a glycol regenerator and an improved glycol pump which is powered by glycol and gas flowing from the contacting vessel to pump glycol into the contacting vessel. The improved pump includes a positive displac... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4456456 | Hot-water heating system having an air eliminator An improved forced-liquid flow, circulatory system for removing gas entrained or dissolved in the liquid. The system includes a circulatory liquid-flow network and means for forcing the liquid to flow through the circulatory network. A by-pass line is sit... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4389226 | Open heated box trays having flow-promoting devices A flow-promoting device in combination with a heated box tray open at the top in a reaction and degasification column in which a viscous or highly viscous liquid is flowing from an inlet end to an outlet end of the tray and in which a heating tube registe... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4300923 | Deaerator system having positive pressure indicating means There is disclosed an improved dearator system for purging air from water. The disclosed system includes a container for containing the water, cooling means within the container for cooling the water to force air therefrom, and means for introducing carbo... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4289507 | Expansion tank and water box device for heat exchanger, such as a radiator of a motor vehicle An expansion tank and water box device for a heat exchanger with a nest of parallel tubes, such as a radiator of a motor vehicle, in which the water box housed inside the expansion tank is maintained by the assembly of the tank with the hollowed plate thr... | 09/15/1981 |
