Chemistry of inorganic compounds inventions 02/07

20070041883 - Process for hydrometallurgical treatment of electric arc furnace dust: A process for treating electric arc furnace dust to recover lead, zinc, iron and precious metals by washing the dust, solubilizing and electrowinning some metals, and extracting other metals from the solids left after the solubilizing step.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070041884 - Resin and process for extracting non-ferrous metals: wherein the ratio of N : M : P : R is within the ranges of 3-4: 64-70:25-30:2-2.5 The loaded resin is separated from the exhausted leach slurry. The loaded sorbent is stripped with an acidic or ammonia-ammonium carbonate solution. The stripped resin is returned to the loading cycle. The... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070041885 - Method of removing sulfur dioxide from a flue gas stream: A method of removing SO2 from a flue gas stream including SO2 includes providing a source of trona and injecting the trona into the flue gas stream. The temperature of the flue gas is between about 600° F. and about 900° F. The trona is maintained in contact with the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070041886 - Method of producing a carbon nanotube and a carbon nanotube structure: An amorphous carbon rod (13) is formed in contact with a catalyst fine particle (11). The fine particle (11) is liquefied by heat treatment, and moved along the amorphous carbon rod (13). The trail of the movement is converted to a carbon nanotube.... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070041887 - Single-wall carbon nanotube film having high modulus and conductivity and process for making the same: The invention relates to a film comprising greater than 80 wt % single-wall carbon nanotubes wherein the tensile modulus is at least about 6 GPa at 0.2% strain and the conductivity of the film is at least about 70,000 S/m. The tensile modulus is typically about 8 GPa at 0.2%... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070041888 - Methods and apparatuses for depositing nanometric filamentary structures: The invention relates to a method for depositing nanometric filamentary structures. The method comprises passing a gaseous phase comprising the nanometric filamentary structures through a space defined between at least two electrodes generating an electric field, for depositing the nanometric filamentary structures on at least one of the electrodes; and... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070041889 - Process and device for upgrading current emission: An art is provided to realize a current emitting device capable of emitting current of higher density under the same or lower onset emission voltage. The current emitting device is preferably an array of carbon nanotubes or a film including carbon nanotubes. The art is based on using O2, and/or... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070041890 - Titanium aquo-oxo chloride and preparation method thereof: The method of preparation consists in hydrolyzing TiOCl2 either in an atmosphere whose moisture content is maintained between 50 and 60%, or by an alkali metal carbonate A2CO3, in order to obtain a titanium aquo-oxo chloride. The compound is useful as a semiconductor element of a photovoltaic cell or as... Agent: E. Joseph Gess, Esq Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis, LLP

20070041891 - Aluminum chlorohydrate via anchored transformations of aluminum chloride: The present invention relates to a method for preparing aluminum chlorohydrate.... Agent: Edgar Spielman Albemarle Corporation

20070041892 - Synthesis of zno nano-structured materials and its apparatus: Disclosed are a method of fabricating ZnO nanostructures and its apparatus, and more particularly, to a method of fabricating ZnO nanostructures from Zn gas, which is produced by a reduction process between ZnO powder and graphite, on a silicon substrate, wherein various types of nanostructures are reproducibly generated by adjusting... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070041893 - Alcohol steam reforming catalysts and methods alcohol steam reforming: The present invention provides steam reforming catalyst compositions containing Pd and Zn, and methods of steam reforming alcohols over a catalyst. Surprisingly superior results and properties of the present invention, including low temperature activity and/or low carbon monoxide output, are also described. Methods of making a steam reforming catalyst are... Agent: Frank Rosenberg

20070041894 - Synthesis gas and carbon dioxide generation method: A method of generating a synthesis gas product stream and carbon dioxide in which a fuel is combusted in an oxygen transport membrane combustor to produce a flue gas stream containing the carbon dioxide and water. Reforming duty is divided between a combined reforming process and a gas heated reformer... Agent: Praxair, Inc. Law Department - M1 557

20070041895 - Catalyst for hydrocarbon reforming and method of reforming hydrocarbon with the same: The present invention provides a catalyst suitably employed in a variety of hydrocarbon reforming processes and a hydrocarbon reforming process including employing the catalyst in production of hydrogen or synthesis gas. The hydrocarbon reforming catalyst of the present invention contains an alumina carrier containing cerium oxide and, carried on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070041896 - Structured catalyst for pox reforming of gasoline for fuel-cell powered vehicles applications and a method of preparing the same: The present invention relates to a structured catalyst for reforming of gasoline and a method of preparing the same, more particularly to a structured catalyst for reforming of gasoline for fuel-cell powered vehicles prepared by wash-coating the transition metal based reforming catalyst on the surface of the ceramic honeycomb support... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070041897 - Low temperature hydrogen generator: A hydrogen generator having a hydrogen generating reaction between a chemical hydride and vapor from a liquid having a freezing point below 0° C. The liquid is selected from alcohols such as ethanol and methanol used pure or diluted with distilled water, and distilled water that has had a non-reactive... Agent: Kris T. Fredrick, Esq. Patent Services

20070041898 - Preparing small crystal ssz-32 and its use in a hydrocarbon conversion process: The invention is directed to a method of making a small crystal SSZ-32 zeolite, known as SSZ-32X. The catalyst is suitable for use in a process whereby a feed including straight chain and slightly branched paraffins having 10 or more carbon atoms is dewaxed to produce an isomerized product, with... Agent: Chevron Texaco Corporation

20070036698 - Method for the preparation of water having radioactivity for use in bathing: Water having radioactivity for use in bathing enriched in the content of thoron-series isotopes is prepared by subjecting a natural radioactive ore containing thoron-series isotopes and radon-series isotopes to a treatment for selectively eliminating the radon-series isotopes only thereby decreasing the content of the radon-series isotopes and thereafter bringing the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070036699 - Method of extracting contaminants from solid matter: An environmentally benign process for remediating contaminated matter includes contact with a lixiviant. The lixiviant contains a chelating agent which chemically reacts with a selected contaminant, forming a chelate soluble within the lixiviant and thus extracting the selected contaminant from the matter. The lixiviant, including the chelate, is separated from... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070036700 - Cold-walled vessel process for compounding, homogenizing and consolidating semiconductor compounds: A method is provided for compounding, homogenizing and consolidating compounds. In one embodiment, the charge components are mixed in a controlled addition process, then the newly-formed compound is heated to become totally molten, followed by a rapid quench at room temperature. In an alternate embodiment, the components are supplied with... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070036701 - Treatment of high sulfate containing quicklime: A method is shown for controlling the presence of soluble sulfate ions in a lime slaking operation in which a source of quicklime is combined with slaking water to form calcium hydroxide product. A complexing agent is added to either the quicklime or the slaking water which is effective to... Agent: Charles D. Gunter, Jr. Whitaker, Chalk, Swindle & Sawyer, LLP

20070036702 - Treatment of high sulfate containing quicklime: A method is shown for controlling the presence of soluble sulfate ions in a lime slaking operation in which a source of quicklime is combined with slaking water to form calcium hydroxide product. A complexing agent is added to either the quicklime or the slaking water which is effective to... Agent: Whitaker, Chalk, Swindle & Sawyer, LLP

20070036703 - Configuration and process for carbonyl removal: A plant (100) includes a gas turbine (110) that receives a feed gas (130), wherein a metal plates from a metal carbonyl contained in the feed gas onto a sacrificial metal (152A) in an adsorber (150A), and wherein the feed gas in the adsorber has a temperature sufficient for plating... Agent: Robert D. Fish Rutan & Tucker LLP

20070036704 - Method of producing granulated anhydrous dicalcium phosphate: A new and useful method of simultaneously producing and granulating anhydrous dicalcium phosphate is provided. Such a method entails the reaction of concentrated phosphoric acid with a powdered material of lime and/or calcium carbonate in substantially equal stoichiometric amounts, with subsequent, mixing, drying, milling, and sieving to provide the correct... Agent: Carlos Nieves, Esq. J.m. Huber Corporation

20070036705 - Hollow silica particles and methods for making same: Methods for making hollow silica particle are disclosed, said particles made from a composition comprising a silicon-containing compound selected from the group consisting of tetraalkoxysilanes, trialkyloxysilanes and derivatives thereof, dialkoxysilanes and derivatives thereof, alkoxysilanes and derivatives thereof, silicone oligomers, oligomeric silsesquioxanes and silicone polymers distributed over a polymer template core... Agent: Geam - Silicones - 60siIPLegal

20070036706 - Process for reduction of carbon dioxide with organometallic complex: where R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 independently represent a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group, M represents an element that can be coordinated to the benzene ring, X1 and X2 represent nitrogen-containing ligands, X3 represents a hydrogen atom, a carboxylic acid residue, or H2O, X1 and X2... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070036707 - Reformer and reforming process for production of hydrogen from hydrocarbon fuel: The invention provides methods and systems for catalytic reforming of a hydrocarbon fuel to produce hydrogen, which may be used as a power source for a fuel cell. In some embodiments, hydrogen is produced by partial oxidation or autothermal reforming of fuel in an oxygen containing gas stream that is... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070036708 - Method of producing tungsten carbide: The present invention relates to a method of producing tungsten carbide by gas phase direct carburization of a tungsten-oxide containing starting material, wherein the starting material is reacted with a reaction gas at an increased temperature. The starting material is first heated to a first temperature greater than or equal... Agent: Baker & Botts L.L.P.

20070036709 - Systems and methods for formation and harvesting of nanofibrous materials: A system that receives nanomaterials, forms nanofibrous materials therefrom, and collects these nanofibrous materials for subsequent applications. The system is coupled to a chamber that generates nanomaterials, typically carbon nanotubes produced from chemical vapor deposition, and includes a mechanism for spinning the nanotubes into yarns or tows. Alternatively, the system... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070036710 - Zirconia extrudates: A process for preparing a calcined zirconia extrudate comprising the steps of: a. preparing a shapable dough which comprises mixing and kneading a particulate zirconia with a solvent to obtain a mixture having a total solids content of from about 50% to about 85% by weight, b. extruding the shapable... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20070036711 - Hydrogen generator: A hydrogen gas generator generates hydrogen gas by mixing two reactants. The generator has a reaction chamber for receiving a solid reactant. The chamber has a reaction product separator impermeable to the solid reactant and a biasing means for biasing reactant products against the separator. The generator also has a... Agent: Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP

20070036712 - Method of hydrogen production utilizing sand for the maintenance of a high biomass bacteria in a hydrogen bioreactor: This invention provides a method for producing hydrogen through the concentrated growth of hydrogen producing microorganisms. The method comprising: providing a receptacle, introducing a material that contains a hydrogen generating microorganism into the receptacle, introducing a substrate that contains a baiting material into the receptacle, and baiting the hydrogen generating... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070036713 - Hydrocabron-decomposing catalyst, method for decomposing hydrocarbons using the catalyst, process for producing hydrogen using the catalyst, and power generation system: A hydrocarbon-decomposing catalyst composed of magnesium, aluminum and nickel as constitutional elements, containing 0.001 to 20% silicon and 0.1 to 40% nickel based on the weight of the catalyst. Also included is a hydrocarbon-decomposing catalyst with a porous carrier and a catalytically active metal in the form of fine metallic... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070031309 - Method of removing impurities from a gas: The present invention provides for a method and apparatus for purifying carbon dioxide. Sulfur species are efficiently and effectively removed from the carbon dioxide by a series of steps which include heater/heat exchange means, impurity adsorption means and cooling means.... Agent: The Boc Group, Inc.

20070031310 - Reduction of nox emissions using a staged silver/alumina catalyst system: The hydrocarbon-assisted, selective catalytic reduction of NOx constituents in lean-bum engine exhaust is benefited by passage of the exhaust over a staged catalyst bed comprising a first stage of an alumina-supported silver catalyst for oxidation of NO to NO2 and partial oxidation of added hydrocarbon to an aldehyde. Downstream of... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070031311 - Regeneration of calcium oxide or calcium carbonate from waste calcium sulphide: An alternative process whereby the calcium sulphide formed in an IGCC system from calcium oxide and/or calcium carbonate can be safely and more or less quantitatively converted by reaction with carbon dioxide to calcium carbonate and/or calcium oxide together with sulphur dioxide The calcium oxide and/or calcium carbonate can be... Agent: Shapiro Cohen

20070031312 - Manganite perovskite ceramics, their precursors and methods for forming: Disclosed are a variety of ceramics having the formula Ln1−xMxMnO3, where 0≦x≦1 and where Ln is La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Th, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu or Y; M is Ca, Sr, Ba, Cd, or Pb; manganite precursors for preparing the ceramics; a method for... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20070031313 - Production method and apparatus for compound oxide powder: A compound oxide powder producing method for producing compound oxide powder made of at least two kinds of metals. A solution 2, in which a first metal compound for producing, when hydrolyzed, a hydroxide or oxide is dissolved in an organic solvent, and an emulsion 1, which contains another metal... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070031314 - Catalyst charge design: A catalyst charge for ammonia oxidation, including the Andrussow process, comprises a first stage ammonia oxidation catalyst capable of oxidising 20 to 99% of designed ammonia throughput, to produce a first stage product gas comprising unreacted ammonia, oxygen and nitrogen oxides, and a second stage ammonia oxidation catalyst capable of... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070031315 - Method and apparatus for manufacturing nitrogen trifluoride: A method and apparatus for manufacture of NF.sub.3 by gas-liquid phase reaction of fluorine and ammonia in molten ammonium acid fluoride (AAF) in a static reactor in which the reactants are conveyed primarily by thermal conduction or siphon. Optimally, the reactor contains one or more static mixing elements with little,... Agent: Futago, Inc. C/o Mark A. Sweval

20070031319 - Carbon material: m

20070031317 - Carbon nanotube manufacturing apparatus and method for manufacturing carbon nanotube: A carbon nanotube manufacturing method is employed, in which a carbon nanotube manufacturing apparatus (1000, 2000, 3000) comprises an ionizing means (e.g., a negative ion generator (10)) for ionizing a vapor of a certain carbon-containing compound, an electric field generating means (e.g., a direct-current power supply (21), a cathode (22)... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070031318 - Methods of chemically treating an electrically conductive layer having nanotubes therein with diazonium reagent: Methods of treating an electronic device including an electrically conductive layer having single-walled semiconducting carbon nanotubes and single-walled metallic carbon nanotubes therein include the following step performed in the absence of an applied potential to the single-walled metallic carbon monotubes: chemically treating the electrically conductive layer with an aqueous solution... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070031320 - Carbon nanotube arrays and manufacturing methods thereof: A carbon nanotube array (10) includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes (14) aligned in a uniform direction. Each carbon nanotube has at least one line mark (16) formed thereon. A method for manufacturing the described carbon nanotube array includes the following steps: (a) providing a substrate (12); (b) forming a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070031321 - Apparatus and method for purification of corrosive gas streams: A process, composition and apparatus for the removal of impurities from corrosive gases, particularly halogen-containing gases, down to about 100 ppb concentration are described. The critical component is zirconia (ZrO2), which in a variety of physical forms is capable of dehydrating such gases. The zirconia can be in the form... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070031322 - Method for making metal oxides: A method of producing porous complex oxides includes the steps of providing a mixture of a) precursor elements suitable to produce the complex oxide; or b) one or more precursor elements suitable to produce particles of the complex oxide and one or more metal oxide particles; and c) a particulate... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20070031323 - Method for preparing perovskite oxide nanopowder: A method for preparing a perovskite oxide nanopowder by way of applying an ultrasonic nebulizer provides a narrow size distribution of spherical particles with minimum particle aggregation.... Agent: David A. Einhorn, Esq. Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C.

20070031324 - Niobium oxide and method for producing the same: An object of the present invention is to provide a niobium oxide that is suitable for application to capacitors, high in purity, large in specific surface area and small in particle size. The present invention also provides a method for producing such a high-purity niobium oxide. The present invention provides... Agent: Richard S. Roberts Roberts & Roberts, L.L.P.

20070031325 - Hydrogen generation: An apparatus and method including storage and dispensing vessels to safely store and dispense gaseous hydrides, where the storage and dispensing vessels contain a solid-phase physical sorbent medium having a physically sorptive affinity for gaseous hydrides, and wherein the gaseous hydride is decomposed in the apparatus to generate hydrogen gas.... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20070025899 - Process for metals recovery from spent catalyst: The process of this invention is directed to the removal of metals from an unsupported spent catalyst. The catalyst is subjected to leaching reactions. Vanadium is removed as a precipitate, while a solution comprising molybdenum and nickel is subjected to further extraction steps for the removal of these metals. Molybdenum... Agent: Chevron Texaco Corporation

20070025900 - Method for energy recovery from hydrogen sulfide: A process relating to the production of energy from a stream comprising hydrogen sulfide to produce greatly increased quantities of energy.... Agent: F. Lindsey Scott Law Office Of F. Lindsey Scott

20070025901 - Catalyst and method for contact decomposition of nitrogen oxides: The invention provides a catalyst for catalytic direct decomposition of nitrogen oxides contained in exhaust gases wherein fuel is supplied and subjected to combustion under periodic rich/lean conditions and the resulting exhaust gases are brought into contact therewith, which catalyst comprises: (A) a first catalyst component comprising at least one... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070025902 - Recovery of fluorinated carboxylic acid from adsorbent particles: wherein L represents a linear partially or fully fluorinated alkylene group or an aliphatic hydrocarbon group, Rf represents a linear partially or fully fluorinated aliphatic group or a linear partially or fully fluorinated aliphatic group interrupted with one or more oxygen atoms, Xi− represents a cation having the valence i... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070025903 - Method for forming ammonia: A method for forming ammonia is disclosed and which includes the steps of forming a plasma; providing a source of metal particles, and supplying the metal particles to the plasma to form metal nitride particles; and providing a substance, and reacting the metal nitride particles with the substance to produce... Agent: Alan D. Kirsch Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC

20070025904 - Preparation of a composition comprising an alkaline earth metal oxide and a substrate having a reduced amount of grit: The present invention relates to a composition comprising an alkaline earth metal carbonate and a substrate, where the composition has a reduced amount of grit, such as an amount less than or equal to about 0.5% by weight relative to the total weight of the composition. The composition can be... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070025905 - Nanocarbon-producing device: In a nanocarbon-producing device (173), a plane mirror (169) and a parabolic mirror (171) are arranged in a production chamber (107). Light, emitted from a laser light source (111), transmitted through a ZnSe window (133) is reflected at the plane mirror (169) and the parabolic mirror (171), collected at the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070025906 - Method and installation for the manufacture of carbon nanotubes: Method for the manufacture of carbon nanotubes by thermal decomposition of at least one gaseous hydrocarbon (14) in the presence of a solid catalyst in a reactor (4) into which the catalyst is introduced via an inlet lock chamber (17) flushed by an inert gas (21, 22, 25, 26) and... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070025907 - Nano-tip fabrication by spatially controlled etching: A method of fabricating nano-tips involves placing a precursor nanotip with an apex and shank in a vacuum chamber; optionally applying an electric field to the precursor nanotip to remove oxide and other contaminant species; subsequently admitting an etchant gas to the vacuum chamber to perform field assisted etching by... Agent: Marks & Clerk

20070025908 - Activated aluminum hydride hydrogen storage compositions and uses thereof: In one aspect, the invention relates to activated aluminum hydride hydrogen storage compositions containing aluminum hydride in the presence of, or absence of, hydrogen desorption stimulants. The invention particularly relates to such compositions having one or more hydrogen desorption stimulants selected from metal hydrides and metal aluminum hydrides. In another... Agent: Brookhaven Science Associates/ Brookhaven National Laboratory

20070025909 - Hydrogen separation process using mixed oxide ion/electronic/hydrogen atom conducting membranes: A method for separation of molecular hydrogen from a gaseous mixture containing the molecular hydrogen, which method employs a dense mixed oxide ion/electronic/hydrogen atom conducting membrane or separator having a feed side and a permeate side that enables two mechanisms for hydrogen separation—ambi-polar conduction and hydrogen atom conduction. In this... Agent: Mark E. Fejer Gas Technology Institute