| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 5725888 |
Apparatus for the production of gel beads containing a biocatalyst |
March 10, 1998 |
| An apparatus for the large-scale and continuous production of gel beads containing a biocatalyst. The apparatus is a columnar system based on the chemical cross-linking of hydrocolloidal gels that contain and immobilize a biocatalyst, the biocatalyst being a microorganism or an enzyme. |
| 5712212 |
Apparatus and method for the production of gel beads containing a biocatalyst |
January 27, 1998 |
| An apparatus and method for the large-scale and continuous production of gel beads containing a biocatalyst. The apparatus is a columnar system based on the chemical cross-linking of hydrocolloidal gels that contain and immobilize a biocatalyst, the biocatalyst being a microorganism or a |
| 5637502 |
Enhanced attrition bioreactor for enzyme hydrolysis of cellulosic materials |
June 10, 1997 |
| A process for converting cellulosic materials, such as waste paper, into fuels and chemicals, such as sugars and ethanol, utilizing enzymatic hydrolysis of the major carbohydrate of paper: cellulose. A waste paper slurry is contacted by cellulase in an agitated hydrolyzer. An attritor |
| 5534153 |
Continuous fluidized-bed contactor with recycle of sorbent |
July 9, 1996 |
| A continuous fluidized-bed contactor containing sorbent particles is used to remove solutes from liquid solvents. As the sorbent particles, for example gel beads, sorb the solute, for example metal ion species, the sorbent particles tend to decrease in diameter. These smaller loaded |
| 5508183 |
Enhanced attrition bioreactor for enzyme hydrolysis or cellulosic materials |
April 16, 1996 |
| A process for converting cellulosic materials, such as waste paper, into fuels and chemicals, such as sugars and ethanol, utilizing enzymatic hydrolysis of the major carbohydrate of paper: cellulose. A waste paper slurry is contacted by cellulase in an agitated hydrolyzer. An attritor |
| 5494811 |
Biparticle fluidized bed reactor |
February 27, 1996 |
| A fluidized bed reactor system which utilizes a fluid phase, a retained fluidized primary particulate phase, and a migratory second particulate phase. The primary particulate phase is a particle such as a gel bead containing an immobilized biocatalyst. The secondary and tertiary part |
| 5458752 |
Apparatus and method for the desulfurization of petroleum by bacteria |
October 17, 1995 |
| A method for treating petroleum with anaerobic microorganisms acting as biocatalysts that can remove sulfur atoms from hydrocarbon molecules, under anaerobic conditions, and then convert the sulfur atoms to hydrogen sulfide. The microorganisms utilized are from the family known as the |
| 5409822 |
Biparticle fluidized bed reactor |
April 25, 1995 |
| A fluidized bed reactor system utilizes a fluid phase, a retained fluidized primary particulate phase, and a migratory second particulate phase. The primary particulate phase is a particle such as a gel bead containing an immobilized biocatalyst. The secondary particulate phase, continuo |
| 5358614 |
Method and apparatus for the removal of bioconversion of constituents of organic liquids |
October 25, 1994 |
| A method and apparatus for the removal or conversion of constituents from bulk organic liquids. A countercurrent biphasic bioreactor system is utilized to disperse and recoalesce a biocatalyst contained in the aqueous liquid phase into the organic liquid phase containing the constituent. |
| 5348871 |
Process for converting cellulosic materials into fuels and chemicals |
September 20, 1994 |
| A process for converting cellulosic materials, such as waste paper, into fuels and chemicals utilizing enzymatic hydrolysis of the major constituent of paper, cellulose. A waste paper slurry is contacted by cellulase in an agitated hydrolyzer. The cellulase is produced from a continu |
| 5270189 |
Biparticle fluidized bed reactor |
December 14, 1993 |
| A fluidized bed reactor system which utilizes a fluid phase, a retained fluidized primary particulate phase, and a migratory second particulate phase. The primary particulate phase is a particle such as a gel bead containing an immobilized biocatalyst. The secondary particulate phase, |
| 5248484 |
Attrition reactor system |
September 28, 1993 |
| A reactor vessel for reacting a solid particulate with a liquid reactant has a centrifugal pump in circulatory flow communication with the reactor vessel for providing particulate attrition, resulting in additional fresh surface where the reaction can occur. |
| 4995985 |
Gel bead composition for metal adsorption |
February 26, 1991 |
| The invention is a gel bead comprising propylene glycol alginate and bone gelatin and is capable of removing metals such as Sr and Cs from solution without adding other adsorbents. The invention could have application to the nuclear industry's waste removal activities. |
| 4978647 |
Gel bead composition for metal adsorption |
December 18, 1990 |
| The invention is a gel bead comprising propylene glycol alginate and bone gelatin and is capable of removing metals such as Sr and Cs from solution without adding other adsorbents. The invention could have application to the nuclear industry's waste removal activities. |
| 4846964 |
Fluidized-bed bioreactor process for the microbial solubiliztion of coal |
July 11, 1989 |
| A fluidized-bed bioreactor system for the conversion of coal into microbially solubilized coal products. The fluidized-bed bioreactor continuously or periodically receives coal and bio-reactants and provides for the production of microbially solubilized coal products in an economical |
| 4683042 |
Method and apparatus for continuous annular electrochromatography |
July 28, 1987 |
| Separation of complex mixtures and solutions can be carried out using a method and apparatus for continuous annular electrochromatography. Solutes are diverted radially by an imposed electrical field as they move downward in a rotating chromatographic column. |
| 4336044 |
Process for separating coal synthesized methane from unreacted intermediate and contaminant gase |
June 22, 1982 |
| Gas produced from coal and containing CH.sub.4, CO, CO.sub.2, H.sub.2 and H.sub.2 S is contacted with CO.sub.2 scrub liquid to form (1) a liquid CO.sub.2 stream containing as solutes CH.sub.4, H.sub.2 S and minor portions of the CO and H.sub.2, and (2) a gas stream containing CO.sub.2 |
| 4032407 |
Tapered bed bioreactor |
June 28, 1977 |
| A vertically oriented conically shaped column is used as a fluidized bed bioreactor wherein biologically catalyzed reactions are conducted in a continuous manner. The column utilizes a packing material a support having attached thereto a biologically active catalytic material. |
| 3969218 |
Elution electrophoresis |
July 13, 1976 |
| Colloids and macromolecules are separated by simultaneously carrying out elution and electrophoretic separation processes. |
