公开(公告)号：US20220282167A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-08

申请号：US17633337

申请日：2020-07-08

Applicant: BL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Inventor： Javier Gonzalez ,  Michael Dion ,  Peter L. Perez-Diaz

IPC: C10G31/08 ,  C02F1/26 ,  C02F1/68 ,  C10G33/04

Abstract: A method of improving effluent brine quality, the method (i) providing a mud wash solvent comprising a hydrocarbon having a specific gravity less than that of a desalter brine to be treated; and (ii) adding the mud wash solvent to a mud wash stream of a desalter system to provide a treated effluent brine.

公开(公告)号：US11406940B2

公开(公告)日：2022-08-09

申请号：US16498201

申请日：2018-03-29

Applicant: BL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Inventor： Jianwen Zhai ,  Min Luo

IPC: B01D61/02 ,  B01D61/08 ,  C02F1/44 ,  C02F101/12

Abstract: This specification describes a method for lowering the content of monovalent ions in a final concentrate of a nanofiltration system relative to a brine and a corresponding nanofiltration system. The nanofiltration system comprises at least three stages of nanofiltration, wherein the concentrate from each segment flows into the next segment. A feed stream is sent into one stage to generate a concentrate stream, and a first portion of the concentrate stream is recirculated to the one stage. The pH of the feed stream is controlled in a range of 2-7. The temperature of the feed stream is in a range of 20-60° C. The feed stream includes the recirculated concentrate stream and at least part of a concentrate generated from an upstream stage. The method and the system described herein can reduce the concentration of monovalent ions in the final concentrate during a nanofiltration separation process.

公开(公告)号：US11339349B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-24

申请号：US17040275

申请日：2018-06-13

Applicant: BL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Inventor： Umit Turunc ,  Michael Raab

IPC: C11B13/00

Abstract: An oil separation treatment composition providing a process stream mixture from a corn to ethanol process, and one or more polyglycerol esters of fatty acids (PGE) or mixture of PGE. A method for recovering oil in a corn to ethanol process wherein oil and solids are present in a process stream mixture, the method providing adding to the process stream mixture an oil separation treatment, the oil separation treatment comprises polyglycerol esters of fatty acids (PGE) or mixture of PGE.

公开(公告)号：US20210394121A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-23

申请号：US17462545

申请日：2021-08-31

Applicant: BL Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Yonghong ZHAO ,  John H. BARBER

IPC: B01D61/50 ,  B01D69/10 ,  B01D71/42 ,  B01D71/48 ,  B01D71/56

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an ion-exchange membrane that includes a supporting substrate impregnated with an ion-exchange material. The supporting substrate includes an imprinted non-woven layer, and the imprinting includes a plurality of deformations at a surface density of at least 16 per cm2. The supporting substrate may lack a reinforcing layer. In some examples, the supporting substrate may include only a single layer of the imprinted non-woven fabric.

公开(公告)号：US20210355011A1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-18

申请号：US17284568

申请日：2019-10-18

Applicant: BL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Inventor： Pierre Lucien COTE

IPC: C02F3/30 ,  C02F3/20

Abstract: This specification describes a membrane aerated biofilm media and reactor (MABR) having a discontinuous layer of a porous material applied to the outer surface of a gas-transfer membrane. The porous material may have a void fraction of 50% or more. The porous material may have a thickness of up to about 500 microns and a pattern on the same order of magnitude as its thickness. The media may be used to carry on a deammonification reaction. In use, ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and annamox bacteria grown in or on the media, with the annamox bacteria located primarily in the porous material. The supply of oxygen through the gas-transfer membrane is limited to suppress the growth of nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB). Excess biofilm is removed, for example by coarse bubble scouring. The media may be placed in an anoxic zone of an activated sludge plant, which may be upstream of an aerobic zone.

公开(公告)号：US20210189236A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-24

申请号：US16606338

申请日：2018-05-22

Applicant: BL Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Paul Robert Frail

IPC: C09K15/12 ,  C08L33/02 ,  C09K15/06 ,  C02F5/10 ,  C23F11/173

Abstract: Methods are provided to inhibit corrosion in low hardness water systems. The corrosion inhibiting treatment comprises: calcium salts of low molecular weight polymer polycarboxylic acids. These calcium salts may be added preformed to the water system in need of treatment or formed in-situ in the system. This method of corrosion inhibition is not a source of addition phosphorous or heavy metal to the treated system.

公开(公告)号：US11015135B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-25

申请号：US16326413

申请日：2017-05-26

Applicant: BL Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Guangzhe Yu ,  Xiomara Price ,  Roberto M. Gutierrez ,  Anthony Fields ,  Bryan Crom ,  Guoliang Wang ,  Nimeshkumar Kantilal Patel ,  Xiaoan Xie

IPC: C10G75/04 ,  C10G75/02 ,  C10G9/12 ,  C08L79/02

Abstract: Antifoulant compositions and methods are used for inhibiting fouling on structural parts of a system exposed to a fluid hydrocarbon or petrochemical stream. Polyamine antifoulants are added to such systems. The polyamine antifoulants may be conjointly used with dispersants and/or fatty acids. The fatty acids have been found to reduce thermal degradation of the polyamine antifoulants.

公开(公告)号：US10828605B2

公开(公告)日：2020-11-10

申请号：US15125294

申请日：2015-03-13

Applicant: BL Technologies Inc.

Inventor： Hua Wang ,  Hareesh Kumar Reddy Kommepalli ,  Andrew Philip Shapiro

IPC: B01D61/02 ,  B01D61/08 ,  C02F1/44 ,  E21B43/20 ,  C02F1/00

Abstract: A reverse osmosis unit for processing a feed solution is provided. The unit includes a pressure vessel includes an inlet end, an outlet end, and a vessel body extending between the inlet end and the outlet end. The reverse osmosis unit further includes a plurality of first membrane modules positioned within the pressure vessel. Each first membrane module of the plurality of first membrane modules has a first salt permeance value. At least one second membrane module is positioned within the pressure vessel and coupled in flow communication to the plurality of first membrane modules. The at least one second membrane module has a second salt permeance value that is different from the first salt permeance value.

公开(公告)号：US10678543B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-09

申请号：US15524677

申请日：2014-11-07

Applicant: BL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Inventor： Ryan Andrew Oattes ,  Christopher Ness

IPC: G06F9/30 ,  G06F16/2458 ,  G06Q10/04 ,  F28C1/00 ,  G01N25/00 ,  G05B13/04 ,  G06F11/07

Abstract: A method including retrieving, by a processor, a standardized expression and one or more arguments for a calculation, attaching time-series parameters as required to the arguments, retrieving from a database time-series data based on the attaching step, converting, by the processor, the time-series data from an original unit associated with the data to a standard unit, performing a calculation based on the standardized expression to achieve a result, converting the result back to an original unit and then writing the result to a tag associated with the at least one argument.

公开(公告)号：US10569234B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-25

申请号：US15342370

申请日：2016-11-03

Applicant: BL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Inventor： Louisa Ruth Carr ,  Paul Michael Smigelski, Jr. ,  Jason Michael Nichols ,  James Manio Silva

IPC: C08J7/04 ,  C08J9/36 ,  B01D61/14 ,  B01D71/40 ,  B01D71/76 ,  B01D71/82 ,  C08F220/24 ,  C08F220/28 ,  C02F1/44 ,  C08F220/38 ,  C02F1/58 ,  C09D133/14 ,  C02F101/32

Abstract: Provided herein are copolymers and copolymer compositions that are both hydrophilic and oleophobic. The copolymers include structural units derived from a fluoroalkyl monomer and a zwitterionic monomer. It further relates to membranes formed by coating a porous substrate with the copolymeric compositions. The copolymeric coating imparts hydrophilicity and oleophobicity/oil-tolerance to the membranes. The uses of such membranes as microfiltration membrane or ultrafiltration membrane are also provided.