General Electric Company

Baker Hughes, a Ge Compnay, LLC

Sabic Innovative Plastics IP B.v.

Baker Hughes Company

Paul Russell Wilson

Mark Howard Giammattei

Norberto Silvi

Paul William Buckley

Daniel Joseph Brunelle

Patrick Joseph McCloskey

Paul Michael Smigelski, Jr

Ganesh Kailasam

David Winfield Woodruff

Norman Enoch Johnson

Jan Peter Keulen

Narayan Ramesh

Tiffany Elizabeth Pinard Westendorf

Larry Allen Divins

Gregory L Warner

Rachel Lizabeth Farnum

Qiwei He

Allen Wai Yee Ko

Christopher Edward Wolfe

Ambarish Jayant Kulkarni

James Alfred Day

Matthew David Butts

Biao Fang

David Bruce Hall

Shyam Sivaramakrishnan

Roderick Mark Lusted

Omprakash Samudrala

Alberto Nisoli

William Lee Gately

Jean E Bradt

Judith Ann Serth-Guzzo

James D Day

A system and method for recovering carbon dioxide from a stream of gas using an absorption unit configured to receive the stream of gas and a stream of liquid absorbent. The gas includes carbon dioxide and vaporized water, and the liquid absorbent is chemically reactive with the carbon dioxide to form a solidified carbon dioxide-rich absorbent material. The gas and the liquid absorbent are mixed in the absorption unit such that a slurry that includes the solidified carbon dioxide-rich absorbent material and condensed water is formed therein. The system and method may also employ a transport mechanism coupled in communication with the absorption unit, wherein the transport mechanism is configured to channel the slurry downstream from the absorption unit.

System and method of recovering carbon dioxide from a stream of gas

A system for use in recovering carbon dioxide from a stream of gas includes an absorption unit configured to receive the stream of gas and a stream of liquid absorbent. The gas includes carbon dioxide and vaporized water, and the liquid absorbent is chemically reactive with the carbon dioxide to form a solidified carbon dioxide-rich absorbent material. The gas and the liquid absorbent are mixed in the absorption unit such that a slurry that includes the solidified carbon dioxide-rich absorbent material and condensed water is formed therein. The system also includes a transport mechanism coupled in communication with the absorption unit, wherein the transport mechanism is configured to channel the slurry downstream from the absorption unit.

This disclosure details methods and techniques for inhibiting natural gas hydrate formation in gas conduits. In one embodiment, an article is provided which comprises (a) a gas conduit defining a gas flow channel; (b) an interior surface of the gas conduit; (c) a hydrate inhibiting coating on the interior surface, wherein the coating comprises: (i) component A, a one- or two-part room temperature vulcanizable polyorganosiloxane composition comprising a surface-treated filler, a condensation catalyst, and a crosslinking agent; and any reaction products thereof; and optionally (ii) component B, a hydrate release-enhancing proportion of at least one polyorganosiloxane comprising one or more silanol or alkoxy-silyl groups and comprising from about 10 weight percent to about 85 weight percent of at least one hydroxy-terminated or alkoxy-terminated polyoxyalkylenealkyl radical; and optionally (iii) any reaction products thereof.

Articles comprising a hydrate-inhibiting silicone coating

This invention relates to an extrusion method preparing polycarbonates from a solution of an oligomeric polycarbonate. A mixture of bis(methyl salicyl)carbonate (BMSC), BPA and a transesterification catalyst are first equilibrated at moderate temperatures to provide a solution of polycarbonate oligomer in methyl salicylate. The solution is then fed to a devolatilizing extruder, where the polymerization reaction is completed and the methyl salicylate solvent is removed. The solution comprising the oligomeric polycarbonate can also be pre-heated under pressure to a temperature above the boiling point of methyl salicylate and subsequently fed to a devolatilizing extruder equipped for rapid flashing off the solvent. The method provides polycarbonate with greater efficiency than the corresponding process in which unreacted monomers are fed to the extruder. Additionally, the method of the invention does not require the isolation of a precursor polycarbonate comprising ester-substituted phenoxy terminal groups.

Method for making an aromatic polycarbonate

A method of separating a polymer-solvent mixture is described wherein a polymer-solvent mixture is heated prior to its introduction into an extruder comprising an upstream vent and/or a side feeder vent to allow flash evaporation of the solvent, and downstream vents for removal of remaining solvent. The one-step method is highly efficient having very high throughput rates while at the same time providing a polymer product containing low levels of residual solvent.

Method of separating a polymer from a solvent

Polymer are removed from organic solvent-polymer mixtures by preparing a liquid-liquid dispersion of finely dispersed solvent droplets containing polymer in water, adding this liquid-liquid dispersion to a stirred vessel containing water or other suitable liquid and rapidly evaporating the solvent to produce a slurry of the polymer in a liquid from which the solid polymer particles are recovered.

Polycarbonate isolation through homogenization devolatization

The invention relates to a novel process for depolymerizing polyesters by subjecting the polyesters to catalysts and organic solvents which are substantially free of oxygen and water in order to produce macrocyclic polyester oligomers substantially free of hydroxybutyl terminated linear impurities.

Process for depolymerizing polyesters

A method for making macrocyclic polyesters comprises the steps of supplying heat and contacting bis-hydroxyalkyl-terminated diesters or oligomers thereof with high boiling point solvents and esterification catalysts.

Process for preparing macrocyclic polyesters

Process for isolating macrocyclic polyester oligomers from impurities comprising the step of subjecting solutions of macrocyclic polyester oligomers to protonated molecular sieves.

Process for isolating macrocyclic polyester oligomers

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