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Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2000

Filed:

May. 08, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Jeffrey J Spiegelman, La Jolla, CA (US);

Peter K Shogren, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

Aeronex, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B / ; B65B / ; C01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
141-8 ; 141 66 ; 423262 ; 313576 ; 137256 ;
Abstract

A gas recovery and reuse/recycle method is disclosed which can readily and economically recover valuable and/or environmentally hazardous gases from a manufacturing or chemical process and then return the gas to the process for reuse, and repeat this many times without significant contamination or degradation of the gas or the produced products. All gas transport, compression and storage equipment is designed and maintained so that it is non-contaminating to the process gas. Commonly the process gas will be a Group VIII gas, preferably He, Ne, Kr or Xe, or a gas which comprises a hazard to the ambient environment or beings therein, such as a carbon oxide gas, a halocarbon gas, an acid-precursor gas, a biologically hazardous gas, or a radioactive gas.


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