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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2014
Applicant:
Uop, Llc, Des Plaines, IL (US);
Inventors:
Travis C. Bowen, Crystal Lake, IL (US);
Parag Jain, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Ram Ganesh Rokkam, Visakhapatnam, IN;
Assignee:
UOP LLC, Des Plaines, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 53/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D 53/22 (2013.01); B01D 2053/221 (2013.01); B01D 2313/14 (2013.01);
Abstract
One exemplary embodiment is a membrane separation element. The membrane separation element can include a membrane and a feed spacer positioned adjacent to the membrane. The feed spacer may include a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. Usually, a plurality of fibers of the second layer only touches a plurality of fibers of the first and third layers.