-
公开(公告)号：US11607650B2
公开(公告)日：2023-03-21
申请号：US17498007
申请日：2021-10-11
Applicant: Molecule Works Inc.
Inventor： Wei Liu
Abstract: A thin micro-porous membrane sheet and filtering device using it is presented. The membrane sheet includes a thin porous metal sheet of thickness between 20 and 200 μm with a porous ceramic coating of thickness less than 25 μm on at least one of its surfaces. The porous metal sheet has mean pore sizes at micro and sub-micrometer level and has a surface substantially free of pores greater than 10 micrometers. The ceramic coating layer may be made of particles with a mean particle size in a range of 10 to 300 nm and contains certain sintering promoters. The ceramic coating is sintered with the metal sheet in non-oxidizing environment at lower temperatures than typical ceramic membranes. The thin membrane sheet is used to filter fine particulates from micrometers to nanometers from a liquid or gas stream. The thin membrane sheet may be assembled into a filter device having high surface area packing density and straight mini-flow channels.
-
公开(公告)号：US11458437B2
公开(公告)日：2022-10-04
申请号：US17013580
申请日：2020-09-05
Applicant: Molecule Works Inc.
Inventor： Wei Liu , Anirudh Balram
Abstract: A membrane device is presented that can used for a wide range of applications from once-through filtration, crossflow filtration, molecular separation, gas/liquid absorption or reaction, gas dispersion into liquid, and degassing of liquid. The device comprises a thin flat sheet membrane that allows certain fluid or molecules go through while blocking others. The membrane sheet is fixed on a supporting structure with mini channel on two sides of the membrane for respective feed and sweep flows. The membrane sheet is sealed with gaskets with two cover plates that the membrane sheet can be replaced or cleaned. The cover plate provides connection ports to connect the feed fluid to the feed channels on one membrane surface and to connect the sweep fluid to the sweep channels on the other surface of the membrane.
-
公开(公告)号：US20210069651A1
公开(公告)日：2021-03-11
申请号：US17013580
申请日：2020-09-05
Applicant: Molecule Works Inc.
Inventor： Wei LIU , Anirudh BALRAM
Abstract: A membrane device is presented that can used for a wide range of applications from once-through filtration, crossflow filtration, molecular separation, gas/liquid absorption or reaction, gas dispersion into liquid, and degassing of liquid. The device comprises a thin flat sheet membrane that allows certain fluid or molecules go through while blocking others. The membrane sheet is fixed on a supporting structure with mini channel on two sides of the membrane for respective feed and sweep flows. The membrane sheet is sealed with gaskets with two cover plates that the membrane sheet can be replaced or cleaned. The cover plate provides connection ports to connect the feed fluid to the feed channels on one membrane surface and to connect the sweep fluid to the sweep channels on the other surface of the membrane.
-
公开(公告)号：US12076706B2
公开(公告)日：2024-09-03
申请号：US17092290
申请日：2020-11-08
Applicant: Molecule Works Inc.
Inventor： Wei Liu , Anirudh Balram
IPC: B01D46/00 , B01D17/02 , B01D53/04 , B01D53/26 , B01D53/62 , B01D53/72 , B01D69/14 , B01J20/28 , B01J35/50 , B01J35/61 , C02F1/469 , C02F101/10 , C02F101/34
CPC classification number: B01J20/28052 , B01D17/0202 , B01D46/0036 , B01D53/0407 , B01D53/261 , B01D53/62 , B01D53/72 , B01D69/147 , B01J20/28004 , B01J20/28016 , B01J20/28061 , B01J20/28064 , B01J20/28066 , B01J35/50 , B01J35/615 , B01J35/617 , B01J35/618 , C02F1/4691 , B01D2253/108 , B01D2257/504 , B01D2257/708 , B01D2257/80 , C02F2101/10 , C02F2101/34
Abstract: A porous material structure and device are described and shown to enhance the mass transfer and/or heat transfer at low pressure drops for removal of certain molecular species from a fluid by adsorption and/or catalytic reaction. The porous structure of active materials comprising packed fine particles of adsorbents or catalysts is encapsulated with a thin membrane to provide large interfacing area with the fluid per unit volume for rapid mass transfer between the porous structure and fluid. The thin membrane also blocks particulate from getting into the porous structure of the active material. For the process involving significant heat of adsorption and/or reaction, the another surface of the porous structure of the active material is encapsulated with a thin non-permeable sheet to interface with a thermal fluid for rapid heat transfer between the porous structure and the thermal fluid. The device can be used for removal of CO2, moisture, and hydrocarbon molecules from a gas stream with rapid in-situ regeneration. The device can be used for removal of water from water-containing liquid fluids, such as solvents and oils. The device can be used for removal of bacteria, virus, salts, and molecular contaminants from one water simultaneously.
-
公开(公告)号：US11298663B2
公开(公告)日：2022-04-12
申请号：US16237166
申请日：2018-12-31
Applicant: Molecule Works Inc.
Inventor： Wei Liu
Abstract: A thin micro-porous membrane sheet and filtering device using it is presented. The membrane sheet includes a thin porous metal sheet of thickness between 20 and 200 μm with a porous ceramic coating of thickness less than 25 μm on at least one of its surfaces. The porous metal sheet has mean pore sizes at micro and sub-micrometer level and has a surface substantially free of pores greater than 10 micrometers. The ceramic coating layer may be made of particles with a mean particle size in a range of 10 to 300 nm and contains certain sintering promoters. The ceramic coating is sintered with the metal sheet in non-oxidizing environment at lower temperatures than typical ceramic membranes. The thin membrane sheet is used to filter fine particulates from micrometers to nanometers from a liquid or gas stream. The thin membrane sheet may be assembled into a filter device having high surface area packing density and straight mini-flow channels.
-
Patent Agency Ranking
公开(公告)号：US10799848B2
公开(公告)日：2020-10-13
申请号：US16725660
申请日：2019-12-23
Applicant: Molecule Works Inc.
Inventor： Wei Liu
Abstract: Design, fabrication, and usage of a reactor are presented for synthesis of structured materials from a liquid-phase precursor by heating. The structured materials are particles, membranes or films of micro-porous molecular sieve crystals such as zeolite and meso-porous materials. The precursor solution and structured materials in the reactor are uniformly heated by a planar heater with characteristic heat transfer dimension in the range of 3 mm to 10 cm. A planar heater having width and length at least three times of the characteristic heat transfer dimension provides at least one surface of uniform temperature distribution for heating purposes. Heating is conducted over a temperature range of 20 to 300° C. The planar heater can be heated by electrical power of by thermal fluid.
-
公开(公告)号：US20230051729A1
公开(公告)日：2023-02-16
申请号：US17943680
申请日：2022-09-13
Applicant: Molecule Works Inc.
Inventor： Wei LIU
Abstract: A method for producing metal-based micro-porous structures includes continuously feeding a solid green part and a gas flow into a tunnel reactor having an aspect ratio greater than 2, wherein the solid green part has a characteristic diffusion mass transfer dimension less than 1 mm and a gas in the gas flow is substantially free of oxidants, and chemically reacting the gas in the gas flow and the green part under a predetermined temperature profile along a length of the tunnel reactor for a sufficient time to convert the green part into a solid product having pore sizes in a range of 0.3 nm to 5 μm.
-
公开(公告)号：US11248303B2
公开(公告)日：2022-02-15
申请号：US16398468
申请日：2019-04-30
Applicant: Molecule Works Inc.
Inventor： Wei Liu
IPC: H01M4/90 , H01M2/16 , C25B11/031 , H01G9/042 , H01M8/0236 , H01M4/86 , C25B1/00 , C25B13/02 , C25B13/04 , H01G9/02 , H01G9/052 , H01M8/1004 , C25B1/04 , C25B9/73 , C25B11/051 , C25B11/057 , C25B11/075 , H01M50/46 , H01M50/431
Abstract: Electrochemical device using thin micro-porous metal sheets. The porous metal sheet may have a thickness less than 200 μm, provides three-dimensional networked pore structures of pore sizes in the range of 2.0 nm to 5.0 μm, and is electrically conductive. The micro-porous metal sheet is used for positively and/or negatively-charged electrodes by providing large specific contact surface area of reactants/electron. Nano-sized catalyst or features can be added inside pores of the porous metal sheet of pore sizes at sub- and micrometer scale to enhance the reaction activity and capacity. Micro-porous ceramic materials may be coated on the porous metal sheet at a thickness of less than 40 μm to enhance the functionality of the porous metal sheet and may function as a membrane separator. The electrochemical device may be used for decomposing molecules and for synthesis of molecules such as synthesis of ammonia from water and nitrogen molecules.
-
公开(公告)号：US20220032238A1
公开(公告)日：2022-02-03
申请号：US17498007
申请日：2021-10-11
Applicant: Molecule Works Inc.
Inventor： Wei LIU
Abstract: A thin micro-porous membrane sheet and filtering device using it is presented. The membrane sheet includes a thin porous metal sheet of thickness between 20 and 200 μm with a porous ceramic coating of thickness less than 25 μm on at least one of its surfaces. The porous metal sheet has mean pore sizes at micro and sub-micrometer level and has a surface substantially free of pores greater than 10 micrometers. The ceramic coating layer may be made of particles with a mean particle size in a range of 10 to 300 nm and contains certain sintering promoters. The ceramic coating is sintered with the metal sheet in non-oxidizing environment at lower temperatures than typical ceramic membranes. The thin membrane sheet is used to filter fine particulates from micrometers to nanometers from a liquid or gas stream. The thin membrane sheet may be assembled into a filter device having high surface area packing density and straight mini-flow channels.
-
公开(公告)号：US11185829B2
公开(公告)日：2021-11-30
申请号：US16237166
申请日：2018-12-31
Applicant: Molecule Works Inc.
Inventor： Wei Liu
Abstract: A thin micro-porous membrane sheet and filtering device using it is presented. The membrane sheet includes a thin porous metal sheet of thickness between 20 and 200 μm with a porous ceramic coating of thickness less than 25 μm on at least one of its surfaces. The porous metal sheet has mean pore sizes at micro and sub-micrometer level and has a surface substantially free of pores greater than 10 micrometers. The ceramic coating layer may be made of particles with a mean particle size in a range of 10 to 300 nm and contains certain sintering promoters. The ceramic coating is sintered with the metal sheet in non-oxidizing environment at lower temperatures than typical ceramic membranes. The thin membrane sheet is used to filter fine particulates from micrometers to nanometers from a liquid or gas stream. The thin membrane sheet may be assembled into a filter device having high surface area packing density and straight mini-flow channels.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Search Results
23
records
(took 0.013 seconds)
