Alvin R Skopp

42992036, Nov 10, 1981

Nov 13, 1979

6/093753

Alvin Skopp - Clark NJ

Exxon Research & Engineering Co. - Florham Park NJ

F24J 302

126443

A tubular solar collector system is provided in which a heat absorbing fluid is contained within tubular solar collectors completely separate and independent from a fluid circulated through the manifold to which the tubular collectors are operably attached. The collectors extend downwardly from the generally horizontal manifold so that when the fluid within the tubular collector is heated by incident solar radiation it is circulated to a heat exchanger in the manifold by thermosyphoning action.

42851939, Aug 25, 1981

Oct 24, 1978

5/954187

Henry Shaw - Scotch Plains NJ
Alvin Skopp - Clark NJ

Exxon Research & Engineering Co. - Florham Park NJ

F02C 700
F02C 7264

60 3906

A novel method for operating gas turbine combustors while minimizing the formation and discharge of pollutants such as NO. sub. x is described. In one embodiment, the use of more than one catalyst in series is employed to effect fuel oxidation at temperatures below flame temperature, thereby minimizing NO. sub. x formation. In another embodiment, a staged catalytic combustor is employed comprising a two zone combustion chamber involving a noncatalytic zone in which fuel is partially combusted under fuel rich conditions and combustion is completed in the second zone, utilizing catalytic oxidation with excess air to complete the combustion and minimize NO. sub. x formation. Still another embodiment concerns the use of a novel design for the primary combustion zone by which fuel is partially burned with substoichiometric amounts of air and, thereafter, the partially burned primary zone effluent is mixed into the secondary air stream where continued combustion proceeds at a temperature below that needed for NO. sub. x production. The operation of the primary zone under fuel rich conditions minimizes NO. sub.

43859704, May 31, 1983

Oct 14, 1980

6/196475

Alvin Skopp - Scotch Plains NJ
George Ciprios - Freehold NJ
John S. Batzold - Union NJ

Exxon Research and Engineering Co. - Florham Park NJ

C25B 1103
C25B 1104
C25B 1106
C25C 112

204108

The present invention encompasses the use of a specific fuel fed electrode in depositing metals from solutions thereof and in the absence of an external applied potential. Basically as shown in FIG. 1, the electrode comprises an electrically conductive porous substrate 3 bearing on one surface thereof a fuel activating catalyst 4. The porosity of the substrate is sufficient that the current density at surface 2 of the substrate 3 opposite the catalyst 4 will assure substantially complete depletion of metal ions very near the surface of the porous substrate, whereby the catalyst surface and the pores remain substantially free of deposited metal.