| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080250780 | Aquatic sink for carbon dioxide emissions with biomass fuel production - Carbon dioxide emissions from a hydrocarbon combustor are discharged into a large aquatic body, which acts as a CO | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080250791 | Electric power station with CO2 sink and production of industrial chemicals - A system and method for generating electricity at a desert site comprises a power plant having a combustion unit that burns aquatic bio fuel to produce electricity for distribution to a grid and an exhaust stream containing carbon dioxide. An exhaust gas distribution system connects the combustion unit with a large inland basin of salt water at the site, for growing a plant bloom in the basin. The bloom is harvested and converted into the bio fuel that is burned in the combustion unit. The basin is continually supplied by a source of salt water selected from an ocean, sea, bay, or cove. A salt extraction plant is on site for producing sea salt from water drawn from the basin, and a chemical production plant is on site for converting the extracted sea salt into at least one of sodium hydroxide and chlorine gas using some of the generated electricity. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080318163 | Water spray development of planographic plates - Excellent development of planographic printing plates can be achieved by exposing an imaged, negative working, photopolymerizable coating to a high pressure stream of essentially untreated tap water, whereby the water completely removes only the less cohesive and adhesive (e.g., partially polymerized) regions to the substrate, thereby directly producing a printing plate having an image pattern of highly cohesive and adhesive, oleophilic regions of the coating and hydrophilic regions of the substrate. The coating removal mechanism appears to be due entirely to ablation. The high pressure stream is preferably delivered to the plate through at least one nozzle having a discharge pressure greater than about 200 psi. Each nozzle preferably has a spray pattern that impinges the plate over a substantially rectangular region of the plate, and the nozzle and plate translate relative to each other. The nozzle can reciprocate across the width of a longitudinally transported plate, thereby contacting successive regions of the plate in a rastering fashion. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20080318164 | Heated water spray processor - Excellent development of planographic printing plates can be achieved by exposing an imaged, negative working, photopolymerizable coating to a high pressure stream of essentially heated but otherwise untreated tap water, whereby the water completely removes only the less cohesive and adhesive (e.g., partially polymerized) regions to the substrate, thereby directly producing a printing plate having an image pattern of highly cohesive and adhesive, oleophilic regions of the coating and hydrophilic regions of the substrate. The coating removal mechanism appears to be due entirely to ablation. The process variables of spray pressure, spray volumetric flow rate, and water temperature can be traded off to achieve one or more targets for plate quality, energy conservation, production rate, and equipment availability. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090095183 | Printing plates with permanent resin laminated interleaf - In a lithographic printing plate and method of manufacture, an interleaf is permanently integrated to the bottom surface of the plate substrate. A thin, flexible, water and solvent insoluble film is adhered to and covers the bottom surface of the coated and cured sheet before the sheet is cut into plates. The interleaf has a lesser thickness than the thickness of the substrate. A preferred method comprises the steps of selecting a wound coil of aluminum sheet, unwinding the coil and advancing the sheet through a coating station at which a liquid coating of radiation imageable material is applied to the top surface of the sheet, curing the material to form a cured coating adhered to the top surface of the sheet, laminating a polymeric film to the bottom surface of the sheet, and advancing the laminated sheet to a cutting device where individual plates are cut from the sheet. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20100003741 | Integrated power plant, sewage treatment, and aquatic biomass fuel production system - Two waste products, nitrate-rich sewage wastewater and power plant CO | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100089268 | Non-chemical development of printing plates - A solvent-soluble, radiation-polymerizable, oleophilic resin coating non-ionically adhered on a hydrophilic substrate can be imagewise exposed to polymerizing radiation and then directly processed by the application of disruptive mechanical forces such as compression or tension to remove the unimaged areas as undissolved particles, using pressurized water and brushing pre-press, or the tack of the ink on-press. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100212522 | Processless development of printing plate - On-press development of an imaged printing plate on a plate cylinder, in which ink is applied by an ink form roll, a blanket roll is in contact with the plate, a rubber roll is opposed to the blanket roll, and printable media passes between the blanket roll and the rubber roll. The plate comprises a substrate carrying an imaged coating, in which nonimage areas have cohesion C | 08-26-2010 |
| 20110088574 | Processless printing plates - A plate carries a solvent-soluble, radiation-polymerizable, oleophilic resin coating non-ionically adhered on a hydrophilic substrate, which can be imagewise exposed to polymerizing radiation and then directly processed by the application of disruptive mechanical forces such as compression or tension to remove the unimaged areas as undissolved particles, using pressurized water and brushing pre-press, or the tack of the ink on-press. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110088575 | Printing press with mechanical development of imaged plate - On-press development of an imaged printing plate on a plate cylinder, in which ink is applied by an ink form roll, a blanket roll is in contact with the plate, a rubber roll is opposed to the blanket roll, and printable media passes between the blanket roll and the rubber roll. The plate comprises a substrate carrying an imaged coating, in which nonimage areas have cohesion C | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110088576 | Lithographic printing press for processless plate - An imaged plate with an oleophilic resin coating non-ionically adhered on a hydrophilic substrate can be directly processed on-press by the application of disruptive mechanical tension forces to remove the unimaged areas as undissolved particles, using the tack of the ink on-press. | 04-21-2011 |