Royalty Report: Energy & Environment, Energy Resources & Svcs, Recycling – Collection: 25798

License Grant

Licensor hereby grants to Licensee during the Term an exclusive right and license to utilize the Technology in its design, construction, ownership and operation of Plants in the Territory; provided, however, that, as it applies to Mexico, said license shall be exclusive as to an area of 150 miles around Guadalajara, exclusive as to an area of 150 miles around San Quentin, for plastics feedstocks only, and otherwise it shall be a Non-Exclusive License.

License Property

Technology means the Licensor’s electromagnetic induction pyrolysis and refining system and processes for processing “end of life” tires and plastics to oil, carbon black, steel and associated petroleum gases, including all associated Intellectual Property.  Intellectual Property means all (a) Licensed Patents; (b) Trademarks; (c) Copyrights;(d) trade secrets; (e) all rights of any kind whatsoever of Licensor accruing under any of the foregoing provided by applicable law of any jurisdiction, by international treaties and conventions and otherwise throughout the world; and (f) any and all claims and causes of action, with respect to any of the foregoing, whether occurring before, on or after the date hereof, including all rights to and claims for damages, restitution and injunctive and other legal and equitable relief for past, present and future infringement, dilution, misappropriation, violation, misuse, breach or default, with the right but no obligation to sue for such legal and equitable relief and to collect, or otherwise recover, any such damages.

Field of Use

The Licensor developed a patent pending oil conversion process

License Grant

The Licensor will hereby grant to the Irish Licensee the exclusive rights to the waste to oil process in the territories as so set forth. The Licensee has the obligation to install and operate a defined number of plants over a period of time in the territories.
The Licensor will grant the Licensee the rights to the Process for a period of 20 years effective the date of signature by both parties. The parties agree to negotiate in good faith for a renewal of an additional 20 years by specific territory and the specific implementation of the process.

License Property

The Licensor is an energy and technology company with the primary focus on generating fuel from waste plastic and rubber material. The Licensor has developed and owns a process that converts certain waste material into high-grade oil and other by-products, specifically steel, carbon and syngas.

The Process System consists of pre-processing equipment, two oil conversion systems, two secondary distillation systems, two chloride removal systems and associated storage containers. A Plant is defined as an operating facility consisting of two such Systems.

Twin Reactor Pyrolysis Converting System (GETH Process)
Process description over view
The tires and plastic to oil process is composed of a combination of three processes that have been placed in line so that they operate as one complete system. These processes will be further described throughout the narrative. The first system is the Pyrolysis Induction system. This converts tire and plastic feedstock into sweet crude oil. The second system is what is called a secondary distillation process. This equipment is directly hooked up to the Pyrolysis converter and flows oil into a secondary reactor, then through the distillation process to further refine the oil. This is accomplished by running the oil through a secondary heat signature. The last piece of equipment is the Catalyst filtration system. The oil is directly hooked up to this system; the oil is re-heated to 500 deg F and is then processed through a catalyst media that removes any residual organic chloride. From here the oil is moved into the finished product storage vessels.

Pyrolysis System
Equipment Description
The Twin Reactor system consists of two rotational reactor chambers that are operated via an Electrical Heated Induction process. Each reactor is operated independently. The system is controlled by a semi-computerized process controller that monitors heat at three different zones on the reactor. As the feed stock material temperature rises it turns into a vaporous gas, which in turn moves through a separation chamber. At the separation chamber there are four specific activities that take place. The first stage of feed stock vaporization. This takes place around 700 deg F. Oil that is heavier than air is released to a contained reservoir that stores the heavy oil; the second stage “light oil” is fully vaporized and is moved to the condensing vessels where it turns into light sweet crude oil. The third and last by product that is emitted from the separator is carbon black that is released through a valve gate at the bottom of the separator. The carbon black goes into a contained storage vessel, which is sealed so that the carbon black is fully captured without it becoming air borne. Once the gases are fully vaporized and condensed into oil it is move onto the main storage vessel. The last by product is residual gases that are processed through a filtration process to clean in residual carbon; the gas is then compressed into LPG storage vessels.The entire process is a closed loop system that contains and processes vapor’s and gases throughout the entire process. At no time are there any gases or vapors emitted into the atmosphere. The reactor chamber hatch is closed and sealed throughout the entire process cycle; it is only opened once all of the vapors and gases have been evacuated from the reactor chamber. There is a main check valve in place between the reactor and the separator that prevents any gases or vapors from flowing back into the reactor chamber. All the by-products are separated into their own specific storage vessels until they are shipped. All products will be shipped by certified transporters. The transporters have all the necessary pumps and valve systems to eliminate any vapors or emissions from being released into the atmosphere during tanker loading process.

License Grant

Canadian Licensor hereby grants to Licensee a non-exclusive, non-transferable license under the Patent Rights and the Licensor Know-How for use in the design, construction and operation of any and all future Oil Sands Plants in the United States of America.

License Property

Oil Sands Plant is for the production of Crude Oil and other hydrocarbon products from oil sands, tar sands, and other hydrocarbon-bearing sandstones and structures. Oil Sands Plant means a facility that, using or deploying claims under the Patent Rights or any Licensor Know-How, is designed or has the capacity to extract, process and/or produce one or more Licensed Products from hydrocarbon-bearing sandstones, sediments and soils. The basic steps in the process are (a) crushing of ore, (b) mixing ore with solvent, and (c) then separating solids from liquids, wherein the solid stream is dried to produce sand and the liquid stream is heated to recover all or a fraction of the solvent and other chemicals (if any) for reuse, thereby producing a bitumen product. Each Oil Sands Plant shall be considered singular, whether one or multiple trains, so long the facilities, equipment and trains are contained within one (1) mile of each other or on a single oil sands deposit and under a single oil, gas or minerals estate, agreement or lease.

Licensed Product means (a) all forms of Crude Oil, Petroleum, or other hydrocarbon products extracted or produced from tar sands, oil sands, gilsonite and oil shale, and (b) all commercially salable sand or silica products that may be produced at or in an Oil Sands Plant by a device(s), process(es) or other means covered by a Valid Claim.

Crude Oil means A mixture of hydrocarbons that exists in liquid phase in natural underground reservoirs and remains liquid at atmospheric pressure after passing through surface separating facilities. Depending upon the characteristics of the crude stream, it may also include
1. Small amounts of hydrocarbons that exist in gaseous phase in natural underground reservoirs but are liquid at atmospheric pressure after being recovered from oil well (casing head) gas in lease separators and are subsequently comingled with the crude stream without being separately measured. Lease condensate recovered as a liquid from natural gas wells in lease or field separation facilities and later mixed into the crude stream is also included; 2. Small amounts of nonhydrocarbons produced with the oil, such as sulfur and various metals; 3. Drip gases, and liquid hydrocarbons produced from tar sands, oil sands, gilsonite, and oil shale.

Petroleum Products means oil or hydrocarbon products obtained from the processing of Crude Oil (including lease condensate), natural gas, and other hydrocarbon compounds and include unfinished oils, liquefied petroleum gases, pentanes plus, aviation gasoline, motor gasoline, naphtha-type jet fuel, kerosene-type jet fuel, kerosene, distillate fuel oil, residual fuel oil, petrochemical feedstocks, special naphthas, lubricants, waxes, petroleum coke, asphalt, road oil, still gas, and miscellaneous products.

Petroleum means a broadly defined class of liquid hydrocarbon mixtures, including crude oil, lease condensate, unfinished oils, refined products obtained from the processing of Crude Oil and natural gas plant liquids.

Field of Use

Field of Use is for the extraction, processing and production of Crude Oil and other hydrocarbon products from oil sands, tar sands, and other hydrocarbon-bearing sandstones and structures.

Crude oil is a naturally occurring, unrefined petroleum product composed of hydrocarbon deposits and other organic materials. A type of fossil fuel, crude oil can be refined to produce usable products such as gasoline, diesel, and various other forms of petrochemicals.

Hydrocarbon is an organic compound (such as acetylene or butane) containing only carbon and hydrogen and often occurring in petroleum, natural gas, coal, and bitumens.

License Grant

Pursuant to the agreement between the Licensor and a South Korean Licensee, three plants in Asia have been constructed and the Licensors tire recycling technology known as TRTM.

License Property

The TRTM recycling  technology involves shredding the feed waste using conventional equipment.  The Titan technology utilizes pyrolysis to recycle tires and other scrap material.

The TRTM process is a closed system and the only emissions are exhaust gases from clean-burning fuels (most of which are generated by the process itself) and a small amount of dirt and ash which is environmentally suitable for normal landfill. In fact, non-condensable gases recovered using TRTM technology provide the fuel to generate required process heat for pyrolysis.

The technology used to recover hydrocarbons, carbon and metals from electronic scrap and automobile fluff also utilizes pyrolysis to recover the hydrocarbons and carbon followed by other conventional processes to recover the metals.

The carbon black produced through TRTM pyrolysis consists of the various grades which went into manufacture of the tire. Because of the very fine physical composition of the material, it is not realistically practicable to separate the product by grade. In addition, carbon black produced through pyrolysis contains varying amounts of ash attributable to other minor materials used in manufacturing the tire.

The present invention relates to destructive distillation apparatus. More particularly, the present invention relates to discharge systems for apparatus useful in the destructive distillation of waste automobile tires.

Field of Use

This agreement is for the recycling industry.

License Grant

Licensor grants options to acquire three separate exclusive territorial licenses to make, use, copy, develop and exploit all technologies, including related patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and any other intellectual property and know-how, owned or controlled by the Licensor now or in the future.

License Property

The products and systems relate to oil production.

Licensor has developed what is believed a cost effective technology in which heavy oil can be upgraded to a “lighter” more commercially saleable oil in a high intensive cracking process which could be located directly at the oil field. By upgrading the oil in the field, it would allow oil companies to eliminate on-site storage tanks as well as the costly process of trucking the oil great distances to an upgrader. The oil could be transported directly to a refinery for refining into ordinary petroleum products.