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SYNTHETIC FUELS. Latest granted patents 2014-2016. Integrated gasification combined cycle
Summary
The integrated gasification with combined cycle (IGCC) technology is one possible way of using fossil fuels, first and foremost coal, for energy production in an ecologically-friendly and effective manner. The Puertollano IGCC plant in Spain has become one of the pioneer commercial projects of this kind in Europe which demonstrates the great potential of this technology. It is evident, however, that this technology still needs more practical and advanced engineering solutions, some of which are described in patented inventions.
The proposed bulletin is dedicated to IGCC and includes patents published in 2014-2016. Research methodology is available at Advanced Energy Technologies. The patent bulletin includes 161 patent documents. The patents were granted in 14 patent offices around the world. 92 applicants from 14 countries participated in the development of the inventions. 267 subgroups of the International Patent Classification were encountered in the patent documents.
Key Highlights
The bulletin contains statistical data on the distribution of patent documents by years, by patent offices and by applicant countries, applicant-related data (residents and non-residents), data on the most frequently mentioned International Patent Classification divisions (sections, classes, subclasses, groups, and subgroups). The top three patent offices that granted the largest number of patents were CNIPA (CN), USPTO (US) and JPO (JP).
For each of the patent documents selected for the examination in the present bulletin the characteristics of unified indicators were preliminary defined, they include: technical problems, types of inventive solutions employed, belonging to one or other technological segment. This allows the internal content for each of the indicators in the aggregate array of documents to be visualized, for instance, to define the sequence and proportional correlation of technical problems the inventive solutions disclosed in the texts aim to solve. A list of the top 10 groups consisting of patent documents with identical unified indicators contains ID numbers and applicant names of respective documents; the groups are sorted by the number of patent documents.
Data is provided for each of the top 10 applicants, leading in terms of the number of published patent documents among the ones examined in the bulletin, illustrating their share in the established intellectual property market, distribution of patents by problems, IPC sections, patent offices and technology indicators. Representatives of the United States and Japan prevail among the patenting leaders in the examined period of time, including: General Electric (US), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (JP), Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction (KR), GTLpetrol LLC (US), Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Ltd. (JP), Allam Rodney J. (GB), Foret Plasma Labs, LLC (US), Hatch Ltd. (CA), Mazumdar Anindra (US), NCEPU North China Electric Power University (CN).
The prominent documents pages contain the top 10 patents with the highest bibliographical rating, the most extensive coverage of IPC sections, and the shortest patent pending time.
The conclusive part of the bulletin represents the lists of all of the documents reviewed, arranged by the top 10 groups of patent documents with identical unified indicators and by patent offices with the indication of the ID numbers of the granted patents.
Who needs this bulletin?
The data provided in the proposed bulletin is a timely reflection of the transformations that take place in the intellectual property sector of the industrial direction concerned. A thoroughly edited selection of patent documents can become a good complement to your library of available technical solutions. The bulletin is targeted at inventors, engineers, researchers, managers and business administrators involved in the development of synthetic fuel production technologies.
