Company Publications & Patents

(A) Publications
(Note: Most can be downloaded by clicking individual publications)

Articles in Technical Journals or Conference Proceedings (2004-present)
  1. "Test of Mercury Vapor Emission from Flyash Bricks," paper presented at World of Coal Ash Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 7-10, 2007, 18 pages. (Henry Liu, Shankha Banerji, Williams J. Burkett, and Melissa Shinn).
  2. "Research, Development and Use of PCP in the United States of America," Japanese Journal of Multiphase Flow, Vol.21, No.1, pp.57-69. (Henry Liu).
  3. "Transporting Freight Containers by Pneumatic Capsule Pipeline: Security and Other Issues," Global Pipeline Monthly, Nov. 2006. (Henry Liu).
  4. "Use of Pneumatic Capsule Pipeline for both Underground Freight Transportation and Tunnel Construction," Invited presentation at the International Academic Conference on Underground Space (IACUS), Beijing, China, November 18-19, 2006.(Henry Liu).
  5. "Use of Pneumatic Capsule Pipeline (PCP) to Transport Freight in Containers: Port Security and Other Implications," invited presentation at the Summer Meeting of the U.S. Transportation Research Board (TRB), July 9-11, 2006, 22 pages (Henry Liu)
  6. "Feasibility of Underground Freight Transport in New York City: Lessons Learned and Implications to Other Major Cities in the World," Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Underground Freight Transport (ISUFT), Shanghai, China, October 20-21, 2005, 12 pages (Henry Liu).
  7. "An Advanced Electromagnetic Capsule Pipeline System for Conveying Minerals and Mine Wastes," Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Underground Freight Transport (ISUFT), Shanghai, China, October 20-21, 2005, 12 pages (Henry Liu).
  8. "Improving Freezing and Thawing Properties of Fly Ash Bricks,” Proceedings of the World of Coal Ash Conference, Lexington,Kentucky, 2005, 17 pages. (Note: This paper has won the Barton Thomas Memorial Award of the Conference, and is listed on the Fly Ash Library website www.flyash.info.), (Liu, H., Burkett, W. J. and Haynes, K.).
  9. "An Advanced Electromagnetic Capsule Pipeline System for Conveying Minerals and Mine Wastes," 4th International Symposium on Underground Freight Transport (ISUFT), Shanghai, China, 2005, 12 pages. (Liu, H. and Lenau, C.W.).
  10. "Feasibility of Underground Freight Transport in New York City: Lessons Learned and Implications to Other Major Cities in the World”, 4th International Symposium on Underground Freight Transport (ISUFT)Shanghai, China, Oct.20-21, 2005, 12 pages. (Liu, H.).
  11. "Technical and Economic Feasibility of Underground Freight Transport in Major Cities," International Conference on Materials Handling, Chongqing, China, November 1-3, 2005, 12 pages. (Liu, H. and Lenau, C.W.).
  12. “Use of Pneumatic Capsule Pipeline for Underground Tunneling,” 12th International Symposium on Freight Pipelines,Prague, Czech Republic, September 20-24, 2004 (Liu, H.).
  13. "Feasibility of Using Pneumatic Capsule Pipelines in New York City for Underground Freight Transport," Pipeline Conference, American Society of Civil Engineers, San Diego, California, 2004, 21 pages.(Liu, H.).

Technical Reports
  1. Compacting Fly Ash to Make Bricks, final Technical Report submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant Number DMI-419311, March 2005 (Henry Liu).
  2. Feasibility of Underground Pneumatic Freight Transport in New York City, final report of project sponsored by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority(NYSERDA), contract no. 7643, August 1, 2004, 95 pages. (Liu, H.).
  3. An Electromagnetic Pneumo Capsule System for Conveying Minerals and Mine Wastes, final Report of U. S. Department of Energy Project No. DE-FG26-03NT41928, March 1, 2005,126 pages. (Liu, H. and Lenau, C.W.).

Books
  1. Henry Liu (2003),Pipeline Engineering, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 420 pages. (www.crcpress.com).
  2. Henry Liu (1991), Wind Engineering -- A Handbook for Structural Engineers, Prentice Hall Publisher, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 209 pages. (www.prenhall.com).

Other Publications
  1. Capsule Pipelines, article in Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing, Dekker Publications, Taylor and Francis Books, pp.295-304, 2005 (Henry Liu).

(B) Patents (Including Pending Patents)

Since 2003, FPC being a startup small business in R & D has applied for four U.S. patents based on inventions made or reduced to practice through its intensive R & D program – both from sponsored and non-sponsored research projects. So far, one patent application filed in 2003 has been granted, and the other three are pending. The following are the granted and pending patents:
  1. Method and Device to Prevent Indoor Release of Carbon Monoxide and Smoke from Combustors, Non-Provisional U.S. Patent Application assigned to FPC (Inventor: Henry Liu). (Patent Granted on December 27, 2005, U.S. Patent No. 6979260B2.)
  2. Method to Produce Durable Non-Vitrified Fly Ash Bricks and Blocks, U.S. Non-Provisional Patent Application assigned to FPC (Inventor: Henry Liu). (Filed with USPTO in January 19, 2006; Application No. 11/307023, patent pending).
  3. Method to Produce Durable Non-Vitrified Fly Ash Bricks and Blocks, PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) filing, assigned to FPC (Inventor: Henry Liu). (Filed on February 22, 2006; priority date: June 29, 2005; International Application No. PCT/US06/06314; patent pending.)
  4. Method to Feed Biomass Tablets and Logs into Burners, Non-Provisional U.S. Patent Application assigned to FPC (Inventors: Henry Liu and Yuyi Lin). (Filed with USPTO on May 12, 2006, Application No. 11/382988; patent pending).
  5. Method to Produce Durable Non-Vitrified Fly Ash Bricks and Blocks, Patent filed with the Bureau of Intellectual Property Rights of the People's Republic of China, Patent Application No. 200680000117.3, February 9, 2007.
Note: Granted patents are published by USPTO (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) and hence can be obtained directly from USPTO. However, to view a copy of any pending patent not yet published by USPTO, the interested party must contact FPC and must agree to sign a non-disclosure agreement common to U.S. practice.