Patents Assigned to Albemarle Corporation
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Patent number: 11970570Abstract: This invention provides polyurethane foams containing a brominated flame retardant. Also provided are formulations and methods for preparing polyurethane foams containing a brominated flame retardant.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Tse-Chong Wu, Augusto Caesar Ibay, Joseph Morgan O'Day
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Patent number: 11897993Abstract: This invention provides flame retardant compositions comprised of or formed from components comprising a sulfur-containing compound and at least one isocyanate-reactive brominated flame retardant.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2018Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: ALBEMARLE CORPORATIONInventors: Yong Tang, Augusto Caesar Ibay
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Patent number: 11891754Abstract: This invention provides aqueous flame retardant dispersions comprising water, a brominated flame retardant containing aromatically-bound bromine, at least one dispersant, at least one wetting agent, and at least one thickener. The brominated flame retardant has an average particle size of about 20 ?m or less. The flame retardant dispersion contains about 50 wt % or more of brominated polymeric flame retardant, based on the total weight of the dispersion. Also provided are coating compositions, processes for forming flame retardant dispersions, processes for forming coating compositions, and processes for applying the coating compositions to textile substrates.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Rajeev S. Mathur, Jon Shannon Reed, Daniel A. De Schryver, John Randall Chaya
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Patent number: 11739170Abstract: This invention relates to processes for forming hydrogen mediated saline hydride initiated anionic polymer distributions via novel polymerization conditions in which molecular hydrogen is a chain transfer agent and a Lithium Aminoalkoxide Complexed Saline Hydride (LOXSH) forms an anionic polymer chain initiating species by addition of saline hydride to an anionically polymerizable hydrocarbon monomer. This invention further relates to polystyrene compositions having greatly improved microstructures free of co-product polymer chain distributions. This invention also relates to novel hydrocarbon soluble saline hydride catalyst and reagent compositions useful in conducting the hydrogen mediated saline hydride initiated polymerizations of this invention. This invention further relates to hydrocarbon soluble lithium hydride catalysts and reagent compositions formed from dimethylaminoethanol, an alkyllithium reagent and molecular hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: ALBEMARLE CORPORATIONInventor: William J. Layman, Jr.
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Patent number: 11667736Abstract: This invention relates to processes for forming hydrogen mediated saline hydride initiated anionic polymer distributions via novel polymerization conditions in which molecular hydrogen is a chain transfer agent and a Lithium Aminoalkoxide Complexed Saline Hydride (LOXSH) forms an anionic polymer chain initiating species by addition of saline hydride to an anionically polymerizable hydrocarbon monomer. This invention further relates to polystyrene compositions having greatly improved microstructures free of co-product polymer chain distributions. This invention also relates to novel hydrocarbon soluble saline hydride catalyst and reagent compositions useful in conducting the hydrogen mediated saline hydride initiated polymerizations of this invention. This invention further relates to hydrocarbon soluble lithium hydride catalysts and reagent compositions formed from dimethylaminoethanol, an alkyllithium reagent and molecular hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: ALBEMARLE CORPORATIONInventor: William J. Layman, Jr.
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Patent number: 11591420Abstract: This invention relates to processes for forming hydrogen mediated saline hydride initiated anionic polystyrene distributions via novel polymerization conditions. This invention also relates to novel hydrocarbon soluble super active saline hydride catalyst and reagent compositions useful in conducting the hydrogen mediated saline hydride initiated polymerizations of this invention. This invention also relates to novel low molecular weight polystyrene polymer composition formed exclusively from styrene and molecular hydrogen as the monomers.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2017Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: ALBEMARLE CORPORATIONInventor: William J. Layman, Jr.
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Patent number: 11458456Abstract: Process for the preparation of a catalyst and a catalyst comprising more than one silica is provided herein. Thus, in one embodiment, the invention provides a particulate FCC catalyst comprising about 5 to about 60 wt % one or more zeolites, about 10 to about 45 wt % quasicrystalline boehmite (QCB), about 0 to about 35 wt % microcrystalline boehmite (MCB), greater than about 0 to about 15 wt % silica from sodium stabilized colloidal silica, greater than about 0 to about 30 wt % silica from ammonia stabilized or lower sodium colloidal silica, and the balance clay and the process for making the same. This process results in attrition resistant catalysts with good performance.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Amir Sabahi, Andrew Loebl, Sandra Gavalda, Julie Francis, Eswaramoorthi Iyyamperumal, Min Li, Andrea Marcinkova
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Patent number: 11427764Abstract: Process for the preparation of a catalyst and a catalyst comprising the use of more than one silica source is provided herein. Thus, in one embodiment, the invention provides a particulate FCC catalyst comprising about 5 to about 60 wt % one or more zeolites, about 15 to about 35 wt % quasicrystalline boehmite (QCB), about 0 to about 35 wt % microcrystalline boehmite (MCB), greater than about 0 to about 15 wt % silica from sodium stabilized basic colloidal silica, greater than about 0 to about 30 wt % silica from acidic colloidal silica or polysilicic acid, and the balance clay and the process for making the same. This process results in attrition resistant catalysts with a good accessibility.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2017Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Amir Sabahi, Andrew J Loebl, Sandra Gavalda, Julie A Francis, Eswaramoorthi Iyyamperumal
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Patent number: 11292804Abstract: The invention relates to powdery, highly reactive alkali and alkaline earth hydride compounds, and to mixtures with elements of the third main group of the periodic table of elements (PTE) and to the preparation thereof by reacting alkali or alkaline earth metals in the presence of finely dispersed metals or compounds of the third main group of the PTE, wherein the latter have one or more hydride ligands or said hydride ligands are converted in situ, under the prevailing reaction conditions, i.e., in the presence of hydrogen gas or another H source, into hydride species, and to the use thereof for the preparation of complex hydrides and organometallic compounds.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: ALBEMARLE CORPORATIONInventors: Ulrich Wietelmann, Christopher Kurth, Peter Rittmeyer, Stefan Scherer, Armin Stoll, Uwe Lischka
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Patent number: 11268005Abstract: This invention provides zinc-free aqueous brine compositions. These zinc-free aqueous brine compositions have a density of about 14.3 pounds per gallon or more, and a true crystallization temperature of about 20° F. or less, and comprise water and one or more inorganic bromide salts, with the provisos that when calcium bromide is present, one or more other water-soluble inorganic salts are also present, when lithium bromide is present, calcium bromide is absent, when bismuth(III) bromide is present, one or more other water-soluble inorganic salts are also present, and for a true crystallization temperature of about 10° F. or less, when manganese(II) bromide is present, one or more other water-soluble inorganic salts are also present. Processes for forming these zinc-free aqueous brine compositions are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Christopher J. Nalepa, Jacobus N. Louwen, Yunqi Liu, Gregory H. Lambeth, Srinivasa S. Godavarthy, Kevin Coppola
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Patent number: 11001921Abstract: Processes of bonding lithium plates to other metal substrates are provided, using lithium plates preformed with a surface having indentations imposed therein, wherein that surface is placed against the substrate, which reduces the force required to achieve interface bonding.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: ALBEMARLE CORPORATIONInventors: Mark J. Hintze, Joseph D. Fickling
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Patent number: 10981152Abstract: The present invention pertains to the use of mesoporous ZSM-22 zeolite in a process for the cracking or conversion of a feed comprised of hydrocarbons, such as, for example, that obtained from the processing of crude petroleum, to a mixture high in propylene. Further, the present invention concerns the field of fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) processes and relates to the preparation and employment of additives based on zeolites having increased mesoporosity, such as altered ZSM-22. More particularly the present invention discloses a process for improving the production of propylene in FCC units.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: ALBEMARLE CORPORATIONInventors: Avelino Corma Canos, Joaquin Martinez-Triguero
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Patent number: 10941226Abstract: This invention relates to processes for forming hydrogen mediated saline hydride initiated anionic polymer distributions via novel polymerization conditions in which molecular hydrogen is a chain transfer agent and a Lithium Aminoalkoxide Complexed Saline Hydride (LOXSH) forms an anionic polymer chain initiating species by addition of saline hydride to an anionically polymerizable hydrocarbon monomer. This invention further relates to polystyrene compositions having greatly improved microstructures free of co-product polymer chain distributions. This invention also relates to novel hydrocarbon soluble saline hydride catalyst and reagent compositions useful in conducting the hydrogen mediated saline hydride initiated polymerizations of this invention. This invention further relates to hydrocarbon soluble lithium hydride catalysts and reagent compositions formed from dimethylaminoethanol, an alkyllithium reagent and molecular hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: ALBEMARLE CORPORATIONInventor: William J. Layman, Jr.
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Patent number: 10888852Abstract: Provided is a process for manufacturing a Fluid Catalytic Cracking catalyst additive composition with a novel binder. The steps involve mixing an alumina source with water to make a slurry; adding to the alumina slurry an amount of P2O5 source; the slurry is then stirred and reacted under controlled temperature and time conditions to form an aluminum phosphate binder; adding to the aluminum phosphate binder a zeolite, an amount of silica binder and an amount of clay; and spray-drying the slurry to form catalyst additive particles. The catalyst additive composition comprises a about 35 wt % to about 65 wt % zeolite; about 0 wt % to about 10 wt % silica; about 15 wt % to about 50 wt % clay and an aluminum phosphate binder comprising about 2.5 wt % to 5 wt % amorphous or pseudo-boehmite alumina and about 7 wt % to 15 wt % phosphoric acid.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2016Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: ALBEMARLE CORPORATIONInventors: Maria Margaret Ludvig, Sandra Gavalda, Nataly Garcia Vargas, Petrus Martinus Overwater, Kevin Alfonso Miller, Edward Lee Foster
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Patent number: 10759985Abstract: This invention provides zinc-free aqueous brine compositions. These zinc-free aqueous brine compositions have a density of about 14.3 pounds per gallon to about 15.8 pounds per gallon, and a true crystallization temperature of about 20° F. or less, and comprise water and two or more inorganic bromide salts, where the inorganic bromide salts include calcium bromide and cesium bromide. Processes for forming these zinc-free aqueous brine compositions are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: ALBEMARLE CORPORATIONInventors: Yunqi Liu, Gregory H. Lambeth
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Patent number: 10683303Abstract: Processes are provided for the production of methenamine mandelate that do not require the isolation of produced methenamine prior to production of the methenamine mandelate.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: ALBEMARLE CORPORATIONInventors: Bryce Kelly Assink, Tino Jon Caviggiola, III
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Patent number: 10648061Abstract: Producing high purity lithium solution from a lithium source containing dissolved Na+, Ca2+, and Mg2+, by: passing the source into and out of a bed of sorbent composed of hydrated alumina intercalated with LiX, preferably LiCl, to extract lithium from the lithium source into the sorbent; washing the bed of sorbent with dilute aqueous LiCl to remove lithium from the sorbent to obtain a lithium eluent of increased Li+ concentration; subjecting this eluent to nanofiltration to produce a lithium permeate from which Ca2+, Mg2+, and other nanofilterable components are concurrently removed, yielding a permeate solution with 25% or less, and a retentate solution with 75% or more Ca2+ and Mg2+, as compared to the eluent from washing; and subjecting the permeate solution to a particular forward osmosis yielding a solution having 13,000-25,000 ppm dissolved lithium. Specified optional steps and new features can be used to increase lithium concentrations and purity.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2015Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: ALBEMARLE CORPORATIONInventors: Chi Hung Cheng, Jackson R. Switzer, Jan Nieman
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Patent number: 10597574Abstract: This invention provides zinc-free aqueous brine compositions. These zinc-free aqueous brine compositions have a density of about 14.3 pounds per gallon or more, and a true crystallization temperature of about 20° F. or less, and comprise water and one or more inorganic bromide salts, with the provisos that when calcium bromide is present, one or more other water-soluble inorganic salts are also present, when lithium bromide is present, calcium bromide is absent, when bismuth(III) bromide is present, one or more other water-soluble inorganic salts are also present, and for a true crystallization temperature of about 10° F. or less, when manganese(II) bromide is present, one or more other water-soluble inorganic salts are also present. Processes for forming these zinc-free aqueous brine compositions are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: ALBEMARLE CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher J. Nalepa, Jacobus N. Louwen, Yunqi Liu, Gregory H. Lambeth, Srinivasa S. Godavarthy, Kevin Coppola
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Publication number: 20190168196Abstract: The present invention pertains to the use of mesoporous ZSM-22 zeolite in a process for the cracking or conversion of a feed comprised of hydrocarbons, such as, for example, that obtained from the processing of crude petroleum, to a mixture high in propylene. Further, the present invention concerns the field of fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) processes and relates to the preparation and employment of additives based on zeolites having increased mesoporosity, such as altered ZSM-22. More particularly the present invention discloses a process for improving the production of propylene in FCC units.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2017Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicant: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Avelino Corma CANOS, Joaquin MARTINEZ-TRIGUERO
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Publication number: 20190106517Abstract: This invention relates to processes for forming hydrogen mediated saline hydride initiated anionic polystyrene distributions via novel polymerization conditions. This invention also relates to novel hydrocarbon soluble super active saline hydride catalyst and reagent compositions useful in conducting the hydrogen mediated saline hydride initiated polymerizations of this invention. This invention also relates to novel low molecular weight polystyrene polymer composition formed exclusively from styrene and molecular hydrogen as the monomers.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2017Publication date: April 11, 2019Applicant: ALBEMARLE CORPORATIONInventor: William J. Layman, JR.