Patents Examined by Chantel Graham
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Patent number: 11970668Abstract: Provided herein are heat activated fuel detergents, liquid fuel compositions including such heat activated fuel detergents and methods for improving intake valve and injector cleanliness of an engine for a vehicle utilizing such liquid fuel composition.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: David J. Abdallah, Krystal B. Wrigley
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Patent number: 11965135Abstract: A method of hydroprocessing a hydrocarbon feed may comprise fractionating a hydrocarbon feed into “n” fractions, wherein “n” is at least 2; hydroprocessing an (n?1)th fraction of the hydrocarbon feed in an (n?1)th hydroprocessing reaction zone of a hydroprocessing unit, thereby producing an (n?1)th effluent The method may further comprise hydroprocessing the nth fraction and the (n?1)th effluent in an nth hydroprocessing reaction zone, thereby producing an nth effluent. The (n?1)th hydroprocessing reaction zone may be upstream of the nth hydroprocessing reaction zone. The (n?1)th fraction may have a greater boiling point range than the nth fraction. Hydrogen and the hydrocarbon feed may be in co-current flow in the hydroprocessing unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventor: Omer Refa Koseoglu
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Patent number: 11959036Abstract: A component and a system for mitigating coke formation during delivery of a hydrocarbon fluid. The component includes a contact surface configured to be in contact with the hydrocarbon fluid. Tuning the zeta potential of the contact surface allows selective attraction and/or repulsion of coke-catalyzing materials, metal ions, heteroatomic hydrocarbons, and/or coke precursors present in the hydrocarbon fluid. A method of mitigating coke formation during delivery of a hydrocarbon fluid includes tuning a zeta potential of the contact surface of the component and injecting or circulating the hydrocarbon fluid through the system such that the contact surface selectively attracts and/or repels coke-catalyzing materials, metal ions, heteroatomic hydrocarbons, and/or coke precursors present in the hydrocarbon fluid.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Arundhati Sengupta, Karthick Gourishankar, Narayanan Janakiraman, Lawrence B. Kool, Sanjay Kumar Sondhi, Michael A Benjamin, Hejie Li
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Patent number: 11939539Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a method of processing a hydrocarbon feed includes fractionating the hydrocarbon feed into a light stream and a heavy stream, hydrotreating the heavy stream to form a hydrotreated heavy stream, combining the light stream and the hydrotreated heavy stream to form a upgraded feed stream, and feeding the upgraded feed stream to a single Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) reaction zone, thereby producing a product stream comprising light olefins. The light stream may comprise hydrocarbons boiling at less than 343° C. and the heavy stream may comprise hydrocarbons boiling at greater than 343° C. The FCC reaction zone may be operated in a down-flow configuration and the FCC may be operated under high severity conditions.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Mansour Ali Al-Herz, Ali Al Jawad, Qi Xu, Aaron Akah, Musaed Salem Al-Ghrami
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Patent number: 11920096Abstract: Low sulfur fuel oil blend compositions and methods of making such blend compositions to increase the stability and compatibility of LSFO blends having paraffinic resids that are blended with distillates and/or cracked stocks of higher asphaltenes and/or aromatics content. In one or more embodiments, distillates and/or cracked stocks that incrementally reduce the initial aromaticity of the distillate or cracked stock with the highest aromaticity are sequentially blended prior to resid addition. Such incremental reduction and sequential blending have been found to provide a resulting low sulfur fuel oil blend that is both compatible and stable.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LPInventors: Matthew T. Woodchick, V. Elijah Mullins, Peg Broughton
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Patent number: 11920093Abstract: A process for upgrading a hydrocarbon feed includes contacting the hydrocarbon feed with hydrogen in the presence of a ring opening catalyst in a naphthene conversion unit, the contacting causing naphthenes in the hydrocarbon feed to react to produce a converted effluent comprising isoparaffins and normal paraffins. The process includes separating the converted effluent in a paraffin separation system to produce an isoparaffin-rich stream and an n-paraffin-rich stream. The process includes contacting the isoparaffin-rich stream with hydrogen in the presence of an isomerization catalyst in a reverse isomerization unit, the contacting causing isomerization to produce an isomerate comprising an equilibrium mixture of normal paraffins and isoparaffins. The process include separating the isomerate in the paraffin separation system to produce the isoparaffin-rich stream and the n-paraffin-rich stream, and passing the n-paraffin-rich stream to a steam cracker to produce a cracker effluent comprising olefins.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Vishvedeep Bhat, Vinod Ramaseshan, Omer Refa Koseoglu
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Patent number: 11921476Abstract: Systems and methods to provide low carbon intensity (CI) ethanol through one or more targeted reductions of carbon emissions based upon an analysis of carbon emissions associated with a combination of various options for feedstock procurement, feedstock refining, processing, or transformation, and ethanol distribution pathways to end users. Such options are selected to maintain the total CI (carbon emissions per unit energy) of the ethanol below a pre-selected threshold that defines an upper limit of CI for the ethanol.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LPInventor: David Whikehart
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Patent number: 11912955Abstract: The present disclosure relates to lubricating compositions including effective amounts of molybdenum from an oil-soluble molybdenum compound and a magnesium boost in the detergent system to achieve passing motor friction and valve train wear performance.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Afton Chemical CorporationInventors: Samuel Bruce Field, Kenneth Garelick, Hidetaka Hoshino, Guillaume Carpentier
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Patent number: 11905479Abstract: Fuel oil compositions, and methods for blending such fuel oil compositions, to enhance initial compatibility and longer term stability when such fuel oil compositions are blended to meet IMO 2020 low sulfur fuel oil requirements (ISO 8217). In one or more embodiments, asphaltenic resid base stocks are blended with high aromatic slurry oil to facilitate initial compatibility such that low sulfur cutter stocks, e.g., vacuum gas oil and/or cycle oil, may be further blended therein to cut sulfur content while maintaining longer term stability. These fuel oil compositions are economically advantageous when used as marine low sulfur fuel oils because greater concentrations of high viscosity resids are present in the final blend.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LPInventors: Richard L. Eller, Peg Broughton, V. Elijah Mullins, John R. Weber, Jeffrey A. Sexton
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Patent number: 11905475Abstract: A method of processing a hydrocarbon feed may comprise fractionating the hydrocarbon feed into a light stream, a middle stream and a heavy stream; hydrotreating the heavy stream to form a hydrotreated heavy stream; feeding the light stream to a first Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) reaction zone; feeding the middle stream to a second FCC reaction zone; and feeding the hydrotreated heavy stream to a third Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) reaction zone. The light stream may comprise hydrocarbons boiling at less than 200° C. The middle stream may comprise hydrocarbons boiling at from 200° C. to 370° C. The heavy stream may comprise hydrocarbons boiling at greater than greater than 370° C. Each of the first and second FCC reaction zones may operate under more severe operating conditions than the third FCC reaction zone.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Mansour Ali Al-Herz, Ali Al Jawad, Qi Xu, Aaron Akah, Musaed Salem Al-Ghrami
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Patent number: 11906505Abstract: A method of monitoring renewable carbon in fuel streams in a refinery or blend facility while co-processing a bio-feedstock with a fossil feedstock or blending a renewable product with a fossil product wherein the method provides for quantification of renewable C14 carbon content to adjust the total renewable content to a targeted renewable content in situ while lowering the limit of detection.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.Inventors: Meir R. Hasbani, Michelle K. Young
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Patent number: 11898110Abstract: A method of processing a hydrocarbon feed may comprise fractionating the hydrocarbon feed into a light stream, a middle stream, and a heavy stream; hydrotreating the heavy stream to form a hydrotreated heavy stream; and feeding the light stream, middle stream, and the hydrotreated heavy stream to a single Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) reaction zone, thereby producing a product stream comprising light olefins. The light stream may be exposed to more severe FCC cracking conditions than the middle stream and the middle stream may be exposed to more severe FCC cracking conditions than the hydrotreated heavy stream, within the same FCC reaction zone. The single FCC reaction zone may be operated in a down-flow configuration and under high severity conditions.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Mansour Ali Al-Herz, Ali Al Jawad, Qi Xu, Aaron Akah, Musaed Salem Al-Ghrami
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Patent number: 11899416Abstract: Systems and methods to provide low carbon intensity (CI) hydrogen through one or more targeted reductions of carbon emissions based upon an analysis of carbon emissions associated with a combination of various options for feedstock procurement, feedstock refining, processing, or transformation, and hydrogen distribution pathways to end users. Such options are selected to maintain the total CI (carbon emissions per unit energy) of the hydrogen below a pre-selected threshold that defines an upper limit of CI for the hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LPInventors: David Whikehart, Gregory Herold
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Patent number: 11891572Abstract: A method for producing a pyrolysis oil is described. In said method, a feedstock to be treated is first pyrolyzed in a pyrolysis zone, in which the feedstock is heated to a temperature of 250 degrees Celsius to 700 degrees Celsius; and pyrolyzed solids and pyrolysis vapors are formed. The pyrolysis vapors are then reformed at a temperature of 450 degrees Celsius to 1,200 degrees Celsius in a post-conditioning zone, in which the pyrolysis vapors are brought into contact with a catalyst bed, wherein the pyrolysis oil is formed. In this case, the catalyst comprises a pyrolyzed solid, which can be obtained according to the pyrolysis, described above. Finally the pyrolysis oil is separated from the additional pyrolysis products, which are formed, in a separation unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventors: Andreas Hornung, Andreas Apfelbacher, Miloud Ouadi, Johannes Neumann
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Patent number: 11884620Abstract: The present invention provides for a method to deconstruct a biomass: the method comprising: (a) introducing a solvent comprising a polyamine, or a mixture of polyamines, to a biomass to dissolve at least part of solid biomass in the solvent, wherein the polyamine is a Brønsted or Lewis base, and/or the polyamine is a hydrogen bond donor and/or acceptor; (b) optionally introducing an enzyme and/or a microbe to the solubilized biomass mixture such that the enzyme and/or microbe produces a sugar from the solubilized biomass mixture; (c) optionally separating the sugar from the solubilized biomass mixture; and (d) optionally separating the lignan from the solubilized biomass mixture.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS OF SANDIA, LLCInventors: Ezinne Achinivu, Mood Mohan, Hemant Choudhary, Lalitendu Das, Venkataramana R. Pidatala, Harsha D. Magurudeniya, Kaixuan Huang, John M. Gladden, Blake A. Simmons
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Patent number: 11873451Abstract: Compositions based on effluents and/or products from FCC processing of a high saturate content, low heteroatom content feedstock are provided. By processing a high saturate content, low heteroatom content feed under various types of FCC conditions, a variety of compositions with unexpected compositional features and/or unexpected properties can be formed. The unexpected compositional features and/or unexpected properties can correspond to features and/or properties associated with one or more of the total effluent, a naphtha boiling range portion of effluent, a distillate or light cycle oil boiling range portion of the effluent, and/or a bottoms portion of the effluent.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: Cody M. Diaz, Xinrui Yu, Timothy J. Anderson, Sheryl B. Rubin-Pitel, Matthew H. Lindner
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Patent number: 11866663Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a method of processing a hydrocarbon feed includes fractionating the hydrocarbon feed into a light stream and a heavy stream, hydrotreating the heavy stream to form a hydrotreated heavy stream, combining the light stream and the hydrotreated heavy stream to form a upgraded feed stream, and feeding the upgraded feed stream to a single Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) reaction zone, thereby producing a product stream comprising light olefins. The light stream may comprise hydrocarbons boiling at less than 540° C. and the heavy stream may comprise hydrocarbons boiling at greater than 540° C. The FCC reaction zone may be operated in a down-flow configuration and the FCC may be operated under high severity conditions.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2023Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Mansour Ali Al-Herz, Ali Al Jawad, Qi Xu, Aaron Akah, Musaed Salem Al-Ghrami
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Patent number: 11866653Abstract: A process for upgrading crude oil may include combining crude oil and feed water in a supercritical water unit to produce a first upgraded output, separating the first upgraded output in a first gas-water-oil separator to produce a first gas effluent, a first water effluent, and a first oil effluent, separating the first water effluent in a first water treatment unit to produce a rejected water stream and a recycle water stream, combining the first oil effluent and the rejected water stream in a nearcritical water unit to produce a second upgraded output, and recycling at least a portion of the recycle water stream for introduction into the supercritical water unit. A system for upgrading crude oil may include a supercritical water unit, a first gas-water-oil separator disposed downstream of the supercritical water unit, a first water treatment unit disposed downstream of the first gas-water-oil separator, and a nearcritical water unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Ki-Hyouk Choi, Faisal Mohammed Almulla, Seung-Hak Choi
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Patent number: 11866651Abstract: A process for converting crude oil may comprise contacting a crude oil with one or more hydroprocessing catalysts to produce a hydroprocessed effluent and contacting the hydroprocessed effluent with a fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) catalyst composition in an FCC system to produce cracked effluent comprising at least olefins. The crude oil may have an API gravity from 30 to 35. The FCC system may operate at a temperature of greater than or equal to 580° C., a weight ratio of the FCC catalyst composition to the crude oil of from 2:1 to 10:1, and a residence time of from 0.1 seconds to 60 seconds. The FCC catalyst composition may comprise ultrastable Y-type zeolite (USY zeolite) impregnated with lanthanum; ZSM-5 zeolite impregnated with phosphorous; an alumina binder; colloidal silica; and a matrix material comprising Kaolin clay.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Mansour Ali Al Herz, Aaron Akah, Qi Xu, Lianhui Ding, Bander A. Al Ghamdi
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Patent number: 11866670Abstract: Systems and methods associated with biomass decomposition are generally described. Certain embodiments are related to adjusting a flow rate of a fluid comprising oxygen into a reactor in which biomass is decomposed. The adjustment may be made, at least in part, based upon a measurement of a characteristic of the reactor and/or a characteristic of the biomass. Certain embodiments are related to cooling at least partially decomposed biomass. The biomass may be cooled by flowing a gas over an outlet conduit in which the biomass is cooled, and then directing the gas to a reactor after it has flowed over the outlet conduit. Certain embodiments are related to systems comprising a reactor and an outlet conduit configured such that greater than or equal to 75% of its axially projected cross-sectional area is occupied by a conveyor.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Kevin S. Kung, Alexander H. Slocum, Santosh Janardhan Shanbhogue, Ahmed Fouad Ghoniem, Robert James Stoner