Patents by Inventor David N. Zinkie

David N. Zinkie has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6579444
    Abstract: A process for removing sulfur compounds from hydrocarbon feedstreams, particularly those boiling in the naphtha range, by contacting the feedstream with an adsorbent comprised of cobalt and one or more Group VI metals selected from molybdenum and tungsten on a refractory support. This invention also relates to a process wherein a naphtha feedstream is first subjected to selective hydrodesulfurization to remove sulfur but not appreciably saturate olefins. A product stream is produced containing mercaptans that are removed by use of the cobalt-containing adsorbents of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Joseph L. Feimer, David N. Zinkie, Myles W. Baker, Bal K. Kaul, Gordon F. Stuntz, Joseph T. O'Bara
  • Publication number: 20020157990
    Abstract: A process for removing sulfur compounds from hydrocarbon feedstreams, particularly those boiling in the naphtha range, by contacting the feedstream with an adsorbent comprised of cobalt and one or more Group VI metals selected from molybdenum and tungsten on a refractory support. This invention also relates to a process wherein a naphtha feedstream is first subjected to selective hydrodesulfurization to remove sulfur but not appreciably saturate olefins. A product stream is produced containing mercaptans that are removed by use of the cobalt-containing adsorbents of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Inventors: Joseph L. Feimer, David N. Zinkie, Myles W. Baker, Bal K. Kaul, Gordon F. Stuntz, Joseph T. O'Bara
  • Publication number: 20020084223
    Abstract: A method of removing low boiling sulfur compounds from naphtha boiling range streams. The naphtha boiling range stream is contacted with a high silica zeolite at effective conditions to convert lower boiling sulfur compounds to higher boiling sulfur compounds. The naphtha stream is then fractionated into a lower boiling stream having substantially reduced levels of sulfur compounds and a higher boiling range fraction containing the higher boiling sulfur compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Inventors: Joseph L. Feimer, David N. Zinkie
  • Patent number: 5977425
    Abstract: It has been discovered that waxy feeds can be upgraded using a catalyst made by combining powdered dewaxing catalyst with powdered isomerization catalyst said mixture of powdered catalysts being formed into a discrete particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Co
    Inventors: Dee A. Brandes, David N. Zinkie, Sandra Jane Alward, William J. Murphy, Ian A. Cody, Thomas J. Ford
  • Patent number: 5770542
    Abstract: It has been discovered that waxy feeds can be upgraded using a catalyst made by combining powdered dewaxing catalyst with powdered isomerization catalyst said mixture of powdered catalysts being formed into a discrete particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: Exxon Research & Engineering Company
    Inventors: Dee Anne Brandes, David N. Zinkie, Sandra J. Alward
  • Patent number: 5723716
    Abstract: It has been discovered that waxy feeds can be upgraded using a catalyst made by combining powdered dewaxing catalyst with powdered isomerization catalyst said mixture of powdered catalysts being formed into a discrete particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Dee Anne Brandes, David N. Zinkie, Sandra J. Alward
  • Patent number: 5516740
    Abstract: A catalyst is disclosed comprising a thin outer shell of catalytic material bonded to an inner core of catalytically inert material. The catalyst is made by coating a catalytically inert core such as alpha alumina, with a thin layer of finely divided catalytically active material in a slurry of colloidal boehmite/pseudo boehmite then calcining to convert the boehmite/pseudo boehmite into .gamma. alumina thereby bonding it to the inert core. Catalysts made by this technique containing an outer shell of platinum on fluorided alumina in an inert core of alpha alumina .gamma. are attractive isomerization catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1996
    Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Ian A. Cody, Mahmoud M. Hafez, David N. Zinkie
  • Patent number: 5200382
    Abstract: A catalyst is disclosed comprising a thin outer shell of catalytic material bonded to an inner core of catalytically inert material. The catalyst is made by coating a catalytically inert core such as alpha alumina, with a thin layer of finely divided catalytically active material in a slurry of colloidal boehmite/pseudo boehmite then calcining to convert the boehmite/pseudo boehmite into .gamma. alumina thereby bonding it to the inert core. Catalysts made by this technique containing an outer shell of platinum on fluorided alumina in an inert core of alpha alumina .gamma. are attractive isomerization catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Ian A. Cody, Mahmoud M. Hafez, David N. Zinkie