Patents by Inventor Gregory K. Lilik
Gregory K. Lilik 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).
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Patent number: 11485922Abstract: Kerosene boiling range or jet fuel boiling range compositions are provided that are formed from crude oils with unexpected combinations of high naphthenes to aromatics weight and/or volume ratio and a low sulfur content. The resulting kerosene boiling range fractions can have an unexpected combination of a high naphthenes to aromatics weight ratio, a low but substantial aromatics content, and a low sulfur content. Such fractions can potentially be used as fuel after a reduced or minimized amount of additional refinery processing. By reducing, minimizing, or avoiding the amount of refinery processing needed to meet fuel and/or fuel blending product specifications, the fractions derived from the high naphthenes to aromatics ratio and low sulfur crudes can provide fuels and/or fuel blending products having a reduced or minimized carbon intensity.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: Daniel E. Kadlecek, Randolph J. Smiley, Gregory K. Lilik, Mike T. Noorman, Shifang Luo, Ian J. Laurenzi, Poturovic Jasmina
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Patent number: 11390820Abstract: Naphtha boiling range compositions are provided that are formed from crude oils with unexpected combinations of high naphthenes to aromatics weight and/or volume ratio and a low sulfur content. The resulting naphtha boiling range fractions can have a high naphthenes to aromatics weight ratio, a low but substantial content of aromatics, and a low sulfur content. In some aspects, the fractions can be used as fuels and/or fuel blending products after fractionation with minimal further refinery processing. In other aspects, the amount of additional refinery processing, such as hydrotreatment, catalytic reforming and/or isomerization, can be reduced or minimized. By reducing, minimizing, or avoiding the amount of hydroprocessing needed to meet fuel and/or fuel blending product specifications, the fractions derived from the high naphthenes to aromatics ratio and low sulfur crudes can provide fuels and/or fuel blending products having a reduced or minimized carbon intensity.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering CompanyInventors: Matthew H. Lindner, Scott K. Berkhous, Mike T. Noorman, Gregory K. Lilik, Shifang Luo, Ian J. Laurenzi, Jasmina Poturovic
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Publication number: 20210363448Abstract: Kerosene boiling range or jet fuel boiling range compositions are provided that are formed from crude oils with unexpected combinations of high naphthenes to aromatics weight and/or volume ratio and a low sulfur content. The resulting kerosene boiling range fractions can have an unexpected combination of a high naphthenes to aromatics weight ratio, a low but substantial aromatics content, and a low sulfur content. Such fractions can potentially be used as fuel after a reduced or minimized amount of additional refinery processing. By reducing, minimizing, or avoiding the amount of refinery processing needed to meet fuel and/or fuel blending product specifications, the fractions derived from the high naphthenes to aromatics ratio and low sulfur crudes can provide fuels and/or fuel blending products having a reduced or minimized carbon intensity.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Daniel E. Kadlecek, Randolph J. Smiley, Gregory K. Lilik, Mike T. Noorman, Shifang Luo, Ian J. Laurenzi, Poturovic Jasmina
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Publication number: 20210363450Abstract: Naphtha boiling range compositions are provided that are formed from crude oils with unexpected combinations of high naphthenes to aromatics weight and/or volume ratio and a low sulfur content. The resulting naphtha boiling range fractions can have a high naphthenes to aromatics weight ratio, a low but substantial content of aromatics, and a low sulfur content. In some aspects, the fractions can be used as fuels and/or fuel blending products after fractionation with minimal further refinery processing. In other aspects, the amount of additional refinery processing, such as hydrotreatment, catalytic reforming and/or isomerization, can be reduced or minimized. By reducing, minimizing, or avoiding the amount of hydroprocessing needed to meet fuel and/or fuel blending product specifications, the fractions derived from the high naphthenes to aromatics ratio and low sulfur crudes can provide fuels and/or fuel blending products having a reduced or minimized carbon intensity.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Matthew H. Lindner, Scott K. Berkhous, Mike T. Noorman, Gregory K. Lilik, Shifang Luo, Ian J. Laurenzi, Jasmina Poturovic
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Patent number: 10431022Abstract: A system for providing fuel type recommendations includes a mobile polling device communicatively coupled to one or more computing devices installed on-board of a vehicle for receiving vehicle's operational data from the on-board computing devices. The system further includes a cloud-based computing environment including a memory configured to store one or more processes and a processor adapted to execute the one or more processes using the cloud-based computing environment. The processor, when executing the one or more processes, is operable to receive vehicle's operational data from the mobile polling device. The processor is further operable to analyze the received vehicle's operational data to identify recommended fuel type and to provide one or more fuel type recommendations indicative of the recommended fuel type.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2017Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: Leonard R. Koenig, Paul J. Berlowitz, Gregory K. Lilik
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Patent number: 10365239Abstract: A system for in-situ identification of a working fluid disposed in at least one piece of equipment, the system including: a working fluid reservoir that contains the working fluid; an in-situ sensor disposed in the working fluid reservoir such that it detects properties of the working fluid or computes properties from the generated spectra of the working fluid; a transmitter that transmits the detected spectra of the working fluid and equipment identification information; and a cloud computing system that receives the detected spectra and the equipment identification information transmitted from the transmitter, wherein the cloud computing system compares the spectra and equipment identification information against a reference database to determine whether or not the spectra of the working fluid substantially matches the stored reference spectra associated with the expected or specified fluid for the equipment.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: Gregory K. Lilik, Spencer T. Stober, Alan M. Schilowitz, Michael L. Blumenfeld, Gary James Johnston, Samuel C. Bainbridge, Erik Herz
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Publication number: 20180025278Abstract: A system for providing fuel location recommendations can include a vehicle data receiver configured to receive vehicle data from a vehicle computer, navigational system, and/or a vehicle operator, a fuel characteristic module configured to receive fuel properties of one or more fuel batches from a fuel property database, and a recommendation module configured to determine one or more recommended locations for refueling the vehicle based on received vehicle data from the vehicle data receiver and received fuel properties from the fuel property database.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2017Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: Gregory K. Lilik, Mike T. Noorman, Leonard R. Koenig
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Publication number: 20170287237Abstract: A system for providing fuel type recommendations includes a mobile polling device communicatively coupled to one or more computing devices installed on-board of a vehicle for receiving vehicle's operational data from the on-board computing devices. The system further includes a cloud-based computing environment including a memory configured to store one or more processes and a processor adapted to execute the one or more processes using the cloud-based computing environment. The processor, when executing the one or more processes, is operable to receive vehicle's operational data from the mobile polling device. The processor is further operable to analyze the received vehicle's operational data to identify recommended fuel type and to provide one or more fuel type recommendations indicative of the recommended fuel type.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Leonard R. Koenig, Paul J. Berlowitz, Gregory K. Lilik
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Publication number: 20170234819Abstract: A system for in-situ identification of a working fluid disposed in at least one piece of equipment, the system including: a working fluid reservoir that contains the working fluid; an in-situ sensor disposed in the working fluid reservoir such that it detects properties of the working fluid or computes properties from the generated spectra of the working fluid; a transmitter that transmits the detected spectra of the working fluid and equipment identification information; and a cloud computing system that receives the detected spectra and the equipment identification information transmitted from the transmitter, wherein the cloud computing system compares the spectra and equipment identification information against a reference database to determine whether or not the spectra of the working fluid substantially matches the stored reference spectra associated with the expected or specified fluid for the equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2017Publication date: August 17, 2017Inventors: Gregory K. Lilik, Spencer T. Stober, Alan M. Schilowitz, Michael L. Blumenfeld, Gary James Johnston, Samuel C. Bainbridge, Erik Herz