Patents by Inventor Opinder Bhan

Opinder Bhan 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).

  • Publication number: 20050167328
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that include a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. Contacting conditions are controlled such that one or more hydrogen uptake conditions are different. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050167332
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with two or more catalysts produces a total product that include a crude product. The crude feed has a total acid number of at least 0.1. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25 ° C. and 0.101 MPa. The crude product has a total acid number of at most 90% of the total acid number of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050167325
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C and 0.101 MPa. The one or more catalyst may include an uncalcined catalyst. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050167327
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. Contacting conditions are controlled such that a liquid space velocity of a contacting zone is at least 10 h?1. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050167331
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25 ° C and 0.101 MPa. The one or more catalysts may include a catalyst having a median pore diameter in a range from about 90 ? to about 180 ?. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050167326
    Abstract: Systems and method for contacting a crude feed that has a total acid number of at least 0.1 with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product are described. At least one of the catalysts includes vanadium. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa, and the crude product has a TAN of at most 90% of the TAN of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050167324
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. Contacting conditions are controlled such that the crude feed, during contact, uptakes hydrogen at a selected rate to inhibit phase separation of the crude feed during contact. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050167329
    Abstract: Methods and systems for contacting a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that include a crude product are described. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. The produced crude product may include sulfur, residue, Micro-Carbon Residue, C5 asphaltenes, or mixtures thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050167330
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a total content of alkali metal, and alkaline-earth metal in metal salts of organic acids of at lest 0.00001 grams per gram of crude feed. At least one of the catalysts has a pore size distribution of at least 230 ?. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The crude product has a total content of alkali metal, and alkaline-earth metal in metal salts of organic acids of at most 90% of the total content of alkali metal, and alkaline-earth metal in metal salts of organic acids of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050167320
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. The one or more catalysts may include at least one catalyst having a median pore diameter of at least 230 ?. Methods for producing the catalyst having the median pore size diameter are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050155908
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that include a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: July 21, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050150818
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed may include at least 0.0001 grams of sulfur per gram of crude feed. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The crude product may have a sulfur content of about 30% to about 70% of the sulfur content of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050145543
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The one or more catalysts may include a catalyst having a median pore diameter of at least 180 ?. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050139520
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a total Ni/V/Fe content of at least 0.00002 grams per gram of crude feed. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. At least one of the catalysts has a pore size distribution with a median pore diameter of at least 230 ?. The crude product has a total Ni/V/Fe of at most 90% of the total Ni/V/Fe content of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050139519
    Abstract: Methods and systems for contacting of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product are described. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. The produced crude product may include oxygen, sulfur, residue, or mixtures thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050139518
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed may include at least 0.1 grams of vacuum gas oil per gram of crude feed. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The crude product may have a vacuum gas oil content of about 30% to about 70% of the vacuum gas oil content of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050139521
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a total content of alkali metal, and alkaline-earth metal, in metal salts of organic acids of at least 0.00001 grams per gram of crude feed. The one or more catalysts may include a first and a second catalyst. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa and has a total content of alkali metal, and alkaline-earth metal, in metal salts of organic acids of at most 90% of the total content of alkali metal, and alkaline-earth metal, in metal salts of organic acids of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050139522
    Abstract: Systems and methods for contacting a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that include a crude product are described. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The one or more catalysts may include one or more vanadium catalysts. Methods and compositions of the one or more vanadium catalysts are described. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. In some embodiments, hydrogen is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050133415
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The one or more catalysts may include a catalyst that has a median pore diameter of at least 90 ?. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050133416
    Abstract: Methods and systems for contacting of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product are described. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. The produced crude product may include at least one of the catalysts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington