Patents by Inventor Shinichiro Yanagawa

Shinichiro Yanagawa 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: 10851313
    Abstract: A method of producing a lower olefin and BTX from stock oils selected from at least two kinds of oils is provided. The method includes a first catalytic cracking step of bringing one stock oil A into contact with a catalytic cracking catalyst; a second catalytic cracking step of bringing one stock oil B, having an aromatic component content smaller than that of the stock oil A, into contact with the catalytic cracking catalyst; and a separation and collection step of collecting the lower olefins and BTX from a product generated in the first and second catalytic cracking steps. A contact time A during which the stock oil A is in contact with the catalytic cracking catalyst in the first catalytic cracking step is longer than a contact time B during which the stock oil B is in contact with the catalytic cracking catalyst in the second catalytic cracking step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignees: ENEOS CORPORATION, CHIYODA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryoji Ida, Yasuyuki Iwasa, Masahide Kobayashi, Yukihiro Yoshiwara, Shinichiro Yanagawa, Yasuhiro Watanabe, Takashi Aozasa, Shinji Hyodo
  • Publication number: 20190316048
    Abstract: A method of producing a lower olefin and BTX from stock oils selected from at least two kinds of oils is provided. The method includes a first catalytic cracking step of bringing one stock oil A into contact with a catalytic cracking catalyst; a second catalytic cracking step of bringing one stock oil B, having an aromatic component content smaller than that of the stock oil A, into contact with the catalytic cracking catalyst; and a separation and collection step of collecting the lower olefins and BTX from a product generated in the first and second catalytic cracking steps. A contact time A during which the stock oil A is in contact with the catalytic cracking catalyst in the first catalytic cracking step is longer than a contact time B during which the stock oil B is in contact with the catalytic cracking catalyst in the second catalytic cracking step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Ryoji IDA, Yasuyuki IWASA, Masahide KOBAYASHI, Yukihiro YOSHIWARA, Shinichiro YANAGAWA, Yasuhiro WATANABE, Takashi AOZASA, Shinji HYODO
  • Patent number: 10173203
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing an aluminosilicate catalyst. The method includes a first phosphorus treatment step of treating a crystalline aluminosilicate with a first phosphorus compound, a mixing and firing step of mixing the phosphorus-treated crystalline aluminosilicate obtained in the first phosphorus treatment step with a binder and then performing firing to form an aluminosilicate mixture, and a second phosphorus treatment step of treating the aluminosilicate mixture with a second phosphorus compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Iwasa, Masahide Kobayashi, Shinichiro Yanagawa
  • Patent number: 10137441
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing an aluminosilicate catalyst. The method includes a first phosphorus treatment step of treating a crystalline aluminosilicate with a first phosphorus compound, a mixing and firing step of mixing the phosphorus-treated crystalline aluminosilicate obtained in the first phosphorus treatment step with a binder and then performing firing to form an aluminosilicate mixture, and a second phosphorus treatment step of treating the aluminosilicate mixture with a second phosphorus compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Iwasa, Masahide Kobayashi, Shinichiro Yanagawa
  • Patent number: 10087376
    Abstract: A catalyst is provided for production of monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons having a carbon number of 6 to 8 from feedstock in which a 10 vol % distillation temperature is 140° C. or higher and a 90 vol % distillation temperature is 380° C. or lower. The catalyst contains crystalline aluminosilicate including large-pore zeolite having a 12-membered ring structure, and intermediate-pore zeolite having a 10-membered ring structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Yanagawa, Masahide Kobayashi, Kazuaki Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 9862897
    Abstract: The method for producing a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon includes a cracking and reforming reaction step in which a catalyst for producing a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon containing crystalline aluminosilicate which has been subjected to a heat treatment in an atmosphere containing water vapor in advance is loaded into a fixed-bed reactor, and a feedstock oil having a 10 volume % distillate temperature of 140° C. or higher and a 90 volume % distillate temperature of 390° C. or lower is brought into contact with the catalyst to cause a reaction, so as to obtain a product containing a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon having 6 to 8 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Iwasa, Shinichiro Yanagawa, Masahide Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9862654
    Abstract: A method for producing xylene from feedstock oil includes a cracking/reforming reaction step of bringing the feedstock oil into contact with a catalyst to produce monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; a separation/recovery step of separating and recovering, from a product obtained by the cracking/reforming reaction step, a fraction A containing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons having a 10 vol % distillation temperature of 75° C. or higher and a 90 vol % distillation temperature of 140° C. or lower, a xylene fraction containing xylene, and a fraction B containing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons having a 10 vol % distillation temperature of 145° C. or higher and a 90 vol % distillation temperature of 215° C. or lower; and a xylene conversion step of bringing a mixed fraction obtained by mixing the fractions A and B with each other into contact with a catalyst containing a solid acid to convert the mixed fraction into xylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignees: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation, CHIYODA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Yanagawa, Yuichiro Fujiyama, Yasuyuki Iwasa, Ryoji Ida, Susumu Yasui, Yoshishige Sugi, Atsushi Fukui, Akira Utatsu
  • Patent number: 9845433
    Abstract: A method for producing an olefin and a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon of the present invention includes a dicyclopentadiene removal treatment step of removing dicyclopentadienes having a dicyclopentadiene skeleton from a feedstock oil which is a thermally-cracked heavy oil obtained from an apparatus for producing ethylene and which has a 90 volume % distillate temperature, as a distillation characteristic, of 390° C. or lower; and a cracking and reforming reaction step of obtaining a product containing an olefin and a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon by bringing the feedstock oil having a content of dicyclopentadienes adjusted to 10% by weight or less by treating a part or all of the feedstock oil through the dicyclopentadiene removal step into contact with a catalyst and reacting the feedstock oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Yanagawa, Masahide Kobayashi, Yukihiro Yoshiwara, Ryoji Ida
  • Patent number: 9828309
    Abstract: Method for producing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons includes a cracking and reforming reaction step of obtaining products containing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons having 6 to 8 carbon atoms and a heavy fraction having 9 or more carbon atoms by bringing the feedstock oil into contact with a catalyst for producing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons containing crystalline aluminosilicate to cause a reaction, a catalyst separation step of separating and removing the catalyst for producing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons together with tricyclic aromatic hydrocarbons contained in the products from a mixture of the products and a small amount of the catalyst for producing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons carried by the products, both of which are derived in the cracking and reforming reaction step, and a purification and recovery step of purifying and recovering the monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons having 6 to 8 carbon atoms which are separated from the products formed in the cracking and reforming reaction step
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignees: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation, CHIYODA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Yanagawa, Yuichiro Fujiyama, Yasuyuki Iwasa, Ryoji Ida, Masahide Kobayashi, Susumu Yasui, Yoshishige Sugi, Atsushi Fukui, Atsuro Nagumo
  • Patent number: 9827558
    Abstract: A catalyst is provided for production of hydrocarbons including monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons having a carbon number of 6 to 8 and aliphatic hydrocarbons having a carbon number of 3 to 4 from feedstock in which a 10 vol % distillation temperature is 140° C. or higher and a 90 vol % distillation temperature is 380° C. or lower. The catalyst includes crystalline aluminosilicate including large-pore zeolite having a 12-membered ring structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Yanagawa, Masahide Kobayashi, Kazuaki Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 9815750
    Abstract: A catalyst for producing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, used for producing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons of 6 to 8 carbon number from a feedstock oil having a 10 volume % distillation temperature of at least 140° C. and an end point temperature of not more than 400° C., wherein the catalyst contains a crystalline aluminosilicate, gallium and/or zinc, and phosphorus, the molar ratio between silicon and aluminum (Si/Al ratio) in the crystalline aluminosilicate is not more than 100, the molar ratio between the phosphorus supported on the crystalline aluminosilicate and the aluminum of the crystalline aluminosilicate (P/Al ratio) is not less than 0.01 and not more than 1.0, and the amount of gallium and/or zinc is not more than 1.2% by mass based on the mass of the crystalline aluminosilicate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Yanagawa, Masahide Kobayashi, Yuko Aoki, Kazuaki Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 9815047
    Abstract: The catalyst for producing aromatic hydrocarbon is for producing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon having 6 to 8 carbon number from oil feedstock having a 10 volume % distillation temperature of 140° C. or higher and a 90 volume % distillation temperature of 380° C. or lower and contains crystalline aluminosilicate and phosphorus. A molar ratio (P/Al ratio) between phosphorus contained in the crystalline aluminosilicate and aluminum of the crystalline aluminosilicate is from 0.1 to 1.0. The production method of monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon is a method of bringing oil feedstock having a 10 volume % distillation temperature of 140° C. or higher and a 90 volume % distillation temperature of 380° C. or lower into contact with the catalyst for producing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Yanagawa, Masahide Kobayashi, Yasuyuki Iwasa, Ryoji Ida
  • Patent number: 9809507
    Abstract: A catalyst for producing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons of 6 to 8 carbon number from a feedstock oil having a 10 volume % distillation temperature of at least 140° C. and an end point temperature of not more than 400° C., or a feedstock oil having a 10 volume % distillation temperature of at least 140° C. and a 90 volume % distillation temperature of not more than 360° C., wherein the catalyst contains a crystalline aluminosilicate, gallium and/or zinc, and phosphorus, and the amount of phosphorus supported on the crystalline aluminosilicate is within a range from 0.1 to 1.9% by mass based on the mass of the crystalline aluminosilicate; and a method for producing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, the method involving bringing a feedstock oil having a 10 volume % distillation temperature of at least 140° C. and an end point temperature of not more than 400° C., or a feedstock oil having a 10 volume % distillation temperature of at least 140° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Yanagawa, Masahide Kobayashi, Yuko Aoki, Kazuaki Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 9776934
    Abstract: A method of producing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons includes bringing a light feedstock oil having a 10 vol % distillation temperature of 140° C. to 205° C. and a 90 vol % distillation temperature of 300° C. or lower, which has been prepared from a feedstock oil having a 10 vol % distillation temperature of 140° C. or higher and a 90 vol % distillation temperature of 380° C. or lower, into contact with a catalyst for monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon production containing a crystalline aluminosilicate, in which a content ratio of monocyclic naphthenobenzenes in the light feedstock oil is adjusted by distillation of the feedstock oil such that the content ratio of monocyclic naphthenobenzenes in the light feedstock oil is higher than a content ratio of monocyclic naphthenobenzenes in the feedstock oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: JX Nippon Oil Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Yanagawa, Masahide Kobayashi, Ryoji Ida, Yasuyuki Iwasa
  • Publication number: 20170189894
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing an aluminosilicate catalyst. The method includes a first phosphorus treatment step of treating a crystalline aluminosilicate with a first phosphorus compound, a mixing and firing step of mixing the phosphorus-treated crystalline aluminosilicate obtained in the first phosphorus treatment step with a binder and then performing firing to form an aluminosilicate mixture, and a second phosphorus treatment step of treating the aluminosilicate mixture with a second phosphorus compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Yasuyuki IWASA, Masahide KOBAYASHI, Shinichiro YANAGAWA
  • Patent number: 9670420
    Abstract: A method for producing a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon of the present invention includes a cracking and reforming reaction step of obtaining a product containing a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon having 6 to 8 carbon atoms by bringing a feedstock oil having a 10 volume % distillate temperature of 140° C. or higher and a 90 volume % distillate temperature of 390° C. or lower and a saturated hydrocarbon having 1 to 3 carbon atoms into contact with a catalyst for producing a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon containing crystalline aluminosilicate, which is loaded into a fixed-bed reactor, and reacting the feedstock oil and the saturated hydrocarbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Yanagawa, Masahide Kobayashi, Yukihiro Yoshiwara
  • Patent number: 9656232
    Abstract: A method for producing aromatic hydrocarbons, the method including: (a) bringing a feedstock oil such as an LCO into contact with an aromatic production catalyst to obtain a reaction product containing aromatic hydrocarbons, (b) separating the reaction product into a tower top fraction and a tower bottom fraction using a distillation tower, (c) separating the tower top fraction into a crude aromatic fraction containing an LPG fraction, and an off-gas containing hydrogen, (d) separating the crude aromatic fraction containing an LPG fraction into an LPG fraction and a crude aromatic fraction, (e) separating the off-gas containing hydrogen into hydrogen and an off-gas, and (f) using the hydrogen obtained in step (e) to hydrotreat the crude aromatic fraction, thereby obtaining an aromatic fraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignees: CHIYODA CORPORATION, JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Minami, Yoshishige Sugi, Atsushi Fukui, Atsuro Nagumo, Susumu Yasui, Shinichiro Yanagawa
  • Patent number: 9573864
    Abstract: A method of producing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons includes bringing a feedstock oil having a 10 vol % distillation temperature of 140° C. or higher and a 90 vol % distillation temperature of 380° C. or lower, into contact with a catalyst for monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon production containing a crystalline aluminosilicate, in which a content ratio of monocyclic naphthenobenzenes in the feedstock oil is adjusted to 10 mass % to 90 mass %, by mixing a hydrocarbon oil A having a 10 vol % distillation temperature of 140° C. or higher and a 90 vol % distillation temperature of 380° C. or lower with a hydrocarbon oil B containing more monocyclic naphthenobenzenes than the hydrocarbon oil A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Yanagawa, Masahide Kobayashi, Yasuyuki Iwasa, Ryoji Ida
  • Patent number: 9487457
    Abstract: The present method for producing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons is a method for producing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons having 6 to 8 carbon atoms. This method includes a cracking and reforming reaction step of bringing oil feedstock into contact with a catalyst to cause a reaction and obtain a product containing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons having 6 to 8 carbon atoms and a heavy fraction having 9 or more carbon atoms, a purification and recovery step of purifying and recovering the monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons having 6 to 8 carbon atoms separated from the product formed by the cracking and reforming reaction step, and a first returning step of returning at least a portion of toluene obtained by the purification and recovery step to the cracking and reforming reaction step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignees: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation, CHIYODA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Yanagawa, Yasuyuki Iwasa, Ryoji Ida, Masahide Kobayashi, Susumu Yasui, Yoshishige Sugi, Atsushi Fukui, Akira Utatsu
  • Patent number: 9446997
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing aromatic hydrocarbons, by which a feedstock containing a hydrogenation-treated oil of a thermally cracked heavy oil obtainable from an ethylene production apparatus is brought into contact with a catalyst for monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon production containing a crystalline aluminosilicate, and thereby aromatic hydrocarbons are produced. A raw material having an end point of the distillation characteristics of 400° C. or lower is used as the feedstock. The contact between the feedstock and the catalyst for monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon production is carried out at a pressure of 0.1 MPaG to 1.5 MPaG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Yanagawa, Ryoji Ida, Masahide Kobayashi