Patents by Inventor Theodor R. Wilks

Theodor R. Wilks 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).

  • Methods and systems for co-producing a low-methanol content acetone
    Patent number: 8697917
    Abstract: Methods and systems for producing low methanol concentration acetone are provided. The method can include oxidizing and cleaving cumene to produce a crude acetone product. The crude acetone product can be neutralized in a neutralization unit to produce a neutralized crude acetone product. The neutralized crude acetone product can be fractionated in an acetone fractionation column to produce an acetone product and an acetone bottoms product. Methanol can be removed from the acetone bottoms product to produce a methanol-depleted product. The methanol-depleted product can be introduced to the neutralization unit, a dephenolation unit, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC
    Inventors: Theodor R. Wilks, Manish Bhargava, Eric Wing-Tak Wong