Patents by Inventor William H. Manogue
William H. Manogue 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: 6746658Abstract: This invention provides a catalyst and a process for the catalytic partial oxidation of a hydrocarbon feedstock by contacting a feed stream including a hydrocarbon feedstock and an oxygen-containing gas with a catalyst in a reaction zone maintained at conversion-promoting conditions effective to produce an effluent stream including carbon monoxide and hydrogen. The process of this invention is characterized by using a porous catalyst containing rhodium, such as rhodium gauze or rhodium felt.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2001Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: ConocoPhillips CompanyInventors: Hasan Dindi, William H. Manogue, John J. Barnes
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Patent number: 6733692Abstract: This invention provides a process for the catalytic partial oxidation of a hydrocarbon feedstock by contacting a feed stream including a hydrocarbon feedstock and an oxygen-containing gas with a catalyst in a reaction zone maintained at conversion-promoting conditions effective to produce an effluent stream including carbon monoxide and hydrogen. The process of this invention is characterized by using an unsupported porous catalyst containing rhodium, such as rhodium foam.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2001Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Assignee: ConocoPhillips CompanyInventors: Hasan Dindi, William H. Manogue, Theodore A. Koch, Sourav Kumar Sengupta
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Patent number: 6548720Abstract: A process is disclosed for producing the pentfluropropenes of the formula CF3CX═CF2, where X is H or Cl. The process involves hydrodehalogenating CF3CCl2CF3 with hydrogen at an elevated temperature in the vapor phase over a catalyst comprising an elemental metal, metal oxide, metal halide and/or metal oxyhalide (the metal being copper, nickel, chromium and the halogen of said halides and said oxyhalides being fluorine and/or chlorine. Processes for producing the hydrofluorocarbons CF3CH2CHF2, CF3CHFCF3 and CF3CH2CF3 are also disclosed which involve (a) hydrodehalogenating CF3CCl2CF3 with the hydrogen as indicated above to produce a product comprising CF3CCl═CF2, CF3CH═CF2, HCl and HF; and (b) either reacting the CF3CCl═CF2 and/or CF3CH═CF2 produced in (a) in the vapor phase with hydrogen to produce CF3CH2CHF2, reacting CF3CCl═CF2 produced in (a) with HF to produce CF3CHFCF3, or reacting the CF3CH═CF2produced in (a) with HF to produce CF3CH2CF3.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2002Date of Patent: April 15, 2003Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: William H. Manogue, V. N. Mallikarjuna Rao, Allen Capron Sievert, Steven H. Swearingen
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Publication number: 20030045423Abstract: A family of supported hexagonal phase mixed metal oxide catalysts are disclosed that have the general formula M2.5LnRh6O13 (expressed as atomic ratios), wherein M refers to Group II elements such as Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr and Be or a Group VIII transition metal that can exist in a +2 oxidation state, such as Ti, V, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Nb, Pd, Cd and Ta. Ln refers to the rare earth lanthanide group of elements, such as La, Yb, Sm and Ce. This family of catalysts demonstrate unexpected activity for efficiently catalyzing the net partial oxidation of methane in a short contact time reactor, with high selectivities for H2 product.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2002Publication date: March 6, 2003Applicant: Conoco Inc.Inventors: Hasan Dindi, William H. Manogue, Norman Herron, Tianyan Niu, Daxiang Wang, David M. Minahan
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Publication number: 20020176817Abstract: This invention provides a catalyst and a process for the catalytic partial oxidation of a hydrocarbon feedstock by contacting a feed stream including a hydrocarbon feedstock and an oxygen-containing gas with a catalyst in a reaction zone maintained at conversion-promoting conditions effective to produce an effluent stream including carbon monoxide and hydrogen. The process of this invention is characterized by using a porous catalyst containing rhodium, such as rhodium gauze or rhodium felt.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2001Publication date: November 28, 2002Inventors: Hasan Dindi, William H. Manogue, John J. Barnes
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Publication number: 20020115895Abstract: A process is disclosed for producing the pentfluropropenes of the formula CF3CX=CF2, where X is H or Cl. The process involves hydrodehalogenating CF3CCl2CF3 with hydrogen at an elevated temperature in the vapor phase over a catalyst comprising an elemental metal, metal oxide, metal halide and/or metal oxyhalide (the metal being copper, nickel, chromium and the halogen of said halides and said oxyhalides being fluorine and/or chlorine. Processes for producing the hydrofluorocarbons CF3CH2CHF2, CF3CHFCF3 and CF3CH2CF3 are also disclosed which involve (a) hydrodehalogenating CF3CCl2CF3 with the hydrogen as indicated above to produce a product comprising CF3CCl=CF2, CF3CH=CF2, HCl and HF; and (b) either reacting the CF3CCl=CF2 and/or CF3CH=CF2 produced in (a) in the vapor phase with hydrogen to produce CF3CH2CHF2, reacting CF3CCl=CF2 produced in (a) with HF to produce CF3CHFCF3, or reacting the CF3CH=CF2produced in (a) with HF to produce CF3CH2CF3.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2002Publication date: August 22, 2002Inventors: William H. Manogue, V.N. Mallikarjuna Rao, Allen Capron Sievert, Steven H. Swearingen
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Publication number: 20020013227Abstract: This invention provides a process for the catalytic partial oxidation of a hydrocarbon feedstock by contacting a feed stream including a hydrocarbon feedstock and an oxygen-containing gas with a catalyst in a reaction zone maintained at conversion-promoting conditions effective to produce an effluent stream including carbon monoxide and hydrogen. The process of this invention is characterized by using an unsupported porous catalyst containing rhodium, such as rhodium foam.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2001Publication date: January 31, 2002Inventors: Hasan Dindi, William H. Manogue, Theodore A. Koch, Sourav Kumar Sengupta
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Patent number: 6018083Abstract: A process is disclosed for the separation of a mixture of HF and CF.sub.3 CClFCF.sub.3. The process involves placing the mixture in a separation zone at a temperature of from about -30.degree. C. to about 100.degree. C. and at a pressure sufficient to maintain the mixture in the liquid phase, whereby an organic-enriched phase comprising less than 50 mole percent HF is formed as the bottom layer and an HF-enriched phase comprising more than 90 mole percent HF is formed as the top layer. The organic-enriched phase can be withdrawn from the bottom of the separation zone and subjected to distillation in a distillation column to recover essentially pure CF.sub.3 CClFCF.sub.3. The distillate comprising HF and CF.sub.3 CClFCF.sub.3 can be removed from the top of the distillation column while essentially pure CF.sub.3 CClFCF.sub.3 can be recovered from the bottom of the distillation column.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 1999Date of Patent: January 25, 2000Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: William H. Manogue, Mario Joseph Nappa, Allen Capron Sievert, V. N. Mallikarjuna Rao
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Patent number: 5892135Abstract: A process for the production of trifluoroethylene (i.e., CF.sub.2 =CHF or HFC-1123) is disclosed. The process involves contacting (in the vapor phase) at least one halogenated ethane of the formula CF.sub.3 CClFX (where X is H, Cl or F) with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst including at least one component selected from elemental metals, metal oxides, metal halides and metal oxyhalides. The metal of the component is ruthenium, copper, nickel, and/or chromium and the halogen of the halides and the oxyhalides is fluorine and/or chlorine.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 1997Date of Patent: April 6, 1999Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: William H. Manogue, V.N. Mallikarjuna Rao
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Patent number: 5841008Abstract: This invention relates to a process for the hydrogenolysis of halogenated hydrocarbons containing fluorine together with chlorine and/or bromine.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 1997Date of Patent: November 24, 1998Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Thomas R. Keane, Tiberiu M. Leib, William H. Manogue, Peter Gideon Gelblum
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Patent number: 5621151Abstract: Halocarbons such as CCl.sub.2 F.sub.2, CF.sub.3 CFHCl or CF.sub.3 CFCl.sub.2 which contain chlorine and/or bromine are contacted with hydrogen in the presence of silicon carbide and/or a metal selected from aluminum, molybdenum, titanium, nickel, iron or cobalt (or their alloys) at temperatures of 350.degree. to 700.degree. C. and pressures of 0 to 1000 psig to obtain a product wherein at least one chlorine or bromine in the starting material has been replaced by hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 1995Date of Patent: April 15, 1997Assignee: E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and CompanyInventor: William H. Manogue
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Patent number: 5516947Abstract: A process is disclosed for the conversion of halogenated methanes of the formula CCl.sub.y H.sub.2-y F.sub.2 (wherein y is 1 or 2) to a mixture of conversion products. The process involves reacting certain halogenated hydrocarbon feeds and hydrogen (wherein said halogenated methanes are at least one mole percent of the halogenated hydrocarbon feed) in a reaction vessel of alumina, silicon carbide or at least one metal selected from gold, chromium, aluminum, molybdenum, titanium, nickel, iron, cobalt, and their alloys at a temperature of from about 500.degree. C. to 800.degree. C. and a pressure from abut 101 kPa to 7000 kPa to produce a mixture of conversion products of said halogenated methanes which comprises at least 5 mole percent C.sub.2 H.sub.2 F.sub.4, wherein the mole ratio of CH.sub.2 FCF.sub.3 to CHF.sub.2 CHF.sub.2 in said C.sub.2 H.sub.2 F.sub.4 is at least about 1:9.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 1995Date of Patent: May 14, 1996Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: William H. Manogue, Charles J. Noelke, Steven H. Swearingen
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Patent number: 5446219Abstract: Mixtures of halocarbons which contain fluorine and chlorine and/or bromine (e.g. a mixture of CCl.sub.2 FCF.sub.3 with CClF.sub.2 CF.sub.3, CCl.sub.2 F.sub.2, CClF.sub.2 CClF.sub.2 or CHClF.sub.2) are contacted with hydrogen in the presence of silicon carbide and/or a metal selected from aluminum, molybdenum, titanium, nickel, iron or cobalt (or their alloys) at temperatures of 350.degree. to 700.degree. C. and pressures of 0 to 1000 psig to obtain a product mixture which substantially corresponds in terms of the distribution of fluorine substituents on carbon atoms with the mixture of halocarbon starting materials.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 1994Date of Patent: August 29, 1995Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: William H. Manogue, V. N. Mallikarjuna Rao
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Patent number: 5430204Abstract: Halocarbons such as CCl.sub.2 F.sub.2, CF.sub.3 CFHCl or CF.sub.3 CFCl.sub.2 which contain chlorine and/or bromine are contacted with hydrogen in the presence of silicon carbide and/or a metal selected from aluminum, molybdenum, titanium, nickel, iron or cobalt (or their alloys) at temperatures of 350.degree. to 700.degree. C. and pressures of 0 to 1000 psig to obtain a product wherein at least one chlorine or bromine in the starting material has been replaced by hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 1994Date of Patent: July 4, 1995Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: William H. Manogue, V. N. Mallikarjuna Rao
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Patent number: 5406009Abstract: Gas phase and liquid phase processes are disclosed which use interconversion of CF.sub.3 CHFCl and CF.sub.2 HCF.sub.2 Cl in contact with catalyst consisting essentially of halided aluminum oxide and/or aluminum halide at elevated temperatures to increase the mole ratio of one of said compounds in a composition relative to the other. Also disclosed is use of said interconversion along with hydrogenolysis in processes for producing mixtures of CF.sub.3 CH.sub.2 F and CF.sub.2 HCF.sub.2 H from certain compositions comprising CF.sub.2 HCF.sub.2 Cl such that the mole ratio of CF.sub.3 CH.sub.2 F to CF.sub.2 HCF.sub.2 H in the product mixtures produced from said compositions may be increased or decreased.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1991Date of Patent: April 11, 1995Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: William H. Manogue, V. N. Mallikarjuna Rao, Frank J. Weigert
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Patent number: 5364992Abstract: Halocarbons such as CCl.sub.2 F, CF.sub.3 CFHCl.sub.2 or CF.sub.3 CFCl.sub.2 which contain chlorine and/or bromine are contacted with hydrogen in the presence of silicon carbide and/or a metal selected from aluminum, molybdenum, titanium, nickel, iron or cobalt (or their alloys) at temperatures of 350.degree. to 700.degree. C. and pressures of 0 to 1000 psig to obtain a product wherein at least one chlorine or bromine in the starting material has been replaced by hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 1993Date of Patent: November 15, 1994Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: William H. Manogue, Velliyur N. M. Rao
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Patent number: 5300713Abstract: Mixtures of halocarbons which contain fluorine and chlorine and/or bromine (e.g. a mixture of CCl.sub.2 FCF.sub.3 with CClF.sub.2 CF.sub.3, CCl.sub.2 F.sub.2, CClF.sub.2 CClF.sub.2 or CHClF.sub.2) are contacted with hydrogen in the presence of silicon carbide and/or a metal selected from aluminum, molybdenum, titanium, nickel, iron or cobalt (or their alloys) at temperatures of 350.degree. to 700.degree. C. and pressures of 0 to 1000 psig to obtain a product mixture which substantially corresponds in terms of the distribution of fluorine substituents on carbon atoms with the mixture of halocarbon starting materials.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 1992Date of Patent: April 5, 1994Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: William H. Manogue, V. N. M. Rao
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Patent number: 5208397Abstract: Mixtures of halocarbons which contain fluorine and chlorine and/or bromine (e.g. a mixture of CCl.sub.2 FCF.sub.3 with CClF.sub.2 CF.sub.3, CCl.sub.2 F.sub.2, CClF.sub.2 CClF.sub.2 or CHClF.sub.2) are contacted with hydrogen in the presence of silicon carbide and/or a metal selected from aluminum, molybdenum, titanium, nickel, iron or cobalt (or their alloys) at temperatures of 350.degree. to 700.degree. C. and pressures of 0 to 1000 psig to obtain a product mixture which substantially corresponds in terms of the distribution of fluorine substituents on carbon atoms with the mixture of halocarbon starting materials.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 1991Date of Patent: May 4, 1993Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: William H. Manogue, V. N. Mallikarjuna Rao
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Patent number: 5068472Abstract: The present invention relates to multistep syntheses of hexafluoropropylene from hexachloropropylene. In all these syntheses the first step is a fluorination of the starting material; later steps convert the initial products to CF.sub.3 --CFCl--CF.sub.3, which is dehalogenated to the desired product.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 1989Date of Patent: November 26, 1991Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: James L. Webster, Swiatoslaw Trofimenko, Paul R. Resnick, Douglas W. Bruhnke, Jan J. Lerou, William H. Manogue, Leo E. Manzer, Elrey L. McCann, Steven H. Swearingen, James A. Trainham, Cristobal Bonifaz
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Patent number: 5057634Abstract: The present invention relates to multistep syntheses of hexafluoropropylene from acyclic three-carbon hydrocarbons or partially halogenated acyclic three-carbon hydrocarbons. In all these syntheses the first step is a vapor-phase chlorofluorination of the starting material to one or more saturated chlorofluorocarbons. Novel catalysts are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 1989Date of Patent: October 15, 1991Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: James L. Webster, Elrey L. McCann, Douglas W. Bruhnke, Jan J. Lerou, William H. Manogue, Leo E. Manzer, Steven H. Swearingen, Swiatoslaw Trofimenko, Cristobal Bonifaz