Catalytic Patents (Class 208/143)
  • Publication number: 20080272028
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with a hydrogen source in the presence of an inorganic salt catalyst produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a residue content of at least 0.2 grams of residue per gram of crude feed. The inorganic salt catalyst may include one or more alkali metals. 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventors: Scott Lee Wellington, Thomas Fairchild BROWNSCOMBE
  • Publication number: 20080257784
    Abstract: A process for hydrogenating unsaturations in petrochemical feedstocks, the process comprising contacting the petrochemical feedstock, including at least one component having unsaturations, and hydrogen with a catalyst comprising at least one Group Ia, Ib, IIb, VIb, VIIb or VIII metal on a support of an alkaline earth metal silicate having a surface area of at least 30 m2/g at a temperature of from 0 to 250° C. and a pressure of from 3 to 50 barg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: Total Petrochemicals Research Feluy
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Dath, Walter Vermeiren
  • Patent number: 7431824
    Abstract: The instant invention is directed to a process employing slurry catalyst compositions in the upgrading of heavy oils. The slurry catalyst composition is not permitted to settle, which would result in possible deactivation. The slurry is recycled to an upgrading reactor for repeated use and products require no further separation procedures for catalyst removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Kaidong Chen, Julie Chabot
  • Patent number: 7429550
    Abstract: A hydrogenation catalyst for a hydrocarbon oil, includes an inorganic porous support composed of at least the oxides of aluminum, phosphorus, and silicon, and supporting at least one active metal selected from the metals of Group 8 of the periodic table, at least one active metal selected from the metals of Group 6 of the periodic table, and phosphorus, the phosphorus chemical shift value of the inorganic support determined by 31P-CPMAS-NMR having the peak within the range of 0 to ?20 ppm. The catalyst can achieve an extremely high level of hydrogenation wherein the hydrocarbon is decreased in sulfur content to 10 ppm by mass or less and in nitrogen content to 3 ppm by mass or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Nippon Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Hideshi Iki, Kazuaki Hayasaka, Kazuo Fukazawa
  • Patent number: 7427349
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of hydroprocessing, and more particularly relates to a process directed to fuels hydrocracking and distillate feed hydrofining. This process has at least two stages. A relatively unconverted hydrofined product may be removed prior to the second stage, providing flexibility. In another embodiment, fresh feed may be added prior to the second stage. In both embodiments, fuels production is maintained at a constant level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Ujjal K. Mukherjee, Kevin L. Hofer, Darush Farshid
  • Patent number: 7390395
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new crystalline molecular sieve SSZ-56 prepared using a N,N-diethyl-2-methyldecahydroquinolinium cation as a structure directing agent, methods for synthesizing SSZ-56 and processes employing SSZ-56 in a catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Inventor: Saleh Elomari
  • Patent number: 7381321
    Abstract: Process for transforming a gas-oil fraction that makes it possible to produce a fuel that has a quality according to stringent requirements in terms of sulfur content, aromatic compound content, cetane number, boiling point, T95, of 95% of the compounds and density, d15/4, at 15° C. This process comprises a hydrorefining stage and a hydrocracking stage, whereby the latter uses a catalyst that contains at least one zeolite. The conversion of products that have a boiling point of less than 150° C. is, throughout the two stages of hydrocracking and hydrorefining, less than 40% by weight and, for the hydrorefining stage, between 1 and 15% by weight. The temperature, TR2, of the hydrocracking stage is less than the temperature, TR1, of the hydrorefining stage, and the variation between temperatures TR1 and TR2 is between 0 and 80° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Institut Francais du Petrole
    Inventors: Eric Benazzi, Patrick Bourges, Christophe Gueret, Pierre Marion
  • Patent number: 7357856
    Abstract: A two stage process for selectively hydrodesulfurizing olefinic and sulfur and nitrogen-containing naphtha feedstreams wherein the first stage is a nitrogen removal stage to produce a naphtha feedstream having reduced levels of nitrogen compounds and a second stage wherein the naphtha feedstream having reduced levels of nitrogen compounds is hydrodesulfuried with a catalyst and under conditions selective to remove sulfur with minimum olefin saturation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Peter W. Jacobs, Garland B. Brignac, Thomas R. Halbert, Madhav Acharya, Theresa A. Lelain
  • Patent number: 7332071
    Abstract: Process for transforming a gas oil fraction that makes it possible to produce a fuel that has a quality according to stringent requirements in terms of sulfur content, aromatic compound content, cetane number, boiling point, T95, of 95% of the compounds and density, d15/4, at 15° C. This process comprises a hydrorefining stage and a subsequent stage, whereby the latter uses a catalyst that is selected from the group that consists of hydrorefining catalysts and catalysts that comprise at least one mixed oxide, a metal of group VIB, and a non-noble metal of group VIII. The conversion of products that have a boiling point of less than 150° C. is, for the hydrorefining stage, between 1 and 15% by weight. The temperature, TR2, of the subsequent stage is less than the temperature, TR1, of the hydrorefining stage, and the variation between temperatures TR1 and TR2 is between 0 and 80° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Institut Francais du Petrole
    Inventors: Eric Benazzi, Patrick Bourges, Christophe Gueret, Pierre Marion
  • Publication number: 20080035525
    Abstract: The invention relates to a zeolite of the ZSM-12 type, especially for the hydroisomerization of higher paraffins, which has a primary crystal size of <0.1 ?m; as well as a specific volume, determined by mercury porosimetry at a maximum pressure of 4000 bar, of 30-200 mm3/g in a pore radius range of 4-10 nm; and which has further been prepared from a synthesis gel composition comprising an aluminum source, precipitated silica as a silicon source, TEA+ as a template, an alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal ion source M having the valency n; in which the molar H2O:SiO2 ratio is selected between 5 and 15. The invention further relates to a catalyst comprising the above zeolite and its use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2004
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Gotz Burgfels, Volker Kurth, Alfred Reimer, Friedrich Schmidt, Stephan Wellach
  • Patent number: 7326819
    Abstract: A catalyst and process is disclosed to selectively upgrade a paraffinic feedstock to obtain an isoparaffin-rich product for blending into gasoline. The catalyst comprises a support of a sulfated oxide or hydroxide of a Group IVB (IUPAC 4) metal, a first component of at least one lanthanide element or yttrium component, which is preferably ytterbium, and at least one platinum-group metal component which is preferably platinum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Ralph D. Gillespie, Michelle J. Cohn
  • Patent number: 7314602
    Abstract: Contact, mixing, and often quenching box (8), with main dimension (D) and height (H7), comprising at least one duct section (B1) located on the upper part of said box (8) for entry of fluids in which said box (8) comprises, downstream from said duct section (B1), in the direction in which the fluids circulate, a means (B4) that provides, in said box (8), for making the fluids swirl in an approximately nonradial direction, and not parallel to the overall direction of circulation of said fluids, and comprising at least one annular, peripheral duct section (B6) for the exit of said mixture of fluids formed in said box (8) whose lower level is located above the upper level for fluid entry through at least one lateral inlet (B3) located in said box (8) above means (B4). A reaction cell (4), of an elongated shape along an approximately vertical axis comprising the contact, mixing, and quenching box (8) is useful for performing exothermic reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: Institut Francais du Petrole
    Inventors: Ludovic Raynal, Isabelle Harter, Francis Aubry
  • Patent number: 7311815
    Abstract: A method of preparing high linear paraffin or high end-chain monomethyl content products is accomplished by converting synthesis gas in a Fischer-Tropsch reaction to hydrocarbon products. These may be hydrotreated to provide an n-paraffin content of greater than 50% by weight, with substantially all branched paraffins being monomethyl end-chain branched paraffins. At least one non-linear paraffin isomer, which may be a monomethyl paraffin isomer, may be separated from the hydrocarbon products through distillation to provide an n-paraffin product having an n-paraffin content percentage by weight of the n-paraffin product that is greater than the initial n-paraffin content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Syntroleum Corporation
    Inventor: Armen N. Abazajian
  • Patent number: 7288181
    Abstract: The instant invention relates to a process to produce high octane, low sulfur naphtha products through the removal of basic nitrogen-containing compounds with subsequent skeletal isomerization of feed olefins and hydrotreating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Stuart S. Shih, David L. Stern, Madhav Acharya
  • Patent number: 7285695
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a process for the hydrogenation of hydrocarbon resins in the presence of a precious metal catalyst, wherein the hydrogenation is performed in the additional presence of at least one metal oxide, capable of reacting with sulfide and/or halogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Engelhard Corporation
    Inventors: Bernard Hendrik Reesink, Willem Dijkstra
  • Patent number: 7282137
    Abstract: A process for preparing high VI lubricating oil basestocks comprising hydrotreating, hydrodewaxing and optionally hydrofinishing. The hydrotreating step is under conditions such that the amount of conversion to 343° C. minus is less than 5 wt. % of the feedstock and the VI increase is less than 4 VI over the feedstock. Hydrodewaxing uses a low alpha catalyst and hydrofinishing is accomplished with a catalyst based on the M41S family.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Exxonmobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Ian A. Cody, William J. Murphy, Sylvain Hantzer, David W. Larkin, John E. Gallagher, Jr., Jeenok T. Kim
  • Patent number: 7276150
    Abstract: The process for desulfurizing a gas oil fraction according to the invention comprises a low-boiling gas oil fraction hydrodesulfurization step (I) wherein a low-boiling gas oil fraction is desulsurized under the condition of a H2/Oil ratio of 70 to 200 Nm3/kl to obtain a treated oil, a high-boiling gas oil fraction hydrodesulfurization step (II) wherein a high-boiling gas oil fraction is desulsurized under the condition of a H2Oil ratio of 200 to 800 Nm3/kl to obtain a treated oil, and a step (III) wherein the treated oil obtained in the step (I) is mixed with the treated oil obtained in the step (II), and in this process, at least a part of a gas containing unreacted hydrogen in the step (II) is used for the hydrodesulfurization of the step (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: JGC Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Nagamatsu, Jun Abe, Akira Sugimoto, Makoto Inomata, Tetsuya Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7235173
    Abstract: A hydrotreating catalyst that contains at least one element of group VIB and/or group VIII of the periodic table and optionally phosphorus and/or silicon, with an organic compound as an additive that contains at least one nitrogen atom, is used for the transformation of hydrocarbon-containing fractions, in particular the hydrodesulfurization, the hydrodenitrification, the hydrodemetallization, the hydrogenation of various petroleum fractions, such as residues, vacuum distillates, gas oils and gasolines, and the hydroconversion of vacuum distillates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Institut Francais du Petrole
    Inventors: Fabrice Diehl, Christophe Bouchy, Tivadar Cseri, Slavik Kasztelan
  • Patent number: 7229548
    Abstract: A method for upgrading a naphtha feed to a naphtha product containing less than about 10 wppm of nitrogen and less than about 15 wppm sulfur, the method comprising contacting said naphtha feed with hydrogen in the presence of a bulk multimetallic catalyst under effective reactor conditions to hydrodesulfurize and hydrodenitrogenize said naphtha feed to produce said naphtha product, wherein said bulk multimetallic catalyst comprises at least one Group VIII non-noble metal and at least two Group VIB metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Kenneth L. Riley, Stuart L. Soled, Sabato Miseo, Frans L. Plantenga, Marinus Bruce Cerfontain, Sonja Eijsbouts, Eelko Brevoord
  • Patent number: 7196034
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a catalyst suitable for the hydrogenation of hydrocarbon resins, comprising a supported nickel on silica and alumina catalyst, said catalyst having a nickel content of 45 to 85 wt. %, a silicon content, calculated as SiO2, of 14 to 45 wt. %, an aluminium content, calculated as Al2O3, of 1 to 15 wt. % an iron content, calculated as Fe, 0.25 to 4 wt. %, all percentages having been calculated on the basis of the reduced catalyst, and which catalyst has a volume of pores between 2 and 60 nm, as defined herein, of at least 0.35 ml/g of catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Engelhard Corporation
    Inventor: Lucas Laurentius Kramer
  • Patent number: 7192516
    Abstract: The invention is a method of removing sulfur from a hydrocarbon feed using the steps of dissolving metallic sodium in a solvent and combining the sodium/solvent solution with a liquid hydrocarbon feed containing an organosulfur species. The pressure of combination is above the vapor pressure of the solvent. The combined hydrocarbon feed and solvent solution are placed in a low pressure environment to vaporize the solvent. The resulting stream is combined with hydrogen gas and this stream is heated and pressurized to form a liquid hydrocarbon product containing sodium sulfide. This product is then cooled, and the sodium sulfide is extracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Trans Ionics Corporation
    Inventor: Robert C. Schucker
  • Patent number: 7173160
    Abstract: Hydroprocessing such as hydrocracking is advantageously employed in processes for the recovery and purification of higher diamondoids from petroleum feedstocks. Hydrocracking and other hydroprocesses degrade nondiamondoid contaminants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Theo Maesen, Robert M. Carlson, Jeremy E. Dahl, Shenggao Liu, Hye Kyung C. Timken, Waqar R. Qureshi
  • Patent number: 7151199
    Abstract: Hydrocarbon or oxygenate conversion process in which a feedstock is contacted with a non zeolitic molecular sieve which has been treated to remove most, if not all, of the halogen contained in the catalyst. The halogen may be removed by one of several methods. One method includes heating the catalyst in a low moisture environment, followed by contacting the heated catalyst with air and/or steam. Another method includes steam-treating the catalyst at a temperature from 400° C. to 1000° C. The hydrocarbon or oxygenate conversion processes include the conversion of oxygenates to olefins, the conversion of oxygenates and ammonia to alkylamines, the conversion of oxygenates and aromatic compounds to alkylated aromatic compounds, cracking and dewaxing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Luc Roger Marc Martens, Stephen N. Vaughn, Albert Edward Schweizer, John K. Pierce, Shun Chong Fung
  • Patent number: 7132043
    Abstract: Process to prepare a lubricating base oil starting from a lubricating base oil which is obtained by first removing part of the aromatic compounds from a petroleum fraction boiling in the lubricating oil range by solvent extraction and subsequently dewaxing the solvent extracted product, wherein the following steps are performed, (a) contacting the lubricating base oil with a suitable sulphided hydrotreating catalyst in a first hydrotreating step; (b) separating the effluent of step (a) into a gaseous fraction and a liquid fraction; (c) contacting the liquid fraction of step (b) with a catalyst comprising a noble metal component supported on an amorphous refractory oxide carrier in the presence of hydrogen in a second hydrotreating step; and (d) recovering the lubricating base oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Eric Duprey, Jean-Paul Fattaz, Roland Albert Charles Garin, Patrick Moureaux
  • Patent number: 7128828
    Abstract: A process for producing food grade wax which contains exceedingly low levels of nitrogen, sulfur and aromatic compounds. A waxy feedstock is firstly hydrotreated in a first hydrogenation zone to reduce the level of contaminants such as sulfur, nitrogen and aromatic compounds, and the resulting effluent from the first hydrogenation zone is introduced into a hot, high pressure stripper and contacted with a hot, hydrogen-rich stripping gas to remove ammonia and hydrogen sulfide. The stripped, hot liquid hydrocarbons are removed from the bottom of the hot, high-pressure stripper to further reduce the concentration of aromatic compounds by being hydrogenated in a second hydrogenation zone containing a platinum or palladium catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventor: Tom N. Kalnes
  • Patent number: 7090766
    Abstract: A process wherein all of the unsaturates within a cracked naphtha stream are substantially hydrogenated to alkanes and the olefin depleted stream is then subjected to hydrodesulfurization to achieve the desired sulfur levels without the formation of recombinant mercaptans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Inventors: Kenneth H. Johnson, Richard L. Moseley
  • Patent number: 7087155
    Abstract: A process for cracking an olefin-rich hydrocarbon feedstock which is selective towards light olefins in the effluent, the process comprising contacting a hydrocarbon feedstock containing olefins having a first composition of at least one olefinic component with a crystalline silicate catalyst to produce an effluent having a second composition of at least one olefinic component, the feedstock and the effluent having substantially the same olefin content by weight therein as the feedstock. A process for the cracking of olefins in a hydrocarbon feedstock containing at least one diene and at least one olefin, the process comprising hydrogenating the at least one diene to form at least one olefin in the presence of a transition metal-based hydrogenation catalyst at an inlet temperature of from 40 to 200° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: TOTAL Petrochemicals Research Feluy
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Dath, Luc Delorme, Jacques-François Grootjans, Xavier Vanhaeren, Walter Vermeiren
  • Patent number: 7087153
    Abstract: A catalytic hydrocracking process for the production of ultra low sulfur diesel wherein a hydrocarbonaceous feedstock is hydrocracked at elevated temperature and pressure to obtain conversion to diesel boiling range hydrocarbons. The resulting hydrocracking zone effluent is hydrogen stripped in a stripping zone maintained at essentially the same pressure as the hydrocracking zone to produce a first gaseous hydrocarbonaceous stream and a first liquid hydrocarbonaceous stream. The first gaseous hydrocarbonaceous stream containing diesel boiling range hydrocarbons is introduced into a desulfurization zone and subsequently partially condensed to produce a hydrogen-rich gaseous stream and a second liquid hydrocarbonaceous stream containing diesel boiling range hydrocarbons. At least a portion of the first liquid stream is thermal cracked to produce diesel boiling range hydrocarbons. An ultra low sulfur diesel product stream is recovered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventor: Tom N. Kalnes
  • Patent number: 7074321
    Abstract: An integrated hydrocarbon conversion process for the production of low sulfur fuels utilizing a hydrocracking zone, a diesel hydrodesulfurization zone, a fluid catalytic cracking zone and a gasoline hydrodesulfurization zone. The hydrocracking zone is used to convert at least a portion of the feedstock into diesel boiling range hydrocarbons which are desulfurized in the first hydrodesulfurization zone. The unconverted feedstock is introduced into a fluid catalytic cracking zone to produce gasoline boiling range hydrocarbons which are desulfurized in a second hydrodesulfurization zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventor: Tom N. Kalnes
  • Patent number: 7041866
    Abstract: A catalyst and process is disclosed to selectively upgrade a paraffinic feedstock to obtain an isoparaffin-rich product for blending into gasoline. The catalyst comprises a support of a sulfated oxide or hydroxide of a Group IVB (IUPAC 4) metal, a first component comprising at least one Group III A (IUPAC 13) component, and at least one platinum-group metal component which is preferably platinum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventor: Ralph D. Gillespie
  • Patent number: 7025872
    Abstract: Process for obtaining a hydrocarbon fraction that can be used as a feedstock of an etherification unit and that contains a small amount of diene compounds, nitrogen-containing compounds and sulfur-containing compounds, starting from an initial hydrocarbon feedstock that comprises a mixture of olefins, dienes, and nitrites as well as sulfur-containing compounds, whereby said process comprises at least the following successive stages: a) a selective hydrogenation of said initial hydrocarbon feedstock in the presence of a catalyst of group VIII of the periodic table, b) a fractionation by distillation of the effluents that are obtained from stage a) under conditions that make it possible to obtain at least two fractions including said hydrocarbon fraction and that comprises a small amount of diene compounds, nitrogen-containing compounds and sulfur-containing compounds, and a heavy fraction that contains heavy hydrocarbons and the majority of the nitrogen-containing compounds and sulfur-containing compounds
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Institut Francais du Petrole
    Inventors: Florent Picard, Alain Forestiere, Julia Magne-Drisch, Nathalie Marchal-George
  • Patent number: 7014750
    Abstract: Systems and processes for the hydrotreatment of pyrolysis gasoline comprising reactors, monolithic catalyst beds and hydrogen-containing treatment gases that allow for improved efficiency and productivity over conventional trickle bed processes and systems for such hydrotreatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Thorsten R. Boger, Shantanu Roy, Charles M. Sorensen, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7011807
    Abstract: Supported reactive catalysts having a controlled coordination structure and methods for their production are disclosed. The supported catalysts of the present invention are useful for the preparation of hydrogen peroxide with high selectivity in addition to other chemical conversion reactions. The supported catalyst comprises catalyst particles having top or outer layer of atoms in which at least a portion of the atoms exhibit a controlled coordination number of 2. The catalyst and methods may be used for the concurrent in situ and ex situ conversion of organic compounds. In addition, a process is provided for catalytically producing hydrogen peroxide from hydrogen and oxygen feeds by contacting them with the catalysts of the invention and a suitable organic liquid solvent having a Solvent Selection Parameter (SSP) between 0.14×10?4 and 5.0×10?4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Headwaters Nanokinetix, Inc.
    Inventors: Bing Zhou, Michael Rueter, Sukesh Parasher
  • Patent number: 6977322
    Abstract: A catalyst and process is disclosed to selectively upgrade a paraffinic feedstock to obtain an isoparaffin-rich product for blending into gasoline. The catalyst comprises a support of a tungstated oxide or hydroxide of a Group IVB (IUPAC 4) metal, a first component of at least one lanthanide element, yttrium or mixtures thereof, which is preferably ytterbium or holmium, and at least one platinum-group metal component which is preferably platinum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventor: Ralph D. Gillespie
  • Patent number: 6930219
    Abstract: A process for treating organic compounds includes providing a composition which includes a substantially mesoporous structure of silica containing at least 97% by volume of pores having a pore size ranging from about 15 ? to about 30 ? and having a micropore volume of at least about 0.01 cc/g, wherein the mesoporous structure has incorporated therewith at least about 0.02% by weight of at least one catalytically and/or chemically active heteroatom selected from the group consisting of Al, Ti, V, Cr, Zn, Fe, Sn, Mo, Ga, Ni, Co, In, Zr, Mn, Cu, Mg, Pd, Pt and W, and the catalyst has an X-ray diffraction pattern with one peak at 0.3° to about 3.5° at 2?. The catalyst is contacted with an organic feed under reaction conditions wherein the treating process is selected from alkylation, acylation, oligomerization, selective oxidation, hydrotreating, isomerization, demetalation, catalytic dewaxing, hydroxylation, hydrogenation, ammoximation, isomerization, dehydrogenation, cracking and adsorption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: ABB Lummus Global Inc.
    Inventors: Zhiping Shan, Jacobus Cornelius Jansen, Chuen Y. Yeh, Philip J. Angevine, Thomas Maschmeyer, Mohamed S. Hamdy
  • Patent number: 6916457
    Abstract: A non-chrome, copper-containing catalyst, Cu—Al—O and method of preparing the same are provided wherein the Cu—Al—O catalyst is prepared by the co-precipitation of copper nitrate (Cu(NO3)2) and sodium aluminate (Na2Al2O4) solutions using sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) as a precipitant. The precipitate is filtered, washed to removed excess sodium, and dried. The dried product, to be used in a powder form, is calcined at a preferred temperature of approximately 700° to 900° C. for approximately 1 to 4 hours. The dry powder, to be tableted or extruded, is calcined at a temperature of approximately 400° to 700° C. The activity of the Cu—Al—O catalyst can be promoted in hydrogenolysis applications by the addition of various agents. The Cu—Al—O catalyst can be employed in applications in place of Cu/Cr, or other copper based catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Engelhard Corporation
    Inventor: Jianping Chen
  • Patent number: 6881326
    Abstract: A process where the need to circulate hydrogen through the catalyst is eliminated. This is accomplished by mixing and/or flashing the hydrogen and the oil to be treated in the presence of a solvent or diluent in which the hydrogen solubility is “high” relative to the oil feed. The type and amount of diluent added, as well as the reactor conditions, can be set so that all of the hydrogen required in the hydroprocessing reactions is available in solution. The oil/diluent/hydrogen solution can then be fed to a plug flow reactor packed with catalyst where the oil and hydrogen react. No additional hydrogen is required, therefore, hydrogen recirculation is avoided and trickle bed operation of the reactor is avoided. Therefore, the large trickle bed reactors can be replaced by much smaller tubular reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Process Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Ackerson, Michael S. Byars
  • Patent number: 6881873
    Abstract: A catalyst and process is disclosed to selectively upgrade a paraffinic feedstock to obtain an isoparaffin-rich product for blending into gasoline. The catalyst comprises a support of a sulfated oxide or hydroxide of a Group IVB (IUPAC 4) metal, a first component of at least one lanthanide element or yttrium component, which is preferably ytterbium, and at least one platinum-group metal component which is preferably platinum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Ralph D. Gillespie, Michelle J. Cohn
  • Patent number: 6863802
    Abstract: A process for upgrading at least one of a Fischer-Tropsch naphtha and a Fischer-Tropsch distillate to produce at least one of a gasoline component, a distillate fuel or a lube base feedstock component. The process includes reforming a Fischer-Tropsch naphtha to produce hydrogen by-product and a gasoline component with a research octane rating of at least about 80. The process further includes upgrading a Fischer-Tropsch distillate using the hydrogen by-product to produce a distillate fuel and/or a lube base feedstock component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A.
    Inventors: Dennis J. O'Rear, Lawrence W. Jossens
  • Patent number: 6860987
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a process for the hydroprocessing of hydrocarbon feedstocks wherein said hydrocarbon feedstocks are contacted, at hydroprocessing conditions, with a catalyst composition comprising at least one Group VIII non-noble metal component and at least two Group VIB metal components. The catalyst composition further comprises at least about 0.01 mole of an organic oxygen-containing additive per mole of the total of Group VIB metals and Group VIII non-noble metals present in the catalyst composition. The total of the Group VIII and Group VIB metal components, calculated as oxides, make up at least about 50 wt. % of the catalyst composition, calculated on dry weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Akzo Nobel N.V.
    Inventors: Frans Lodewijk Plantenga, Sonja Eijsbouts, Marinus Bruce Cerfontain
  • Patent number: 6855245
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a process for the hydrogenation of a sulfur containing feedstock, having a sulfur content of less than 50 ppm, wherein the feedstock is hydrogenated in the presence of a precious metal catalyst and a nickel-catalyst, said process being carried out in such a manner, that the feedstock is contacted with a mixture of precious metal catalyst, metal oxide and nickel catalyst, the feedstock is contacted initially with the precious metal catalyst followed by contact with the metal oxide and nickel catalyst, either in combination or sequentially, or the feedstock is contacted first with a mixture of precious metal catalyst and metal oxide, followed by contact with the nickel catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Engelhard Corporation
    Inventors: Bernard Hendrik Reesink, Willem Dijkstra, Pieter Hildegardus Berben, Marius Vaarkamp
  • Publication number: 20040256289
    Abstract: A catalyst and process is disclosed to selectively upgrade a paraffinic feedstock to obtain an isoparaffin-rich product for blending into gasoline. The catalyst comprises a support of a tungstated oxide or hydroxide of a Group IVB (IUPAC 4) metal, a first component of at least one Group IVA (IUPAC 14) component, at least one Group VA (IUPAC 15) component or mixtures thereof, which is preferably silicon or phosphorus, and at least one platinum-group metal component which is preferably platinum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2004
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventors: Ralph D. Gillespie, Feng Xu
  • Publication number: 20040238409
    Abstract: A process for the hydrogenation of a hydrocarbon feed includes contacting a major amount of the hydrocarbon feed with hydrogen in a counter-current manner in a first reaction zone under hydrogenation reaction conditions in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst in at least a first catalyst bed wherein a liquid effluent exits at a bottom end of the first reaction zone and a hydrogen-containing gaseous effluent exits at a top end of the first reaction zone, and contacting a minor portion of the hydrocarbon feed with said hydrogen-containing gaseous effluent in a co-current manner in a second reaction zone having a catalyst bed positioned to receive the hydrogen-containing effluent of the first reaction zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Harjeet Virdi, Arup Roy, Thu-Huong Nguyen
  • Patent number: 6824674
    Abstract: A method for increasing the operational life-time of a pyrolysis gasoline hydrotreating process using a supported Group VIII metal catalyst by employing a catalyst having a significantly increased total surface area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Equistar Chemicals, LP
    Inventor: Mark P. Kaminsky
  • Patent number: 6824675
    Abstract: A device for producing and distributing a polyphase mixture between two fluids comprises a chamber for the passage of a first fluid, said chamber being pierced by perforated tubes or conduits to pass a second fluid in a different physical state than the first fluid or not miscible with the first fluid through the chamber, said tubes being pierced by at least one orifice allowing passage of the first fluid and mixing between the fluids via the tubes. The second fluid is injected upstream of said device and the first fluid is injected into said device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Institut Francais du Petrole
    Inventors: Christophe Boyer, Vincent Coupard, Bertrand Fanget
  • Publication number: 20040231616
    Abstract: Carbonaceous material is removed from a catalyst within an autothermal reformer by introducing an isolated oxidant stream into the autothermal reformer prior to introduction of hydrocarbon fuel into the reformer. A hydrocarbon stream is introduced into the autothermal reformer following removal of the carbonaceous material. A concurrent supply of the hydrocarbon stream and the oxidant stream to the autothermal reformer is maintained such that an exothermic reaction driven by the oxidant stream provides heat to an endothermic reaction driven by water vapor in the hydrocarbon stream. In accordance with 37 CFR 1.72(b), the purpose of this abstract is to enable the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract will not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Inventors: Suzanne Rose Ellis, Jessica Grace Reinkingh, Jullian Elaine Bailie, David Wails, Michael Ian Petch
  • Publication number: 20040232049
    Abstract: A process for hydrogenating unsaturations in petrochemical feedstocks, the process comprising contacting the petrochemical feedstock, including at least one component having unsaturations, and hydrogen with a catalyst comprising at least one Group Ia, Ib, IIb, VIb, VIIb or VIII metal on a support of a crystalline calcium silicate having a surface area of at least 30 m2/g, the support being in the form of substantially spherical particles having a mean diameter of from 10 to 200 microns and pores in the particles having a diameter of from 100 to 2000 Angstroms, at a temperature of from 0 to 550° C. and a pressure of from 3 to 150 barg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Dath, Walter Vermeiren
  • Patent number: 6822128
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for maintaining a volumetric gas to liquid ratio in a segmented gas/liquid flow along a reactor of monolithic catalyst beds in series. The present invention includes the steps of: initiating the segmented gas/liquid flow at a first end of the reactor by introducing feed liquid and feed gas both at a predetermined volume and a predetermined flow rate; injecting an additional amount of gas at least once into any of the spaces between catalyst beds; and combining the segments of the segmented gas/liquid flow at a second end of the reactor. The injection of gas is controlled such that the segmented gas/liquid flow can be maintained near or at the Taylor regime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Didier Letourneur, Charles M. Sorensen, Jr., Pierre Woehl
  • Publication number: 20040182744
    Abstract: A family of crystalline aluminosilicate zeolites designated UZM-8HS and derived from UZM-8 have been synthesized. The aluminum content of the UZM-8HS is lower than that of the starting UZM-8 thus changing its ion exchange capacity and acidity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Deng Yang Jan, Jaime G. Moscoso, Susan G. Koster, Lisa M. Rohde, Gregory J. Lewis, Mark A. Miller, R. Lyle Patton, Stephen T. Wilson
  • Patent number: 6793803
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of crystalline zeolite SSZ-54 as a catalyst in a process for dewaxing hydrocarbon feedstocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventor: Richard N. Reynolds, Jr.