Oxidized Hydrocarbons Of Undetermined Structure Patents (Class 568/959)
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Patent number: 11655174Abstract: A method and system for treating contaminated water are described. The method comprises receiving, in a first chamber, contaminated water with injection of a modifier; in a first chamber, treating the contaminated water with at least one of air or oxygen and simultaneously treating the contaminated water with ultraviolet radiation; in a second chamber, receiving fluid from the first chamber and treating the received fluid with at least one of oxygen or ozone; in a third chamber, receiving fluid from the second chamber and treating the received fluid with ultraviolet radiation; and discharging water from the third chamber using a discharge pump.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Kewest Equipment Corp.Inventors: Anil Kumar Chhibber, Peter Stewart Forbes, Vishal Soni, Harjot Brar, Kurt Wilhelm Klingbeil
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Patent number: 11119454Abstract: A method for controlling operation of an electric power generation system includes receiving power generator data corresponding to the electric power generation system. The method further includes receiving, using a digital prime mover unit, a set-point parameter corresponding to a prime mover unit and generating one or more prime mover parameter estimates corresponding to the plurality of prime mover parameters. Further, the method includes receiving, using a digital generator unit, one or more prime mover parameter estimates and generating one or more generator parameter estimates corresponding to the plurality of generator parameters. The digital prime mover unit and the digital generator unit are real-time operational models of the prime mover unit and the generator unit. The method also includes controlling the operation of the electric power generation system based on at least one or more of the power generator data, the prime mover parameter estimates, and the generator parameter estimates.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Prabhakar Neti, Karim Younsi, Deepak Aravind
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Patent number: 9901917Abstract: The present invention provides methods and designs of enclosed-channel reactor system for manufacturing catalysts or supports. Both of the configuration designs force the gaseous precursors and purge gas flow through the channel surface of reactor. The precursors will transform to thin film or particle catalysts or supports under adequate reaction temperature, working pressure and gas concentration. The reactor body is either sealed or enclosed for isolation from atmosphere. Another method using super ALD cycles is also proposed to grow alloy catalysts or supports with controllable concentration. The catalysts prepared by the method and system in the present invention are noble metals, such as platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium, or transition metals such as iron, silver, cobalt, nickel and tin, while supports are silicon oxide, aluminum oxide, zirconium oxide, cerium oxide or magnesium oxide, or refractory metals, which can be chromium, molybdenum, tungsten or tantalum.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: NATIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH LABORATORIESInventors: Chi-Chung Kei, Bo-Heng Liu, Chien-Pao Lin, Chien-Nan Hsiao, Yang-Chih Hsueh, Tsong-Pyng Perng
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Patent number: 9797054Abstract: A mixed conducting ceramic element comprises a plurality of tubes each having interior and exterior surfaces, a closed end and an open end. A tube support member receives the open ends of the tubes. The ceramic element has a general composition of AxA?x?A?x?ByB?y?B?y?O3-z, where A, A? and A? are selected from Group II elements or the Lanthanoids, and B, B? and B? are selected from the d-block transition metals, and wherein 0<x?1, 0<x??1, 0<x??1, 0<y?1, 0<y??1, 0<y??1, x+x?+x??1, y+y?+y??1, and z is selected so that the resultant composition is charge neutral. The ceramic element can be a composite consisting of two or more component materials, wherein one component is predominantly an electronic conductor and another is predominantly an ionic conductor. The ceramic element may also be a composite material containing at least one component material having a chemical composition of AxA?x?A?x?ByB?y?B?y?O3-z.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Carleton Life Support Systems Inc.Inventors: Zhonglin Wu, Courtney J. Monzyk, Scott R. Sehlin
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Patent number: 9725428Abstract: A continuous process for the preparation of propylene oxide, comprising (i) providing a liquid feed stream comprising propene, hydrogen peroxide, acetonitrile, water, optionally propane, and at least one dissolved potassium salt of a phosphorus oxyacid wherein the molar ratio of potassium relative to phosphorus in the at least one potassium salt of a phosphorus oxyacid is in the range of from 0.6 to 1.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignees: BASF SE, Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Joaquim Henrique Teles, Bianca Seelig, Dominic Riedel, Philip Kampe, Daniel Urbanczyk, Markus Weber, Ulrich Mueller, Andrei-Nicolae Parvulescu, Kai Gumlich, Peter Bassler, Christian Bartosch, Richard Jacubinas, Meinolf Weidenbach, Werner Witzl
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Patent number: 9708238Abstract: Disclosed is a method of oxidizing a cycloalkane to form a product mixture containing a corresponding alcohol and ketone, said method comprising contacting a cycloalkane with a hydroperoxide in the presence of a catalytic effective amount of a crystalline MWW-type titanosilicate catalyst. Hydroperoxides may notably be tert-butyl hydroperoxide, tert-amyl hydroperoxide, cumene hydroperoxide, ethylbenzene hydroperoxide, cyclohexyl hydroperoxide, methylcyclohexyl hydroperoxide, tetralin hydroperoxide, isobutylbenzene hydroperoxide, and ethylnaphthalene hydroperoxide.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2012Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignees: Rhodia Operations, East China Normal University, Ecole Normale Superieure De LyonInventors: Floryan Decampo, Wenjuan Zhou, Peng Wu, Kai Xue, Yueming Liu, Mingyuan He
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Patent number: 9388346Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of removing heteroaromatic sulfides from hydrocarbons (e.g. petroleum products such as gasoline and fuel oils), using polyoxometalate catalysts such as H5PV2Mo10O40 or solvates thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: YEDA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CO. LTD.Inventors: Ronny Neumann, Alexander Khenkin
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Patent number: 9006225Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition which includes a compound represented by the general formula (I): or a salt thereof, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, wherein the composition does not substantially contain a reducing sugar and/or a carrier containing a reducing sugar as an ingredient as the pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, or when the composition contains a reducing sugar and/or a carrier containing a reducing sugar as an ingredient as the pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, contact of the reducing sugar and the compound represented by the general formula (I) or a salt thereof is eliminated.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2009Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Asahi Kasei Pharma CorporationInventor: Kazumi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20140330048Abstract: Maintaining long residence times during hydrothermal digestion of cellulosic biomass solids may be complicated by a number of factors, including biomass compaction. Advantages in this regard may be realized by digesting cellulosic biomass solids in an inclined digestion unit. Such methods can comprise: introducing cellulosic biomass solids to a hydrothermal digestion unit comprising one or more inclined surfaces therein; introducing a fluid phase digestion medium containing a slurry catalyst to the hydrothermal digestion unit, the slurry catalyst being capable of activating molecular hydrogen; supplying an upwardly directed flow of molecular hydrogen from a source disposed along each inclined surface as the cellulosic biomass solids descend along each inclined surface; and heating the cellulosic biomass solids as they descend along each inclined surface in the presence of the slurry catalyst and the molecular hydrogen, thereby forming an alcoholic component derived from the cellulosic biomass solids.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2014Publication date: November 6, 2014Applicant: SHELL OIL COMPANYInventors: Joseph Broun POWELL, Alouisius Nicolaas Renee BOS, Peter Anton August KLUSENER, Ingmar Hubertus Josephina PLOEMEN
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Publication number: 20140065059Abstract: Disclosed are a catalyst for producing, from an alcohol, an olefin whose number of carbon atoms is at least one more than the number of carbon atoms of the alcohol, wherein at least the surface of the catalyst is substantially composed of zirconium oxide; a method for producing an olefin using the same; and so on.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2011Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicants: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Tetsuo Suzuki, Takahiro Kakinuma, Hiroshi Ohashi, Masakazu Iwamoto
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Publication number: 20130023702Abstract: The present invention provides processes for deconstructing biomass using water. The method generally includes loading a reactor with biomass and water, heating the reactor to a first deconstruction temperature and establishing a first deconstruction pressure, maintaining the reactor at the first deconstruction temperature and a first deconstruction pressure for a first deconstruction period, flushing the reactor with water, and repeating these steps one or more times after establishing a second deconstructing temperature and second deconstruction pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2012Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: VIRENT, INC.Inventors: Ming Qiao, Elizabeth Woods, Paul Myren, Randy Cortright
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Publication number: 20120323053Abstract: The present invention provides processes for deconstructing and purifying biomass using water. The method includes the steps of loading a reactor with biomass and water, establishing and maintaining a deconstruction temperature and pressure for a deconstruction period, flushing the reactor with water, and repeating these steps to produce a solid phase and a biomass hydrolysate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: VIRENT, INC.Inventors: Ming Qiao, Elizabeth Woods, Paul Myren, Randy Cortright
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Publication number: 20120302683Abstract: Methods of preparing reduced graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide-polymer composites. The methods include covalently binding a halogen-substituted aromatic compounds to a graphene oxide and heat treating the graphene oxide with the halogen-substituted aromatic compounds covalently bound thereto at a low temperature, for example, 450° C. or less. By using the methods, reduced graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide-polymer composites that have high electrical conductivities (e.g., 30,000 S/m or more) may be obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2012Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Bon-Cheol KU, Ok-kyung PARK, Sung Ho LEE, Seok In NA, Han Ik JO, Jun Kyung KIM, Joong Hee LEE
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Publication number: 20120149950Abstract: The invention relates to the process for homogenous oxidation of methane-containing gas comprising feeding of methane-containing gas preheated to 430-450° C. to at least three sequentially installed oxidation reactors, wherein each reactor, with the exception of the last one, is independently connected to waste-heat boilers, the reactors are fed with oxygen for oxidation of methane-containing gas, wherein the gas mixture temperature is increased to 540-560° C. with subsequent rapid quenching-cooling of the gas mixture to 440-450° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2009Publication date: June 14, 2012Inventors: Valer'jan Nikolaevich Blinichev, Rafis Faizovich Kadyrov, Oleg Vjacheslavovich Chagin
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Patent number: 8148583Abstract: An oxygen ion transport membrane process wherein a heated oxygen-containing gas having one or more contaminants is contacted with a reactive solid material to remove the one or more contaminants. The reactive solid material is provided as a deposit on a support. The one or more contaminant compounds in the heated oxygen-containing gas react with the reactive solid material. The contaminant-depleted oxygen-containing gas is contacted with a membrane, and oxygen is transported through the membrane to provide transported oxygen.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2010Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Richard Paul Underwood, Alexander Makitka, III, Michael Francis Carolan
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Publication number: 20110275866Abstract: An oxygen ion transport membrane process wherein a heated oxygen-containing gas having one or more contaminants is contacted with a reactive solid material to remove the one or more contaminants. The reactive solid material is provided as a deposit on a support. The one or more contaminant compounds in the heated oxygen-containing gas react with the reactive solid material. The contaminant-depleted oxygen-containing gas is contacted with a membrane, and oxygen is transported through the membrane to provide transported oxygen.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2010Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Richard Paul Underwood, Alexander Makitka, III, Michael Francis Carolan
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Publication number: 20110263912Abstract: Mixed conducting ion transport membrane comprising a multi-component metallic oxide compound represented by the formula LnxA?x?A?x?ByB?y?O3-z wherein (a) Ln is an element selected from the f block lanthanides, A? is selected from Group 2, A? is selected from Groups 1, 2 and 3 and the f block lanthanides, and B and B? are independently selected from the d block transition metals, excluding titanium and chromium, wherein 0?x<1, 0<x??1, 0?x?<1, 0<y<1.1, 0?y?<1.1, x+x?+x?=1.0, 1.1>y+y??1.0 and z is a number which renders the compound charge neutral, and (b) the average grain size of the multicomponent metallic oxide is in the range of about 4 ?m to about 20 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2007Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Christopher Francis Miller, Michael Francis Carolan
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Patent number: 8002856Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for contacting a hydrocarbon and an oxygen-containing gas with a catalyst bed in a reactor at a space velocity of at least 10,000 h?1, said process being characterised in that a) the reactor has a polygonal internal cross-section at least in the section where the catalyst bed is held, b) the catalyst bed is made up of 2 or more layers of catalyst in the form of tiles of polygonal shape, said tiles have at least 4 sides, c) each layer of catalyst comprises at least 4 tiles which tessellate together to form said layer, and d) the edges where 2 tiles meet in one layer do not align with the edges where 2 tiles meet in an adjacent layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Ineos Europe LimitedInventor: Vaughan Clifford Williams
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Patent number: 7863493Abstract: A process for preparing an organic hydroperoxide, which process comprises: (a) oxidizing an organic compound to obtain an organic reaction product containing organic hydroperoxide; (b) mixing at least part of the organic reaction product of step (a) with a basic aqueous solution to obtain a mixture of basic aqueous solution and the organic reaction product; (c) separating the mixture of step (b) to obtain a separated organic phase containing organic hydroperoxide, and a separated aqueous phase; (d) mixing at least part of the separated organic phase of step (c) with water to obtain a mixture of an aqueous phase and the organic phase; and (e) separating the mixture of step (d) to obtain a separated organic phase containing organic hydroperoxide, and a separated aqueous phase; in which process the separation to a separated organic phase and a separated aqueous phase in step (e) is carried out with the help of a coalescer containing glass fibers.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2006Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Anke Derking, Wan Shi Foong, Raymond Lawrence June, Chao-Yuan Kho, Mohammad Azmi Bin Othman, Hoi-Yan Yuen
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Publication number: 20100280290Abstract: This disclosure relates to a novel method of making and recovering M41S family molecular sieve materials using synthesis mixtures having high solids-content and without a purification step. The solids-content, for example, is in a range from about 20 wt. % to 50 wt. %. The method also includes the step of mixing at least a portion of the M41S made with another material to form a composition, wherein the amount of said material to be mixed with said M41S product is such that said composition having less than 10 wt. % free fluid. The material mixed with the M41S made includes metal oxides, metal nitrides, metal carbides and mixtures thereof, as well as absorptive material capable of absorbing mother liquor and selected from the group consisting of carbon silica, alumina, titania, zirconia and mixtures thereof. The amount of the wastewater generated by this novel method is reduced by at least 50% to as much as 100% as comparing with conventional method of making M41S materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2008Publication date: November 4, 2010Applicant: EXXON-MOBIL CHEMICAL PATENTS INC.Inventors: Wenyih F. Lai, Robert Kay, Stephen McCarthy
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Publication number: 20100279903Abstract: Polymeric salts, lubricant compositions comprising the polymeric salts and processes for producing such polymeric salts. More specifically, low viscosity lubricants for the working surface of an extrusion die during the processing of plastics that require lubricants to render them processable, such as polyvinyl chloride, chlorinated polyvinyl chloride, polyvinylidene chloride and copolymers thereof. A metal base is reacted with acid functional groups formed during oxidation of a wax, thereby forming a polymeric salt, neutralizing the wax and saponifying saponifiable functional groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2010Publication date: November 4, 2010Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Manfred K. Seven, Manfried M. Braun, Vincent M. Clarke
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Publication number: 20100234650Abstract: A composition comprising an electron-conducting component and an oxide ion-conducting component, characterised in that the electron-conducting component is also an oxide ion-conductor, the composition being suitable for use in a selective oxygen permeable membrane for separating oxygen from a gaseous mixture comprising oxygen, such as air, the separation optionally being carried out in a reactor comprising a first and second zone, in which an oxygen-containing gas is fed to the first zone, and a reactant fed to the second zone, in which an oxygen consuming reaction occurs in the second zone of the reactor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2007Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: BP P.L.C.Inventors: You Cong, Weishen Yang, Xuefeng Zhu
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Publication number: 20100185023Abstract: Process for the production of synthesis gas which involves the steps of: a) preparing a vapour phase mixture comprising steam and at least one hydrocarbon or oxygenated hydrocarbon with an atmospheric boiling point in the range of ?50 to 370° C., said vapour phase mixture having a H2O/C molar ratio at least 2, and b) catalytically or non-catalytically converting the vapour phase mixture into synthesis gas, which process is characterized in that the oxygen is only added in bonded form.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2007Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: Gelato Corporation N.V.Inventor: Siebolt Doorn
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Publication number: 20100081208Abstract: A multirange indicator is proposed which permits quantitative dose determination of high-energy actinic radiation, where the dose for different wavelength ranges can be respectively determined in parallel. To this end, the multirange indicator has two indicator systems designed with mutually corresponding properties, thus eliminating any mutual distortion of the results of the dose measurements. The first indicator system is based on a photolatent Lewis acid or photolatent Lewis base, and the second indicator system is based on a polysubstituted triphenylmethane dye. Both the multirange indicator and its use for the production of various dose-measurement devices are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2009Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: Tesa SEInventors: Klaus KEITE-TELGENBÜSCHER, Hermann NEUHAUS-STEINMETZ
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Patent number: 7514577Abstract: The invention relates to polyoxometalates represented by the formula (An)m+ [My(H2O)(p.y)X2W22O74(OH)2]m? or solvates or mixtures thereof, wherein A represents a cation, n is the number of the cations, m is the charge of the polyoxoanion, M represents a transition metal selected from Pd, Pt and mixtures thereof, y is 1, 2, 3 or 4, p is the number of water molecules bound to one M and varies from 3 to 5, and X represents a heteroatom selected from SbIII, BiIII, AsIII, SeIV and TeIV, a process for their preparation and their use for the catalytic oxidation of organic molecules.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2006Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Ulrich Kortz, Lihua Bi
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Publication number: 20090018374Abstract: A hydrogenation catalyst particularly suitable for hydrogenating oxygenates in a hydrogenation unit of a Fischer-Tropsch plant is disclosed. A preferred embodiment comprises more than 5% and less than 20% nickel based on a wide pore alumina support. The catalyst successfully hydrogenates oxygenates which otherwise tend to poison a catalyst in a hydroconversion unit downstream. Moreover, the temperature at which the unwanted hydrogenolysis of long chain paraffins to methane occurs is higher for one catalyst disclosed herein than a comparable known catalyst. This allows the hydrogenation plant to operate at a higher temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2006Publication date: January 15, 2009Inventors: Focco Cornelis Bijlsma, Jan Lodewijk Maria Dierickx, Arend Hoek, Frans Joris Antonius Kellendonk, Anna Elisabeth Maria Oud
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Patent number: 7476770Abstract: The invention is a catalyst comprising a titanium or vanadium zeolite, a binder, and zinc oxide, wherein the catalyst is preparing an aqueous mixture of the zeolite, a binder source, and a zinc oxide source, and subjecting the mixture to rapid drying. The catalyst is useful in olefin epoxidation.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2007Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: Lyondell Chemical Technology, L.P.Inventors: Jay F. Miller, Bernard Cooker, Robert N. Cochran, Peter J. Whitman
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Patent number: 7432402Abstract: The present invention relates to new crystalline molecular sieve SSZ-74 prepared using a hexamethylene-1,6-bis-(N-methyl N-pyrrolidinium) dication as a structure-directing agent, and processes employing SSZ-74 in a catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2006Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Assignee: Chevron U.S.A.Inventors: Stacey I. Zones, Allen W. Burton, Jr.
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Patent number: 7425519Abstract: The present invention is to provide a method by which, in carrying out a liquid-phase oxidation reaction using a catalyst comprising a tungsten species as an essential component, the catalytic activity performance can be improved or maintained and by which the catalyst component tungsten species can be prevented from being leached into liquid reaction mixtures to thereby control decrease in catalytic activity and make it possible to reuse the catalyst. A method of liquid-phase oxidation reaction using a tungsten species, wherein that, in carrying out said method of liquid-phase oxidation reaction using a catalyst comprising a tungsten species as an essential component, said tungsten species is caused to be supported on a porous support and, further, a third element other than the component elements of said porous support and the tungsten element is caused to coexist in said catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2003Date of Patent: September 16, 2008Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Yonehara, Yasutaka Sumida, Kazuhisa Hirata
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Patent number: 7417008Abstract: The invention relates to supported polyoxometalates represented by the formula (An)m+ [M4(H2O)10(XW9O33)2]m? or solvates thereof, wherein A represents a cation, n is the number of cations, m is the charge of the polyoxoanion, M is a transition metal, and X is an element selected from the group consisting of As, Sb, Bi, Se and Te, characterized in that the polyoxometalate is supported on a solid support selected from the group consisting of Al2O3, MgO, TiO2, ZrO2, SiO2, mesoporous silica, active carbon, diatomite, clays, zeolites, polyoxometalate salts and mixtures thereof, with the proviso that the polyoxometalate salt supports are different from the supported polyoxometalates defined by the above formula, a process for their preparation and their use for the catalytic oxidation of organic molecules.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2006Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Ryan M. Richards, Ulrich Kortz, Lihua Bi, Kake Zhu
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Publication number: 20080161523Abstract: Disclosed is a novel radially multi-branched polymer. The radially multi-branched polymer includes a central molecule to which side-branches are bonded in at least three positions and has an average molecular weight of 500 to 100,000, the side-branch being selected from the group consisting of a polyalkylene oxide, a polyacrylate, a polyester, a polyamide and derivatives thereof. The radially multi-branched polymer is used for manufacturing a low dielectric insulating film to provide a low dielectric insulating film having easily controllable micropores.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2007Publication date: July 3, 2008Inventors: Jae Ho Cheong, Gwi Gwon Kang, Min Jin Ko, Jung Won Kang, Myung Sun Moon, Byung Ro Kim, Bum Gyu Choi, Dae Ho Kang, Jeong Man Son
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Publication number: 20080076945Abstract: A process for the conversion of biomass to a liquid fuel is presented. The process includes the production of diesel and naphtha boiling point range fuels by hydrotreating and hydrocracking of lignin in the biomass in a one step process.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2006Publication date: March 27, 2008Inventors: Terry L Marker, John A. Petri
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Publication number: 20080033195Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of salts of weakly coordinating anions of the type according to the following formula (1), (2) or (3): M[F—X(OR F)m]z (1), M[(FRO)mX—F—X(ORF)m]z (2), M[(FRO)mX—F—X(ORF)n—F—X(ORF)m]z (3), these salts of weakly coordinating anions and use thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2004Publication date: February 7, 2008Inventors: Ingo Krossing, Marcin Gonsior, Lutz Muller
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Publication number: 20070282138Abstract: The invention relates to supported polyoxometalates represented by the formula (An)m+ [M4(H2O)10(XW9O33)2]m? or solvates thereof, wherein A represents a cation, n is the number of cations, m is the charge of the polyoxoanion, M is a transition metal, and X is an element selected from the group consisting of As, Sb, Bi, Se and Te, characterized in that the polyoxometalate is supported on a solid support selected from the group consisting of Al2O3, MgO, TiO2, ZrO2, SiO2, mesoporous silica, active carbon, diatomite, clays, zeolites, polyoxometalate salts and mixtures thereof, with the proviso that the polyoxometalate salt supports are different from the supported polyoxometalates defined by the above formula, a process for their preparation and their use for the catalytic oxidation of organic molecules.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2006Publication date: December 6, 2007Inventors: Ryan M. Richards, Ulrich Kortz, Lihua Bi, Kake Zhu
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Publication number: 20070282140Abstract: The invention relates to polyoxometalates represented by the formula (An)m+[R2(H2O)6X2W20O70]m? or solvates thereof, wherein A represents a cation, n is the number of the cations, m is the charge of the polyoxoanion, and X represents a heteroatom selected from SbIII, BiIII, AsIII, SeIV and TeIV, a process for their preparation and their use for the catalytic oxidation of organic molecules.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2006Publication date: December 6, 2007Inventors: Ulrich Kortz, Lihua Bi
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Publication number: 20070282139Abstract: The invention relates to polyoxometalates represented by the formula (An)m+ [My(H2O)(p.y)X2W22O74(OH)2]m? or solvates or mixtures thereof, wherein A represents a cation, n is the number of the cations, m is the charge of the polyoxoanion, M represents a transition metal selected from Pd, Pt and mixtures thereof, y is 1, 2, 3 or 4, p is the number of water molecules bound to one M and varies from 3 to 5, and X represents a heteroatom selected from SbIII, BiIII, AsIII, SeIV and TeIV, a process for their preparation and their use for the catalytic oxidation of organic molecules.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2006Publication date: December 6, 2007Inventors: Ulrich Kortz, Lihua Bi
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Patent number: 7294734Abstract: This invention relates to a process for converting a hydrocarbon reactant to a product comprising an oxygenate or a nitrile, the process comprising: (A) flowing a reactant composition comprising the hydrocarbon reactant, and oxygen or a source of oxygen, and optionally ammonia, through a microchannel reactor in contact with a catalyst to convert the hydrocarbon reactant to the product, the hydrocarbon reactant undergoing an exothermic reaction in the microchannel reactor; (B) transferring heat from the microchannel reactor to a heat exchanger during step (A); and (C) quenching the product from step (A).Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2003Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Assignee: Velocys, Inc.Inventors: John H. Brophy, Frederick A. Pesa, Anna Lee Tonkovich, Jeffrey S. McDaniel, Kai Tod Paul Jarosch
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Publication number: 20070191651Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a catalyst comprising: a) The preparation of a colloidal oxide suspension of a first metal M1 that consists in the neutralization of a basic solution by an acidic mineral solution that contains the precursor of the metal M1, b) Bringing into contact the precursor of the promoter M2, either directly in its crystallized form or after dissolution in aqueous phase, with the colloidal suspension that is obtained in stage a), c) Bringing into contact the colloidal suspension that is obtained in stage b) with the substrate, d) Drying at a temperature of between 30° C. and 200° C., under a flow of air. The invention also relates to a process for the treatment of an olefinic fraction that uses the catalyst prepared [by] said preparation process.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2006Publication date: August 16, 2007Inventors: Vincent Coupard, Denis Uzio, Carine Petit-Clair, Lars Fischer, Frederic Portejoie
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Patent number: 7087792Abstract: The present invention relates to new molecular sieve SSZ-71 prepared using a N-benzyl-1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane cation as a structure-directing agent, methods for synthesizing SSZ-71 and processes employing SSZ-71 in a catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2005Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.Inventors: Cong-Yan Chen, Allen W. Burton, Jr., Ann J. Liang
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Patent number: 7084305Abstract: The present invention relates to new crystalline molecular sieve SSZ-70 prepared using a N,N?-diisopropyl imidazolium cation as a structure-directing agent, methods for synthesizing SSZ-70 and processes employing SSZ-70 in a catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2005Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.Inventors: Stacey I. Zones, Allen W. Burton, Jr.
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Patent number: 7078520Abstract: This invention relates to a method of preparing a first alicyclic compound having a vinyl group on one alkyl ring carbon and an alkoxy, cycloalkoxy, heterocycloalkyoxy, aryloxy, or heteroaryloxy group on the same ring carbon; the method comprising reacting an aliphatic alcohol or an aromatic alcohol with a second alicyclic compound having an exo cyclic carbon-carbon double bond, wherein the non-ring olefinic carbon is substituted with a hydroxymethyl, thiomethyl, alkoxymethyl, aryloxymethyl, acyloxymethyl, alkylsulfonyloxymethyl, arylsulfonyloxymethyl, alkylsulfonylmethyl, arylsulfonylmethyl, halomethyl, or silyloxymethyl group.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2003Date of Patent: July 18, 2006Assignee: Academia SinicaInventors: Chun-Hung Lin, Wen-Bin Yang, Hui-Chang Lin
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Patent number: 6919472Abstract: A catalyst composition for the selective conversion of an alkane to an unsaturated carboxylic acid having the general formula: MoVaNbbAgcMdOx wherein optional element M may be one or more selected from aluminum, copper, lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, gallium, phosphorus, iron, rhenium, cobalt, chromium, manganese, arsenic, indium, thallium, bismuth, germanium, tin, cerium or lanthanum; a is 0.05 to 0.99, b is 0.01 to 0.99, c is 0.01 to 0.99, d is 0 to 0.5 and x is determined by the valence requirements of the other components of the catalyst composition. This catalyst is prepared by co-precipitation of compounds of molybdenum, vanadium, niobium, silver and M to form a mixed metal oxide catalyst. This catalyst can be used for the selective conversion of an alkane to an unsaturated carboxylic acid in a one-step process or the ammoxidation of alkanes and olefins.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2002Date of Patent: July 19, 2005Assignee: Saudi Basic Industries CorporationInventors: Paulette N. Hazin, Paul E. Ellis, Jr.
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Patent number: 6870060Abstract: Oxidation products are recovered from a mixture of the products in a dense phase or supercritical solvent by a liquid—liquid extraction at dense phase conditions.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2003Date of Patent: March 22, 2005Assignee: Arco Chemical Technology, L.P.Inventors: Robert N. Cochran, Jay F. Miller
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Publication number: 20040230083Abstract: The present invention provides hydro-oxidation catalysts for the oxidation of hydrocarbons, containing an organic-inorganic hybrid material as well as gold particles and/or silver particles, a process for the production thereof, and the use thereof as a catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2004Publication date: November 18, 2004Inventors: Markus Weisbeck, Marie-Therese Heinen, Jorg Schmitt, Gerhard Wegener, Markus Dugal
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Publication number: 20040220434Abstract: This invention relates to a process for converting a hydrocarbon reactant to a product comprising an oxygenate or a nitrile, the process comprising: (A) flowing a reactant composition comprising the hydrocarbon reactant, and oxygen or a source of oxygen, and optionally ammonia, through a microchannel reactor in contact with a catalyst to convert the hydrocarbon reactant to the product, the hydrocarbon reactant undergoing an exothermic reaction in the microchannel reactor; (B) transferring heat from the microchannel reactor to a heat exchanger during step (A); and (C) quenching the product from step (A).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2003Publication date: November 4, 2004Inventors: John H. Brophy, Frederick A. Pesa, Anna Lee Tonkovich, Jeffrey S. McDaniel, Kai Tod Paul Jarosch
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Publication number: 20040199029Abstract: This invention relates to a method of preparing a first alicyclic compound having a vinyl group on one alkyl ring carbon and an alkoxy, cycloalkoxy, heterocycloalkyoxy, aryloxy, or heteroaryloxy group on the same ring carbon; the method comprising reacting an aliphatic alcohol or an aromatic alcohol with a second alicyclic compound having an exo cyclic carbon-carbon double bond, wherein the non-ring olefinic carbon is substituted with a hydroxymethyl, thiomethyl, alkoxymethyl, aryloxymethyl, acyloxymethyl, alkylsulfonyloxymethyl, arylsulfonyloxymethyl, alkylsulfonylmethyl, arylsulfonylmethyl, halomethyl, or silyloxymethyl group.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2003Publication date: October 7, 2004Inventors: Chun-Hung Lin, Wen-Bin Yang, Hui-Chang Lin
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Publication number: 20040199030Abstract: The present invention provides a method for the production of a high-temperature high-pressure fluid which can be caused to reach specified conditions in a short time, a high-temperature high-pressure reaction method, and a reaction system for the same, and the present invention comprises a method for the production of a high-temperature high-pressure fluid in which the reactants can be caused to reach a prescribed temperature in 5 seconds or less by mixing two or more high-pressure fluids at different temperatures in a flow system, a high-temperature high-pressure reaction method which utilizes this production method of a high-temperature high-pressure fluid, and which reduces the temperature elevation time to the prescribed reaction temperature to 5 seconds or less by mixing a carrier fluid at a temperature higher than the prescribed reaction temperature with substrate solution(s) at a temperature of 100° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2004Publication date: October 7, 2004Inventors: Kiyotaka Hatakeda, Osamu Sato, Yutaka Ikushima, Kazuo Torii
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Publication number: 20040180975Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for producing synthesis gas and higher hydrocarbons from light hydrocarbons and molecular oxygen as well as the higher hydrocarbons produced by the disclosed methods and apparatus. The methods and apparatus disclosed utilize components comprising nickel and nickel alloys.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2003Publication date: September 16, 2004Applicant: ConocoPhillips CompanyInventors: Chien-Ping Pan, Harold A. Wright
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Publication number: 20040181083Abstract: Partial oxidation products and/or ammoxidation products of an olefinic hydrocarbon A′ are prepared by a process in which said olefinic hydrocarbon is produced during normal operation by partial dehydrogenation and/or oxydehydrogenation of hydrocarbon A and fed in from another source during partial or complete nonoperation of the dehydrogenation and/or oxydehydrogenation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2003Publication date: September 16, 2004Inventors: Theo Proll, Otto Machhammer, Gotz-Peter Schindler, Klaus Joachim Muller-Engel
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Publication number: 20040171861Abstract: Vanadium antimony oxide catalysts useful for the selective oxidation and ammoxidation of paraffins, olefins, and aromatic compounds are manufactured in a process comprising (i) forming a catalyst precursor slurry comprising a vanadium containing compound and an antimony containing compound in a liquid solvent medium which comprises an organic solvent, and (ii) recovering a vanadium antimony oxide from the slurry by drying the slurry in order to remove water and organic solvent.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2004Publication date: September 2, 2004Inventor: James F. Brazdil