Group Viii Metal Patents (Class 585/531)
  • Patent number: 10633302
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for oligomerization of n-butenes using a nickel-containing aluminosilicate catalyst to produce a product mixture whose ratio of 4,4-dimethylhexene to 3,4-dimethylhexene is determined and monitored. The invention further relates to a process for determining the ratio of the amount of the formed 4,4-dimethylhexene or of the formed 3-ethyl-2-methylpentene to the amount of the formed 3,4-dimethylhexene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Evonik Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Fabian Nadolny, Stephan Peitz, Guido Stochniol, Robert Franke, Felix Alscher, Cornelia Breitkopf, Wladimir Reschetilowski
  • Patent number: 9309470
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing olefin having 3 or more carbon atoms from ethane stably in a simpler process. The present invention provides a method for producing olefin having a step of obtaining a cold fraction by cooling an ethane-cracked gas, which is obtained by thermal cracking of ethane in the presence of steam, to 600° C. or less; and a step of obtaining a catalytic cracking gas containing olefin having 3 or more carbon atoms by bringing the cold fraction into contact with a catalyst containing a medium pore diameter zeolite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Sekiguchi, Takashi Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 9192923
    Abstract: The present invention provides a coke resistant catalyst and process for sequestration of carbon dioxide via reforming of methane to synthesis gas (a mixture of CO and H2). The process provides a direct single step selective vapor phase carbon dioxide reforming of methane to syngas over gadolinium promoted mesoporous Ni-ZSM catalyst. The process provides almost 11-95% conversion of methane with H2 to CO ratio of 0.82 to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH
    Inventors: Rajaram Bal, Bipul Sarkar, Chandrasekhar Pendem, Rajib Kumar Singha, Shankha Shubhra Acharyya, Shilpi Ghosh
  • Patent number: 9079168
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing efficiently and stably propylene from a hydrocarbon raw material containing a high concentration of ethylene. The present invention discloses a process for producing propylene, comprising catalytically converting a hydrocarbon raw material containing ethylene in an amount exceeding 50% by mass with a zeolite-containing catalyst satisfying the following (1) to (3): (1) containing of a medium pore diameter zeolite having a pore size of from 5 to 6.5 ?; (2) a SiO2/Al2O3 molar ratio in the medium pore diameter zeolite being from 20 to 300; and (3) an acid amount (TPD acid amount), determined by a high-temperature desorption amount in an ammonia temperature-programmed desorption spectrum, being from 20 to 350 ?mol/g-zeolite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruyuki Minoura, Yoshikazu Takamatsu
  • Publication number: 20150104364
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to processes using a new crystalline molecular sieve designated SSZ-96, which is synthesized using a 1-butyl-1-methyl-octahydroindolium cation as a structure directing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventor: Saleh Ali ELOMARI
  • Patent number: 8933285
    Abstract: Methods are provided for producing a jet fuel composition from a feedstock comprising a natural oil. The methods comprise reacting the feedstock with a low-weight olefin in the presence of a metathesis catalyst under conditions sufficient to form a metathesized product. The methods further comprise hydrogenating the metathesized product under conditions sufficient to form a jet fuel composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Melvin L. Luetkens, Jr., Steven A. Cohen, Chander Balakrishnan
  • Patent number: 8912346
    Abstract: A phosphine ligand suitable for use in telomerizing butadiene comprises two phenyl groups and a xanthene moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Petrus Van Leeuwen, Mathieu Tschan, Eduardo Jose Garcia-Suarez, Zoraida Freixa, Henk Hagen
  • Patent number: 8785707
    Abstract: A catalyst that comprises at least one binder and at least one crystallized material with hierarchized and organized porosity in the fields of microporosity and mesoporosity is described, whereby said crystallized material consists of at least two elementary spherical particles, each of said particles comprising a mesostructured silicon-oxide-based matrix that has a mesopore diameter of between 1.5 and 30 nm and that has microporous and crystallized walls with a thickness of between 1 and 60 nm, whereby said elementary spherical particles have a maximum diameter of 200 microns. Said catalyst is used in a process for oligomerization of an olefinic feedstock that contains hydrocarbon molecules that have 2 to 12 carbon atoms per molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: IFP Energies Nouvelles
    Inventors: Amandine Cabiac, Alexandra Chaumonnot, Laurent Simon
  • Patent number: 8779228
    Abstract: Olefins are oligomerized by bringing at least one C2 to C8-olefin into contact with a nickel-containing heterogeneous catalyst. The catalyst is conditioned before contact with the olefin by passing an inert gas flow over the same, until the inert gas flow has a water content of less than 1000 ppm. Selectivity for the production of higher oligomers, in particular trimers relative to the formation of dimers is increased by the pretreatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Heidemann, Armin Ulonska
  • Patent number: 8742193
    Abstract: A process for oligomerization of an olefinic feedstock that contains olefinic hydrocarbon molecules that have 2 to 10 carbon atoms per molecule is described, whereby said process comprises bringing said feedstock into contact with a catalyst that comprises at least one amorphous material with hierarchized and organized porosity and consists of at least two elementary spherical particles, each of said particles comprising a mesostructured silicon-oxide-based matrix that has a mesopore diameter of between 1.5 and 30 nm and that exhibits amorphous and microporous walls with a thickness of between 1 and 50 nm, whereby said elementary spherical particles have a maximum diameter of 200 microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: IFP Energies Nouvelles
    Inventors: Amandine Cabias, Alexandra Chaumonnot, Laurent Simon
  • Patent number: 8608824
    Abstract: Integrated process, in which pure carbonyl iron powder (CIP) is prepared by decomposition of pure iron pentacarbonyl (IPC) in a plant A, carbon monoxide (CO) liberated in the decomposition of the IPC is used in plant A for the preparation of further CIP from iron or is fed to an associated plant B for the preparation of synthesis gas or is fed to an associated plant C for the preparation of hydrocarbons from synthesis gas, and the CIP prepared in plant A is used as catalyst or catalyst component in an associated plant C for the preparation of hydrocarbons from synthesis gas from plant B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Jochen Steiner, Ekkehard Schwab, Andreas Keller, Otto Watzenberger, Ulrich Gräβle, Manfred Julius
  • Publication number: 20130172650
    Abstract: Methods and systems relate to upgrading light olefins, such as ethylene, propylene and butylenes, diluted in a gas mixture, such as refinery fuel gas. The upgrading yields products in a gasoline, distillate, lube oil or wax range without requiring purification or compression of the gas mixture prior to feeding the gas mixture to a reactor. In operation, the mixture contacts a solid oligomerization catalyst, such as silica supported chromium, within the reactor. This contact occurs at a first temperature suitable to produce oligomers that are formed of the olefins and adsorb on the catalyst in liquid or solid phases. Next, heating the catalyst to a second temperature higher the first temperature desorbs the oligomers that are recovered and separated into the products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: PHILLIPS 66 COMPANY
    Inventors: Shetian Liu, Jianhua Yao, Xiaochun Xu, Patrick W. Blosser, Joe D. Allison, Edward L. Sughrue, II
  • Patent number: 8461405
    Abstract: A process for the production of alkylbenzenes in the presence of an aromatic feedstock and an olefinic stream produced from an ethanol feedstock, itself produced from a renewable source obtained from biomass, is described, with said process comprising at least: a) A stage for purification of said ethanol feedstock, b) A stage for dehydration of said purified ethanol feedstock, obtained from said stage a), into an effluent that is for the most part ethylene, c) At least one stage for separation of the water that is present in said effluent that is for the most part ethylene obtained from said stage b), d) A first stage for oligomerization of said effluent that is for the most part ethylene in the presence of at least one catalyst that comprises at least one element of group VIII, e) A second stage for oligomerization of at least some of the effluent that is obtained from said stage d) in the presence of at least one amorphous catalyst or at least one zeolitic catalyst, f) A stage for fractionation of the ef
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: IFP Energies nouvelles
    Inventors: Eric Sanchez, Emmanuelle Guillon
  • Patent number: 7977520
    Abstract: Process for telomerizing noncyclic olefins having at least two conjugated double bonds with at least one nucleophile using a catalyst containing a metal of group 8, 9 or 10 of the Periodic Table of the Elements, wherein the overall telomerization process has a process step of catalyst recycling, in which hydrogen is added via a hydrogen source to the mixture present in this process step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: EVONIX OXENO GmbH
    Inventors: Cornelia Borgmann, Dirk Roettger, Dagmara Ortmann, Reiner Bukohl, Stephan Houbrechts, Franz Nierlich
  • Patent number: 7960555
    Abstract: Versatile Group VIII metathesis catalysts, as can be used in a range of polymerization reactions and other chemical methodologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: University of Massachusetts
    Inventor: Todd S. Emrick
  • Patent number: 7847140
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for making higher olefins by oligomerization of a lower olefin e.g ethylene, to higher olefins, using catalytic distillation conditions. Simultaneously and interdependently, the lower olefin is catalytically oligomerized to higher olefins, and said higher olefins are separated and recovered as liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Inventor: Karl Chuang
  • Patent number: 7645914
    Abstract: Process for telomerizing noncyclic olefins having at least two conjugated double bonds with at least one nucleophile using a catalyst containing a metal of group 8, 9 or 10 of the Periodic Table of the Elements, wherein hydrogen is added via a hydrogen source to the process in at least one process step in the overall telomerization process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Evonik Oxeno GmbH
    Inventors: Cornelia Borgmann, Dirk Roettger, Dagmara Ortmann, Reiner Bukohl, Stephan Houbrechts, Franz Nierlich
  • Patent number: 7632976
    Abstract: This invention covers a process for making Octene from nix C4 Feed by a low cost highly selective multistage process. The multi staging of reactors essentially provides lower cost than conventional processes. Two options are provided in FIGS. 1 and 2 as regards to configuration based on the same catalyst but as can be seen that FIG. 1 configuration is low cost option with very high selectivity. The process provides conversion of butene to Octene >95% and product purity >96%. Product can be fractionated and can have a high purity Octene product by removing the trimers/polymers from the octene product. As mentioned due to the nature of the process configuration, one achieves high yield and selectivity with low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Inventor: Amarjit Singh Bakshi
  • Patent number: 7626066
    Abstract: An oligomerization process in which hydrocarbon feedstocks are contacted with a hydrotreating catalyst in the absence of hydrogen and in the liquid phase. The catalyst is a heterogeneous catalyst selected from supported reduced metals, metals oxides, metal sulfides and combinations thereof. Preferred catalysts include mixed nickel and molybdenum oxides or mixed cobalt and molybdenum oxides. The process also oligomerizes sulfur compounds so that sulfur containing feedstocks can be treated without deactivating the catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen H. Brown, Robert A. Crane, Jr., Robert J. Saxton, William A. Weber
  • Patent number: 7601881
    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 phosphorus component, and at least one platinum-group metal component which is preferably platinum. The catalyst has a structure other than a heteropoly anion structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Ralph D. Gillespie, Feng Xu
  • Patent number: 7601255
    Abstract: A process for reducing the level of residual catalyst comprising one or more alkylhalide, alkoxyhalide, metal halide, metal oxyhalide, alkyl metal, alkoxy metal, boron compound and coordinated metal compound wherein the metal is a Group III, Group IV, Group V, Group VI and/or Group VIII metal, from a crude organic product (e.g., polyolefins, alkylated aromatic compounds, alkylated amines, etc.) comprising the residual catalyst is provided, the process comprising contacting the crude organic product with a solid adsorbent in an adsorbent system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Chemtura Corporation
    Inventors: Vilan Kosover, Jesus R. Fabian, Daniel C. Knowles, Mitchel Cohn
  • Patent number: 7476773
    Abstract: A process for preparing a gas oil cut comprises the following steps in succession: 1) oligomerizing an olefinic C2-C12 hydrocarbon cut, preferably C3-C7 and more preferably C3-C5; 2) separating the mixture of products obtained in step 1) into three cuts: a light cut containing unreacted C4 and/or C5 olefinic hydrocarbons, an intermediate cut having a T95 in the range 200-220° C. and a heavy cut comprising the complement; T95 being the temperature at which 95% by weight of product has evaporated, as determined in accordance with standard method ASTM D2887; 3) oligomerizing the intermediate cut obtained in the separation step; characterized in that in step 3), oligomerization is carried out in the presence of an olefinic C4 and/or C5 hydrocarbon cut in a weight ratio of intermediate cut to olefinic C4 and/or C5 cut in the range of 60/40 to 80/20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Institut Francais du Petrole
    Inventors: Sylvain Louret, Vincent Coupard, Laurent Simon
  • Patent number: 7429684
    Abstract: A process for preparing ?-olefins from ethylene wherein the ?-olefins are substantially free of olefins having greater than 12 carbon atoms comprises contacting ethylene under oligomerization conditions with a 2,6-bis(phenylimino) pyridyl metal halide catalyst in which the metal is Fe, Ni, Co or Pd.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: ExxonMobile Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Abhimanyu O. Patil, Stephen Zushma
  • Patent number: 7411105
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process for the oligomerization of olefins that have 2 to 6 carbon atoms comprising at least: a) One reaction stage in which a first effluent that comprises oligomers, paraffins and olefins that have not reacted is recovered, b) A separation stage that makes it possible to separate a portion of the oligomers that are contained in the effluent from a mixture that comprises oligomers, paraffins and the olefins that have not reacted, c) A recycling of a portion of said mixture in the reaction stage, and d) A stage for membrane separation of another portion of said mixture so as to draw off a permeate that comprises at least 70% by weight of olefins and a retentate that comprises paraffins and oligomers, e) A stage for recovery of oligomers on the retentate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Institut Francais du Petrole
    Inventors: Alain Forestiere, Frederic Favre, Arnaud Baudot, Laurent Bournay
  • Patent number: 7332609
    Abstract: Amphiphilic Group VIII metathesis catalysts, as can be used in a range of polymerization reactions and other chemical methodologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: University of Massachusetts
    Inventors: Todd S. Emrick, Kurt Breitenkamp
  • Patent number: 7291759
    Abstract: Process for oligomerizing an alkene stream over a solid catalyst comprising sulfur and nickel, in which the oligomerization is carried out in two or more successive catalyst zones and the molar ratio of sulfur to nickel in the first catalyst zone is less than 0.5 and that in the last catalyst zone is 0.5 or more and, in the case of further catalyst zones between the first and last catalyst zones, the molar ratio of sulfur to nickel in each catalyst zone is not less than that in the immediately preceding catalyst zone, based on the main flow direction of the feed stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Heidemann, Ursula Siebenhaar
  • Patent number: 7259285
    Abstract: An oligomerization catalyst for olefins having from 2 to 6 carbon atoms is produced by treating aluminum oxide with a nickel compound and a sulfur compound, either simultaneously or firstly with the nickel compound an then with the sulfur compound, and subsequently drying and calcining the resulting catalyst, wherein a molar ratio of sulfur to nickel in the finished catalyst of from 0.25:1 to 0.38:1 is set in this way. The catalyst and its use are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marc Walter, Thomas Heidemann
  • Patent number: 7205446
    Abstract: An oligomerization process in which hydrocarbon feedstocks are contacted with a hydrotreating catalyst in the absence of hydrogen and in the liquid phase. The catalyst is a heterogeneous catalyst selected from supported reduced metals, metals oxides, metal sulfides and combinations thereof. Preferred catalysts include mixed nickel and molybdenum oxides or mixed cobalt and molybdenum oxides. The process also oligomerizes sulfur compounds so that sulfur containing feedstocks can be treated without deactivating the catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen H. Brown, Robert A. Crane, Jr., Robert J. Saxton, William A. Weber
  • Patent number: 7161054
    Abstract: Process for preparing oligomers of alkenes having from 4 to 8 carbon atoms from a feed stream comprising such alkenes or hydrocarbon streams in which such alkenes are present over a nickel-containing, heterogeneous catalyst in n successive adiabatically operated reactors, where n is 2 or an integer greater than 2, at from 30 to 280° C. and pressures of from 1 to 300 bar, where the feed stream has a temperature Tin when it enters the first reaction zone, experiences a temperature increase in each reaction zone and, if this temperature increase is more than Tin+20° C., is brought to a temperature in the range Tin±20° C. before it enters a subsequent reaction zone, wherein the feed stream is divided and the feed substreams obtained in this way are fed to the 2 reactors, or if more than 2 reactors are used to at least 2 of the reactors, with addition of fresh feed in such a way that the temperature in one of the reactors is at most 20° C. higher than that in each of the other reactors used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Heidemann, Armin Ulonska, Bianca Stäck
  • Patent number: 7126037
    Abstract: Butene oligomer derivatives having tert-butyl groups as one of the terminal groups, having a repeating unit of the main hydrocarbon chain consisting of 80% by mole or more of —CH2C(CH3)2—, and carrying the other terminal group consisting of 60% by mole or more of 1,4-butanediol type functional groups. These derivatives are useful as macromonomers which can be subjected to polycondensation, polyaddition, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Nippon Petrochemicals Co., Lt.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Takashima, Koji Fujimura, Yuichi Tokumoto
  • 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: 7037988
    Abstract: A process for production of higher linear alpha olefins and/or alkyl-branched alpha olefins, which comprises the co-oligomerisation of one or more alpha olefins with ethylene in the presence of a metal catalyst system employing one or more bis-aryliminepyridine MXa complexes and/or one or more [bis-aryliminepyridine MYp.Lb+][NC?]q complexes; and said process is carried out at an ethylene pressure of less than 2.5 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Eric Johannes Maria De Boer, Hendrikus Hyacinthus Deuling, Harry Van Der Heijden, Quoc An On, Aart Bartus Van Oort, Arie Van Zon
  • Patent number: 7030286
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing 1-octene by reacting 1,3-butadiene with a telogen of the formula H—X—Y—H, where X is O, N, S or P and Y is C, N or Si and X and Y bear, depending on their valence, further substituents, in the presence of a telomerization catalyst to form a telomer of the formula H2C?CH—CH2—CH2—CH2—CH?CH—CH2—X—Y—H, partially hydrogenating the telomer to form a 1-substituted 2-octene of the formula H3C—CH2—CH2—CH2—CH2—CH?CH—CH2—X—Y—H and dissociating the 1-substituted 2-octene to give 1-octene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: OXENO Olefinchemie GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Röttger, Axel Tuchlenski
  • 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: 6951831
    Abstract: A catalyst composition for use in dimerizing, co-dimerizing or oligomerizing olefins comprises: at least one zero-valent nickel complex; at least one acid with formula H+X? in which X? represents an anion; and at least one ionic liquid with general formula Q+ A? in which A? is an anion identical to or different from X?. The composition can also comprise a nitrogen-containing ligand. It can be used in dimerizing, co-dimerizing, oligomerizing and in polymerizing olefins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: Institut Francais du Petrole
    Inventors: Vincent Lecocq, Hélène Olivier-Bourbigou
  • Patent number: 6900152
    Abstract: A catalyst used for trimerization of ethylene into 1-hexene is descrobed, which comprises (i) a specific organometallic complex having a neutral multidentate ligand having a tripod structure, (ii) an alkylaluminoxane, and an optional ingredient selected from: (iii) a halogenated inorganic compound, (iv) a specific alkyl group-containing compound, (v) a combination of a halogenated inorganic compound with a specific alkyl group-containing compound, (vi) an amine compound and/or an amide compound, and (vii) a combination of an amine compound and/or an amide compound with a specific alkyl group-containing compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: Tosoh Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Yoshida, Toshihide Yamamoto, Hisanori Okada, Hideyuki Murakita
  • Patent number: 6896859
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for the production of a titanium-containing zeolite by: (a) combining a hydrolyzable silicon compound and a hydrolyzable titanium compound; (b) adding a basic quaternary ammonium compound in an aqueous medium to the mixture from (a) and hydrolysing the reaction mixture at a temperature in the range from 0° C. to 100° C. to form a synthesis sol; then (c) heating the synthesis sol to a temperature in the range from 150° C. to 190° C.; and (d) crystallizing the synthesis sol at this temperature, characterized in that the heating-up time in step (c) is less than 240 min.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Degussa AG
    Inventor: Steffen Hasenzahl
  • Patent number: 6884916
    Abstract: An oligomerization process in which hydrocarbon feedstocks are contacted with a hydrotreating catalyst in the absence of hydrogen and in the liquid phase. The catalyst is a heterogeneous catalyst selected from supported reduced metals, metals oxides, metal sulfides and combinations thereof. Preferred catalysts include mixed nickel and molybdenum oxides or mixed cobalt and molybdenum oxides. The process also oligomerizes sulfur compounds so that sulfur containing feedstocks can be treated without deactivating the catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: Exxon Mobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen H. Brown, Robert A. Crane, Jr., Robert J. Saxton, William A. Weber
  • Patent number: 6881874
    Abstract: A process for the production of an olefin comprising partially combusting in a reaction zone a mixture of a hydrocabon and an oxygen-containing gas in the presence of a catalyst which is capable of supporting combustion beyond the fuel rich limit of flammability to produce the olefin. Prior the partial combustion, the mixture of the hydrocabon and the oxygen-containg gas is passed through a heat excahanger, and the heat exchanger provides a pressure drop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: BP Chemicals Limited
    Inventors: Derek Alan Colman, Trevor John Hesketh, Ian Allan Beattie Reid, William Terence Woodfin
  • Patent number: 6852898
    Abstract: In a process for preparing essentially unbranched oligomers of alkenes having from 4 to 6 carbon atoms starting from the alkenes or a hydrocarbon stream comprising such alkenes over a nickel-containing heterogeneous catalyst in an adiabatically operated reactor at from 20 to 300° C. and pressures of from 1 to 100 bar, a first substream of the output from the reactor is worked up to isolate the oligomers and the second substream is recirculated together with fresh alkene or a fresh hydrocarbon stream comprising such alkenes to the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf Schulz, Thomas Heidemann, Peter Schwab, Peter Zehner
  • Patent number: 6846965
    Abstract: C2-C8-olefins are oligomerized in a process in which a stream of an olefin-containing hydrocarbon mixture is passed over a heterogeneous, nickel-containing oligomerization catalyst in n successive adiabatically operated reaction zones, where n?2, and the hydrocarbon mixture experiences a temperature increase 66 Treact in each reaction zone and the hydrocarbon mixture enters the first reaction zone at a temperature Tin and before entering each further reaction zone is cooled to a temperature which in each case may be up to 20° C. above or below Tin, and the relative catalyst volumes of the individual reaction zones are such that the difference in ?Treact between any two reaction zones is not more than 20° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf Schulz, Marc Walter, Hans-Peter Neumann, Wolfgang Brox
  • Publication number: 20040181105
    Abstract: Process for preparing oligomers of alkenes having from 4 to 8 carbon atoms from a feed stream comprising such alkenes or hydrocarbon streams in which such alkenes are present over a nickel-containing, heterogeneous catalyst in n successive adiabatically operated reactors, where n is 2 or an integer greater than 2, at from 30 to 280° C. and pressures of from 1 to 300 bar, where the feed stream has a temperature Tin when it enters the first reaction zone, experiences a temperature increase in each reaction zone and, if this temperature increase is more than Tin+20° C., is brought to a temperature in the range Tin±20° C. before it enters a subsequent reaction zone, wherein the feed stream is divided and the feed substreams obtained in this way are fed to the 2 reactors, or if more than 2 reactors are used to at least 2 of the reactors, with addition of fresh feed in such a way that the temperature in one of the reactors is at most 20° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventors: Thomas Heidemann, Armin Ulonska, Bianca Stack
  • Publication number: 20040116759
    Abstract: A novel oligomerization process is provided and includes contacting a hydrocarbon feedstock comprising at least one olefin with an oligomerization catalyst comprising a support component, a metal, and a halogen in an oligomerization reaction zone under oligomerization reaction conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventors: Bruce B. Randolph, Fan-Nan Lin, Linda D. Williams
  • Patent number: 6737555
    Abstract: In a process for oligomerizing C6-olefins by reactin of a C6-olefin-containing reaction mixture over a nickel-containing fixed-bed catalyst, the reaction over the fixed-bed catalyst is run at a conversion to oligomerized C6-olefins of not more than 30% by weight, based on the reaction mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heiko Maas, Peter Schwab, Ralf Schulz, Marc Walter, Wolfgang Brox
  • Patent number: 6686511
    Abstract: A process for making a lube base stock wherein an olefinic feedstock is separated into a light olefin fraction and a medium olefin fraction. The light olefin fraction is contacted with a first oligomerization catalyst in a first oligomerization zone to produce a first product. Both the medium olefin fraction and the first product are contacted with a second oligomerization catalyst in a second oligomerization zone to produce a second product. The second product is separated into a light byproduct fraction and a heavy product fraction that includes hydrocarbons in the lube base stock range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen J. Miller, Dennis J. O'Rear, Thomas V. Harris, Russell R. Krug
  • Patent number: 6667269
    Abstract: A catalytic composition for the dimerization, the codimerization or the oligomerization of olefins is obtained by bringing into contact at least one nickel compound that contains a heterocyclic carbene with at least one hydrocarbylaluminum halide and optionally at least one organic solvent. It is used in a process of dimerization, codimerization or oligomerization of olefins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Institut Francais du Petrole
    Inventors: Helene Olivier-Bourbigou, Dominique Commereuc, Stephane Harry
  • Patent number: 6649802
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for the oligomerization of light olefins to higher olefins. The process uses a catalyst that has an inert core and a thin layer of molecular sieve applied to the inert core. The molecular sieve is a crystalline silicoaluminate or metalloaluminophosphate and provides the acid sites for the oligomerization reactions. The thin layer provides for more selective control and limits the amount of oligomerization for liquid phase oligomerization processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Robert R. Frame, Den-Yang Jan, Hayim Abrevaya
  • Patent number: 6646173
    Abstract: A process is described for carrying out olefin oligomerisation in two catalysis steps of different types, using an organic feed containing at least one olefin. The cut to be treated, containing at least one olefin (Cn), is introduced into a first reaction zone where, in a first step, it undergoes catalytic oligomerisation either of the homogeneous liquid phase type, or of the heterogeneous type with a solid support. The effluent produced is generally sent to a heat exchanger traversed by a cold liquid, the effluent thus being cooled before being sent to a second reaction zone where it undergoes catalytic oligomerisation in a liquid—liquid two-phase medium, the invention being characterized in that at least an ethylenic hydrocarbon containing 3 to 5 carbon atoms per molecule is added to the inlet to the second reaction zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Institut Francais du Petrole
    Inventors: Dominique Commereuc, Alain Forestiere, François Hugues, Hélène Olivier-Bourbigou
  • Publication number: 20030181776
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel, heterogeneous catalyst which is suitable, in particular, for olefin metathesis. This catalyst is immobilized on an inorganic support and contains at least one active rhenium compound containing at least one carbene group and, if desired, further functional groups. The rhenium compound is bonded to the material used as support by a chemical bond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: Jean-Marie Basset, Mathieu Chabanas, Christophe Coperet
  • Patent number: 6593505
    Abstract: A catalyst comprising A) a stationary acid component selected from the group consisting of a perfluorinated ion exchange polymer on an inert support, a silane modified perfluorosulfonic acid, and a sulfated metal oxide; and B) a mobile acid component selected from the group consisting of chlorosulfonic acid, fluorosulfonic acid, a fluorinated monosulfonic acid, a fluorinated sulfonimide, a fluorinated disulfonic acid, and an adjunct acid mixture is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Mark A. Harmer, Eugene F. Hartstein