Patents Assigned to BASF Corporation
  • Patent number: 12290797
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain embodiments are carbon dioxide sorbents that include porous particles impregnated with an amine compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Riichiro Kimura, Mark T. Buelow, John Kauffman, Pascaline Tran, Aron Wosylus
  • Patent number: 12234414
    Abstract: A process for producing a hydrocarbon stream with reduced CS2 content, comprising contacting a hydrocarbon stream containing CS2 with a solid reactive CS2-scavenger which contains primary and/or secondary amino group-bearing hydrocarbon residues attached to a solid support, at a temperature in the range of from 0 to 300° C., and separating the obtained reaction product of CS2 and reactive CS2-scavenger from the hydrocarbon stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Ernst Boerman, Jim Brandts
  • Patent number: 12234420
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes and systems for removing heavy C5+ hydrocarbon components from a natural gas feed gas by subjecting the natural gas feed gas stream to an adsorber. The adsorber in the processes and systems described herein operating at a pressure that may be associated with improved adsorption capacity and longer breakthrough time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: William B. Dolan, Mark Tomczak
  • Patent number: 12180561
    Abstract: Provided are processes for extracting nickel and lithium from a Ni2+/Li+ solution. The process for extracting nickel and lithium includes providing a Ni2+/Li+ solution comprising an amount of lithium and an amount of nickel, treating the Ni2+/Li+ solution with an alkaline agent to adjust the pH of the Ni2+/Li+ solution to between about 1.0 to about 10.0, and treating the Ni2+/Li+ solution with a nickel selective extractant, the nickel selective extractant suitable to extract nickel from the Ni2+/Li+ solution at said pH to thereby produce a Li+ solution with less than 1000 parts per million Ni2+. Once complete, the process provides for recoverable nickel and/or lithium that may be recycled into batteries or sold for other uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: William C. Mays, Jack Bender, Benjamin Reichman, Diana Wong, Tinoush Dinn, Martin L. Panchula, Dieter G. Von Deak
  • Patent number: 12168215
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to hydrocarbon emission control systems. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to substrates coated with hydrocarbon adsorptive coating compositions, air intake systems, and evaporative emission control systems for controlling evaporative emissions of hydrocarbons from motor vehicle engines and fuel systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ruettinger, Steven Chin, Laif R. Alden, Chen Chen, Akash Abraham
  • Patent number: 12138620
    Abstract: A hydrogenation catalyst includes copper oxide, an alkali metal, and an acid-stabilized silica, wherein hydrogenation catalyst has a Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (“BET”) surface area of greater than or equal to about 15 m2/g. The hydrogenation catalysts are effective for converting aldehydes, ketones, and esters to alcohols and/or diesters to diols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Jian-Ping Chen, Scott Hedrick, Jeffrey S. Baciak, Bernd Bastian Schaack
  • Patent number: 12102987
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain embodiments is a catalytic material comprising: an active precious metal component comprising platinum; a sulfur-tolerant support material comprising silica on zirconia; and a substrate having the catalytic material coated thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Gerard D. Lapadula, Tiep M. Pham, Michael Durilla, Pascaline Harrison Tran
  • Publication number: 20240307822
    Abstract: Zoned diesel oxidation catalysts containing a higher precious metal loading in the inlet zone that the outlet zone and an equal or shorter length inlet zone are described. Emission treatment systems and methods of remediating nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter, and gaseous hydrocarbons using zoned diesel oxidation catalysts are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth E. Voss, Kevin A. Hallstrom, Sanath V. Kumar, Susanne Stiebels, Marius Vaarkamp
  • Patent number: 12083471
    Abstract: Disclosed in certain embodiments are methods of removing water from a gas feed stream comprising hydrocarbons and water during an adsorption step of an adsorption cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: William B. Dolan, Justin Pan, Alfonse Maglio, Margaret Anne Greene, Tobias Eckardt
  • Patent number: 12075766
    Abstract: A pest monitoring system generally includes a circuit, wherein the circuit is initially in a first impedance state that is configured to change to a second impedance state due to pest activity, wherein the second impedance state is lower than the first impedance state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: James W. Austin, Cheryl Ann Leichter, Greggory Keith Storey, Kenneth Scott Brown, Gregory Kent Thompson, Thomas S. Rancour, II, Timothy Robert Sloper
  • Patent number: 12071882
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are emission treatment systems, articles, and methods for selectively reducing NOx compounds. The systems include a hydrogen generator, a hydrogen selective catalytic reduction (H2-SCR) article, and one or more of a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) and/or a lean NOx trap (LNT) and/or a low temperature NOx adsorber (LTNA). Certain articles may comprise a zone coated substrate and/or a layered coated substrate and/or an intermingled coated substrate of one or more of the H2-SCR and/or DOC and/or LNT and/or LTNA catalytic compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventor: Yuejin Li
  • Patent number: 12071881
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a selective catalytic reduction catalyst comprising a porous wall-flow filter substrate; wherein in the pores of the porous internal walls and on the surface of the porous internal walls, the catalyst comprises a selective catalytic reduction coating comprising a selective catalytic reduction component comprising a zeolitic material comprising one or more of copper and iron. The present invention further relates to a process for preparing a selective catalytic reduction catalyst using particles of a carbon-containing additive and an aqueous mixture comprising said particles of a carbon-containing additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Matthias Peter, Susanne Stiebels, Andreas Zeeb, Claudia Zabel, Maria Heenemann
  • Patent number: 12064749
    Abstract: A catalyst includes a support, where the support includes an external surface, about 60 wt % to about 99 wt % silica, and about 1.0 wt % to about 5.0 wt % alumina. A catalytic layer is disposed within the support adjacent to the external surface, where the catalytic layer further includes Pd, Au, and potassium acetate (KOAc). In the catalyst, (a) the KOAc is from about 60 kg/m3 to about 150 kg/m3 of the catalyst; or (b) the catalytic layer has an average thickness from about 50 ?m to about 150 ?m; or (c) both (a) and (b). The catalyst also possesses a Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface area of about 130 m2/g to about 300 m2/g and a geometric surface area per packed bed volume from about 550 m2/m3 to about 1500 m2/m3. The catalyst is highly active for the synthesis of vinyl acetate monomer and exhibits a high selectivity for vinyl acetate monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventor: Dieter G. Von Deak
  • Patent number: 12055083
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to catalyst compositions, catalytic articles for purifying exhaust gas emissions and methods of making and using the same. In particular, the disclosure relates to a catalytic article including a catalytic material on a substrate, wherein the catalytic material has a first layer and a second layer. The first layer includes a platinum group metal (PGM) component impregnated on a porous support material; and the second layer includes a rhodium component impregnated on a support material, wherein the support material is a composite material including zirconia doped with baria, alumina, or combinations thereof, wherein the zirconia-based support material includes zirconia in an amount from about 80 to about 99 wt. %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Fudong Liu, Michel Deeba
  • Patent number: 12053763
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of making zeolite intergrowths. In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides a method of making an AEI-based material, including the steps of: preparing a mixture of water, an alumina source, a silica source, a CHA structure directing agent, and an AEI structure directing agent, wherein the molar ratio of the CHA structure directing agent to the AEI structure directing agent is from about 1:1 to about 1:15; heating the mixture at a temperature sufficient to promote formation of crystals; and calcining the crystals at a temperature of from about 450° C. to about 750° C. to obtain a product, wherein no halide-containing reagent is employed. The AEI-based materials of the present disclosure may find particular use in selective catalytic reduction of NOx in exhaust gas streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Eduard Kunkes, Ahmad Moini, Maritza Ortega
  • Patent number: 12053768
    Abstract: A selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst composition effective in the abatement of nitrogen oxides (NOx) is provided. The SCR catalyst composition significantly increases the conversion of NOx relative to a Cu-chabazite reference catalyst composition at any temperature, and especially at low temperatures. A catalyst article, an exhaust gas treatment system, and a method of treating an exhaust gas stream, each including the SCR catalyst composition of the invention, are also provided. The SCR catalyst composition is particularly useful for treatment of exhaust from a lean-burn engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventor: Yuejin Li
  • Publication number: 20240216864
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst for the selective catalytic reduction of NOx and for the cracking and conversion of a hydrocarbon, comprising a substrate comprising an inlet end, an outlet end, a substrate axial length extending from the inlet end to the outlet end and a plurality of passages defined by internal walls of the substrate extending therethrough: a coating disposed on the surface of the internal walls of the substrate, said coating comprising a platinum group metal, an 8-membered ring pore zeolitic material comprising one or more of copper and iron, and further comprising a 10- or more membered ring pore zeolitic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Dorner, Jan Martin Becker, Joseph A Patchett
  • Publication number: 20240217840
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing a battery material including contacting a first intermediate product of a battery material with an acidic medium under conditions sufficient to dissolve low-lithium-containing oxide present on a surface of the first intermediate product to obtain a second intermediate product such that a weight of the second intermediate product is 0.2% to 5% less than a weight of the first intermediate product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Dieter G. Von Deak, Tinoush Dinn, William C. Mays, Martin Lawrence Panchula
  • Publication number: 20240222620
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for removing impurities from an intermediate product in battery material production including a) contacting a first intermediate product with a first aqueous medium to obtain a second intermediate product; and b) contacting the second intermediate product with a stream of a second aqueous medium until a conductivity of the stream of the second aqueous medium after contacting the second intermediate product is below about 1,000 micro-Siemens per centimeter (?S/cm).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Tinoush Dinn, Dieter G. Von Deak, William C. Mays, Martin Lawrence Panchula
  • Patent number: 12023627
    Abstract: Zoned diesel oxidation catalysts containing a higher precious metal loading in the inlet zone that the outlet zone and an equal or shorter length inlet zone are described. Emission treatment systems and methods of remediating nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter, and gaseous hydrocarbons using zoned diesel oxidation catalysts are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth E. Voss, Kevin A. Hallstrom, Sanath V. Kumar, Susanne Stiebels, Marius Vaarkamp