Patents Assigned to Energy Catalysis Incorporated
  • Method and apparatus for hydroprocessing low-volatile hydrocarbon materials into volatile liquids
    Patent number: 8092672
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for catalytic hydroconversion processing of less volatile carbonaceous material to volatile liquid products is disclosed. The process is carried out in a plug-flow reactor system using nanosize metallic catalyst particles dispersed in the reactant slurry with compressed hydrogen/hydrogen-sulfide at a temperature between about 275° C. and 525° C. at a pressure of between about 800 psi and 6000 psi and a residence time in the reactors between about 1 minute and 4 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Energy Catalysis Incorporated
    Inventors: Partha S. Ganguli, Alfred G. Comolli