Patents Assigned to Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
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Patent number: 9688593Abstract: Techniques for synthesizing methanol are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, the processes include obtaining a syngas mixture from an integrated carbon dioxide hydrogenation process and a methane steam reforming process, and contacting the syngas mixture with a methanol catalyst to obtain a product stream comprising methanol.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventors: Aghaddin Mamedov, Clark Rea
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Patent number: 9675961Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst for the thermochemical generation of hydrogen from water and/or the thermochemical generation of carbon monoxide from carbon dioxide comprising a solid solution of cerium dioxide and uranium dioxide.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2016Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventors: Hicham Idriss, Ibraheam Al-Shankiti, Yong Man Choi, Faisal Mohammed Al-Otaibi
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Patent number: 9669391Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst composition comprising cobalt molybdenum and optionally one or more elements selected from the group consisting of alkali metals and alkaline earth metals on a carbon support wherein said cobalt and molybdenum are in their metallic form. It was surprisingly found that the selectivity for alcohols can be increased by using the carbon supported cobalt molybdenum catalyst as described herein in a process for producing alcohols from a feed stream comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Furthermore, it was found that the catalyst of the present invention has a decreased selectivity for CO2 and can be operated at relatively low temperature when compared to conventional catalysts. Moreover, a method for preparing the carbon supported cobalt molybdenum catalyst composition and a process for producing alcohols using said carbon supported cobalt molybdenum catalyst composition is provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2016Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: Saudi Basic Industries CorporationInventors: Khalid Karim, Graham Hutchings, Sarwat Iqbal
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Patent number: 9669393Abstract: The present disclosures and inventions relate to a catalyst composition for the selective conversion of a hydrogen/carbon monoxide mixture (syngas) to C1-C5 hydrocarbons, wherein the catalyst composition, which can be optionally dispersed on a support material, has the formula COaMObScMdOf, wherein a is 1; wherein b is from 0.8 to 1.2; wherein c is from 1 to 2; wherein M comprises Zn, Ti, Zr, or Ni, or a mixture thereof, wherein d is from 0.000001 to 0.2; and wherein f is a number determined by the valence requirements of the other elements present in the catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2014Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: Saudi Basic Industries CorporationInventors: Khalid Karim, Saleh Al-Sayaria, Graham Hutchings, Sarwat Iqbal
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Patent number: 9663596Abstract: A catalyst composition comprising a monoester, the compound represented by formula (I) as an internal electron donor, and optionally an additional internal electron donor selected from a group consisting of diesters and diethers, wherein: R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are hydrogen, straight, branched and cyclic alkyl having at most 20 carbon atoms and aromatic substituted and unsubstituted hydrocarbyl having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, R7 is a straight, branched and cyclic alkyl having at most 20 carbon atoms and aromatic substituted and unsubstituted hydrocarbyl having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, and R8 is an aromatic substituted and unsubstituted hydrocarbyl having 6 to 20 carbon atoms. Also described is a process for preparing the polymerization catalyst composition, a polymerization catalyst system comprising the catalyst composition, a co-catalyst and optionally an external electron donor; and use of the catalyst system for polymerization of olefins.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2014Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventors: Mansour Taftaf, Jaiprakash Brijlal Sainani, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zakharov, Gennadii Dimitrievich Bukatov, Vimalkumar Mahendrabhai Patel, Sergei Andreevich Sergeev, Martin Alexander Zuideveld, Aurora Alexandra Batinas-Geurts
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Patent number: 9656929Abstract: Co-extraction techniques for separating and purifying butadiene and isoprene from a C4 hydrocarbon mixture including butadiene and a C5 hydrocarbon mixture including isoprene are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a system includes a dimerization heat exchanger, a C5 purification column; an extraction zone including a mainwasher column, a rectifier column and an afterwasher column; a distillation zone; a degassing zone; and an isoprene finishing column. The system can further include a C5 washer column, an absorption column, and a distillation column.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2014Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventor: Mohamed Sabri Abdelghani
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Patent number: 9643171Abstract: The invention is for a method for making a heteropoly acid compound catalyst from compounds containing molybdenum, vanadium, phosphorus, cesium, copper, bismuth, antimony and boron in which molybdenum, vanadium, phosphorus, cesium, copper, bismuth and boron are at their highest oxidation states and antimony has a 3+ oxidation state. The catalyst contains oxides of molybdenum, vanadium, phosphorus, cesium, copper, bismuth, antimony, boron and, optionally, other metals. The catalyst has the formula: Mo12VaPbCscCudBieSbfBgOx where Mo is molybdenum, V is vanadium, P is phosphorus, Cs is cesium, Cu is copper, Bi is bismuth, Sb is antimony, B is boron, O is oxygen, a is 0.01 to 5.0, b is 0.5 to 3.5, c is 0.01 to 2.0, d is 0.0-1.5, e is 0.0-2.0, f is 0.01-3.0, g is 0.0-4.0 and x satisfies the valences. Molybdenum is reduced by antimony and reoxidized during catalyst synthesis.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2010Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventors: James W. Kauffman, Wugeng Liang, Lixia Cai
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Patent number: 9637571Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst system comprising I. a solid reaction product obtained by reaction of: (a) a hydrocarbon solution comprising (1) an organic oxygen containing magnesium compound or a halogen containing magnesium compound and (2) an organic oxygen containing titanium compound and (b) a mixture comprising a metal compound having the formula MeRnX3-n wherein X is a halogenide, Me is a metal of Group III of Mendeleev's Periodic System of Chemical Elements, R is a hydrocarbon radical containing 1-10 carbon atoms and 0?n?3 and a silicon compound of formula RmSiCl4-m wherein 0?m?2 and R is a hydrocarbon radical containing 1-10 carbon atoms wherein the molar ratio of metal from (b): titanium from (a) is lower then 1:1 and II. an organoaluminium compound having the formula AlR3 in which R is a hydrocarbon radical containing 1-10 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2009Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventors: Nicolaas Hendrika Friederichs, Raymond Gerlofsma
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Patent number: 9637572Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the continuous polymerization of one or more a-olefin monomers of which at least one is ethylene or propylene comprising the steps of: (1) feeding the one or more a-olefins to a vertically extended reactor suitable for the continuous fluidized bed polymerization of one or more a-olefin monomers of which at least one is ethylene or propylene, which reactor is operable in condensed mode, wherein the reactor comprises a distribution plate and an integral gas/liquid separator located below the distribution plate, (2) withdrawing the polyolefin from the reactor (3) withdrawing fluids from the top of the reactor, (4) cooling the fluids to below their dew point, resulting in a bottom recycle stream, (5) introducing the bottom recycle stream under the distribution plate, (6) separating at least part of the liquid from the bottom recycle stream using the integral separator to form a liquid phase and a gas/liquid phase, (7) feeding the liquid phase to an external pipe, (8) addingType: GrantFiled: November 24, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignees: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V., SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventors: Yahya Banat, Jose Fernando Cevallos-Candau
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Patent number: 9637591Abstract: A polyester having a saturated backbone, a method of preparing said polyester, an intermediate unsaturated polyester product, and a method for preparing said intermediate unsaturated polyester product, where the number of carbon backbone atoms between two neighboring ester groups in the backbone is randomly distributed over the polyester, and the polyester has an M/E ratio of 14 or more, wherein M is the number of backbone carbon atoms in the polyester not including the ester carbons and E is the number of ester groups in the polyester.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventors: Robbert Duchateau, Mark Petrus Franciscus Pepels
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Patent number: 9636663Abstract: The present disclosures and inventions relate to composite catalyst compositions for the catalytic oxidation of hydrocarbons such as propane with an oxygen containing stream, in the presence of a composite catalyst comprising CA that comprises at least components a metal M, a support S, and an optional alkali metal A, and also CB that comprises one or more mixed metal oxide phases comprising metals in the relative molar ratios indicated by the formula MoaVbGacPddNbeXf, to produce ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acids such as acrylic acid and/or olefins such as propylene.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Saudi Basic Industries CorporationInventors: Khalid Karim, Abdulaziz Al Jodai
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Patent number: 9617355Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for the production of high density polyethylene by polymerisation of ethylene in the presence of a supported chromium oxide based catalyst which is modified with an organic compound comprising oxygen and a nitrogen atom which is selected from the group consisting of saturated heterocyclic organic compounds with a five or six membered ring, amino esters and amino alcohols. Such organic compounds allow manufacturing of HDPE with increases molecular weight distribution and increased molecular weight.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2011Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventors: Vugar O. Aliyev, Ali Saad Headan, Jaiprakash Brijal Sainani
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Patent number: 9617414Abstract: The invention is directed to a polymer composition including a polyolefin and a polyester containing first repeating units of general structure wherein Rx is an organic group having a chain length of at least 8 atoms, n1 is the number of first repeating units in the polyester. Such polymer composition is homogeneous and may be used as an alternative for pure polyolefin showing improved printability and oxygen permeability.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2014Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignees: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION, SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.Inventors: Robbert Duchateau, Maria Soliman, Johannes Peter Antonius Martens, Renate Tandler, Mark Petrus Franciscus Pepels
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Patent number: 9611342Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-zone reactor for the continuous fluidized bed polymerization of one or more ?-olefin monomers of which at least one is ethylene or propylene, which multi-zone reactor is operable in condensed mode, which multi-zone reactor comprises a first zone, a second zone, a third zone, a fourth zone and a distribution plate, wherein the second zone contains an inner wall, wherein the third zone contains an inner wall, wherein at least part of the inner wall of the third zone is either in the form of a gradually increasing inner diameter or a continuously opening cone, wherein the diameter or the opening increases in the vertical direction towards the top of the multi-zone reactor, wherein the largest diameter of the inner wall of the third zone is larger than the largest diameter of the inner wall of the second zone.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2014Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignees: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V., SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventors: Yahya Banat, Jose Fernando Cevallos-Candau
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Patent number: 9593055Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing linear alpha-olefins (LAO) by oligomerization of ethylene in the presence of solvent and homogenous catalyst, comprising the steps of: (i) feeding ethylene, solvent and catalyst into an oligomerization reactor, (ii) oligomerizing the ethylene in the reactor, (iii) removing a reactor outlet stream comprising solvent, linear alpha-olefins, ethylene, and catalyst from the reactor via a reactor outlet piping system, (iv) transferring the reactor outlet stream to a catalyst deactivation and removal step, and (v) deactivating and removing the catalyst from the reactor outlet stream, characterized in that at least one organic amine is added into the oligomerization reactor and/or into the reactor outlet piping system.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2009Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignees: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION, LINDE AGInventors: Vugar Aliyev, Fuad Mosa, Mohammed Al-Hazmi, Syriac Palackal, Ayed Al-Ayed, Sultan Al-Otaibi, Mohammed Zahoor, Wolfgang Müller, Peter M. Fritz, Heinz Bölt, Anton Wellenhofer, Florian Winkler, Uwe Rosenthal, Hans-Jörg Zander, Normen Peulecke, Bernd H. Müller, Karl-Heinz Hofmann, Helmut Fritz, Carsten Taube, Andreas Meiswinkel, Richard Schneider, Anina Woehl
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Patent number: 9587051Abstract: A process for preparing a catalyst component, including: contacting a compound R9zMgX2-z wherein R9 is aromatic, aliphatic or cyclo-aliphatic group containing up to 20 carbon atoms, X is a halide, and z is larger than 0 and smaller than 2, with an alkoxy- or aryloxy-containing silane compound to give a first intermediate reaction product; contacting the first intermediate reaction product with at least one activating compound selected electron donors, compounds of formula M(OR10)v-w(OR11)w, wherein M is Ti, Zr, Hf, Al or Si, and M(OR10)v-w(R11)w wherein M is Si, each R10 and R11, independently, represent an alkyl, alkenyl or aryl group, v is the valency of M, v is 3 or 4, and w is less than v, to give a second intermediate reaction product; and contacting the second intermediate reaction product with a halogen-containing Ti-compound, a monoester as activating agent, and a 1,3-diether as an internal electron donor.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2014Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventors: Mansour Taftaf, Jaiprakash Brijlal Sainani, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zakharov, Gennadii Dimitrievich Bukatov, Vimalkumar Mahendrabhai Patel, Sergei Andreevich Sergeev, Martin Alexander Zuideveld, Aurora Alexandra Batinas-Geurts
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Patent number: 9587047Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of bimodal polyethylene in a two-step polymerization process in the presence of a catalyst system comprising: (I) the solid reaction product obtained by reacting of: a) a hydrocarbon solution containing 1) an organic oxygen containing magnesium compound or a halogen containing magnesium compound and 2) an organic oxygen containing titanium compound and b) an aluminum halogenide having the formula AIRnX3-n in which R is a hydrocarbon radical containing 1-10 carbon atoms, X is halogen and 0<n<3 (II) an aluminum compound having the formula AIR3 in which R is a hydrocarbon radical containing 1-10 carbon atom and (III) an electron donor selected from the group of 1,2-dialkoxyalkanes and 1,2-dialkoxyalkenes wherein in the first step a low molecular weight polyethylene is produced which has a MFI190/1,2 is between 1 and 200 dg/min, and in the second step a high molecular weight ethylene copolymer is produced in which the MFI190/5 of the total product is betType: GrantFiled: December 6, 2012Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventors: Aurora Alexandra Batinas-Geurts, Nicolaas Hendrika Friederichs, Tom Schoffelen, Erik Zuidema, Priya Garg
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Patent number: 9587049Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst component for polymerization of an olefin comprising a compound represented by the Fischer projection of: wherein R5 is substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; R6 and R7 are different and independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, halogen and substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; R5-R7 optionally containing one or more hetero-atoms replacing one or more carbon atoms, one or more hydrogen atom or both, wherein said hetero-atom is selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, silicon, phosphorus and halogen; and wherein the compound of Formula (I) is the only internal electron donor in the catalyst component.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventors: Mansour I. Taftaf, Nourdin Ghalit, Gennadii Dimitrievich Bukatov, Sergei Andreevich Sergeev, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zakharov, Jaiprakash Brijlal Sainani, Aurora Alexandra Batinas-Geurts
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Publication number: 20170058213Abstract: A method of controlling the supply and allocation of hydrogen gas in a hydrogen system of a refinery integrated with olefins and aromatics plants to convert crude oil into petrochemicals. The method includes one or more supply sources that provide hydrogen at individual rates, purities, pressures and costs, multiple consumption sites that consume hydrogen at individual rates, purities and pressures and an interconnecting hydrogen distribution network. The method further includes the integration of hydrogen consuming process units with hydrogen producing process units in which hydrogen recovered from the effluents from the hydrogen consuming process units and hydrogen recovered from the hydrogen producing process units are re-used in the hydrogen consuming process units.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2014Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: Saudi Basic Industries CorporationInventors: Arno Johannes Maria Oprins, Andrew Mark Ward, Egidius Jacoba Maria Schaerlaeckens, Raúl Velasco Pelaez, Ravichander Narayanaswamy, Vijayanand Rajagopalan, Joris Van Willigenburg
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Patent number: 9561500Abstract: A catalyst composition including: (a) a chromium compound; (b) a ligand of the general structure (A) R1R2P—N(R3)—P(R4)—NR5R6 or (B) R1R2P—N(R3)—P(XR7)R8 or R1R2P—N(R3)—P(XR7)2, with X=O or S, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 and R8 are independently C1-C10-alkyl, C6-C20-aryl, C3-C10-cycloalkyl, aralkyl, alkylaryl, or trialkylsilyl, or any cyclic derivatives of (A) and (B), wherein at least one of the P or N atoms of the PNPN-unit or PNP-unit is a member of the ring system, the ring system being formed from one or more constituent compounds of structures (A) or (B) by substitution; and (c) an activator or co-catalyst; and a process for tri- and/or tetramerization.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignees: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION, LINDE AGInventors: Anina Woehl, Andreas Meiswinkle, Heinz Boelt, Bernd H. Mueller, Wolfgang Mueller, Normen Peulecke, Uwe Rosenthal, Marco Harff, Mohammed H. Al-Hazmi, Abdullah Al-Qahtani