Patents Assigned to Total
  • Patent number: 8957274
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process to make light olefins and aromatics, in a combined XTO-OC process, from an oxygen-containing, halogenide-containing or sulphur-containing organic feedstock comprising: a0) providing a first portion and a second portion of said oxygen-containing, halogenide-containing or sulphur-containing organic feedstock, a) providing a catalyst comprising zeolitic molecular sieves containing at least 10 membered ring pore openings or larger in their microporous structure, b) providing an XTO reaction zone, an OC reaction zone and a catalyst regeneration zone, said catalyst circulating in the three zones, such that at least a portion of the regenerated catalyst is passed to the OC reaction zone, at least a portion of the catalyst in the OC reaction zone is passed to the XTO reaction zone and at least a portion of the catalyst in the XTO reaction zone is passed to the regeneration zone; c) contacting the first portion of said oxygen-containing, halogenide-containing or sulphur-cont
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Total Research & Technology Feluy
    Inventors: Nikolai Nesterenko, Walter Vermeiren, Giacomo Grasso, Sander Van Donk, Wolfgang Garcia
  • Patent number: 8956708
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of steel pipes and vessels rotolined with metallocene-produced polyethylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Total Research & Technology Feluy
    Inventor: Eric Maziers
  • Patent number: 8951295
    Abstract: A posterior spinal fastener is disclosed for insertion into a vertebra of a mammalian body, the vertebra having posterior elements and a vertebral body. The fastener includes an elongate member adapted for insertion into the vertebra. The elongate body has an anterior portion and a posterior portion. The anterior portion is arcuate in shape for placement in the vertebral body. The posterior portion has a length so as to be accessible at the posterior elements of the vertebra when the anterior portion is disposed in the vertebral body. A method of use of the posterior spinal fastener is also disclosed, in which the posterior spinal fastener is introduced into the vertebra at the posterior elements and arcuately extended into the vertebral body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Total Connect Spine, LLC
    Inventors: Amir M. Matityahu, Robert Trigg McClellan, William H. Dillin
  • Patent number: 8951289
    Abstract: A spinal connection assembly for use with a posterior spinal connector having a head and a groove adjacent the head for providing a neck and a connector element to treat a spine of a mammalian body is provided. The assembly includes a housing having first and second side portions and a top and a bottom. The first side portion is provided with a bottom-facing first opening adapted for receiving the posterior spinal connector. A capture mechanism is carried by the first side portion for engaging the head of the posterior spinal connector and extends at least partially into the groove so as to capture the head within the first opening. The second side portion is provided with a second opening. A securement mechanism is carried by the second side portion for capturing the connector element within the second opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Total Connect Spine, LLC
    Inventor: Amir M. Matityahu
  • Patent number: 8950590
    Abstract: The invention relates to a separator of fluid medium components, said separator including, along one axis, a movable assembly that is rotatable around the axis. Said separator moreover includes an output device. The movable assembly includes a cylindrical separation chamber having an inner wall. The output device includes a second outlet and a first outlet that is farther than the second outlet from the axis. The output device includes a third outlet that is farther than the first outlet from the axis and is intended for extracting a third fluid component comprising solid particles. Said third outlet includes an edge that is near an inner wall of the separation chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Total SA
    Inventors: Philippe Coffin, Yves LeCoffre
  • Patent number: 8948463
    Abstract: A method for analyzing seismic data by generating a post-migration common image gather in a dip angle domain from measured seismic data; detecting concave features related to reflection events in the common image gather and apexes; filtering out part of the concave features in the common image gather in a vicinity of the detected apexes; applying a hybrid Radon transform to the filtered common image gather to separate residues of the concave features from other image features related to diffraction events; and applying an inverse hybrid Radon transform to an image containing the separated features related to diffraction events to obtain a transformed common image gather in the dip angle domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Total SA
    Inventors: Evgeny Landa, Reda Baina
  • Patent number: 8948910
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for loading solid particles into a vessel comprising: particle feed means (24); means (26) for dispersing the particles from the top to the bottom of the vessel; at least one means (17) for measuring the height of the filling bed; and at least one automated system for controlling the feed means (24) and/or the dispersion means (26), and also to a process and uses implementing the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Total Raffinage Marketing
    Inventors: Bernard Cottard, Pascal Leroy
  • Patent number: 8946359
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process of preparing a polyolefin in a loop reactor by introducing anti-fouling agent through a sleeve provided around at least part of the shaft of the pump. Also, the invention relates to the use of anti-fouling agent to prevent or reduce fouling by feeding the anti-fouling agent against the impeller of the pump upon introduction to the loop reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Total Research & Technology Feluy
    Inventors: Daniel Siraux, Aurélien Vantomme, Eric Damme, Daan Dewachter
  • Patent number: 8945443
    Abstract: An environmentally beneficial process for utilizing waste drill cuttings from oil and gas exploration. The waste drill cuttings (20) are used as a filler and combined with plastic to provide a plastic based product (26) in the plastics industry. In an embodiment the cuttings are thermally treated and formed into pellets. In a further embodiment the cuttings are treated and mixed with recycled plastic to be formed into pellets. The pellets are then used in the manufacture of rigid plastic products such as bollards, planters, benches and decking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Total Waste Management Alliance Limited
    Inventor: Douglas Campbell Garrick
  • Patent number: 8940815
    Abstract: A resin composition comprising a polyolefin, carbon nanotubes and poly(hydroxy carboxylic acid). The invention also covers a process for preparing a resin composition comprising a polyolefin, carbon nanotubes and poly(hydroxy carboxylic acid) by (i) blending a poly(hydroxy carboxylic acid) with carbon nanotubes to form a composite (ii) blending the composite with a polyolefin. The use of poly(hydroxy carboxylic acids) as a compatibilizer to blend carbon nanotubes into polyolefins is also claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Total Research & Technology Feluy
    Inventors: Guy Debras, Romain Luijkx
  • Patent number: 8940843
    Abstract: The present invention relates the use of a pump in a loop reactor for the production of polyethylene, as well as a reactor comprising such pump and methods for producing polyolefin by means of such reactor. The pump according to the invention is characterized in that it is an axial flow impeller circulation pump, wherein the impeller comprises 6 blades and wherein the pump is fixed on a spring supported frame. Use of the pump according to the present invention allows for preparation of homogeneous polyethylene products that meet high quality standards from the complicated ethylene polymerization mixtures while at the same time being produced with low energy consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Total Research & Technology Feluy
    Inventors: Frank Timmermans, Wouter Ooms, Daan Dewachter, Louis Fouarge
  • Publication number: 20150024098
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for making frozen food products from a fruit puree, i.e. a flowable banana meat or a flowable blend of fruit meat and other edible ingredients. A composition that includes peeled bananas and at least one antioxidant may be mixed in a mixing device at ambient temperature and under less than one atmosphere of pressure, forming the puree. The temperature of the puree is reduced to a semi-frozen state by passing the puree through a heat exchanger. The semi-frozen puree is then formed into food products with a pre-determined volume, shape, and weight by a molding or extrusion process. Sticks, if desired, may be inserted, and the shaped puree is then frozen to solidified cores. The solidified cores may be coated with chocolate and treated with other edible toppings and then packaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: Totally Bananas Inc.
    Inventor: Charles J. Pheterson
  • Publication number: 20150007489
    Abstract: A high-power liquid fuel composition for spark-ignition engines is provided. The fuel composition has a RON greater than or equal to 95 and a MON greater than or equal to 85, the RON and MON values being measured according to the ASTM D 2699-86 standard or D 2700-86 standard, and includes at least one C4-C5 unsaturated alcohol. The disclosure also relates to the use of a C4-C5 unsaturated alcohol, preferably 3-methyl-2-butene-1-ol or 3-methyl-3-butene-1-ol, in a petrol fuel composition, for improving the power of a naturally-aspirated or turbocharged spark-ignition engine, during the combustion. The disclosure also relates to a process for preparing such a fuel composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: TOTAL MARKETING SERVICES
    Inventor: Romain Aubry
  • Publication number: 20150010444
    Abstract: A process for preparing a reactor (1), said reactor defining an opening (13) for the passage of a device for dispensing solid particles (3) suitable for charging the reactor with solid particles, the process comprising:—providing a sensor support device (2) to which a sensor is attached, said sensor being intended for collecting information on the charging of the reactor,—attaching the sensor support to a component of the reactor (5) different from the device for dispensing solid particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: TOTAL RAFFINAGE FRANCE
    Inventors: Julien Mairesse, Bernard Cottard
  • Patent number: 8927455
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of producing a magnesia-zirconia complex carrier for a catalyst for oxidative dehydrogenation of n-butane through a single-step precipitation process wherein the oxidative dehydrogenation of n-butane is to produce n-butene and 1,3-butadiene from n-butane; a method of producing a magnesium orthovanadate catalyst supported by thus prepared magnesia-zirconia complex carrier; and a method of producing n-butene and 1,3-butadiene using said catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Total Petrochemicals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young Jin Cho, Yeon Shick Yoo, Jin Suk Lee, Ho Sik Chang, In Kyu Song, Ho Won Lee, Jong Kwon Lee
  • Publication number: 20150000730
    Abstract: A method for the low-temperature production of radial electronic junction semiconductor nanostructures on a substrate, includes: a) forming on the substrate, metal aggregates capable of electronically doping a first semiconductor material; b) growing, in the vapor phase, doped semiconductor nanowires in the presence of one or more non-dopant precursor gases of the first semiconductor material, the substrate being heated to a temperature at which the metal aggregates are in the liquid phase, the growth of the doped semiconductor nanowires in the vapor phase being catalyzed by the metal aggregates; c) rendering the residual metal aggregates inactive; and d) the chemical vapor deposition, in the presence of one or more precursor gases and a dopant gas, of at least one thin film of a second semiconductor material so as to form at least one radial electronic junction nanostructure between the nanowire and the at least one doped thin film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicants: TOTAL MARKETING SERVICES, ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Linwei Yu, Pere Roca I Cabarrocas
  • Publication number: 20150005459
    Abstract: A process can include polymerizing propylene in a polymerization zone, withdrawing an effluent, and sending the effluent to a separation zone. A stream can be sent from the separation zone to a splitter to produce an overhead and a bottom stream. The overhead can be recycled to the polymerization zone, and the bottom stream can be sent to a membrane separation zone to produce a permeate and a purge. Optionally, the bottom stream can be washed in a scrubber, and an overhead of the scrubber can be sent to the membrane separation zone. The permeate can be recycled to the polymerization zone. A process can include providing a membrane separation zone to a polypropylene manufacturing facility that includes a polymerization zone, a separation zone, a splitter, and optionally a scrubber. The membrane separation zone cab be fed a bottoms steam of the splitter or an overhead of the scrubber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: TOTAL RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FELUY
    Inventors: Els Janssens, Laurent Avaullee, Marc Richet
  • Publication number: 20150000927
    Abstract: A “passive” apparatus and method for isolating flow within a thermal wellbore wherein inflow apertures are plugged with a temporary fusible alloy plug that can be selectively removed by increasing the wellbore temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicants: ConocoPhilips Company, Total E&P Canada, Ltd.
    Inventors: Garret Madell, John Lowell Stalder, Jesse Stevenson
  • Publication number: 20150001385
    Abstract: The fluid tracers according to the invention have the advantage of producing a memory effect fluorescent signal, that is to say a signal modified as a function of the physico-chemical conditions encountered in the medium through which the nanoparticles pass after injection into the geological underground area. The analysis of fluorescent signals in the fluids collected after diffusion makes it possible to deduce therefrom information on the characteristics of the oil reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: TOTAL SA
    Inventors: Pascal Perriat, Nicolas Crowther, Matteo Martini, Olivier Tillement, Thomas Brichart, Nicolas Agenet
  • Publication number: 20150005209
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a grease composition comprising providing at least one polyol-ester base oil, at least one fatty-acid metal soap, at least one dimercaptothiadiazole derivative, and at least one sulfurous fatty-acid ester, the amount of active sulfur provided by the sulfurous fatty-acid ester at 150° C. according to the ASTM D1662 standard being greater than or equal to 0.18 wt % with respect to the total weight of the grease composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: TOTAL MARKETING SERVICES
    Inventors: Nicole Genet, Xavier Barc