Patents Examined by Aaron Pierpont
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Patent number: 9758729Abstract: The invention relates to continuous process for converting carbonaceous material contained in one or more feedstocks into a liquid hydrocarbon product, said feedstocks including the carbonaceous material being in a feed mixture including one or more fluids, said fluids including water and further liquid organic compounds at least partly produced by the process in a concentration of at least 1% by weight, where the process comprises converting at least part of the carbonaceous material by pressurizing the feed mixture to a pressure in the range 50-400 bar; heating the feed mixture to a temperature in the range 250-500° C., maintaining said pressurized and heated feed mixture in the desired pressure and temperature ranges in a reaction zone for a predefined time; cooling the feed mixture to a temperature in the range 25-200° C.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2012Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: STEEPER ENERGY APSInventor: Steen Brummerstedt Iversen
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Patent number: 9745230Abstract: Methods for making alpha olefin oligomers and polyalphaolefins include a step of contacting a C4 to C20 alpha olefin monomer and a catalyst system containing a metallocene, a first activator comprising a solid oxide chemically-treated with an electron withdrawing anion, and a second activator comprising an organoaluminum compound. The alpha olefin oligomers and polyalphaolefins prepared with these catalyst systems can have a high viscosity index combined with a low pour point, making them particularly useful in lubricant compositions and as viscosity modifiers.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LPInventors: Brooke L. Small, Kenneth D. Hope, Qing Yang, Albert P. Masino, Max P. McDaniel, Richard M. Buck, William B. Beaulieu, Eduardo J. Baralt, Eric J. Netemeyer, Bruce Kreischer
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Patent number: 9725653Abstract: Devices and methods for preparing oxygen-containing liquid fuel by bio-oil catalytic conversion. A device includes a biomass fast thermal cracking system for preparing bio-oil, a bio-oil oil-water separating system for separating the bio-oil into oil phase bio-oil and water phase bio-oil that is output to an oil phase bio-oil chemical chain hydrogen production system, and a water phase bio-oil catalytic hydrogenation system. The hydrogen production system outputs produced hydrogen to the water phase bio-oil catalytic hydrogenation system to prepare a liquid fuel. A method includes the steps: thermally cracking the biomass to prepare bio-oil, separating the water phase and the oil phase, producing hydrogen from the oil phase bio-oil through a chemical chain method so as to provide a hydrogen source for the water phase bio-oil to carry out two-stage catalytic hydrogenation in a slurry bed, and separating and purifying the hydrogenated products to obtain an oxygen-containing liquid fuel.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2012Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITYInventors: Rui Xiao, Huiyan Zhang, Yong Zhang, Dekui Shen
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Patent number: 9718747Abstract: A process for removal of trace chloride contaminants from a reactor effluent in a catalytic dehydrogenation process is described. The reactor effluent is compressed in a compressor to provide a compressed effluent. The compressed effluent is introduced from the compressor into a chloride treater. In the chloride treater, trace chloride contaminants in the compressed effluent are adsorbed to provide a treated effluent. The treated effluent is cooled in a cooler.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
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Patent number: 9714387Abstract: Catalysts and processes designed to convert DME and/or methanol and hydrogen (H2) to desirable liquid fuels are described. These catalysts produce the fuels efficiently and with a high selectivity and yield, and reduce the formation of aromatic hydrocarbons by incorporating H2 into the products. Also described are process methods to further upgrade these fuels to higher molecular weight liquid fuel mixtures, which have physical properties comparable with current commercially used liquid fuels.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2015Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLCInventors: Jesse Hensley, Daniel A. Ruddy, Joshua A. Schaidle, Mayank Behl
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Patent number: 9708231Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for processing hydrocarbon feeds. The method may contact hydrogen (H2) and a hydrocarbon feed containing ?10 wt % resid in the hydrocarbon feed with a catalyst to form a hydroprocessed product. Then, a pyrolysis feed derived from the hydroprocessed product is exposed at high-severity thermal pyrolysis operating conditions to produce a reactor product that comprises ethylene and acetylene. Further, at least a portion of the hydrogen (H2) may be separated from the reactor product, wherein the hydrogen (H2) contacting the catalyst includes at least a portion of the separated hydrogen (H2).Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2011Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Paul F. Keusenkothen, Frank Hershkowitz
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Patent number: 9708232Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for processing hydrocarbon feeds. The method enhances the conversion of hydrocarbon feeds into conversion products, such as ethylene. In particular, the present techniques utilize a high-severity thermal pyrolysis reactor that exposes a feed at a peak pyrolysis gas temperature ?1540° C. to produce a reactor product comprising ethylene and acetylene and has a C3+ to acetylene weight ratio ?0.5. Then, the method separates a product comprising tars and/or solids from at least a portion of the reactor product and converts at least a portion of the remaining reactor product into a conversion product, such as ethylene.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2011Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Paul F. Keusenkothen, Frank Hershkowitz, Gary D. Mohr
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Patent number: 9701595Abstract: This disclosure relates to a liquid syndiotactic polyalphaolefin, sPAO, comprising one or more C4 to C24 monomers, said sPAO having: a) an rr triad content of 5 to 50% as measured by 13C NMR; b) an mr triad content of 25 to 60% as measured by 13C NMR, where the mr to mm triad ratio is at least 1.0; c) a pour point of Z° C. or less, where Z=0.0648X?51.2, where X=kinematic viscosity at 100° C. as reported in centistokes (cSt); d) a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 100 cSt or more (alternatively 200 cSt or more); e) a ratio of mr triads to rr triad (as determined by 13C NMR) of less than 9; f) a ratio of vinylidene to 1,2-disubstituted olefins (as determined by 1H NMR) of less than 8; g) a viscosity index of 120 or more; and h) an Mn of 40,000 or less. This disclosure further relates to processes to make and use sPAOs, including those having any combination of characterics a) to h).Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2013Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Margaret M. Wu, Steven P. Rucker, Jo Ann M. Canich
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Patent number: 9676680Abstract: A method for coupling an alkane with an alkene using a hydrogen transfer catalyst and an alkene dimerization catalyst to form one or more higher molecular weight hydrocarbons.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: California Institute of TechnologyInventors: David Leitch, Jay A. Labinger, John E. Bercaw, Yan Choi Lam
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Patent number: 9676681Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for processing hydrocarbon feeds. The method enhances the conversion of hydrocarbon feeds into conversion products, such as ethylene and propylene. In particular, the present techniques combine a first hydrocarbon feed with a second hydrocarbon feed and a hydrogen (H2) containing stream to manage the hydrogen content of the feed provided to a pyrolysis reactor. The mixture is then exposed to high-severity operating conditions in a pyrolysis reactor and further processing into desired olefins.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2011Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Paul F. Keusenkothen, Frank Hershkowitz, Jason D. Davis, Gary D. Mohr
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Patent number: 9677014Abstract: An apparatus and process are provided for processing hydrocarbon feeds. The process enhances the conversion of hydrocarbon feeds into conversion products, such as ethylene and propylene. In particular, the present techniques utilize two high-severity pyrolysis reactors integrated with another reactor type to convert hydrocarbons to other petrochemical products. The pyrolysis reactors recycle a portion of one of the reactor products to at least one of the pyrolysis reactors to further enhance the process.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2011Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Paul F. Keusenkothen, Frank Hershkowitz
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Patent number: 9670112Abstract: A process for the production of middle-distillate hydrocarbon-containing bases from a butanol feedstock, comprising: a) isomerizing dehydration of butanol feedstock; b) separating the water from butylenic effluent; c) purifying the organic liquid effluent from stage b); d) oligomerizing a feedstock that comprises at least a portion of the purified organic effluent from stage c), the entire effluent from stage g), and at least a portion of the light product from stage f); e) oligomerizing the first oligomerization effluent to produce a second oligomerization effluent; f) fractionating the second oligomerization effluent into at least three products: a light product mostly comprising C2 to C4 compounds, an intermediate product mostly comprising C5 to C9 compounds, and a middle distillate product mostly comprising compounds having at least 10 carbon atoms; g) oligomerizing at least a portion of the intermediate product, and h) hydrogenating at least a portion of the middle distillate product.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2013Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLESInventors: Tom Vivien, Vincent Coupard, Francois Hugues, Raphael Huyghe
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Patent number: 9663419Abstract: The invention relates to processes for converting a mixture of hydrocarbon and sulfur-containing molecules such as mercaptans into products comprising acetylene, ethylene, and hydrogen sulfide, to processes utilizing the acetylene and ethylene resulting from the conversion, and to equipment useful for such processes.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2011Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Paul F. Keusenkothen, Frank Hershkowitz, Robert D. Denton, Gary D. Mohr
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Patent number: 9650316Abstract: Butadiene is formed by dehydrogenation of butenes which are mixed with steam and oxygen then converted to butadiene by oxidative dehydrogenation over a ferritic oxide catalyst, wherein the sensible heat in the oxidative dehydrogenation reaction product is utilized along with heat produced by thermal oxidation of low value volatile products formed to reduce energy requirements and CO2 emissions. Sensible heat is utilized at high temperature for purposes of superheating feed and at somewhat lower temperatures for purposes of vaporizing feed at sequential locations in the process.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2013Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: TPC GROUP LLCInventors: Liana Caciula, Joseph G. Duff, Elizabeth Ballard, Sirisha Chada, Mark J. Potter
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Patent number: 9643902Abstract: Embodiments of an invention disclosed herein relate to processes utilizing solvent extraction to remove nitrogen containing compounds and optionally other components from feedstreams of olefins and paraffins.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2011Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Georges M. K. Mathys, Marc P. H. Puttemans, Geraldine Tosin, Eddy T. Van Driessche, Paul Hamilton, Marcel J. G. Janssen
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Patent number: 9624442Abstract: A method of treating tall oil pitch. In the present method, part of the fatty acids and the resin acids are released from their sterol esters and wood alcohol esters and converted into methanol esters or ethanol esters. The transesterified products are removed from the pitch by evaporation and then condensed, and by hydrogenating the generated condensate the acids are decarboxylated and the double bonds are satisfied. It is possible to use the present method to produce automotive fuel from tall oil pitch.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2011Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: FORCHEM OYJInventors: Juhani Saviainen, Mikko Rintola, Timo Saarenko
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Patent number: 9598329Abstract: An ethylene oligomerization system is useful for creating 1-butene from ethylene in the presence of an ethylene oligomerization catalyst. The ethylene oligomerization system includes an internal baffle single pass reactor, a separation system and an exterior motion driver. The exterior motion driver is operable to induce unsteadiness in the flow of the process fluid contained in the internal baffle single pass reactor by transferring motion into the process fluid. An ethylene oligomerization process is useful for creating a refined 1-butene product from ethylene using the ethylene oligomerization system.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Kareemuddin Mahaboob Shaik, Wei Xu
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Patent number: 9587180Abstract: Provided are processes for making hydrocarbons from renewable feed sources. In an embodiment, there is provided a method for co-producing lube basestock and transportation fuel from a feedstock of biological origin, the method including: a) converting a feedstock of biological origin to a ketone or a dimer acid in the presence of a first catalyst; and b) hydrogenating the ketone or the dimer acid to produce a hydrocarbon in the presence of a second catalyst comprising a hydrogenation catalyst and a hydrothermally stable binder.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2013Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: Virginia M. Roberts, Suzzy Chen Hsi Ho, Paul D. Oldenburg, Michel Daage, Kun Wang, Bradley R. Fingland, Patrick Loring Hanks
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Patent number: 9574138Abstract: Provided are processes for making saturated hydrocarbons from renewable feed sources. In an embodiment, a process for producing a lube basestock and/or a diesel fuel from a feedstock of biological origin includes: contacting the feedstock in a single reactor in the presence of hydrogen with catalyst components including a first catalyst and a second catalyst, wherein the first catalyst comprises an acidic material, a basic material, or a combination of both, and wherein the second catalyst is a hydrogenation catalyst including a hydrothermally stable binder.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2013Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Kun Wang, Virginia M. Roberts, Paul D. Oldenburg, Suzzy Chen Hsi Ho, Michel Daage, Frank Cheng-Yu Wang
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Patent number: 9567533Abstract: A process for separating water from pyrolysis gasoline obtained from a steam cracking step uses a coalescer for the water separation. And a device comprises a coalescer for water separation from pyrolysis gasoline.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2012Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Dirk Neumann, Andreas Bode, Daniel Pfeiffer, Matthias Hinrichs, Keshav Ruthiya, Marco Bosch, Andrea Haunert