Abstract: A process and system for producing an engineered fuel product that meets customer specifications for composition and combustion characteristics is provided. The engineered fuel product is preferably a high-BTU, alternative fuel that burns cleaner than coal or petroleum coke (petcoke) and has significantly reduced NOx, SO2 and GHG emissions.
Abstract: A process comprises contacting a hydrocarbon feed with an FCC catalyst in an FCC reactor at reaction conditions that cause at least a portion of hydrocarbons from the hydrocarbon feed to undergo catalytic cracking reactions to a cracking effluent comprising the light olefins separating the cracking effluent in a cracking effluent separation system to produce a light olefin effluent and a plurality of FCC naphtha fractions, recycling at least two of the plurality of FCC naphtha fractions back to the FCC reactor, and injecting each of the at least two of the plurality of FCC naphtha fractions at a different location within the FCC reactor based on reactivity of each of the at least two of the plurality of FCC naphtha.
Abstract: The present invention provides a blended fuel and methods for producing the blended fuel, wherein a low carbon fuel derived from a renewable resource such as biomass, is blended with a traditional, petroleum derived fuel. A blended fuel which includes greater than 10% by volume of low carbon fuel has an overall improved lifecycle greenhouse gas content of about 5% or more compared to the petroleum derived fuel. Also, blending of the low carbon fuel to the traditional, petroleum fuel improves various engine performance characteristics of the traditional fuel.
Abstract: A method for grilling food on grill includes adding chipped wood charcoal having a size of at least one-fourth an inch in dimension through a food-supporting grill grate onto a grid underlying the food-supporting grill grate. The food-supporting grill grate comprising spaced bars for supporting food and providing a cooking area, and the chipped wood charcoal can be added to the grid directly beneath any portion of the cooking area by passing the chipped wood charcoal between any adjacent ones of the spaced bars. The chipped wood charcoal is ignited and food is placed on the food-supporting grill grate over the chipped wood charcoal. The food can then be cooked on the food-supporting grill grate. Without lifting any portion of the food-supporting grill grate and during the cooking of the food, more chipped wood charcoal is added through the the spaced bars of the food-supporting grill grate.
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a gas hydrate inhibitor composition comprising from an amphiphile having a hydrophobic tail linked to a hydrophilic head group by a linking moiety, the amphiphile having the general formula (1) [R5-L-N(R1)(R2)(R3)]+X???(1) wherein each of R1 and R2 is independently an alkyl group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms; or wherein the nitrogen atom and the R1 and R2 groups together form a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group; R3 is present or not as hydrogen or an alkyl group having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms which optionally bears a hydroxy group or a carboxy group in the 2-position; L is a linking moiety comprising an optionally substituted hydrocarbyl group having at least 2 adjacent carbon atoms, at least one heteroatom selected from nitrogen and oxygen, and optionally one or more further heteroatoms; R5 is a hydrocarbyl group having from 6 to 22 carbon atoms; and X? is present as an anion when R3 is present; and from a cationic surfactant which is selected from
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 16, 2020
Date of Patent:
October 29, 2024
Assignee:
Clariant International Ltd
Inventors:
Dirk Leinweber, Zachary Thomas Ward, Felix Hoevelmann, Jonathan James Wylde, Matthias Krull
Abstract: The invention relates to jet fuel compositions, in particular jet fuel compositions having improved cold properties, and more particularly improved freezing point with respect to theoretical linear behavior, which are mixtures of jet fuel from petroleum origin and renewable component. To this effect, a jet fuel composition comprising a petroleum derived jet fuel component and a renewable component consisting of hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids is proposed, wherein the jet fuel composition contains 1 to 50 vol % of the renewable component and has a freezing point of ?40° C. or below, preferably of ?47° C. and below, and the petroleum derived jet fuel component has a content of C9-C12 normal paraffins from 17 wt % to 30 wt %.
Abstract: A process for converting naphtha to light olefins comprises contacting a naphtha stream with a zeolitic catalyst to produce a light paraffin stream. The light paraffin may be separated into an ethane stream and a propane stream. The ethane in the ethane stream may be converted into ethylene, and the propane in the propane in the propane stream may be converted into propylene. The light paraffin stream may also be separated into a heavy stream which may be recycled back to the contacting step.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 5, 2023
Date of Patent:
October 22, 2024
Inventors:
Gregory A. Funk, Deng-Yang Jan, Cora Wang Ploentham, Alan K. Bedell, Xi Zhao, Pelin Cox
Abstract: A method of processing a hydrocarbon feed may comprise fractionating the hydrocarbon feed into a light stream, a medium-light stream, a medium-heavy stream, and a heavy stream; passing the medium-heavy stream to a hydrocracker to produce a hydrocracked medium-heavy stream; passing the heavy stream to a delayed coker to produce a cracked heavy stream; and passing the medium-light stream, the hydrocracked medium-heavy stream, and the cracked heavy stream to a catalytic reformer to produce an aromatics stream.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 9, 2023
Date of Patent:
October 15, 2024
Assignee:
Saudi Arabian Oil Company
Inventors:
Essa I. Alnaimi, Lianhui Ding, Alberto Lozano, Sameer Al-Ghamdi
Abstract: A process for selective removal of hydroxyl groups from phenolic compounds is disclosed. The process uses a combination of catalytic hydrodeoxygenation and catalytic direct deoxygenation to convert alkylphenols into alkylbenzenes.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 18, 2019
Date of Patent:
October 15, 2024
Assignee:
NESTE OYJ
Inventors:
Marina Lindblad, Kaisa Lamminpää, José Luis González Escobedo, Reetta Karinen, Eveliina Mäkelä, Riikka Puurunen
Abstract: A method for stabilizing asphaltenes in petroleum feedstocks such as crude oil includes adding to the feedstock an effective amount of an additive containing at least one waste plastic. Suitable waste plastics include, but are not necessarily limited to, polyethylene, polyethylene terephthalate, polystyrene, polycarbonate, polyamide, and polyurethane, and combinations thereof. By “stabilizing” is meant keeping the asphaltenes in solution in the petroleum feedstocks.
Abstract: A method for powering a diesel engine with a fuel emulsion involves preparing the fuel emulsion by emulsifying a fuel and water in the presence of an emulsifier package, which contains a short-chained surfactant of the formula (I) as defined below and optionally, a long-chained surfactant of the formula (II) as defined below. A fuel emulsion for powering a diesel engine is also provided.
Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for the conversion of waste plastics into various useful downstream recycle-content products. More particularly, the present system and method involves integrating a pyrolysis facility with a cracker facility by introducing at least a stream of r-pyrolysis gas into the cracker facility. In the cracker facility, the r-pyrolysis gas may be separated to form one or more recycle content products, and can enhance the operation of the facility.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 10, 2021
Date of Patent:
October 15, 2024
Assignee:
Eastman Chemical Company
Inventors:
Daryl Bitting, David Eugene Slivensky, Xianchun Wu, Bruce Roger DeBruin, Damon Ray Billodeaux
Abstract: Reversion problems with heavy oils, such as heavy fuel oils, are mitigated by introducing an effective amount of an additive that contains both a phase change material and a pour point depressant, even synergistically mitigated.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 28, 2022
Date of Patent:
October 8, 2024
Assignee:
Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations, LLC
Inventors:
Asha Patel, Kekeli A. Ekoue-Kovi, Sankaran Murugesan
Abstract: A torrefaction method comprises forwarding biomass through a process chamber; heating the biomass in the process chamber to a predetermined temperature and pyrolyzing the biomass to release syngas from the biomass, wherein the syngas contains at least 20% of the power contained in the flow of the biomass; and oxidizing the syngas to heat the biomass in the process chamber.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 24, 2020
Date of Patent:
October 8, 2024
Assignee:
Perpetual Next Technologies B.V.
Inventors:
Thomas Hamilton Balon, Jr., Neil Alan Butler, Peter Fransciscus Johannes Maria Scheepers
Abstract: This invention relates to gel compositions for filling cables, such as communication cables, in particular to gel compositions containing microspheres, to cables comprising said gels, and to methods of preparing such gel.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 16, 2021
Date of Patent:
October 8, 2024
Assignees:
UNIGEL IP LIMITED, UNIGEL IP LIMITED
Inventors:
Scott Allen, Adrian Chisholm, Mukhtiar Singh Sohal, Ivan Tory
Abstract: A polymer composition, in which a differential distribution value in a differential molecular weight distribution curve of the polymer composition, as measured by gel permeation chromatography, satisfies Equation 1 and a maximum value of a normalized back-scattering intensity of a 35 wt % base oil solution of the polymer composition, where a size q of a scattering vector of small-angle X-ray scattering at 25° C. is in a range of 0.07 nm?1 or more and 2 nm?1 or less, is 40 cm?1 or more.
Abstract: A method for powering a diesel engine with a fuel emulsion involves preparing the fuel emulsion by emulsifying a fuel and water in the presence of an emulsifier package, which contains a branched surfactant of the formula (I) as defined below and optionally, a propoxylated surfactant of the formula (II) as defined below. A fuel emulsion for powering a diesel engine is also provided.
Abstract: Methods of making a diesel fuel blend having enhanced cold properties; methods of lowering the cloud point of a mineral middle distillate fuel; and diesel fuel blends including a blend of a renewable fuel and a mineral middle distillate fuel.
Abstract: Coal blends used to produce foundry coke products are disclosed herein. Coal blends can include first coals having a first volatile matter mass fraction less than or equal to a first threshold, and second coals having a second volatile mass fraction greater than or equal to a second threshold that is less than the second threshold. The coal blend can have an ash fusion temperature less than 2600° F. and an aggregated volatile matter mass fraction between 15% and 25%.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 3, 2023
Date of Patent:
October 8, 2024
Assignee:
SUNCOKE TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT LLC
Inventors:
John Francis Quanci, John Michael Richardson, Jonathan Hale Perkins