Patents Examined by In Suk Bullock
  • Fluid inlet apparatus
    Patent number: 9101852
    Abstract: An apparatus for the introduction and for the distribution of a fluid into an inner space of a container includes an inlet passage and a distribution passage, wherein the inlet passage opens into the distribution passage so that the fluid can be guided from the inlet passage into the distribution passage. The distribution passage has a jacket which has at least one outlet opening. The inlet passage is connected to the distribution passage via at least one opening which is arranged in the jacket of the distribution passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Sulzer Chemtech AG
    Inventors: Ansor Gäbler, Aleksandra Zaytseva
  • Systems and methods for producing fuels from biomass
    Patent number: 9102877
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for producing fuels. In an embodiment, the invention includes a method of producing a diesel-equivalent fuel, including pyrolyzing biomass to form a pyrolysis oil and contacting the pyrolysis oil and an alcohol with a metal oxide catalyst at a temperature of greater than about 60 degrees Celsius. In an embodiment, the invention includes a method of refining pyrolysis oil including contacting pyrolysis oil and an alcohol with a metal oxide catalyst at a temperature of greater than about 60 degrees Celsius.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SarTec Corporation
    Inventors: Clayton V. McNeff, Bingwen Yan
  • Membrane element, gas separation device and internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 9101873
    Abstract: The present invention provides a membrane element, a gas separation device, and an internal combustion engine capable of improving gas separation performance. A gas separation device 1 including membrane elements 2 includes rigid members 32 arranged in a direction intersecting folds of a pleated structure 26 in open regions R1 and R2 of the pleated structure 26 surrounded by a reinforcement frame 27. The open regions R1 and R2 are each separated into a supply region and an exhaust region of gas by an elastic epoxy resin adhesive S provided between the rigid member 32 and the pleated structure 26.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Tsukamoto, Atsushi Shimizu
  • Electrochemical synthesis to produce lube stock from renewable feeds
    Patent number: 9103042
    Abstract: Provided are processes for producing a lube basestock or wax from a feedstock of biological origin, the method including: providing a fatty acid originated from the feedstock of biological origin and an aromatic acid in a solvent comprising a base; and electrically coupling the fatty acid and the aromatic acid to produce a hydrocarbon, wherein the molar concentration of the fatty acid is greater than the molar concentration of the aromatic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY
    Inventors: Kun Wang, Liena Tan
  • Process for polymerising or oligomerising a hydrocarbon
    Patent number: 9096486
    Abstract: A process for polymerizing or oligomerizing a hydrocarbon includes feeding a liquid hydrocarbon reactant and a liquid evaporative cooling medium into a bulk liquid phase which includes polymeric or oligomeric product admixed with a catalyst, and allowing at least a portion of the liquid hydrocarbon reactant and the liquid evaporative cooling medium to vaporize to form bubbles rising through the bulk liquid phase, with the hydrocarbon reactant polymerizing or oligomerizing to form the polymeric or oligomeric product and with the evaporation of both the liquid hydrocarbon reactant and the liquid evaporative cooling medium effecting heat removal from the bulk liquid phase. Gaseous components are withdrawn from a head space, cooled and separated. Condensed hydrocarbon reactant and condensed cooling medium are recycled to the bulk liquid phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SASOL TECHNOLOGY (PROPRIETARY) LIMITED
    Inventor: Johannes Jochemus Gildenhuys
  • Process for purifying chlorosilanes by distillation
    Patent number: 9089788
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for purifying chlorosilanes by distillation, which includes providing a boron-containing mixture of chlorosilanes containing TCS, DCS and STC and purifying the mixture of chlorosilanes by distillation in a plurality of distillation columns, wherein low-boiling boron compounds are branched off from the distillation columns by overhead streams containing boron-enriched DCS and high-boiling boron compounds are branched off by a boron-enriched bottom stream containing high boilers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Wacker Chemie AG
    Inventors: Uwe Paetzold, Walter Haeckl, Jan Prochaska
  • Catalytic reactor with box distribution system
    Patent number: 9089824
    Abstract: The catalytic reactor consists of a chamber [1] that contains at least one catalyst bed [2] in solid form, with the reactor being supplied with effluent to be treated by a pipe [3] that empties into a separator [4] between gas and liquid, with the liquid obtained from the separator being collected in a tank, and a plate [9] being arranged between the separator [4] and the solid catalyst bed [2]. The plate [9] consists of at least two closed boxes [10], with at least two vertical tubes [11] provided with openings [12] linking with the interiors of the boxes [10] passing through the boxes, and with the liquid distributor [8] channeling the liquid from the tank into said boxes [10].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventors: Christophe Boyer, Frederic Augier, Frederic Bazer-Bachi, Yacine Haroun
  • Process and system to convert methanol to light olefin, gasoline and distillate
    Patent number: 9090525
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for forming a refined hydrocarbon that includes providing a feed including methanol, dimethyl ether or a mixture thereof, and contacting the feed with a methanol conversion catalyst under suitable conditions to yield an intermediate composition including olefins having at least two carbon atoms. The intermediate composition is introduced to an oligomerization catalyst under suitable conditions to yield gasoline boiling range components and distillate boiling range components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY
    Inventor: Stephen H. Brown
  • Synergistic combination for inhibiting polymerization of vinyl monomers
    Patent number: 9090526
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for inhibiting unwanted polymerization of reactive monomers within a liquid. The method comprises the combined usage of a quinone methide with a quinone diimide to the liquid monomer. This combination has an unexpected synergistic effect. Thus, in some ratios, the combination results in practically 100% inhibition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: NALCO COMPANY
    Inventor: Jonathan Masere
  • Process for dehydration of ethanol into ethylene with low energy consumption
    Patent number: 9085502
    Abstract: A process for dehydration of an ethanol feedstock into ethylene, comprising the vaporization of said ethanol feedstock in a mixture with at least a portion of the recycled purified water stream from heat exchange with the effluent that is obtained from the last reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignees: TOTAL PETROCHEMICALS RESEARCH FELUY, IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventors: Vincent Coupard, Natacha Touchais, Stephanie Fleurier, Helena Gonzalez Penas, Walter Vermeiren, Delphine Minoux, Philip De Smedt, Cindy Adam
  • Processes for increasing the yield of ethylene and propylene
    Patent number: 9085501
    Abstract: A process for increasing the yield of ethylene and propylene, comprising: (1) feeding a feedstock into a reaction zone with a catalyst to produce (i) a product stream and a catalyst to be regenerated; (2) stripping and then dividing the catalyst to be regenerated into at least two parts, wherein a first part is recycled into the reaction zone at a first position, and a second part is regenerated in the regenerator to form a regenerated catalyst and then recycled into the reaction zone at a second position; and (3) controlling the temperature increase in the reaction zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignees: China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, Shanghai Research Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Sinopec
    Inventors: Guozhen Qi, Zhe Yang, Huiming Zhang, Li Wang, Ju Wang, Xiaohong Li, Huawen Wang
  • Methods for producing synthetic fuel
    Patent number: 9085735
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for producing synthetic fuel from carbon-containing polymeric feedstock using a select catalyst mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: American Fuel Producers, LLC
    Inventor: Jose M. Rodriguez
  • Method for producing a product containing CHand CH
    Patent number: 9085500
    Abstract: A process for producing a product containing C3H6 and C2H4 includes simultaneous conversion of MeOH and EtOH in an adiabatic sequentially operated reactor containing a plurality of reaction stages. Each of the plurality of reaction stages of the reactor is provided with a fixed bed of a form-selective catalyst. A gaseous feed stream including MeOH, DME and H2O is charged to at least a first of the reaction stages of the reactor with a temperature in a range of 300 to 600° C. at a pressure in a range of 0.1 to 20 bar[a]. EtOH is fed into at least, one of the reaction stages of the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: AIR LIQUIDE GLOBAL E&C SOLUTIONS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Henning Buchold, Harald Koempel, Sven Pohl, Martin Rothaemel, Ulrich Wagner
  • Method for selective hydrogenation of phenylacetylene in the presence of styrene
    Patent number: 9084984
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a process for the selective hydrogenation of phenylacetylene in the presence of styrene, comprising contacting a phenylacetylene and styrene-containing hydrocarbon fraction feedstock with a carbon-containing catalyst under hydrogenation reaction conditions, wherein the carbon-containing catalyst has a carbon content of from 0.02 to 8 wt % based on the weight of the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignees: China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, Shanghai Research Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Sinopec
    Inventors: Siqin Li, Juntao Liu, Fengxia Sun, Wanmin Wang, Yuanlin Cheng
  • Olefin metathesis process using a treated tungsten oxide catalyst
    Patent number: 9079159
    Abstract: A process for olefin metathesis is disclosed. The process involves contacting a feedstock comprising a first olefin and a second olefin having a carbon number at least two greater than that of the first olefin with a catalyst comprising a tungsten component on a refractory oxide support, e.g. silica at metathesis conditions to provide a product olefin having an intermediate carbon number between that of the first and second olefin. The catalyst is characterized in that it is first pretreated with hydrogen followed by treatment with ethylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Christopher P Nicholas, Mark A. Krawczyk, Kristoffer E. Popp, Jennifer F. Abrahamian
  • Production of a high octane alkylate from ethylene and isobutene
    Patent number: 9079815
    Abstract: A method of producing a high octane alkylate from ethylene and isobutane by reacting ethylene and isobutane under catalytic conversion conditions. The ethylene and isobutane are contacted with a first catalytic material comprising a dimerization catalyst (i.e, for dimerizing ethylene) and a second catalytic material comprising an alkylation catalyst. The first and second catalytic materials are separate and distinct from each other. A high octane alkylate is recovered as a result of reacting the ethylene and isobutane in the presence of the first and second catalytic materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Exelus Inc
    Inventors: Mitrajit Mukherjee, John F. Young, James P. Nehlsen, George D. Suciu, Kelly Ann Coley
  • Process for dehydration of dilute ethanol into ethylene with low energy consumption without recycling of water
    Patent number: 9079812
    Abstract: A process for dehydration of an ethanol feedstock into ethylene, comprising the vaporization of said dilute hydrated ethanol feedstock in an exchanger, with heat exchange with the effluent that is obtained from a last reactor, with said mixture being introduced into said vaporization stage at a pressure that is lower than the pressure of the effluent that is obtained from the last reactor, the compression of the mixture that is vaporized in a compressor, the introduction of the vaporized and compressed mixture, into at least one adiabatic reactor that contains at least one dehydration catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignees: TOTAL RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FELUY, IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventors: Vincent Coupard, Natacha Touchais, Stephanie Fleurier, Helena Gonzalez Penas, Philip De Smedt, Walter Vermeiren, Cindy Adam, Delphine Minoux
  • Process for producing propylene
    Patent number: 9079168
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing efficiently and stably propylene from a hydrocarbon raw material containing a high concentration of ethylene. The present invention discloses a process for producing propylene, comprising catalytically converting a hydrocarbon raw material containing ethylene in an amount exceeding 50% by mass with a zeolite-containing catalyst satisfying the following (1) to (3): (1) containing of a medium pore diameter zeolite having a pore size of from 5 to 6.5 ?; (2) a SiO2/Al2O3 molar ratio in the medium pore diameter zeolite being from 20 to 300; and (3) an acid amount (TPD acid amount), determined by a high-temperature desorption amount in an ammonia temperature-programmed desorption spectrum, being from 20 to 350 ?mol/g-zeolite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruyuki Minoura, Yoshikazu Takamatsu
  • Process to make propylene from isobutanol by dehydration and subsequent cracking
    Patent number: 9079813
    Abstract: A process for conversion of isobutanol to make propylene can include dehydrating the isobutanol to produce butenes. The process can include cracking the butenes to produce propylene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: TOTAL RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FELUY
    Inventors: Cindy Adam, Delphine Minoux, Nikolai Nesterenko, Sander Van Donk, Jean-Pierre Dath
  • Detection cell with controlled power dissipation
    Patent number: 9081044
    Abstract: A voltage control circuitry for a detection cell is described, where the detection cell is adapted for determining an electrical property of a sample in a detection cell volume of the detection cell. The voltage control circuitry comprises a power supply adapted for providing a voltage to the detection cell, and a power evaluation unit adapted for determining an actual power dissipation in the detection cell volume. The voltage control circuitry further comprises a control unit adapted for comparing the actual power dissipation with a desired power dissipation, and for regulating the power supply's voltage in a way that the actual power dissipation is driven towards the desired power dissipation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Klaus Witt, Bohuslav Gas