Patents Examined by Juan C Valencia
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Patent number: 11676061Abstract: This disclosure provides an apparatus and method for harnessing machine learning and data analytics for a real-time predictive model for a FCC pre-treatment unit. The method includes collecting operating parameters of a pre-treatment unit and fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit; evaluating an independent variable of the operating parameters; and adjusting an input to the pre-treatment unit to control the independent variable within specifications in an output of the FCC unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Soumendra Mohan Banerjee, Deepak Bisht, Krishna Mani, Priyesh Jayendrakumar Jani, Gautam Pandey
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Patent number: 11674097Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for co-processing of pyrolysis tar with pre-pyrolysis flash bottoms. In some aspects, the co-processing can correspond to solvent-assisted hydroprocessing. By combining pyrolysis tar and flash bottoms with a solvent, various difficulties associated with hydroprocessing of the fractions can be reduced or minimized, such as difficulties associated with hydroprocessing of high viscosity feeds and/or high sulfur feeds. Optionally, separate solvents and/or fluxes can be used for the pyrolysis tar and the flash bottoms. The resulting upgraded products can be suitable, for example, for inclusion in low sulfur fuel oils (LSFO).Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Teng Xu, Kapil Kandel, Krystle J. Emanuele, Jeffrey C. Yeh, Giovanni S. Contello
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Patent number: 11667851Abstract: It has been discovered that nanoparticles and/or functionalized polymers are effective in removing metal contaminants from a hydrocarbon phase into an aqueous phase. In particular, the nanoparticles and/or functionalized polymers can remove iron contaminants from crude oil into an aqueous phase in a refinery desalter. Suitable nanoparticles can include graphene oxide and/or titanium dioxide. Suitable functionalized polymers include iodododecane-functionalized vinylpyrrolidone/vinylimidazole copolymers, sulfonated-functionalized vinylpyrrolidone/vinylimidazole copolymers, sulfonated polyether ether ketones, imidazole polymers, imidazole copolymers, and/or 3-(1-pyridino)-1-propanesulfonate.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Leonardo Franca, Tran M. Nguyen, Brandon Vittur, Joseph Aresndorf, Radhika Suresh, Chad Pyle, Rostyslav Dolog
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Patent number: 11655420Abstract: The present disclosure is related to systems and methods for the biological processing of hydrocarbon-containing substances. In particular embodiments, the systems and methods herein relate to pre-digestion of hydrocarbon containing substances and further processing of the same to produce hydrocarbon fuels, fertilizer, and other products.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: McFinney, LLCInventor: Jerry Wayne Finney
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Patent number: 11649404Abstract: A non-aqueous extraction process for producing a bitumen product from an oil sands material that includes an ablation stage is provided. The ablation stage can include adding an ablation solvent to an oil sands material to achieve a solvent-to-ore ratio of less than about 10, mixing the ablation solvent and the oil sands material to reduce the size of the oil sands material and produce ablated ore that includes ablated ore fragments having a diameter of less than about 2 inches, and retrieving the ablated ore as a single stream. The ablated ore can be subjected to a reject separation stage to separate reject material therefrom. The reject material can also be subjected to a wash reject stage. The ablated ore can then be subjected to an extraction stage. Examples of ablators are also described, which can include for instance a conveyor, or can be a rotary screen ablator.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: SUNCOR ENERGY INC.Inventors: Farid Vaezi Ghobaeiyeh, Ali Abbaspour, Jiayi Claire Cao, Iftikhar Huq, Brian Doucette
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Patent number: 11649405Abstract: A method of making a composition of matter is provided. The method includes pH-modifying, that is, deacidifying, neutralizing or basifying, one or more water-soluble oxidized disulfide oil (WS-ODSO) compounds or mixture of compounds. The WS-ODSO is combined with an effective amount of an alkaline agent. The process results in a pH-modified, that is, deacidified, neutralized or basified, WS-ODSO composition, for example which can be used as a component in synthesis of materials such as zeolitic material.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Robert P. Hodgkins, Omer Refa Koseoglu
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Patent number: 11643603Abstract: A non-aqueous extraction (NAE) process for producing bitumen from oil sands ore can include a multistage bitumen extraction step where paraffinic solvent and deasphalted oil are added at a downstream stage of extraction at solvent-to-bitumen ratios below asphaltene precipitation onset threshold to remove bitumen from the solid mineral material, while the ore is added to a first stage to mix with the solvent-bitumen mixture and produce solvent diluted bitumen. The process includes recovering the solvent diluted bitumen and the solvent diluted tailings from the extraction step. The solvent diluted bitumen is subjected to deasphalting to produce solvent diluted deasphalted bitumen that is used as a source of the paraffinic solvent and deasphalted oil supplied to extraction. The tailings and asphaltene fraction from deasphalting can be subjected to washing and the washed material can then be subjected to sand solvent recovery.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: SUNCOR ENERGY INC.Inventors: Kasra Nikooyeh, Richard McFarlane, John Bleile, Ali Abbaspour, Ruoyu Cheng, Iftikhar Huq, Brian Doucette
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Patent number: 11642607Abstract: The apparatus comprises a first air duct with a first opening and a second opening, in the first air duct are: a cooler, a first suction device and at least part of a sorption heat exchanger having an integrated heating and/or an upstream device for preheating the incoming air. An element for collecting condensed water is also included. The apparatus also comprises a recuperative heat exchanger, which is positioned in the first air duct between the cooler and the sorption exchanger and simultaneously also between the cooler and the second opening. The recuperative heat exchanger has at least two internal conduits connected in such manner, that the first of these internal conduits air-interconnects the sorption exchanger and the cooler and that the second of these internal conduits air-interconnects the cooler and the second opening. The first and second internal conduits of the recuperative heat exchanger are in mutual thermal contact. The sorption exchanger is also air-interconnected to the first opening.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Czech Technical University in PragueInventors: Nikola Pokorný, Viacheslav Shemelin, Tomás Matuska
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Patent number: 11639475Abstract: A hydrocracking process for converting a petroleum feed to lower boiling products. The process comprises hydrotreating a petroleum feed in a pre-treating zone in the presence of hydrogen to produce a hydrotreated effluent stream comprising a liquid product. At least a portion of the hydrotreated effluent stream is then passed to an MMS catalyst zone, and then to a hydrocracking zone. In one embodiment, the MMS catalyst zone comprises a self-supported multi-metallic catalyst prepared from a precursor in the oxide or hydroxide form. The percentage work of the hydrotreating in the pre-treating zone is maintained at a level of at least 56%.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.Inventors: Varut Komalarajun, Theodorus Ludovicus Michael Maesen
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Patent number: 11634648Abstract: A naphtha reforming reactor system comprising a first reactor comprising a first inlet and a first outlet, wherein the first reactor is configured to operate as an adiabatic reactor, and wherein the first reactor comprises a first naphtha reforming catalyst; and a second reactor comprising a second inlet and a second outlet, wherein the second inlet is in fluid communication with the first outlet of the first reactor, wherein the second reactor is configured to operate as an isothermal reactor, and wherein the second reactor comprises a plurality of tubes disposed within a reactor furnace, a heat source configured to heat the interior of the reactor furnace; and a second naphtha reforming catalyst disposed within the plurality of tubes, wherein the first naphtha reforming catalyst and the second naphtha reforming catalyst are the same or different.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, LPInventors: Vincent D. McGahee, Daniel M. Hasenberg
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Patent number: 11634647Abstract: A coke catching apparatus for use in hydrocarbon cracking to assist in the removal of coke and the prevention of coke build up in high coking hydrocarbon processing units. The apparatus includes a grid device for preventing large pieces of coke from entering the outlet of the process refining equipment while allowing small pieces of coke to pass through and be disposed of. The coke catching apparatus can be easily disassembled to be removed from the refining process equipment and cleaned.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LPInventors: Gregory A. Cantley, Ross Vail, Kathleen Yaden, Ray Brooks
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Patent number: 11628378Abstract: This disclosure describes energy efficient process to distill a process stream in a production facility. A process uses multiple effect evaporators, ranging from one evaporator to eight evaporators in each effect. The process arrangement shows an example of four effect evaporators, with a zero-effect evaporator having a single evaporator, a first-effect evaporator having a set of three evaporators, a second-effect evaporator having a set of three evaporators, and a third-effect evaporator having a set of evaporators to create condensed distillers solubles.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: ICM, Inc.Inventors: Charles C Gallop, Keith Tjaden
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Patent number: 11624033Abstract: A process for the catalytic cracking of hydrocarbon oils includes the step of contacting a hydrocarbon oil feedstock with a catalytic cracking catalyst in a reactor having one or more fast fluidized reaction zones for reaction. At least one of the fast fluidized reaction zones of the reactor is a full dense-phase reaction zone, and the axial solid fraction ? of the catalyst is controlled within a range of about 0.1 to about 0.2 throughout the full dense-phase reaction zone. When used for catalytic cracking of hydrocarbon oils, particularly heavy feedstock oils, the process, reactor and system show a high contact efficiency between oil and catalyst, a selectivity of the catalytic reaction, an effectively reduced yield of dry gas and coke, and an improved yield of high value-added products such as ethylene and propylene.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM PROCESSING, SINOPECInventors: Jianhong Gong, Zhigang Zhang, Xiaoli Wei
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Patent number: 11623899Abstract: Paraffin compositions including mainly even carbon number paraffins, and a method for manufacturing the same, is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the method involves contacting naturally occurring fatty acid/glycerides with hydrogen in a slurry bubble column reactor containing bimetallic catalysts with equivalent particle diameters from about 10 to about 400 micron. The even carbon number compositions are particularly useful as phase change material.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: REG Synthetic Fuels, LLCInventors: Ramin Abhari, H. Lynn Tomlinson, Vladimir Gruver
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Patent number: 11617970Abstract: The present invention relates to a demulsification additive composition for demulsification of water-in-oil emulsion caused due to wash water in the crude oil, wherein the composition comprises: (a) one or more demulsifiers (the component (a)); and (b) a compound selected from the group comprising glyoxal, neutralized glyoxal, glyoxal derivative and a mixture thereof (the component (b)), and (c) further comprises phosphoric acid (the component (c)). The present invention also relates to a method of using the present demulsification additive composition for demulsification of water-in-oil emulsion caused due to wash water in the crude oil. The present invention also relates to a method for demulsification of water-in-oil emulsion caused due to wash water in the crude oil by employing the present demulsification additive composition.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Dorf Ketal Chemicals (India) Private LimitedInventor: Mahesh Subramaniyam
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Patent number: 11603499Abstract: Oxidized disulfide oil (ODSO) compounds or ODSO compounds and disulfide oil (DSO) compounds are reacted with a hydrogen addition feed in a hydroprocessing complex. The hydrogen addition process can include naphtha hydrotreatment, middle distillate hydrotreatment, vacuum gas oil hydrocracking, and vacuum gas oil hydrotreatment. The ODSO or ODSO and DSO components are converted to hydrogen sulfide, water and alkanes.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Omer Refa Koseoglu, Robert Peter Hodgkins
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Patent number: 11596915Abstract: Disclosed are systems, servers and methods for improving temperature profile control in a reactor with at least three fixed beds, exothermic reactions and interstage cooling. A model of the temperature differential across the first bed is developed and its error is used to infer unmeasured feed composition disturbances, which are used in the control of the downstream fixed beds for faster response to unmeasured feed composition changes and improved control of the temperature profile throughout the reactor. The first bed model error is then used as an input into an overall model that predicts reactor temperature profiles, which provides advanced notice of reactions in downstream beds, and enables efficient adjustment and compensation to a feed composition change. A Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithm is applied to adjust the bed intercooling and first bed feed temperature so that the reactor temperature profile can be more precisely controlled.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: AVEVA SOFTWARE, LLCInventors: Alan Bee Morrow, Paul Kesseler
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Patent number: 11591530Abstract: The furnace of a delayed coking unit which is utilized for heating residue feeds to high temperatures can suffer from decrease in run length and fouling caused by caustic carryover from the upstream desalter unit. An antifoulant additive for preventing caustic induced fouling of thermal cracker furnace tubes is disclosed. The described antifoulant additive acts by converting the inorganic caustic compound such as NaOH to naphthenate salt of the metal as well as by reducing the fouling tendency of the whole feedstock, thereby making it ineffective in causing coking reaction. The additive finds application in thermal residue upgradation furnaces such as delayed coking unit, visbreaker, etc.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2022Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Ponoly Ramachandran Pradeep, Prantik Mondal, Shahil Siddiqui, Ramu Emmandi, Satyen Kumar Das, Madhusudan Sau, Gurpreet Singh Kapur, Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar
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Patent number: 11591526Abstract: A process for upgrading a hydrocarbon feed includes passing the hydrocarbon feed and an aromatic bottoms stream to an FCC unit including an FCC reactor and a catalyst regenerator. The hydrocarbon feed is hydrogen-rich having at least 12 wt. % hydrogen, and the aromatic bottoms stream is a bottoms stream produced from an aromatics recovery complex for processing reformate from naphtha reforming. The hydrocarbon feed and aromatic bottoms stream are cracked over the FCC catalysts to produce an effluent and spent FCC catalysts having coke deposits. The spent FCC catalyst is regenerated through combustion of the coke deposits. The hydrogen-rich hydrocarbon feed does not produce enough coke to satisfy the heat demand of the FCC reactor. Cracking the aromatic bottoms stream increases the amount of coke so that combustion of the additional coke during regeneration produces additional heat to satisfy the heat demand of the FCC reactor.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Omer Refa Koseoglu, Robert Peter Hodgkins
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Patent number: 11578277Abstract: The present invention discloses an integrated process scheme for producing (i) high-octane gasoline blending stream (ii) high aromatic heavy naphtha stream which is a suitable feedstock for benzene, toluene, and xylene (BTX) production and (iii) high cetane ultra-low sulphur diesel (ULSD) stream suitable for blending in refinery diesel pool.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Nayan Das, Mainak Sarkar, Ganesh Vitthalrao Butley, Ramesh Karumanchi, Sarvesh Kumar, Madhusudan Sau, Gurpreet Singh Kapur, Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar