Patents Examined by McAvoy
  • Patent number: 11945916
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a fatty acid amide-based oleogel containing polymer and a method for preparing same and, more particularly, to a fatty acid amide-based oleogel containing polymer and a method for preparing same, the oleogel comprising: a substrate formed of a polymer of a fatty acid amide having a single double bond and a silicone polymer, or a composition comprising same; and an oleogel surface formed by impregnating the substrate with oil, wherein, in the silicone polymer, first silyl-terminated polydialkylsiloxane is crosslinked with second vinyl-terminated polydialkylsiloxane, and the fatty acid amide is linked to the first silyl-terminated polydialkylsiloxane. Also, the present invention can provide use of the fatty acid amide-based oleogel containing polymer according to the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Sang Joon Lee, Jae Hyeon Lee
  • Patent number: 11946012
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a lubricating oil composition capable of achieving good wear resistance and good scoring resistance of a bearing in addition to further fuel saving while maintaining durability and seizure resistance that can be used as a gear oil for a high-output, high-speed gear mechanism. A lubricating oil composition containing a combination of Fischer-Tropsch derived base oil having a low kinematic viscosity at high temperature, polyalphaolefin having a high kinematic viscosity at high temperature, and ester compound of a trivalent or higher polyol having a low kinematic viscosity at high temperature, and further contains a partial ester compound of an unsaturated fatty acid and a polyol, including a monoester compound of the unsaturated fatty acid and the polyol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHELL USA, INC.
    Inventors: Noriaki Shinoda, Shinji Saitou, Misato Kishi, Shin-ichiro Shibata, Masashi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 11939528
    Abstract: A method for preparing biochar and hydrogen by utilizing anaerobic fermentation byproducts, the method including: (1) mixing a first straw, seeding sludge and distilled water, and then carrying out anaerobic fermentation to obtain a mixed product after fermentation; (2) performing separation on the mixed product to obtain a second straw and biogas slurry; and (3) carbonizing the second straw to obtain biochar, and collecting gas after a pressurized catalytic reaction on the biogas slurry to obtain hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TIANJIN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Guanyi Chen, Xiang Guo, Yurou Mao, Beibei Yan, Yanbin Zhang, Junyu Tao, Wanqing Li, Zhanjun Cheng, Wenchao Ma
  • Patent number: 11939539
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a method of processing a hydrocarbon feed includes fractionating the hydrocarbon feed into a light stream and a heavy stream, hydrotreating the heavy stream to form a hydrotreated heavy stream, combining the light stream and the hydrotreated heavy stream to form a upgraded feed stream, and feeding the upgraded feed stream to a single Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) reaction zone, thereby producing a product stream comprising light olefins. The light stream may comprise hydrocarbons boiling at less than 343° C. and the heavy stream may comprise hydrocarbons boiling at greater than 343° C. The FCC reaction zone may be operated in a down-flow configuration and the FCC may be operated under high severity conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Mansour Ali Al-Herz, Ali Al Jawad, Qi Xu, Aaron Akah, Musaed Salem Al-Ghrami
  • Patent number: 11932820
    Abstract: A method for producing a lubricating oil composition of the present embodiment includes an irradiation step of irradiating a fullerene solution in which fullerenes are dissolved in a base oil with radiation, in which the above-described radiation is ultraviolet light or ionizing radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: Resonac Corporation, MITSUBISHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuji Monden, Kunio Kondo
  • Patent number: 11932821
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of organometallic salt compositions as lubricant additives and/or lubricant additive compositions to alleviate the formation of white etching cracks (WEC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Ab Nanol Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Johan Von Knorring, Samuli Lempiäinen, Sophia Von Haartman, Aubrey Burrows, Mathias Scherge
  • Patent number: 11932824
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of inhibiting corrosion experienced during use of a base oil or lubricant by the addition of a polyester corrosion inhibitor. More especially, the polyester corrosion inhibitor is the reaction product of an alk(en)yl substituted succinic anhydride wherein the average number of succinic groups per alk(en)yl group is less than 3.0, and at least one polyol. There is also provided a composition comprising such a polyester corrosion inhibitor and use of such a composition as a corrosion inhibitor, as well as a base oil or lubricant comprising such a polyester corrosion inhibitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: EQUUS UK TOPCO LTD
    Inventors: Helen Rachel Sarginson, Makaye Tabibi
  • Patent number: 11932814
    Abstract: In some variations, the invention provides a biocarbon composition comprising a low fixed carbon material with a fixed carbon concentration from 20 wt % to 55 wt %; a high fixed carbon material with a fixed carbon concentration from 50 wt % to 100 wt % (and higher than the fixed carbon concentration of the low fixed carbon material; from 0 to 30 wt % moisture; from 0 to 15 wt % ash; and from 0 to 20 wt % of one or more additives (such as a binder).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: CARBON TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: James A. Mennell, Dustin Slack, Daren Daugaard
  • Patent number: 11932822
    Abstract: There is provided a lubricating oil composition which is excellent in the wear resistance and the oil film retention even when the viscosity of the composition is lowered. The lubricating oil composition comprises: a base oil (A); an imide compound (B); a calcium-based detergent (C); a polymer component (D); and a zinc dithiophosphate (E), wherein the imide compound (B) comprises at least one non-boron-modified succinic acid imide compound (Bx) selected from a succinic acid monoimide (B1x) represented by general formula (b-1) and a succinic acid bisimide (B2x) represented by general formula (b-2), and wherein the polymer compound (D) has a mass average molecular weight (Mw) of not less than 10,000 and not more than 50,000, and comprises at least one selected from an olefin polymer (D1) and a polymethacrylate (D2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Horita, Hiroshi Oki
  • Patent number: 11920096
    Abstract: Low sulfur fuel oil blend compositions and methods of making such blend compositions to increase the stability and compatibility of LSFO blends having paraffinic resids that are blended with distillates and/or cracked stocks of higher asphaltenes and/or aromatics content. In one or more embodiments, distillates and/or cracked stocks that incrementally reduce the initial aromaticity of the distillate or cracked stock with the highest aromaticity are sequentially blended prior to resid addition. Such incremental reduction and sequential blending have been found to provide a resulting low sulfur fuel oil blend that is both compatible and stable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LP
    Inventors: Matthew T. Woodchick, V. Elijah Mullins, Peg Broughton
  • Patent number: 11920093
    Abstract: A process for upgrading a hydrocarbon feed includes contacting the hydrocarbon feed with hydrogen in the presence of a ring opening catalyst in a naphthene conversion unit, the contacting causing naphthenes in the hydrocarbon feed to react to produce a converted effluent comprising isoparaffins and normal paraffins. The process includes separating the converted effluent in a paraffin separation system to produce an isoparaffin-rich stream and an n-paraffin-rich stream. The process includes contacting the isoparaffin-rich stream with hydrogen in the presence of an isomerization catalyst in a reverse isomerization unit, the contacting causing isomerization to produce an isomerate comprising an equilibrium mixture of normal paraffins and isoparaffins. The process include separating the isomerate in the paraffin separation system to produce the isoparaffin-rich stream and the n-paraffin-rich stream, and passing the n-paraffin-rich stream to a steam cracker to produce a cracker effluent comprising olefins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Vishvedeep Bhat, Vinod Ramaseshan, Omer Refa Koseoglu
  • Patent number: 11921476
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide low carbon intensity (CI) ethanol through one or more targeted reductions of carbon emissions based upon an analysis of carbon emissions associated with a combination of various options for feedstock procurement, feedstock refining, processing, or transformation, and ethanol distribution pathways to end users. Such options are selected to maintain the total CI (carbon emissions per unit energy) of the ethanol below a pre-selected threshold that defines an upper limit of CI for the ethanol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LP
    Inventor: David Whikehart
  • Patent number: 11920097
    Abstract: Fuel gas compositions for use in metal fabrication are provided comprising fuel gases comprising a base fuel gas mixed with from about 1% to less than 30% hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Clayton Orivam De Morais, Keith G. Pierce, Marcos Müller Lobato
  • Patent number: 11920101
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the manufacture of a combustible material having a lower heating value of 5.29 MWh/t or more. According to the invention, such a method comprises continuously introducing of a predetermined volume per minute of wood fragments into a pressurised reactor; exposing the wood fragments to steam at a temperature of between 200 and 220° C. for a time of between 5 and 9 minutes, the value of said exposure time and the value of the temperature of said steam being selected so that the severity factor is between 4.05 and 4.15; continuously extracting from said reactor the same predetermined volume of wood fragments per minute, through a plurality of orifices opening into a conduit at substantially atmospheric pressure; separating said decompressed wood fragments and the residual steam extracted from said reactor, said wood fragments obtained after separation forming said combustible material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: EUROPEENNE DE BIOMASSE
    Inventors: Jean-Luc Despres, Adriana Quintero-Marquez, Frederic Martel
  • Patent number: 11912824
    Abstract: A fluorine-containing ether compound represented by the following formula (1) is provided. R1—CH2—R2—CH2—R3 (1) (In the formula (1), R1 is an alkoxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, R2 is a perfluoropolyether chain, R3 is —OCH2CH(OH)CH2O(CH2)mOH (in in the formula is an integer of 2 to 4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: RESONAC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoya Fukumoto, Daisuke Yagyu, Tsuyoshi Kato, Katsumi Murofushi
  • Patent number: 11912951
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polybutene-free lubricating composition, a method for lubricating a compressor using said lubricating composition and a method for pressurizing olefin in a compressor lubricated with said lubricating composition, the use of said lubricating composition for lubricating a compressor, a method of pressurizing olefin in a compressor lubricated with said lubricating composition and a method of preparing a high pressure polyolefin using a high pressure compressor lubricated with said lubricating composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventor: Achim Blok
  • Patent number: 11912636
    Abstract: In one embodiment, thermite matches are provided. For instance, thermite matches as described herein may be constructed as a multi-staged formulation comprising an outer ignition tip, an optional inner transition tip, and a bulk fuel thermite stage. The outer ignition tip may comprise an ignition compound that can be struck/scraped against an abrasive counter-chemical surface (e.g., red phosphorous) to initiate the reaction. The outer ignition tip can reach a first burn temperature that can further ignite the inner transition tip stage, which can in turn burn at a temperature that reaches the ignition temperature of the bulk fuel thermite. The high burn temperature of the thermite match may then be used to ignite other materials, such as hard-to-ignite materials, such as a thermite rod for cutting or welding. Other embodiments provide for thermite match handles and a two-piece ignition thermite matches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ADVANCED DEFENSE COMPONENTS INC
    Inventors: Jeremy Keith Moore, Scott Robert Higgins, Sean Patrick Cauley
  • Patent number: 11912955
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to lubricating compositions including effective amounts of molybdenum from an oil-soluble molybdenum compound and a magnesium boost in the detergent system to achieve passing motor friction and valve train wear performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Afton Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel Bruce Field, Kenneth Garelick, Hidetaka Hoshino, Guillaume Carpentier
  • Patent number: 11912657
    Abstract: A low sulfur diesel blockage inhibitor as shown in formula (I), a preparation method therefor, and use thereof are provided. In formula (I), x and y are each an integer between 0 and 4; m and n are each selected from H, a C1-C6 linear or branched alkyl group, or a C3-C6 cycloalkyl group. By using a vegetable oil as a raw material, a modified vegetable oil fatty acid is first obtained, and then a polar group of an unsaturated dialdehyde with a certain chain length is introduced into a molecular chain of the modified vegetable oil fatty acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, SINOPEC DALIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM AND PETROCHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lanpeng Li, Changhai Cao, Jin Cheng, Xiuzheng Li, Yidi Wang
  • Patent number: 11905479
    Abstract: Fuel oil compositions, and methods for blending such fuel oil compositions, to enhance initial compatibility and longer term stability when such fuel oil compositions are blended to meet IMO 2020 low sulfur fuel oil requirements (ISO 8217). In one or more embodiments, asphaltenic resid base stocks are blended with high aromatic slurry oil to facilitate initial compatibility such that low sulfur cutter stocks, e.g., vacuum gas oil and/or cycle oil, may be further blended therein to cut sulfur content while maintaining longer term stability. These fuel oil compositions are economically advantageous when used as marine low sulfur fuel oils because greater concentrations of high viscosity resids are present in the final blend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LP
    Inventors: Richard L. Eller, Peg Broughton, V. Elijah Mullins, John R. Weber, Jeffrey A. Sexton