Patents Examined by Michelle Stein
  • Patent number: 12655360
    Abstract: A method for the desulfurization and separation of a catalytic cracking light product includes the steps of: 1) contacting a catalytic cracking light product with a desulfurization adsorbent in an adsorption desulfurization reaction unit in the presence of hydrogen for desulfurization, and optionally carrying out gas-liquid separation on the resulting desulfurization product, to obtain a desulfurized rich gas and a desulfurized crude gasoline, wherein the catalytic cracking light product is an overhead oil-gas fraction from a catalytic cracking fractionator, or a rich gas and a crude gasoline from a catalytic cracking fractionator; and 2) separately sending the desulfurized rich gas and the desulfurized crude gasoline obtained in the step 1) to a catalytic cracking absorption stabilization system for separation, to obtain a desulfurized dry gas, a desulfurized liquefied gas and a desulfurized stabilized gasoline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM PROCESSING, SINOPEC
    Inventors: Wenshou Wang, Anguo Mao, Zhigang Zhang, Xianlong Liu, Li Xu, Yuliang Liu
  • Patent number: 12624298
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a slurry hydroconversion process of a heavy oil feedstock comprising: (a) preparing a first conditioned feedstock (103) by blending said heavy oil feedstock (101) with an organic chemical compound (102) comprising at least one carboxylic acid function and/or at least one ester function and/or an acid anhydride function; (b) preparing a second conditioned feedstock (105) by mixing a catalyst precursor composition (104) with said first conditioned feedstock so that a colloidal or molecular catalyst is formed when it reacts with sulfur; (c) heating the second conditioned feedstock in at least one preheating device; (d) introducing the heated second conditioned feedstock (106) into at least one slurry bed reactor and operating said slurry bed reactor in the presence of hydrogen and at hydroconversion conditions to produce an upgraded material (107), the colloidal or molecular catalyst being formed during step (c) and/or (d).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventors: Joao Marques, Thibaut Corre, Jeremie Barbier, Brett Matthew Silverman, David M. Mountainland, Sukesh Parasher
  • Patent number: 12624299
    Abstract: A hydroconversion process of a heavy oil feedstock including (a) preparing a first conditioned feedstock (103) by blending heavy oil feedstock (101) with an organic chemical compound (102) containing at least one carboxylic acid function and/or at least one ester function and/or an acid anhydride function; (b) preparing a second conditioned feedstock (105) by mixing a catalyst precursor composition (104) with the first conditioned feedstock in a manner such that a colloidal or molecular catalyst is formed when it reacts with sulfur; (c) heating the second conditioned feedstock in at least a preheating device; (d) introducing the heated second conditioned feedstock (106) into at least one hybrid ebullated-entrained bed reactor containing a hydroconversion porous supported catalyst and operating the reactor in the presence of hydrogen and at hydroconversion conditions to produce an upgraded material (107), the colloidal or molecular catalyst being formed during step (c) and/or (d).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventors: Joao Marques, Thibaut Corre, Jeremie Barbier, Brett Matthew Silverman, David M. Mountainland, Sukesh Parasher
  • Patent number: 12624300
    Abstract: A process for upgrading a naphtha feed includes separating the naphtha feed into at least a light naphtha fraction, contacting the light naphtha fraction with hydrogen in the presence of at least one cyclization catalyst, and contacting the cyclization effluent with at least one cracking catalyst. Contacting the light naphtha fraction with hydrogen in the presence of at least one cyclization catalyst may produce a cyclization effluent comprising a greater concentration of naphthenes compared to the light naphtha fraction. Contacting the cyclization effluent with at least one cracking catalyst under conditions sufficient crack at least a portion of the cyclization effluent may produce a fluid catalytic cracking effluent comprising light olefins, gasoline blending components, or both. A system for upgrading a naphtha feed includes a naphtha separation unit, a cyclization unit disposed downstream of the naphtha separation unit, and a fluid catalytic cracking unit disposed downstream of the cyclization unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: Omer Refa Koseoglu
  • Patent number: 12577470
    Abstract: The invention relates to an integrated method for thermal conversion and indirect combustion of a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock in a redox chemical loop for producing hydrocarbon streams. The heavy hydrocarbon feedstock (1) is brought into contact with inert particles (2) in a thermal conversion zone (100). Thermal conversion in the absence of hydrogen, water vapour and a catalyst produces a first gaseous effluent of hydrocarbon compounds (4) and coke, which effluent is deposited on the inert particles (5). The latter is then burned in a redox chemical loop (200) in the presence of oxygen-carrying solid particles (6). The inert particles thus flow between the thermal conversion zone (100) and a reduction zone (300) of the chemical loop while the oxygen-carrying solid particles flow between the oxidation (400) and reduction zones (300) of the chemical loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignees: TotalEnergies OneTech, IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventor: Sébastien Leplat
  • Patent number: 12534674
    Abstract: A process for upgrading a naphtha feed includes separating the naphtha feed into at least a light naphtha fraction, contacting the light naphtha fraction with hydrogen in the presence of at least one cyclization catalyst, and contacting the cyclization effluent with at least one cracking catalyst. Contacting the light naphtha fraction with hydrogen in the presence of at least one cyclization catalyst may produce a cyclization effluent comprising a greater concentration of naphthenes compared to the light naphtha fraction. Contacting the cyclization effluent with at least one cracking catalyst under conditions sufficient crack at least a portion of the cyclization effluent may produce a fluid catalytic cracking effluent comprising light olefins, gasoline blending components, or both. A system for upgrading a naphtha feed includes a naphtha separation unit, a cyclization unit disposed downstream of the naphtha separation unit, and a fluid catalytic cracking unit disposed downstream of the cyclization unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2026
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: Omer Refa Koseoglu
  • Patent number: 12528996
    Abstract: A hydrocarbon feed stream, particularly one comprising heavier hydrocarbons, may be converted to valuable products such as motor gasoline and/or lubricating oil by employing one or more large pore zeolitic catalysts, which may be prepared from a precursor zeolite. In some examples, a large pore zeolitic catalyst may be utilized to selectively reduce the endpoint of a hydrocarbon composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2026
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Brandon J. O'Neill, Joseph M. Falkowski, Allen W. Burton, Scott J. Weigel
  • Patent number: 12467001
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for preparing a high-viscosity non-hazardous bitumen composition for transportation in a railcar, wherein the method may include: (a) providing to a fractionator system a low-viscosity bitumen composition previously residing in a pipeline having a first viscosity and comprising a miscible blend of hydrocarbons, which blend was prepared by mixing a first diluent composition with a first bitumen composition; (b) heating the low-viscosity bitumen composition in the fractionator system at an operating temperature of from 170 C to 232 C to provide a first light fraction and a first heavy fraction; (c) removing at least a portion of the first heavy fraction from the fractionator system, wherein the first heavy fraction has a second viscosity that is higher than the first viscosity; (d) forming a high-viscosity non-hazardous bitumen composition from at least a portion of the first heavy fraction; and (e) directing the high-viscosity non-hazardous bitumen composition to a railcar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2025
    Assignee: USD Group LLC
    Inventors: Stuart Berg, Amanda Howerton, Mark LeMaire, Robert Nall
  • Patent number: 12441942
    Abstract: Systems and methods for producing one or more olefins using waste plastics and used lubricating oil are disclosed. Mixed waste plastic is processed in a pyrolysis unit to produce plastic derived oil. The plastic derived oil is subsequently blended with used lubricating oil to form a mixture. The mixture is then separated into (1) a light-end stream comprising C1 to C8 hydrocarbons and (2) a heavy hydrocarbon feed stream. The heavy hydrocarbon feed stream is then processed to produce a steam cracking feedstock stream. The light end-stream and/or the steam cracking feedstock stream are then flowed into a cracking unit to produce one or more olefins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2025
    Assignee: SABIC Global Technologies B.V.
    Inventors: Nicolas Goyheneix, Lara Galan-Sanchez
  • Patent number: 12391890
    Abstract: Light olefins may be produced from a hydrocarbon feed by a method that includes separating the hydrocarbon feed into at least a light gas fraction stream comprising C1-C4 alkanes, a light fraction stream comprising C5+ alkanes, and a heavy fraction stream. The temperature cut between the light fraction stream and the heavy fraction stream may be at 280° C. to 320° C. The method may further include steam cracking at least a portion of the light gas fraction stream to produce a steam cracked effluent stream and catalytically cracking at least a portion of the light fraction stream and the heavy fraction stream in a steam enhanced catalytic cracker (SECC) to produce a catalytically cracked effluent stream. The steam cracked effluent stream and the catalytically cracked effluent stream may be sent to a product separator to produce the light olefins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2025
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Aaron Chi Akah, Qi Xu, Musaed Salem Al-Ghrami
  • Patent number: 12378482
    Abstract: A process plant and a process for production of a hydrocarbon suitable for use as jet fuel from a feedstock being a renewable feedstock or an oxygenate feedstock, including combining the renewable feedstock with an amount of a hydrocracked intermediate product, directing it to contact a material catalytically active in hydrodeoxygenation under hydrodeoxygenation conditions to provide a hydrodeoxygenated intermediate product, fractionating the hydrodeoxygenated intermediate product in at least two fractions including a first fraction of which at least 90% boils below a defined boiling point and a second fraction of which at least 90% boils above the defined boiling point, directing at least an amount of the second fraction to contact a material catalytically active in hydrocracking under hydrocracking conditions to provide the hydrocracked intermediate product, the process being suited for efficiently converting the upper-boiling point of an oxygenate feedstock such as a renewable feedstocks to a lower boiling
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: HALDOR TOPSØE A/S
    Inventors: Asbjørn Sune Andersson, Ole Frej Alkilde, Thi Hong Diep Duong
  • Patent number: 12338402
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing olefins from a hydrocarbon feedstock 11 having a sulfur content of at least 0.1 weight %, an initial boiling point of at least 180° C. and a final boiling point of at least 600° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: IFP Energies Nouvelles
    Inventors: Wilfried Weiss, Isabelle Merdrignac
  • Patent number: 12325832
    Abstract: Method of producing pyrolysis products from mixed plastics along with an associated system for processing mixed plastics. The method includes conducting pyrolysis of a plastic feedstock to produce plastic pyrolysis oil; feeding the plastic pyrolysis oil to a first fractionator to separate the plastic pyrolysis oil into a distillate fraction including naphtha and diesel and a vacuum gas oil fraction; and feeding the distillate fraction to a three step hydrotreating operation. The three step hydrotreating operation includes feeding the distillate fraction to a first hydrotreating unit to remove di-olefins to produce a first product stream, feeding the first product stream to a second hydrotreating unit to remove mono-olefins to produce a second product stream; and feeding the second product stream to a third hydrotreating unit to remove sulfur and nitrogen by hydrodesulfurization and hydrodenitrogenation to produce a third product stream. Such system may be integrated with a conventional refinery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Omer Refa Koseoglu, Gerard De Nazelle
  • Patent number: 12281269
    Abstract: A cracking furnace for cracking a hydrocarbon feed, the furnace including a firebox having a single radiant zone including, a first plurality of cracking coils each having a first shape arranged within the firebox. The radiant zone includes a second plurality of cracking coils each having a second shape arranged within the radiant zone. A burner section positioned below the first plurality cracking coils and below the second plurality of cracking coils. A convection section is positioned on top of the firebox configured to recover residual heat from the firebox.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: T.EN PROCESS TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas M. Pickett, Yong Wang, Chinh Dang, William Larson, John Murphey, III, George Dabney, Jr., Huynh Pham, Astrid Han
  • Patent number: 12281271
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods for the production of transportation fuels from renewable plant- and animal-based resources. The methods disclosed herein present an environmentally-friendly process for using or recycling plant- and animal-based fats and oils. The renewable feed stocks can be used to produce a variety of hydrocarbon fuels, including renewable gasoline. The disclosure also relates to fuel products and fuel blend stocks produced from renewable hydrocarbon starting materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: VALERO SERVICES, INC.
    Inventor: William Malatak
  • Patent number: 12281272
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods for the production of transportation fuels from renewable paraffinic feed stocks. The methods disclosed herein present an environmentally-friendly process for using renewable paraffinic feed stocks from various sources. The renewable paraffinic feed stocks can be used to produce a variety of hydrocarbon fuels, including renewable gasoline. The disclosure also relates to fuel products and fuel blend stocks produced from renewable paraffinic feed stocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: VALERO SERVICES, INC.
    Inventor: William Malatak
  • Patent number: 12234414
    Abstract: A process for producing a hydrocarbon stream with reduced CS2 content, comprising contacting a hydrocarbon stream containing CS2 with a solid reactive CS2-scavenger which contains primary and/or secondary amino group-bearing hydrocarbon residues attached to a solid support, at a temperature in the range of from 0 to 300° C., and separating the obtained reaction product of CS2 and reactive CS2-scavenger from the hydrocarbon stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: BASF Corporation
    Inventors: Ernst Boerman, Jim Brandts
  • Patent number: 12227709
    Abstract: An integrated process for upgrading a hydrocarbon oil feed stream includes solvent deasphalting the hydrocarbon oil stream; processing the heavy residual hydrocarbons in a gasification unit to form syngas and gasification residue; hydrotreating the deasphalted oil stream to form a C3-C4 hydrocarbon stream, a light C5+ hydrocarbon stream, and a heavy C5+ hydrocarbon stream; dehydrogenating the C3-C4 hydrocarbon stream to form propylene and butylene; steam enhanced catalytically cracking the light C5+ hydrocarbon stream; steam enhanced catalytically cracking the heavy C5+ hydrocarbon stream; passing at least a portion of the light steam enhanced catalytically cracked stream, the heavy steam enhanced catalytically cracked stream, or both to a product separator to produce a olefin product stream, a naphtha product stream, and a BTX product stream; and processing the naphtha product stream in the aromatics complex to produce benzene and xylenes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Qi Xu, Aaron Chi Akah, Musaed Salem Al-Ghrami, Zhonglin Zhang
  • Patent number: 12227707
    Abstract: In accordance with one or more embodiments herein, an integrated process for upgrading a hydrocarbon oil feed stream utilizing a gasification unit, steam enhanced catalytic cracker, and an aromatics complex includes solvent deasphalting the hydrocarbon oil stream; processing the heavy residual hydrocarbons in a gasification unit to form syngas and gasification residue; hydrotreating the deasphalted oil stream to form a light C5+ hydrocarbon stream and a heavy C5+ hydrocarbon stream; steam enhanced catalytically cracking the light C5+ hydrocarbon stream; steam enhanced catalytically cracking the heavy C5+ hydrocarbon stream; passing at least a portion of the light steam enhanced catalytically cracked stream, the heavy steam enhanced catalytically cracked stream, or both to a product separator to produce a olefin product stream, a naphtha product stream, and a BTX product stream; and processing the naphtha product stream in the aromatics complex to produce benzene and xylenes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Qi Xu, Aaron Chi Akah, Musaed Salem Al-Ghrami, Zhonglin Zhang
  • Patent number: 12227708
    Abstract: An integrated process for upgrading a hydrocarbon oil feed stream utilizing a delayed coker, steam enhanced catalytic cracker, and an aromatics complex includes solvent deasphalting the hydrocarbon oil stream; delayed coking the heavy residual hydrocarbons; hydrotreating the delayed coker product stream and the deasphalted oil stream to form a C3-C4 hydrocarbon stream, a light C5+ hydrocarbon stream, and a heavy C5+ hydrocarbon stream; dehydrogenating the C3-C4 hydrocarbon stream to form propylene and butylene; steam enhanced catalytically cracking the light C5+ hydrocarbon stream; steam enhanced catalytically cracking the heavy C5+ hydrocarbon stream; passing at least a portion of the light steam enhanced catalytically cracked stream, the heavy steam enhanced catalytically cracked stream, or both to a product separator to produce a olefin product stream, a naphtha product stream, and a BTX product stream; and processing the naphtha product stream in the aromatics complex to produce benzene and xylenes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Qi Xu, Aaron Chi Akah, Musaed Salem Al-Ghrami, Zhonglin Zhang