Patents by Inventor Aart Van Oort

Aart Van Oort has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Process for preparing styrene
    Publication number: 20050143611
    Abstract: A process for preparing styrene by contacting a gaseous feed which contains 1-phenylethanol and at least 0.1 % wt of phenol and/or ethylphenol with a heterogeneous dehydration catalyst in the presence of at least 0.40 % wt of benzylalcohol and at a molar ratio of benzylalcohol to total amount of phenol and ethylphenol of at least 0.8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Minne Boelens, Andrew Horton, Timothy Nisbet, Aart Van Oort
  • Process for the co-oligomerisation of ethylene and alpha olefins
    Publication number: 20050059786
    Abstract: A process for production of higher linear alpha olefins and/or alkyl-branched alpha olefins, which comprises the co-oligomerisation of one or more alpha olefins with ethylene in the presence of a metal catalyst system employing one or more bis-aryliminepyridine MXa complexes and/or one or more [bis-aryliminepyridine MYp.Lb+][NC?]q complexes; and said process is carried out at an ethylene pressure of less than 2.5 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Inventors: Eric De Boer, Hendrikus Deuling, Harry Van Der Heijden, Quoc On, Aart Van Oort, Arie Van Zon