Patents by Inventor Brian Eric Henry

Brian Eric Henry 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 selectively producing light olefins in a fluid catalytic cracking process from a naphtha/steam feed
    Patent number: 6118035
    Abstract: A process for selectively producing C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 olefins from a catalytically cracked or thermally cracked naphtha stream is disclosed. A mixture of the naphtha stream and a stream of steam is feed into a reaction zone where it is contacted with a catalyst containing from about 10 to 50 wt. % of a crystalline zeolite having an average pore diameter less than about 0.7 nanometers at reaction conditions which include temperatures from about 500 to 650.degree. C. and a hydrocarbon partial pressure from about 10 to 40 psia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Co.
    Inventors: Shun C. Fung, Tan-Jen Chen, Marcel J. G. Janssen, William A. Wachter, Brian Eric Henry, John Ernest Asplin