Patents by Inventor Brian Scott Vanderwilp

Brian Scott Vanderwilp 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).

  • Patent number: 9260670
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the selective hydrogenation of diolefins and sulfur compounds that are contained in a pyrolysis gasoline feedstream. The process includes utilizing a single hydrotreating reaction stage by introducing the pyrolysis gasoline feedstock that includes a diolefin concentration and an organic sulfur concentration into a reactor that is loaded with a high activity hydrotreating catalyst and which is operated under selective hydrogenation conditions. A reactor effluent having a reduced diolefin concentration and a reduced organic sulfur concentration is yielded from the reactor and is separated into a portion that is recycled as a reactor feed. The remaining portion of the reactor effluent is passed downstream for further processing or handling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Dane Clark Grenoble, Paul Benjerman Himelfarb, Michael Norris Treybig, Brian Scott Vanderwilp
  • Publication number: 20120108866
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the selective hydrogenation of diolefins and sulfur compounds that are contained in a pyrolysis gasoline feedstream. The process includes utilizing a single hydrotreating reaction stage by introducing the pyrolysis gasoline feedstock that includes a diolefin concentration and an organic sulfur concentration into a reactor that is loaded with a high activity hydrotreating catalyst and which is operated under selective hydrogenation conditions. A reactor effluent having a reduced diolefin concentration and a reduced organic sulfur concentration is yielded from the reactor and is separated into a portion that is recycled as a reactor feed. The remaining portion of the reactor effluent is passed downstream for further processing or handling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Dane Clark Grenoble, Paul Bejerman Himelfarb, Michael Norris Treybig, Brian Scott Vanderwilp
  • Patent number: 7657331
    Abstract: A reaction system for epoxidation of olefins, with a feed control system configured to control the relative quantity of reaction modifier present in the feed, where the relative quantity of said reaction modifier is changed in response to changes in the reaction temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Peter Ingraham Chipman, Jeffrey Michael Kobe, Arjan Jan Te Raa, Leonid Isaakovich Rubinstein, Brian Scott Vanderwilp, Thijs Wermink
  • Patent number: 7657332
    Abstract: A process for the epoxidation of an olefin, which process comprises reacting a feed comprising the olefin, oxygen and a reaction modifier in the presence of a highly selective silver-based catalyst at a reaction temperature T, and with the reaction modifier being present in a relative quantity Q which is the ratio of an effective molar quantity of active species of the reaction modifier present in the feed to an effective molar quantity of hydrocarbons present in the feed, and which process comprises the steps of: operating at a first operating phase wherein the value of T is T1 and the value of Q is Q1, and subsequently operating at a second operating phase at a reaction temperature which is different from the reaction temperature employed in the first operating phase, such that the value of T is T2 and the value of Q is substantially Q2, whereby Q2 is determined by calculation and Q2 is defined by the formula Q2=Q1+B(T2?T1), wherein B denotes a constant factor which is greater than 0; a reaction system
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Peter Ingraham Chipman, Jeffrey Michael Kobe, Arjan Jan Te Raa, Leonid Isaakovich Rubinstein, Brian Scott Vanderwilp, Thijs Wermink
  • Patent number: 7193094
    Abstract: A process for the epoxidation of an olefin, which process comprises reacting a feed comprising the olefin, oxygen and a reaction modifier in the presence of a highly selective silver-based catalyst at a reaction temperature T, and with the reaction modifier being present in a relative quantity Q which is the ratio of an effective molar quantity of active species of the reaction modifier present in the feed to an effective molar quantity of hydrocarbons present in the feed, and which process comprises the steps of: operating at a first operating phase wherein the value of T is T1 and the value of Q is Q1, and subsequently operating at a second operating phase at a reaction temperature which is different from the reaction temperature employed in the first operating phase, such that the value of T is T2 and the value of Q is substantially Q2, whereby Q2 is determined by calculation and Q2 is defined by the formula Q2=Q1+B(T2?T1), wherein B denotes a constant factor which is greater than 0; a reaction system
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Peter Ingraham Chipman, Jeffrey Michael Kobe, Arjan Jan Te Raa, Leonid Isaakovich Rubinstein, Brian Scott Vanderwilp, Thijs Wermink
  • Publication number: 20040014999
    Abstract: A process for the epoxidation of an olefin, which process comprises reacting a feed comprising the olefin, oxygen and a reaction modifier in the presence of a highly selective silver-based catalyst at a reaction temperature T, and with the reaction modifier being present in a relative quantity Q which is the ratio of an effective molar quantity of active species of the reaction modifier present in the feed to an effective molar quantity of hydrocarbons present in the feed, and which process comprises the steps of:
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Peter Ingraham Chipman, Jeffrey Michael Kobe, Arjan Jan Te Raa, Leonid Isaakovich Rubinstein, Brian Scott Vanderwilp, Thijs Wermink