Patents by Inventor Chunming Xu

Chunming Xu 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).

  • Publication number: 20240109056
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a composite ionic liquid and a preparation method and a use thereof. A first aspect of the present disclosure provides a preparation method of a composite ionic liquid, where an ammonium salt, a first metal salt, a second metal salt, and a third metal salt are sequentially added into a reactor for performing a reaction under different conditions, and the composite ionic liquid is obtained after the reaction is finished. The composite ionic liquid prepared by the method may be used as a catalyst to catalyze an alkylation reaction of isoparaffin with C4 olefin to obtain alkylated oil, which has the advantages of high catalytic activity, long catalytic life, low consumption, and better distribution of the resulting alkylated oil, etc, and thereby significantly reducing the production costs and improving the quality of the resulted alkylated oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Tao ZHENG, Rui ZHANG, Zhichang LIU, Haiyan LIU, Xianghai MENG, Chunming XU
  • Publication number: 20240052247
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of steam cracking using electricity to supply energy. This method is to provide energy for steam cracking reaction of a cracking raw material by electromagnetic induction with electricity; the cracking raw material comprises one or more of naphtha, cycloalkane and cycloolefin; wherein the cycloalkane is a C4-C8 cycloalkane, and the cycloolefin is a C4-C8 cycloolefin. The present invention utilizes electricity to provide energy for the steam cracking reaction through an electromagnetic coil, which is a new use of electricity and solve the current problem of excess electricity. Moreover, utilizing the electromagnetic coil to provide power can make the heat distribution in the furnace tube of the cracking furnace more uniform, and it is easier to control the reaction temperature and the progress of the reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Hongjun ZHOU, Quangui WU, Hongmei SONG, Fengyun BI, Enze ZHOU, Guanglin ZHOU, Chunming XU
  • Publication number: 20240017232
    Abstract: A coupled fluidized beds reactor-regenerator apparatus for catalytic dehydrogenation of propane. The fluidized bed reactor comprising a raw material delivery system, a pre-rising system, a reaction system, a gas-solid separation system and an internal circulation pipeline, the reaction system includes a conical riser and a turbulent bed reactor; the raw material delivery system, the pre-rising system, the conical riser, the turbulent bed reactor, and the gas-solid separation system are consecutively connected in this order from bottom to top; the bottom outlet of the gas-solid separation system is connected to the inlet of the internal circulation pipeline, and the outlet of the internal circulation pipeline is connected to the raw material delivery system and/or the reaction system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Mengxi LIU, Chunxi LU, Chunming XU, Guiyuan JIANG, Jian LI
  • Patent number: 11634334
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of synthesizing an aluminosilicate molecular sieve by a crystal seed-assisted method, a natural aluminosilicate clay mineral treated and activated by an alkali is used as a crystal seed for synthesis of the aluminosilicate molecular sieve, and the target molecular sieve product is synthesized by hydrothermal crystallization, wherein the synthesis process does not require addition of conventional crystal seeds of a molecular sieve or use of any organic template agent, thus the synthesized product does not require a calcination process to remove the template agent. The method of synthesizing an aluminosilicate molecular sieve by a crystal seed-assisted method can meet the requirements of both crystallinity and nucleation time, and greatly reduce costs of synthesizing the aluminosilicate molecular sieve, and reduce the environmental pollution caused by removal of the template agent by calcinating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM-BEIJING
    Inventors: Tao Zheng, Haiyan Liu, Zhichang Liu, Xianghai Meng, Rui Zhang, Chunming Xu
  • Publication number: 20220355269
    Abstract: A method of treating or remediating contaminated material, such as water or soil, comprises contacting such material with asphaltenes. The asphaltenes are preferably produced as a by-product of petroleum refining and, in particular, a by-product of vacuum residua. An adsorbent material comprising such asphaltenes is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: Well Resources Inc.
    Inventors: Warren CHUNG, Xuebing LI, Pei YU, Mengtao CUI, Quan SHI, Zhiming XU, Suoqi ZHAO, Chunming XU, Keng H. CHUNG
  • Patent number: 11446633
    Abstract: A method of treating or remediating contaminated material, such as water or soil, comprises contacting such material with asphaltenes. The asphaltenes are preferably produced as a by-product of petroleum refining and, in particular, a by-product of vacuum residua. An adsorbent material comprising such asphaltenes is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Well Resources Inc.
    Inventors: Warren Chung, Xuebing Li, Pei Yu, Mengtao Cui, Quan Shi, Zhiming Xu, Suoqi Zhao, Chunming Xu, Keng H. Chung
  • Patent number: 11426702
    Abstract: A method and a system for treatment of a spent chloroaluminate ionic liquid catalyst and an alkaline wastewater, where the method includes: 1) mixing the catalyst with a concentrated brine for hydrolysis reaction until residual activity of the catalyst is completely eliminated, to obtain an acidic hydrolysate and an acid-soluble oil; 2) mixing the acidic hydrolysate with an alkaline solution containing the alkaline wastewater for neutralization reaction until this reaction system becomes weak alkaline, to obtain a neutralization solution; 3) fully mixing the neutralization solution with a flocculant, carrying out sedimentation and separation, collecting the concentrated brine at an upper layer for reuse in the hydrolysis reaction, and collecting concentrated flocs at a lower layer; 4) dehydrating the concentrated flocs to obtain concentrated brine for reuse into the hydrolysis reaction, and collecting a wet solid slag; and 5) drying the wet solid slag to obtain a dry solid slag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM-BEIJING
    Inventors: Chunmao Chen, Zhichang Liu, Zhongjin Yi, Rui Zhang, Jiahao Liang, Xianghai Meng, Haiyan Liu, Chunming Xu, Qinghong Wang
  • Publication number: 20210354118
    Abstract: Provided are an in situ bifunctional catalyst for deep desulfurization and increasing octane number of gasoline, and its preparation method and application. The bifunctional catalyst includes a modified catalyst carrier and a loaded active metal, where the modified catalyst carrier is a composite carrier prepared through mixing ?-Al2O3 and an acidic molecular sieve by a binder and calcining. When the bifunctional catalyst provided by the present application is used for hydrodesulfurization of gasolines, deep desulfurization, olefin reduction and octane number preservation can be realized simultaneously, thereby obtaining a high-quality oil product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Liang ZHAO, Jinsen GAO, Butian XIA, Lixia DONG, Jingye CHEN, Yuhao ZHANG, Chunming XU
  • Publication number: 20210354119
    Abstract: Provided are a bifunctional catalyst for deep desulfurization and gasoline quality improvement and a preparation method therefore and a use thereof. The bifunctional catalyst includes a modified catalyst and a loaded active metal, where the modified catalyst carrier is a ?-Al2O3 modified with a rare earth element, or the modified catalyst carrier is a composite carrier prepared by mixing and calcinating ?-Al2O3 and an acid molecular sieve through a binder, and then modifying with the rare earth element. The bifunctional catalyst for deep desulfurization and gasoline quality improvement can achieve deep desulfurization of high-sulfur fluid catalytic cracking gasoline, and ensure no significant loss of octane number under relatively mild conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Liang ZHAO, Jinsen GAO, Butian XIA, Lixia DONG, Jingye CHEN, Yuhao ZHANG, Chunming XU
  • Patent number: 11097263
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aromatization catalyst, a preparation method, a regeneration method and an aromatization method thereof. The preparation method comprises steps of: mixing a zeolite molecular sieve with a binder to obtain a catalyst precursor; the catalyst precursor is successively subjected to an ion exchange modification and a first modification treatment, and then subjected to a hydrothermal treatment, and further subjected to active metal loading and a second modification treatment, to obtain the aromatization catalyst. The aromatization catalyst has good carbon deposition resistance and high aromatization activity, and enables an aromatization reaction to be completed under mild conditions, and has high aromatic selectivity, and the liquid yield is above 98.5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM—BEIJING
    Inventors: Liang Zhao, Jinsen Gao, Tianzhen Hao, Lixia Dong, Di Gao, Xiaoyu Wu, Xiaoqin Wang, Liyuan Cao, Chunming Xu
  • Publication number: 20210094836
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of synthesizing an aluminosilicate molecular sieve by a crystal seed-assisted method, a natural aluminosilicate clay mineral treated and activated by an alkali is used as a crystal seed for synthesis of the aluminosilicate molecular sieve, and the target molecular sieve product is synthesized by hydrothermal crystallization, wherein the synthesis process does not require addition of conventional crystal seeds of a molecular sieve or use of any organic template agent, thus the synthesized product does not require a calcination process to remove the template agent. The method of synthesizing an aluminosilicate molecular sieve by a crystal seed-assisted method can meet the requirements of both crystallinity and nucleation time, and greatly reduce costs of synthesizing the aluminosilicate molecular sieve, and reduce the environmental pollution caused by removal of the template agent by calcinating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: HAIYAN LIU, TAO ZHENG, ZHICHANG LIU, XIANGHAI MENG, RUI ZHANG, CHUNMING XU
  • Publication number: 20210060540
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aromatization catalyst, a preparation method, a regeneration method and an aromatization method thereof. The preparation method comprises steps of: mixing a zeolite molecular sieve with a binder to obtain a catalyst precursor; the catalyst precursor is successively subjected to an ion exchange modification and a first modification treatment, and then subjected to a hydrothermal treatment, and further subjected to active metal loading and a second modification treatment, to obtain the aromatization catalyst. The aromatization catalyst has good carbon deposition resistance and high aromatization activity, and enables an aromatization reaction to be completed under mild conditions, and has high aromatic selectivity, and the liquid yield is above 98.5%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Liang ZHAO, Jinsen Gao, Tianzhen Hao, Lixia Dong, Di Gao, Xiaoyu Wu, Xiaoqin Wang, Liyuan Cao, Chunming Xu
  • Publication number: 20200392029
    Abstract: A method and a system for treatment of a spent chloroaluminate ionic liquid catalyst and an alkaline wastewater, where the method includes: 1) mixing the catalyst with a concentrated brine for hydrolysis reaction until residual activity of the catalyst is completely eliminated, to obtain an acidic hydrolysate and an acid-soluble oil; 2) mixing the acidic hydrolysate with a lye containing the alkaline wastewater for neutralization reaction until this reaction system becomes weak alkaline, to obtain a neutralization solution; 3) fully mixing the neutralization solution with a flocculant, carrying out sedimentation and separation, collecting the concentrated brine at an upper layer for reuse in the hydrolysis reaction, and collecting concentrated flocs at a lower layer; 4) dehydrating the concentrated flocs to obtain concentrated brine for reuse into the hydrolysis reaction, and collecting a wet solid slag; and 5) drying the wet solid slag to obtain a dry solid slag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: CHUNMAO CHEN, ZHICHANG LIU, ZHONGJIN YI, RUI ZHANG, JIAHAO LIANG, XIANGHAI MENG, HAIYAN LIU, CHUNMING XU, QINGHONG WANG
  • Patent number: 10822242
    Abstract: The present application provides a ZSM-35 molecular sieve and a preparation method thereof. The ZSM-35 molecular sieve is an aggregated ZSM-35 molecular sieve having a hierarchical macro-meso-microporous pore structure. Raw materials for the preparation method do not include an organic template agent and a crystal seed, and the preparation method includes the following steps: preparing a reactant gel where a molar ratio of SiO2, Al2O3, Na2O, K2O, oxygen-containing acid radical and H2O is (20-40):1.0:(1.5-2.0):(4.0-6.5):(1.0-4.0):(600-1200); sequentially performing an aging treatment and a crystallization treatment on the reactant gel, washing and drying a resulting synthetic product. The ZSM-35 molecular sieve provided by the present application may be obtained by synthesizing without using an organic template agent and crystal seed, and because it has a hierarchical pore structure, it is favorable for material diffusion and mass transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM—BEIJING
    Inventors: Haiyan Liu, Tao Zheng, Zhichang Liu, Xianghai Meng, Rui Zhang, Chunming Xu
  • Publication number: 20200269212
    Abstract: A method of treating or remediating contaminated material, such as water or soil, comprises contacting such material with asphaltenes. The asphaltenes are preferably produced as a by-product of petroleum refining and, in particular, a by-product of vacuum residua. An adsorbent material comprising such asphaltenes is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Well Resources Inc.
    Inventors: Warren CHUNG, Xuebing LI, Pei YU, Mengtao CUI, Quan SHI, Zhiming XU, Suoqi ZHAO, Chunming XU, Keng H. CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20200038848
    Abstract: The present application provides a ZSM-35 molecular sieve and a preparation method thereof. The ZSM-35 molecular sieve is an aggregated ZSM-35 molecular sieve having a hierarchical macro-meso-microporous pore structure. Raw materials for the preparation method do not include an organic template agent and a crystal seed, and the preparation method includes the following steps: preparing a reactant gel where a molar ratio of SiO2, Al2O3, Na2O, K2O, oxygen-containing acid radical and H2O is (20-40):1.0:(1.5-2.0):(4.0-6.5):(1.0-4.0):(600-1200); sequentially performing an aging treatment and a crystallization treatment on the reactant gel, washing and drying a resulting synthetic product. The ZSM-35 molecular sieve provided by the present application may be obtained by synthesizing without using an organic template agent and crystal seed, and because it has a hierarchical pore structure, it is favorable for material diffusion and mass transfer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: HAIYAN LIU, TAO ZHENG, ZHICHANG LIU, XIANGHAI MENG, RUI ZHANG, CHUNMING XU
  • Patent number: 10266778
    Abstract: A method for upgrading fluid catalytic cracking gasoline includes the following steps: cutting fluid catalytic cracking gasoline into light, medium, and heavy gasoline fractions; subjecting the medium gasoline fraction to an aromatization/hydroisomerization reaction in the presence of a catalyst to obtain a desulfurized medium gasoline fraction; and blending the light gasoline fraction, the desulfurized medium gasoline fraction and the heavy gasoline fraction to obtain upgraded gasoline; where, a cutting temperature of the light and the medium gasoline fractions is 35-60° C., and a cutting temperature of the medium and the heavy gasoline fractions is 70-160° C. The method according to the present invention not only can realize deep desulfurization of fluid catalytic cracking gasoline, but also can improve octane number significantly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM-BEIJING
    Inventors: Jinsen Gao, Liang Zhao, Chunming Xu, Tianzhen Hao, Xiaona Han
  • Publication number: 20180188159
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for monitoring the catalytic activity of an ionic liquid and for the regeneration of the ionic liquid in continuous conversion of an olefin in an alkylation. The process includes (a) providing an ionic liquid; (b) reacting a hydrocarbon mixture with the ionic liquid to obtain an ionic liquid phase. In step (d), adding an organic compound to the ionic liquid phase. In step (e), obtaining an absorption peak of a mixture from step (d) and in step (f) repeating until the absorption peak reaches a maximum or a minimum value. In step (g), determining the total amount of the organic compound or the ionic liquid phase added. Next, (h) calculating the catalytic activity of the ionic liquid. Then, (i) adding aluminium halides to the reaction of step (b) such that the activity of step (h) stays above the minimum level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Zhichang LIU, Rui ZHANG, Xuan ZHANG, Xianghai MENG, Haiyan LIU, Chunming XU, Peter Anton August KLUSENER
  • Patent number: 10011779
    Abstract: The present invention provides an adsorbent and a method for desulfurization of gasoline. The adsorbent is obtained by loading active metal component on a composite carrier comprising zeolite and active carbon subjected to alkali treatment respectively, the active metal is selected from one or more elements of IA, IIA, VIII, IB, IIB and VIB groups in the periodic table. This method uses the adsorbent to conduct gasoline adsorption desulfurization, which especially cuts the gasoline into a light and a heavy gasoline fraction firstly, then the light fraction is subjected to adsorption desulfurization using the adsorbent, and the heavy fraction is subjected to selective hydrodesulfurization, a cutting temperature of the light and the heavy gasoline fraction is 70-110° C. The adsorbent has a large sulfur adsorption, a long service life, and simply to be regenerated; the method can realize deep desulfurization of gasoline, and has a less octane number loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM-BEIJING
    Inventors: Liang Zhao, Jinsen Gao, Chunming Xu, Tianzhen Hao, Xiaona Han
  • Publication number: 20180180555
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for monitoring the catalytic activity of an ionic liquid. In step (a), providing an acidic ionic liquid; (b) providing an organic compound; (c) adding at least a portion of the organic compound to at least a portion of the ionic liquid; (d) recording an infrared spectrum of a mixture from step (c) to obtain at least one absorption peak. In step (e), repeating steps (c) and (d) until at least one absorption peak reaches a maximum value or a minimum value. In step (f), determining at the maximum value or minimum value of step (e): the total amount of the organic compound or the total amount of the ionic liquid added. In step (g), calculating the catalytic activity of the ionic liquid based on: the total amount of the organic compound or the total amount of ionic liquid, as determined in step (f).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Rui ZHANG, Zhichang LIU, Xuan ZHANG, Xianghai MENG, Haiyan LIU, Chunming XU, Peter Anton August KLUSENER