Patents by Inventor Daniel Paul Leta
Daniel Paul Leta 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).
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Patent number: 8894845Abstract: Hydrocarbon feedstreams are desulfurized using an alkali metal reagent, optionally in the presence of hydrogen. Improved control over reaction conditions can be achieved in part by controlling the particle size of the alkali metal salt and by using multiple desulfurization reactors. The processes herein allow a simple and effective method for removing the majority of coke formed in the alkali metal reagent reactions with the hydrocarbon feedstreams. This makes it cost effective to run such processes at higher severities (which result in higher coke production) thereby resulting in increased amounts of valuable converted hydrocarbon product yields. The process improvements herein may also be used to increase total throughput through a unit due to the ability to effectively manage higher coke content in the reaction products.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2012Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Walter David Vann, Daniel Paul Leta, Jonathan Martin McConnachie, Richard Alan Demmin, Douglas Wayne Hissong, William C. Baird, Jr., Roby Bearden, Jr., James Ronald Bielenberg, Howard Freund, Chris Aaron Wright, Michael Francis Raterman, James Ronald Rigby, Brandon Thomas Stone
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Patent number: 6610255Abstract: A fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) process performed in a FCC process unit containing a reactor, a regenerator and an outboard vessel. Catalyst particles containing vanadium are circulated back and forth from the reactor to the regenerator and back and forth from the regenerator and the outboard vessel. The outboard vessel contains a vanadium trap material that removes vanadium from at least a portion of the catalyst particles.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2000Date of Patent: August 26, 2003Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Guang Cao, Todd Richard Steffens, Gordon Frederick Stuntz, Daniel Paul Leta, William Russell Adamson, Albert Yuan-Hsin Hu
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Patent number: 6475374Abstract: A process for preparing a lubricating oil basestock having good low temperature properties. The process includes a first amorphous isomerization catalyst having a pore volume less than 0.99 ml/gm (H2O), an alumina content in the range of 30-50 wt % based on isomerization catalyst and an isoelectric point in the range of 4.5 to 6.5. The isomerization step is followed by a catalytic dewaxing step using an intermediate pore crystalline molecular sieve.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2000Date of Patent: November 5, 2002Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Daniel Paul Leta, Stuart Leon Soled, Gary Brice McVicker, Sylvain Hantzer
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Patent number: 6358894Abstract: The invention relates to lubricating oil compositions of a major amount of an oil of lubricating viscosity in admixture with an effective minor amount of an oil soluble or dispersible trinuclear molybdenum containing complex and of an antioxidant, preferably, copper containing antioxidants and diphenyl amines and effective diphenylamine derivatives to enhance the lubricating properties of the oil. Also included are additive concentrates containing these compositions. The invention further includes the method of making these compositions.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 1997Date of Patent: March 19, 2002Assignee: Infineum USA L.P.Inventors: Daniel Paul Leta, Jonathan M. McConnachie, Edward Ira Stiefel, Charles Frederick Pictroski, Kathleen Marie Creegan
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Patent number: 6232276Abstract: A lubricating oil composition is provided comprising a major amount of an oil of lubricating viscosity and a minor amount of at least one trinuclear molybdenum compound. Preferably, the trinuclear molybdenum compound is selected from those compounds having the formula Mo3SkL4Qz and mixtures thereof in which L is a ligand having organo groups with a sufficient number of carbon atoms to render the compound soluble in the oil, k varies from 4 through 7, Q is selected from the group of compounds having lone pair electrons including water, amines, alcohols, phosphines, and ethers, and z ranges from 0 to 5. In general, the organo groups of the mono-anionic ligands will be the same although they may be different, and they preferably are selected from alkyl, aryl, substituted aryl, and ether groups. For example, when L is a dialkyldithiocarbamate or a dialkyldithiophosphate, the alkyl groups will have from about 1 to 30 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 1997Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignee: Infineum USA L.P.Inventors: Edward Ira Stiefel, Jonathan M. McConnachie, Daniel Paul Leta, Manuel A. Francisco, Catherine Louise Coyle, Peter John Guzi, Charles F. Pictroski
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Patent number: 6156189Abstract: The present invention is directed to a Fluid Catalytic Cracking process conducted under fluid catalytic cracking conditions by injecting into at least one reaction zone of a fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) having one or more risers, a plurality of feeds wherein said plurality of feeds comprises at least one feed (.alpha.) and at least another feed (.beta.) wherein said feeds (.alpha.) and (.beta.) (a) differ in Conradson Carbon Residue by at least about 2 wt % points; or (b) differ in hydrogen content by at least about 0.2 wt %; or (c) differ in API gravities by at least about 2 points; or (d) differ in nitrogen content by at least about 50 ppm; or (e) differ in carbon-to-hydrogen ratio by at least about 0.3; or (f) differ in mean boiling point by at least about 200.degree. F; and wherein said feeds (.alpha.) and (.beta.) are alternately injected and wherein said alternate injection maintains said risers in a cyclic steady state, while the rest of the FCC unit is in a steady state.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 1999Date of Patent: December 5, 2000Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Teh Chung Ho, Shun Chong Fung, Daniel Paul Leta
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Patent number: 6123832Abstract: The invention relates to Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) for producing liquid fuels and light olefins from liquid hydrocarbon mixtures such as petroleum fractions.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 1999Date of Patent: September 26, 2000Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Co.Inventors: Teh Chung Ho, Shun Chong Fung, Gordon Frederick Stuntz, Robert Charles Welch, Daniel Paul Leta
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Patent number: 6034141Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst for conversion of methanol, ethanol alone or in combination with n-propanol to isobutanol and the process for making and using the catalyst. The catalyst is a noble metal supported on at least a first phase of mixed oxide crystallites containing from about 60 to about 74 atomic % (on a metals basis only) zirconium, from about 21 to about 31 atomic % manganese and from about 5 to about 9 atomic % zinc, and less than about 1 atomic % alkali, a second phase of zirconium-doped hetaerolite particles containing from about 65 to about 69 atomic % manganese, from about 31 to about 35 atomic % zinc, from about 0.5 to about 5 atomic % zirconium, and optionally a trace atomic % of alkali, and a third phase containing from about 29 to about 55 atomic % manganese, from about 13 to about 55 atomic % zinc and from about 13 to about 35 atomic % zirconium. The first phase mixed oxide crystallites have a zirconium oxide-like structure have a particle size of at least about 40 .ANG.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 1998Date of Patent: March 7, 2000Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Co.Inventors: Thomas Henry Vanderspurt, Mark Alan Greaney, Daniel Paul Leta, Russell John Koveal, Mark Michael Disko, Angela V. Klaus, Sutinder K. Behal, Robert B. Harris
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Patent number: 6010987Abstract: The invention is a method for improving the friction reduction and friction reduction retention performance of a lubricating oil comprising adding to the lubricating oil a trinuclear molybdenum sulfur compound selected from the group of trinuclear molybdenum compounds preferably those having the formulas Mo.sub.3 S.sub.7 (dtc).sub.4 and Mo.sub.3 S.sub.4 (dtc).sub.4 and mixtures thereof wherein dtc represents independently selected diorganodithiocarbamate ligands containing independently selected organo groups and wherein the ligands have a sufficient number of carbon atoms among all the organo groups of the compound's ligands are present to render the compound soluble or dispersible in the lubricating oil. Concentrates of the composition are also included in the invention.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 1997Date of Patent: January 4, 2000Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Co.Inventors: Edward Ira Stiefel, Jonathan M. McConnachie, Daniel Paul Leta, Charles Frederick Pictroski
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Patent number: 5939352Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst for conversion of methanol, ethanol alone or in combination with n-propanol to isobutanol and the process for making and using the catalyst. The catalyst is a noble metal supported on at least a first phase of mixed oxide crystallites containing from about 60 to about 74 atomic % (on a metals basis only) zirconium, from about 21 to about 31 atomic % manganese and from about 5 to about 9 atomic % zinc, and less than about 1 atomic % alkali, a second phase of zirconium-doped hetaerolite particles containing from about 65 to about 69 atomic % manganese, from about 31 to about 35 atomic % zinc, from about 0.5 to about 5 atomic % zirconium, and optionally a trace atomic % of alkali, and a third phase containing from about 29 to about 55 atomic % manganese, from about 13 to about 55 atomic % zinc and from about 13 to about 35 atomic % zirconium. The first phase mixed oxide crystallites have a zirconium oxide-like structure have a particle size of at least about 40 .ANG.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 1998Date of Patent: August 17, 1999Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Thomas Henry Vanderspurt, Mark Alan Greaney, Daniel Paul Leta, Russell John Koveal, Mark Michael Disko, Angela V. Klaus, Sutinder K. Behal, Robert B. Harris
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Patent number: 5908807Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst for conversion of methanol, ethanol alone or in combination with n-propanol to isobutanol and the process for making and using the catalyst. The catalyst is a noble metal supported on at least a first phase of mixed oxide crystallites containing from about 60 to about 74 atomic % (on a metals basis only) zirconium, from about 21 to about 31 atomic % manganese and from about 5 to about 9 atomic % zinc, and less than about 1 atomic % alkali, a second phase of zirconium-doped hetaerolite particles containing from about 65 to about 69 atomic % manganese, from about 31 to about 35 atomic % zinc, from about 0.5 to about 5 atomic % zirconium, and optionally a trace atomic % of alkali, and a third phase containing from about 29 to about 55 atomic % manganese, from about 13 to about 55 atomic % zinc and from about 13 to about 35 atomic % zirconium. The first phase mixed oxide crystallites have a zirconium oxide-like structure have a particle size of at least about 40 .ANG.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 1998Date of Patent: June 1, 1999Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Co.Inventors: Thomas Henry Vanderspurt, Mark Alan Greaney, Daniel Paul Leta, Russell John Koveal, Mark Michael Disko, Angela V. Klaus, Sutinder K. Behal, Robert B. Harris
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Patent number: 5888945Abstract: The invention is a method for enhancing and restoring the friction reduction effectiveness of a lubricating oil comprising adding to the lubricating oil a trinuclear molybdenum sulfur compound selected from the group of trinuclear molybdenum compounds preferably those having the formulas Mo.sub.3 S.sub.7 (dtc).sub.4 and Mo.sub.3 S.sub.4 (dtc).sub.4 and mixtures thereof wherein dtc represents independently selected diorganodithiocarbamate ligands containing independently selected organo groups and wherein the ligands have a sufficient number of carbon atoms among all the organo groups of the compound's ligands are present to render the compound soluble or dispersible in the lubricating oil. The oil may be a fresh or used oil. Concentrates of the composition are also included in the invention.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 1996Date of Patent: March 30, 1999Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Edward Ira Stiefel, Jonathan M. McConnachie, Daniel Paul Leta
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Patent number: 5814587Abstract: Multifunctional molybdenum compounds, which are the reactive product of molybdenum dithiocarbamates and metal dihydrocarbyl dithiophosphates, are new compositions which are useful as lubricant additives. They impart to the lubricant formulations to which they are added low friction and excellent wear properties at reduced phosphorous concentrations.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 1996Date of Patent: September 29, 1998Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Elisavet P. Vrahopoulou, Richard S. Polizzotti, Daniel Paul Leta, Stephan D. Cameron
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Patent number: 5770541Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst for conversion of methanol, ethanol alone or in combination with n-propanol to isobutanol and the process for making and using the catalyst. The catalyst is a noble metal supported on at least a first phase of mixed oxide crystallites containing from about 60 to about 74 atomic % (on a metals basis only) zirconium, from about 21 to about 31 atomic % manganese and from about 5 to about 9 atomic % zinc, and less than about 1 atomic % alkali, a second phase of zirconium-doped hetaerolite particles containing from about 65 to about 69 atomic % manganese, from about 31 to about 35 atomic % zinc, from about 0.5 to about 5 atomic % zirconium, and optionally a trace atomic % of alkali, and a third phase containing from about 29 to about 55 atomic % manganese, from about 13 to about 55 atomic % zinc and from about 13 to about 35 atomic % zirconium. The first phase mixed oxide crystallites have a zirconium oxide-like structure have a particle size of at least about 40 .ANG.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1995Date of Patent: June 23, 1998Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Thomas Henry Vanderspurt, Mark Alan Greaney, Daniel Paul Leta, Russell John Koveal, Mark Michael Disko, Angela V. Klaus, Sutinder K. Behal, Robert B. Harris
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Patent number: 5707920Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst for conversion of methanol, ethanol alone or in combination with n-propanol to isobutanol. The catalyst is a noble metal supported on at least a first phase having poorly crystalline manganese and zinc doped zirconium oxide phase containing about 71 to about 91 atomic % zirconium, about 10 to about 16 atomic % manganese and about 4 to about 8 atomic % zinc and a second phase of irregularly shaped hetaerolite-like crystals containing about 65 to about 69 atomic % manganese, about 31 to about 35 atomic % zinc and zero to about 5 atomic % zirconium embedded in the first phase. The catalyst is useful in making isobutanol.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1995Date of Patent: January 13, 1998Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Thomas Henry Vanderspurt, Mark Alan Greaney, Daniel Paul Leta, Russell John Koveal, Mark Michael Disko, Angela V. Klaus, Sutinder K. Behal, Robert B. Harris