Patents by Inventor Ian Zone

Ian Zone 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: 20240375958
    Abstract: Recovering xenon and/or krypton from a feed gas can include utilization of a purge stream from a separation column positioned and configured to output at least one stream of fluid that is substantially nitrogen and at least one stream of fluid that is substantially oxygen. The purge stream can be split so that a first portion of the purge stream is fed as a liquid adjacent to a top of a purge treatment column and a second portion of the purge stream can be fed to a heat exchanger for superheating the second portion to feed a superheated vapor at or adjacent to a bottom of the purge treatment column. The purge treatment column can output a liquid stream that has a relatively high concentration of Xe and/or Kr therein as a feed stream for an Xe and/or Kr recovery system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventor: IAN ZONE
  • Patent number: 12097485
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for producing small crystal, high aluminum content zincoaluminosilicate crystalline materials having the SSZ-41 framework structure. The compositions made according to that method, as well as uses of the same, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Stacey Ian Zones, Cong-Yan Chen
  • Patent number: 11865524
    Abstract: A novel synthetic crystalline aluminogermanosilicate molecular sieve material, designated SSZ-117x, is provided. SSZ-117x can be synthesized using N,N,N,3,5-pentamethyladamantan-1-ammonium cations as a structure directing agent. SSZ-117x may be used in organic compound conversion reactions and/or sorptive processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Stacey Ian Zones, Dan Xie, Cong-Yan Chen
  • Patent number: 11708277
    Abstract: A method is described for the synthesis of aluminosilicate CHA framework type molecular sieves at ambient pressure via interzeolite conversion from FAU framework type zeolites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventor: Stacey Ian Zones
  • Patent number: 11674092
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for producing distillate range hydrocarbons using MTW and/or SSZ-41x catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Trenton J. Otto, Ann Jia-Bao Liang, Stacey Ian Zones, Christopher Michael Lew, Jesús C. Pascual, Bi-Zeng Zhan
  • Patent number: 11571685
    Abstract: A novel synthetic crystalline aluminogermanosilicate molecular sieve material, designated SSZ-116, is provided. SSZ-116 can be synthesized using 3-[(3,5-di-tert-butylphenyl)methyl]-1,2-dimethyl-1H-imidazolium cations as a structure directing agent. SSZ-116 may be used in organic compound conversion reactions and/or sorptive processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Stacey Ian Zones, Jesus Pascual, Dan Xie, Cong-Yan Chen
  • Patent number: 11554344
    Abstract: The present invention and embodiments thereof provide a process to separate ethylene products from impurities such as nitrogen, hydrogen, ethane, propane and isobutane without the need for distillation processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua A. Thompson, Dan Xie, Joel Edward Schmidt, Stacey Ian Zones
  • Patent number: 11547986
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for producing small crystal, high aluminum content zincoaluminosilicate crystalline materials having the SSZ-41 framework structure. The compositions made according to that method, as well as uses of the same, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Stacey Ian Zones, Cong-Yan Chen
  • Publication number: 20220306947
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure include processes for ring-opening of hydrocarbon species comprising aromatic and cycloparaffinic rings in hydrocarbon feeds to produce ring-opened products. In particular, the process comprises contacting hydrocarbon species comprising aromatic and cycloparaffinic rings with hydrogen in the presence of a ring-opening catalyst comprising a noble metal on a low-acidity crystalline material containing external pockets to facilitate ring-opening of the hydrocarbon species comprising aromatic and cycloparaffinic rings. The processes are useful in the transformation of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to ring-opened products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Girgis, Stacey Ian Zones
  • Patent number: 11389788
    Abstract: Provided is a scalable delamination of a SSZ-70 framework zeolite, without the need for sonication, which has been previously made difficult by the charged nature of the imidazolium structure-directing agents that are required for zeolite synthesis. The method comprises contacting a B-SSZ-70 zeolite precursor with a zinc source such as zinc nitrate and a fluoride source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignees: Chevron U.S.A. Inc., The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Alexander Katz, Alexander Okrut, Martina Aigner, Xiaoying Ouyang, Stacey Ian Zones
  • Publication number: 20220213394
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure include processes for selective ring-opening of cycloparaffins in hydrocarbon feeds to produce hydrocracked cycloparaffins. In particular, the process comprises contacting a hydrocarbon feed comprising cycloparaffins with hydrogen and a catalyst comprising an unsulfided, low-acidity, metal-containing zeolite under hydrocracking conditions; wherein the metal is selected from the group consisting of platinum, nickel, rhodium and mixtures thereof. The processes are useful for upgrading petroleum streams to lubricant base stocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Girgis, Stacey Ian Zones
  • Patent number: 11186491
    Abstract: A novel synthetic crystalline aluminogermanosilicate molecular sieve material, designated SSZ-117, is provided. SSZ-117 can be synthesized using N,N,N,3,5-pentamethyladamantan-1-ammonium cations as a structure directing agent. SSZ-117 may be used in organic compound conversion reactions and/or sorptive processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Stacey Ian Zones, Dan Xie, Cong-Yan Chen
  • Patent number: 11161750
    Abstract: A novel synthetic crystalline aluminogermanosilicate molecular sieve material, designated SSZ-121, is provided. SSZ-121 can be synthesized using 1,3-bis(1-adamantyl)imidazolium cations as a structure directing agent. SSZ-121 may be used in organic compound conversion reactions and/or sorptive processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventor: Stacey Ian Zones
  • Patent number: 11161749
    Abstract: A small crystal size, high surface area aluminogermanosilicate molecular sieve material, designated SSZ-120, is provided. SSZ-120 can be synthesized using 3,3?-[2,6-naphthalenebis(methylene)]bis[1,2-dimethyl-1H-imidazolium] dications as a structure directing agent. SSZ-120 may be used in organic compound conversion reactions and/or sorptive processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Stacey Ian Zones, Jesus Pascual, Dan Xie, Cong-Yan Chen
  • Patent number: 11148952
    Abstract: A method of increasing hydrophobicity of a molecular sieve is provided. The method includes: (a) providing a metallosilicate molecular sieve having a framework consisting of oxides of silicon (Si) and a metal (M), wherein M is boron or zinc; (b) contacting the metallosilicate molecular sieve with a liquid aqueous system, thereby obtaining a demetallated molecular sieve having silanol nests and empty framework sites; and (c) thermally treating the demetallated molecular sieve, thereby obtaining a thermally-treated molecular sieve, wherein the thermally-treated molecular sieve (i) retains the three-dimensional framework structure of the metallosilicate molecular sieve and (ii) has a higher Si/M molar ratio as compared to the metallosilicate molecular sieve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Cong-Yan Chen, Stacey Ian Zones, Tracy Margaret Davis
  • Patent number: 10913659
    Abstract: A novel synthetic crystalline aluminogermanosilicate molecular sieve material, designated SSZ-114, is provided. SSZ-114 can be synthesized by treating an aluminogermanosilicate molecular sieve of CTH framework topology with water or an aqueous solution of a mineral acid under conditions sufficient to degermanate at least a portion of aluminogermanosilicate molecular sieve to form a degermanated molecular sieve and calcining the degermanated molecular sieve under conditions sufficient to convert the degermanated molecular sieve to SSZ-114. Molecular sieve SSZ-114 may be used in organic compound conversion reactions and/or sorptive processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Lew, Stacey Ian Zones, Dan Xie, Howard Steven Lacheen, Tao Wei
  • Patent number: 10836644
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to small crystal forms of SSZ-27 molecular sieve materials, methods for making, and uses of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Joel E. Schmidt, Stacey Ian Zones
  • Publication number: 20200171471
    Abstract: An aluminosilicate molecular sieve of STW framework type, designated herein as SSZ-110, and having a molar ratio of SiO2/Al2O3 of less than 100, is provided. SSZ-110 may be synthesized using an organic structure directing agent selected from one or more of 1,4-bis(2,3-dimethyl-1H-imidazolium)butane dications, 1,5-bis(2,3-dimethyl-1H-imidazolium)pentane dications, and 1,6-bis(2,3-dimethyl-1H-imidazolium)hexane dications. SSZ-110 may be used in organic compound conversion reactions and sorptive processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Stacey Ian Zones, Tracy Margaret Davis, Dan Xie, Cong-Yan Chen, Howard Steven Lacheen
  • Patent number: 10589260
    Abstract: An aluminosilicate molecular sieve of STW framework type, designated herein as SSZ-110, and having a molar ratio of SiO2/Al2O3 of less than 100, is provided. SSZ-110 may be synthesized using an organic structure directing agent selected from one or more of 1,4-bis(2,3-dimethyl-1H-imidazolium)butane dications, 1,5-bis(2,3-dimethyl-1H-imidazolium)pentane dications, and 1,6-bis(2,3-dimethyl-1H-imidazolium)hexane dications. SSZ-110 may be used in organic compound conversion reactions and sorptive processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
    Inventors: Stacey Ian Zones, Tracy Margaret Davis, Dan Xie, Cong-Yan Chen, Howard Steven Lacheen
  • Patent number: 10512904
    Abstract: Zeolites having highly dispersed bimetallic clusters, uniformly distributed in size and composition, encapsulated therein are disclosed. Metal encapsulation and alloying is conferred by introducing ligated metal cation precursors into zeolite synthesis gels, which are subsequently crystallized hydrothermally to form zeolites with metal cations occluded in the pores. The ligated cations are anchored to the zeolite framework via siloxane bridges which enforces their uniform dispersion throughout the zeolite crystals. Treatment of the crystallized zeolites in O2 and then H2 forms bimetallic clusters, which remain narrowly distributed in size and composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Trenton Otto, Enrique Iglesia, Stacey Ian Zones