Patents by Inventor Jesse Raymond Black
Jesse Raymond Black 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: 11774420Abstract: The present invention relates to method and an apparatus for quantitatively analyzing a gaseous process stream, in particular a stream from a process for producing ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol, in particular where such stream comprises gaseous organic iodides.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: SHELL USA, INC.Inventors: Jesse Raymond Black, Julie Michelle Freelin, Richard Kenneth Oldfield, Gregory John Ward
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Patent number: 11655230Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing ethylene glycol and/or ethylene carbonate, said process comprising contacting at least a portion of a recycle gas stream comprising an alkyl iodide impurity with a guard bed system positioned upstream of an ethylene oxide reactor to produce a treated recycle gas stream, wherein the guard bed system comprises silver on alumina; contacting a feed gas stream comprising ethylene, oxygen and at least a portion of the treated recycle gas stream with an epoxidation catalyst in the ethylene oxide reactor to produce an epoxidation reaction product comprising ethylene oxide; and contacting at least a portion of the epoxidation reaction product comprising ethylene oxide with an aqueous absorbent in the presence of an iodide-containing catalyst in an absorber to produce an aqueous product stream comprising ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol and the recycle gas stream comprising the alkyl iodide impurity.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SHELL USA, INC.Inventors: Roel Guillaume Hubertus Leonardus Bastings, Jesse Raymond Black, Vesna Bojovic, Wayne Errol Evans
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Publication number: 20230032856Abstract: A process for the preparation of ethylene glycol comprising the steps of: a) supplying a first gas composition comprising ethylene oxide and carbon dioxide to an ethylene oxide absorber and allowing the gas composition to pass upwards through an absorption section; b) supplying a lean absorbent to the top of the absorption section and allowing the lean absorbent to pass downwards through the absorption section; c) intimately contacting the gas composition with lean absorbent on the trays in the absorption section in the presence of one or more catalysts to produce a fat absorbent stream comprising ethylene glycol and ethylene carbonate; d) withdrawing fat absorbent from the absorber; and e) withdrawing a second gas composition from the top of the absorber.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2021Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Jesse Raymond BLACK, Gregory John WARD, Christopher Paul EMBORSKY, Roel Guillaume Hubertus Leonardus BASTINGS
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Patent number: 11498911Abstract: A process for producing ethylene glycol and/or ethylene carbonate, said process comprising contacting at least a portion of a recycle gas stream comprising an alkyl iodide impurity with a guard bed system positioned upstream of an ethylene oxide reactor to produce a treated recycle gas stream, wherein the guard bed system comprises silver on alumina; contacting an epoxidation feed stream comprising an ethylene feed stream, oxygen, chloride moderator, and at least a portion of the treated recycle gas stream with an epoxidation catalyst in the ethylene oxide reactor to produce an epoxidation reaction product comprising ethylene oxide; and contacting at least a portion of the epoxidation reaction product comprising ethylene oxide with a liquid absorbent in the presence of an iodide-containing catalyst in an absorber to produce a product stream comprising ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol and the recycle gas stream comprising the alkyl iodide impurity.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: SHELL USA, INC.Inventors: Roel Guillaume Hubertus Leonardus Bastings, Jesse Raymond Black, Vesna Bojovic, Wayne Errol Evans, Gregory John Ward
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Publication number: 20220334095Abstract: The present invention relates to method and an apparatus for quantitatively analyzing a gaseous process stream, in particular a stream from a process for producing ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol, in particular where such stream comprises gaseous organic iodides.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Jesse Raymond BLACK, Julie Michelle FREELIN, Richard Kenneth OLDFIELD, Gregory John WARD
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Publication number: 20220298132Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol, which comprises the following steps: a) supplying an overhead absorber stream withdrawn from an absorber to a vapor-liquid separator to yield an aqueous bottoms stream and a recycle gas stream; b) supplying an aqueous process stream comprising one or more impurities to a distillation apparatus to yield an overhead impurities stream and a purified aqueous process stream, wherein the aqueous process stream supplied to the distillation apparatus comprises at least a portion of the aqueous bottoms stream withdrawn from the vapor-liquid separator, wherein the overhead impurities stream is supplied to a condenser and is cooled to a temperature in the range of from 5 to 95° C., wherein the cooled overhead impurities stream is split into a reflux stream which is recycled to the distillation apparatus and an overhead impurities stream; and further steps c) and d).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2020Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventors: Jesse Raymond BLACK, Roel Guillaume Hubertus Leonardus BASTINGS, Mark Albert Petrus DEKKERS
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Patent number: 11408869Abstract: The present invention relates to method and an apparatus for quantitatively analyzing a gaseous process stream, in particular a stream from a process for producing ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol, in particular where such stream comprises gaseous organic iodides.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: SHELL USA, INC.Inventors: Jesse Raymond Black, Julie Michelle Freelin, Richard Kenneth Oldfield, Gregory John Ward
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Patent number: 11389776Abstract: The invention provides a reaction system for the production of ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol. The system having a guard bed system upstream of a catalytic EO reactor. The guard bed system having a feed line supplying a gaseous feed to be treated and an effluent line configured to remove the treated gaseous feed. The guard bed system has two or more guard bed vessels arranged in series in sequential order, each having an inlet, a bed of guard bed material and an outlet. The inlet of each guard bed vessel is attached by means of valves to both the feed line and the outlet of the guard bed vessel preceding it in sequential order. The outlet of each guard bed vessel is attached by means of valves to both the effluent line and to the inlet of the guard bed vessel following it in sequential order.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: SHELL USA, INC.Inventors: Jesse Raymond Black, Gregory John Ward, Roel Guillaume Hubertus Leonardus Bastings, David Allen Van Kleeck, Wayne Errol Evans
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Publication number: 20220009862Abstract: A process for the preparation of an alkylene glycol from an alkene comprising steps of: a) supplying a gas composition to an alkylene oxide absorber through a gas inlet, the absorber comprising an absorption section and a sump, and allowing the gas composition to pass upwards; b) supplying a lean absorbent to the top of the absorption section and allowing the lean absorbent to pass downwards; c) intimately contacting the gas composition with lean absorbent in the absorption section in the presence of one or more catalysts that promote carboxylation and hydrolysis; and d) withdrawing fat absorbent from the absorption section and passing the fat absorbent and any liquid condensate through the sump, wherein the sump comprises one or more baffles that define a flow pathway from a sump inlet to a sump outlet between the one or more baffles.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Jesse Raymond BLACK, Peter Mervyn WILKINSON, Christopher Paul EMBORSKY, Roel Guillaume Hubertus Leonardus BASTINGS, Benedict Ignatius Maria TEN BOSCH
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Publication number: 20210198227Abstract: A process for producing ethylene glycol and/or ethylene carbonate, said process comprising contacting at least a portion of a recycle gas stream comprising an alkyl iodide impurity with a guard bed system positioned upstream of an ethylene oxide reactor to produce a treated recycle gas stream, wherein the guard bed system comprises silver on alumina; contacting an epoxidation feed stream comprising an ethylene feed stream, oxygen, chloride moderator, and at least a portion of the treated recycle gas stream with an epoxidation catalyst in the ethylene oxide reactor to produce an epoxidation reaction product comprising ethylene oxide; and contacting at least a portion of the epoxidation reaction product comprising ethylene oxide with a liquid absorbent in the presence of an iodide-containing catalyst in an absorber to produce a product stream comprising ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol and the recycle gas stream comprising the alkyl iodide impurity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2018Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Roel Guillaume Hubertus Leonardus BASTINGS, Jesse Raymond BLACK, Vesna BOJOVIC, Wayne Errol EVANS, Gregory John WARD
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Patent number: 11000819Abstract: The invention provides a reaction system for the production of ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol. The reaction system having a guard bed system upstream of a catalytic EO reactor. The guard bed system having a feed line supplying a gaseous feed and an effluent line configured to remove the treated gaseous feed. The guard bed system has two or more guard bed vessels arranged in series in sequential order, each having an inlet, a bed of guard bed material and an outlet. The inlet of each guard bed vessel is attached by means of valves to both the feed line and the outlet of the guard bed vessel preceding it in sequential order. The outlet of each guard bed vessel is attached by means of valves to both the effluent line and to the inlet of the guard bed vessel following it in sequential order.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Jesse Raymond Black, Gregory John Ward, Roel Guillaume Hubertus Leonardus Bastings, David Allen Van Kleeck, Wayne Errol Evans
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Publication number: 20210001298Abstract: The invention provides a reaction system for the production of ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol. The system having a guard bed system upstream of a catalytic EO reactor. The guard bed system having a feed line supplying a gaseous feed to be treated and an effluent line configured to remove the treated gaseous feed. The guard bed system has two or more guard bed vessels arranged in series in sequential order, each having an inlet, a bed of guard bed material and an outlet. The inlet of each guard bed vessel is attached by means of valves to both the feed line and the outlet of the guard bed vessel preceding it in sequential order. The outlet of each guard bed vessel is attached by means of valves to both the effluent line and to the inlet of the guard bed vessel following it in sequential order.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Jesse Raymond BLACK, Gregory John WARD, Roel Guillaume Hubertus Leonardus BASTINGS, David Allen VAN KLEECK, Wayne Errol EVANS
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Publication number: 20200392101Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing ethylene glycol and/or ethylene carbonate, said process comprising contacting at least a portion of a recycle gas stream comprising an alkyl iodide impurity with a guard bed system positioned upstream of an ethylene oxide reactor to produce a treated recycle gas stream, wherein the guard bed system comprises silver on alumina; contacting a feed gas stream comprising ethylene, oxygen and at least a portion of the treated recycle gas stream with an epoxidation catalyst in the ethylene oxide reactor to produce an epoxidation reaction product comprising ethylene oxide; and contacting at least a portion of the epoxidation reaction product comprising ethylene oxide with an aqueous absorbent in the presence of an iodide-containing catalyst in an absorber to produce an aqueous product stream comprising ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol and the recycle gas stream comprising the alkyl iodide impurity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2018Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventors: Roel Guillaume Hubertus Leonardus BASTINGS, Jesse Raymond BLACK, Vesna BOJOVIC, Wayne Errol EVANS
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Patent number: 10717719Abstract: Processes for producing ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol, and associated reaction systems are similarly provided. Specifically, a process is provided that comprises supplying an overhead absorber stream withdrawn from an absorber to a vapor-liquid separator to yield an aqueous bottoms stream and a recycle gas stream; supplying an aqueous process stream comprising one or more impurities to a distillation apparatus to yield an overhead impurities stream and a purified aqueous process stream; supplying at least a portion of the purified aqueous process stream and an ethylene oxide product stream to the absorber; and contacting the ethylene oxide product stream with the purified aqueous process stream in the absorber in the presence of one or more carboxylation and hydrolysis catalysts to yield a fat absorbent stream comprising ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2017Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Jesse Raymond Black, Roel Guillaume Hubertus Leonardus Bastings, Alexandre Molina
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Patent number: 10526300Abstract: Processes for reducing the amount of a gaseous iodide-containing impurity present in a recycle gas stream used in the production of ethylene oxide, in particular alkyl iodide and vinyl iodide impurities, are provided. Processes for producing ethylene oxide, ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol, and associated reaction systems are similarly provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: SHELL OIL COMPANYInventors: Wayne Errol Evans, Jesse Raymond Black, Michael Francis Lemanski
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Patent number: 10450287Abstract: Processes for reducing the amount of a gaseous iodide-containing impurity present in a recycle gas stream used in the production of ethylene oxide, in particular an alkyl iodide impurity, are provided. Processes for producing ethylene oxide, ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol, and associated reaction systems are similarly provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: SHELL OIL COMPANYInventors: Wayne Errol Evans, Jesse Raymond Black
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Publication number: 20190317065Abstract: The present invention relates to method and an apparatus for quantitatively analyzing a gaseous process stream, in particular a stream from a process for producing ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol, in particular where such stream comprises gaseous organic iodides.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2017Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Jesse Raymond BLACK, Julie Michelle FREELIN, Richard Kenneth OLDFIELD, Gregory John WARD
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Publication number: 20190169154Abstract: Processes for producing ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol, and associated reaction systems are similarly provided. Specifically, a process is provided that comprises supplying an overhead absorber stream withdrawn from an absorber to a vapor-liquid separator to yield an aqueous bottoms stream and a recycle gas stream; supplying an aqueous process stream comprising one or more impurities to a distillation apparatus to yield an overhead impurities stream and a purified aqueous process stream; supplying at least a portion of the purified aqueous process stream and an ethylene oxide product stream to the absorber; and contacting the ethylene oxide product stream with the purified aqueous process stream in the absorber in the presence of one or more carboxylation and hydrolysis catalysts to yield a fat absorbent stream comprising ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2017Publication date: June 6, 2019Inventors: Jesse Raymond BLACK, Roel Guillaume Hubertus Leonardus BASTINGS, Alexandre MOLINA
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Patent number: 10279280Abstract: A process for the preparation of an alkylene glycol from an alkene is provided, along with an absorber apparatus. The process comprises: supplying a gas composition to an absorber comprising a column of vertically stacked trays, wherein each of the vertically stacked trays comprises: a perforated gas-liquid contacting member or members, a liquid inlet area, an outlet weir extending vertically above a surface of the tray at an opposite end of the tray from the liquid inlet area and having a height of at least 200 mm and at most 1500 mm, and a downcomer element which, in cooperation with an inner surface of a wall of the column, forms a downcomer for the passage of liquid downwardly to the liquid inlet area of an adjacent vertically stacked tray below, and allowing the gas composition to pass upwards through the alkylene oxide absorber.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2015Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: SHELL OIL COMPANYInventors: Peter Mervyn Wilkinson, Jesse Raymond Black, Roel Guillaume Hubertus Leonardus Bastings
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Publication number: 20180369773Abstract: The invention provides a reaction system for the production of ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol. The reaction system having a guard bed system upstream of a catalytic EO reactor. The guard bed system having a feed line supplying a gaseous feed and an effluent line configured to remove the treated gaseous feed. The guard bed system has two or more guard bed vessels arranged in series in sequential order, each having an inlet, a bed of guard bed material and an outlet. The inlet of each guard bed vessel is attached by means of valves to both the feed line and the outlet of the guard bed vessel preceding it in sequential order. The outlet of each guard bed vessel is attached by means of valves to both the effluent line and to the inlet of the guard bed vessel following it in sequential order.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2016Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Jesse Raymond BLACK, Gregory John WARD, Roel Guillaume Hubertus Leonardus BASTINGS, David Allen VAN KLEECK, Wayne Errol EVANS