Patents by Inventor Kamal BOUSSAD

Kamal BOUSSAD 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).

  • Forming asphalt fractions from three-product deasphalting
    Patent number: 10655077
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for using a three-product deasphalter to produce advantageous combinations of deasphalted oil, resin, and rock. The desaphalted oil, resin, and rock can then be further combined, optionally with other vacuum gas oil fractions produced during the distillation that generated the feed to the three-product deasphalter, to produce a product slate of improved quality while also maintaining the quality of the resulting asphalt product and reducing or minimizing the amount of lower value products generated. The additional “resin” product from the three product deasphalter can be generated by sequential deasphalting, by using a resin settler to separate resin from the deasphalted oil, or by any other convenient method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Keith K. Aldous, Kamal Boussad, Kendall S. Fruchey, Sara K. Green
  • FORMING ASPHALT FRACTIONS FROM THREE-PRODUCT DEASPHALTING
    Publication number: 20190016965
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for using a three-product deasphalter to produce advantageous combinations of deasphalted oil, resin, and rock. The desaphalted oil, resin, and rock can then be further combined, optionally with other vacuum gas oil fractions produced during the distillation that generated the feed to the three-product deasphalter, to produce a product slate of improved quality while also maintaining the quality of the resulting asphalt product and reducing or minimizing the amount of lower value products generated. The additional “resin” product from the three product deasphalter can be generated by sequential deasphalting, by using a resin settler to separate resin from the deasphalted oil, or by any other convenient method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Keith K. ALDOUS, Kamal BOUSSAD, Kendall S. FRUCHEY, Sara K. GREEN