Patents by Inventor Kandasamy Sundaram

Kandasamy Sundaram 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: 20250051658
    Abstract: Processes herein may be used to thermally crack various hydrocarbon feeds, and may eliminate the refinery altogether while making the crude to chemicals process very flexible in terms of crude. In embodiments herein, crude is progressively separated into at least light and heavy fractions. Depending on the quality of the light and heavy fractions, these are routed to one of three upgrading operations, including a fixed bed hydroconversion unit, a fluidized catalytic conversion unit, or a residue hydrocracking unit that may utilize an ebullated bed reactor. Products from the upgrading operations may be used as feed to a steam cracker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Ujjal Mukherjee, Essam Abdullah Al-Sayed, Theodorus L.M. Maesen, Kareemuddin Shaik, Pedro Santos, Mazin Tamimi, Derek Jones, Saud Al-Dulaijan, Kandasamy Sundaram, Ibrahim Abba, Ronald Venner, Khaled Al-Johani
  • Publication number: 20250051657
    Abstract: Processes herein may be used to thermally crack various hydrocarbon feeds, and may eliminate the refinery altogether while making the crude to chemicals process very flexible in terms of crude. In embodiments herein, crude is progressively separated into at least light and heavy fractions. Depending on the quality of the light and heavy fractions, these are routed to one of three upgrading operations, including a fixed bed hydroconversion unit, a fluidized catalytic conversion unit, or a residue hydrocracking unit that may utilize an ebullated bed reactor. Products from the upgrading operations may be used as feed to a steam cracker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicants: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC, Saudi Arabian Technology Company, Chevron Lummus Global LLC
    Inventors: Theodorus L.M. Maesen, Kareemuddin Shaik, Ujjal Mukherjee, Essam Abdullah Al-Sayed, Pedro Santos, Mazin Tamimi, Derek Jones, Ding Lianhui, Julie Chabot, Saud Al-Dulaijan, Kandasamy Sundaram, Ibrahim Abba, Bala Ramachandran, Khaled Al-Johani
  • Publication number: 20250051249
    Abstract: A process for converting whole crudes and other heavy hydrocarbon streams to produce ethylene. The process includes feeding a hydroprocessed medium boiling fraction, a hydroprocessed residue fraction, or both, and a light boiling fraction to a steam cracker and recovering a light fraction. The light fraction is fed to a first separator and recovering a C1-C3 stream and a mixed C4 and C4+ stream, comprising isoolefins, olefins, and dienes and feeding the mixed C4 and C4+ stream to a second separator and recovering a mixed C4 stream comprising isoolefins, olefins, and a C4+ stream. A portion of the mixed C4 stream is dimerized in a dimerization unit to produce a dimerized product stream, hydrogenated in a total hydrogenation system, producing a hydrogenated dimer product stream, and cracking the hydrogenated dimer product stream in a thermal cracking reactor system, producing one or more of hydrogen, methane, ethylene, propylene, n-butenes, and isobutene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicants: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC, Saudi Arabian Technology Company, Chevron Lummus Global LLC
    Inventors: Kandasamy Sundaram, Essam Abdullah Al-Sayed, Ronald Venner, Kareemuddin Shaik, Ujjal Mukherjee, Mazin Tamimi, Peter Kuzma, Saud Al-Dulaijan, Pedro Santos, Ibrahim Abba, Theodorus L.M. Maesen, Khaled Al-Johani, Bala Ramachandran
  • Publication number: 20250051666
    Abstract: Processes herein may be used to thermally crack various hydrocarbon feeds, and may eliminate the refinery altogether while making the crude to chemicals process very flexible in terms of crude. In embodiments herein, crude is progressively separated into at least light and heavy fractions. Depending on the quality of the light and heavy fractions, these are routed to one of three upgrading operations, including a fixed bed hydroconversion unit, a fluidized catalytic conversion unit, or a residue hydrocracking unit that may utilize an ebullated bed reactor. Products from the upgrading operations may be used as feed to a steam cracker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicants: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC, Saudi Arabian Technology Company, Chevron Lummus Global LLC
    Inventors: Mazin Tamimi, Ujjal Mukherjee, Kareemuddin Shaik, Theodorus L.M. Maesen, Essam Abdullah Al-Sayed, Pedro Santos, Saud Al-Dulaijan, Derek Jones, Ibrahim Abba, Ronald Venner, Khaled Al-Johani, Kandasamy Sundaram
  • Publication number: 20240352338
    Abstract: An apparatus including a radiant heating section and a flue gas stack; one or more process coils disposed within the radiant heating section; one or more fuel-fired burners disposed within the radiant heating section, the one or more fuel-fired burners configured for combusting a fuel and producing the combustion gas; one or more electrical heating elements disposed within the radiant heating section, the one or more electrical heating elements arranged to provide a second radiant energy to a lower elevation of the one or more process coils; and an internal baffle located at an elevation between the upper elevation and the lower elevation, the internal baffle arranged to provide shielding of the one or more electrical heating elements from flame and combustion gases from the one or more fuel-fired burners.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Baozhong Zhao, Eduardo Hart, Stephen Stanley, Kandasamy Sundaram, Aijing Yin, Xueping Li
  • Patent number: 12098335
    Abstract: Processes herein may be used to thermally crack various hydrocarbon feeds, and may eliminate the refinery altogether while making the crude to chemicals process very flexible in terms of crude. In embodiments herein, crude is progressively separated into at least light and heavy fractions. Depending on the quality of the light and heavy fractions, these are routed to one of three upgrading operations, including a fixed bed hydroconversion unit, a fluidized catalytic conversion unit, or a residue hydrocracking unit that may utilize an ebullated bed reactor. Products from the upgrading operations may be used as feed to a steam cracker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC, Saudi Aramco Technologies Company, Chevron Lummus Global LLC
    Inventors: Ujjal Mukherjee, Kareemuddin Shaik, Pedro Santos, Essam Abdullah Al-Sayed, Theodorus Maesen, Mazin Tamimi, Julie Chabot, Ibrahim Abba, Kandasamy Sundaram, Sami Barnawi, Ronald M. Venner
  • Publication number: 20240263090
    Abstract: Processes herein may be used to thermally crack various hydrocarbon feeds, and may eliminate the refinery altogether while making the crude to chemicals process very flexible in terms of crude. In embodiments herein, crude is progressively separated into at least light and heavy fractions. Depending on the quality of the light and heavy fractions, these are routed to one of three upgrading operations, including a fixed bed hydroconversion unit, a fluidized catalytic conversion unit, or a residue hydrocracking unit that may utilize an ebullated bed reactor. Products from the upgrading operations may be used as feed to a steam cracker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicants: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC, Saudi Aramco Technologies Company, Chevron Lummus Global LLC
    Inventors: Essam Abdullah Al-Sayed, Ujjal Mukherjee, Kareemuddin Shaik, Pedro Santos, Theodorus Maesen, Mazin Tamimi, Julie Chabot, Ibrahim Abba, Kandasamy Sundaram, Sami Barnawi, Ronald Venner, Raghu Narayan, Meredith Lansdown
  • Patent number: 12049596
    Abstract: Processes herein may be used to thermally crack various hydrocarbon feeds, and may eliminate the refinery altogether while making the crude to chemicals process very flexible in terms of crude. In embodiments herein, crude is progressively separated into light and heavy fractions utilizing convection heat from heaters used in steam cracking. Depending on the quality of the light and heavy fractions, these are routed to one of three upgrading operations, including a fixed bed hydroconversion unit, a fluidized catalytic conversion unit, or a residue hydrocracking unit that may utilize either an ebullated bed reactor with extrudate catalysts or a slurry hydrocracking reactor using a homogeneous catalyst system, such as a molybdenum based catalysts which may optionally be promoted with nickel. Products from the upgrading operations can be finished olefins and/or aromatics, or, for heavier products from the upgrading operations, may be used as feed to the steam cracker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Ujjal K. Mukherjee, Kandasamy Sundaram
  • Publication number: 20240209271
    Abstract: A system for steam cracking a whole crude that may include a volatilization device, a control system, a separator, and a steam pyrolysis reactor. The volatilization device may be configured to separate a vapor phase from a liquid phase. The control system may be configured to maintain a flow rate of the whole crude and steam, at an initial relative velocity of less than 30 m/s. The separator may be fluidly connected to the volatilization device and configured to separate the liquid phase into a second vapor phase, and a second liquid phase. The steam pyrolysis reactor may include a convection section and a steam pyrolysis heater section, the convection section configured to heat the vapor phase, the liquid phase, and the second vapor phase, and the steam pyrolysis heater section configured to steam crack hydrocarbons in the vapor phase thereby generating a cracked hydrocarbon product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicants: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC, Saudi Aramco Technologies Company
    Inventors: Dennis Maloney, Kandasamy Sundaram, Raghu Narayan, Abdul Rahman Zafer Akhras
  • Patent number: 11976245
    Abstract: Processes herein may be used to thermally crack various hydrocarbon feeds, and may eliminate the refinery altogether while making the crude to chemicals process very flexible in terms of crude. In embodiments herein, crude is progressively separated into at least light and heavy fractions. Depending on the quality of the light and heavy fractions, these are routed to one of three upgrading operations, including a fixed bed hydroconversion unit, a fluidized catalytic conversion unit, or a residue hydrocracking unit that may utilize an ebullated bed reactor. Products from the upgrading operations may be used as feed to a steam cracker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC, Saudi Aramco Technologies Company, Chevron Lummus Global LLC
    Inventors: Essam Abdullah Al-Sayed, Ujjal Mukherjee, Kareemuddin Shaik, Pedro Santos, Theodorus Maesen, Mazin Tamimi, Julie Chabot, Ibrahim Abba, Kandasamy Sundaram, Sami Barnawi, Ronald Venner, Raghu Narayan, Meredith Lansdown
  • Publication number: 20240124375
    Abstract: A process for dehydrogenating a paraffinic feedstock, producing olefins and/or dienes. The process includes feeding a paraffinic hydrocarbon feedstock comprising one or more C2+ paraffinic hydrocarbons and a fuel gas stream to a dehydrogenation reactor preheater, combusting the fuel gas stream in the dehydrogenation reactor preheater and heating the paraffinic hydrocarbon feedstock to a temperature in the range of 500-650° C., producing a heated paraffinic feedstock, feeding the heated paraffinic feedstock to a first dehydrogenation reactor operating in a reaction mode and containing an active dehydrogenation catalyst and at least one first electrical heating element, heating the heated paraffinic feedstock in the first dehydrogenation reactor using the at least one first electrical heating element, and contacting the heated paraffinic feedstock with the active dehydrogenation catalyst and the at least one electrical heating element thereby producing an olefinic product stream comprising one or more olefins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: William Scott Neifert, Sunil Panditrao, Kandasamy Sundaram, Gary Podrebarac
  • Publication number: 20240124374
    Abstract: Systems and processes for converting light or very light sweet crudes and condensates to chemicals and petrochemicals. The process includes providing a hydrocarbon feedstock comprising a crude oil or condensate having an API gravity of at least 35, a sulfur content of less than 0.2 wt %, and less than 10 wt % of hydrocarbons having a normal boiling point above 575° C. The hydrocarbon feedstock is heated and separated to recover a light fraction, a middle fraction, and optionally a heavy fraction. The light fraction is steam cracked to produce a cracked light fraction and the middle fraction is separately steam cracked to produce a cracked middle fraction. The cracked light fraction and the cracked middle fraction are then separated to recover one or more product fractions including an ethylene fraction and a propylene fraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Ujjal Mukherjee, Pedro Santos, Kandasamy Sundaram
  • Patent number: 11959032
    Abstract: A process for steam cracking a whole crude including a volatilization step performed to maintain a relatively large hydrocarbon droplet size. The process may include contacting a whole crude with steam to volatilize a portion of the hydrocarbons, wherein the contacting of the hydrocarbon feedstock and steam is conducted at an initial relative velocity of less than 30 m/s, for example. The resulting vapor phase, including volatilized hydrocarbons and steam may then be separated from a liquid phase comprising unvaporized hydrocarbons. The hydrocarbons in the vapor phase may then be forwarded to a steam pyrolysis reactor for steam cracking of the hydrocarbons in the vapor phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC, Saudi Arabian Technology Company
    Inventors: Dennis Maloney, Kandasamy Sundaram, Raghu Narayan, Abdul Rahman Zafer Akhras
  • Patent number: 11840673
    Abstract: Processes herein may be used to thermally crack various hydrocarbon feeds, and may eliminate the refinery altogether while making the crude to chemicals process very flexible in terms of crude. In embodiments herein, crude is progressively separated into at least light and heavy fractions. Depending on the quality of the light and heavy fractions, these are routed to one of three upgrading operations, including a fixed bed hydroconversion unit, a fluidized catalytic conversion unit, or a residue hydrocracking unit that may utilize an ebullated bed reactor. Products from the upgrading operations may be used as feed to a steam cracker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC, Saudi Arabian Technologies Company, Chevron Lummus Global LLC
    Inventors: Ujjal Mukherjee, Essam Abdullah Al-Sayed, Pedro Santos, Kareemuddin Shaik, Theodorus Maesen, Mazin Tamimi, Julie Chabot, Ibrahim Abba, Kandasamy Sundaram, Sami Barnawi, Ronald M. Venner, Abdul Rahman Zafer Akhras
  • Publication number: 20230340342
    Abstract: Processes herein may be used to thermally crack various hydrocarbon feeds, and may eliminate the refinery altogether while making the crude to chemicals process very flexible in terms of crude. In embodiments herein, crude is progressively separated into at least light and heavy fractions. Depending on the quality of the light and heavy fractions, these are routed to one of three upgrading operations, including a fixed bed hydroconversion unit, a fluidized catalytic conversion unit, or a residue hydrocracking unit that may utilize an ebullated bed reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicants: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC 5825, Saudi Aramco Technologies Company, Chevron Lummus Global LLC
    Inventors: Ujjal Mukherjee, Kareemuddin Shaik, Pedro Santos, Essam Abdullah Al-Sayed, Theodorus Maesen, Mazin Tamimi, Julie Chabot, Ibrahim Abba, Kandasamy Sundaram, Sami Barnawi, Ronald M. Venner
  • Patent number: 11788020
    Abstract: Processes herein may be used to thermally crack various hydrocarbon feeds, and may eliminate the refinery altogether while making the crude to chemicals process very flexible in terms of crude. In embodiments herein, crude is progressively separated into at least light and heavy fractions. Depending on the quality of the light and heavy fractions, these are routed to one of three upgrading operations, including a fixed bed hydroconversion unit, a fluidized catalytic conversion unit, or a residue hydrocracking unit that may utilize an ebullated bed reactor. Products from the upgrading operations may be used as feed to a steam cracker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC, Saudi Arabian Technology Company, Chevron Lummus Global LLC
    Inventors: Kareemuddin Shaik, Ujjal Mukherjee, Essam Abdullah Al-Sayed, Pedro Santos, Theodorus Maesen, Mazin Tamimi, Julie Chabot, Ibrahim Abba, Kandasamy Sundaram, Sami Barnawi, Ronald M. Venner
  • Publication number: 20230303934
    Abstract: An electrically heated furnace including one or more unit cells. Each unit cell includes a radiant heating section, one or more process coils disposed within the radiant heating section, and a quench unit for cooling a cracked product from the one or more process coils and producing a quenched reaction product. The furnace also includes one or more electrical heating elements disposed within the radiant heating section, the one or more electrical heating elements are arranged to provide radiant energy to the one or more process coils. Further, the electrically heated furnace includes a first area corresponding to a heating area of the one or more electrical heating elements, a second area corresponding to a wall area of the wall on which the one or more electrical heating elements are disposed, and a third area corresponding to a surface area of the one or more process coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Baozhong Zhao, David Lee Guymon, Richard John Jibb, Xueping Li, Kandasamy Sundaram, Eduardo Hart Rhedey, Stephen J. Stanley
  • Patent number: 11760947
    Abstract: Processes herein may be used to thermally crack various hydrocarbon feeds, and may eliminate the refinery altogether while making the crude to chemicals process very flexible in terms of crude. In embodiments herein, crude is progressively separated into at least light and heavy fractions. Depending on the quality of the light and heavy fractions, these are routed to one of three upgrading operations, including a fixed bed hydroconversion unit, a fluidized catalytic conversion unit, or a residue hydrocracking unit that may utilize an ebullated bed reactor. Products from the upgrading operations may be used as feed to a steam cracker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC, Saudi Aramco Technologies Company, Chevron Lummus Global LLC
    Inventors: Kareemuddin Shaik, Ujjal Mukherjee, Essam Abdullah Al-Sayed, Pedro Santos, Theodorus Maesen, Mazin Tamimi, Julie Chabot, Ibrahim Abba, Kandasamy Sundaram, Sami Barnawi, Ronald M. Venner
  • Patent number: 11753595
    Abstract: Processes herein may be used to thermally crack various hydrocarbon feeds, and may eliminate the refinery altogether while making the crude to chemicals process very flexible in terms of crude. In embodiments herein, crude is progressively separated into at least light and heavy fractions. Depending on the quality of the light and heavy fractions, these are routed to one of three upgrading operations, including a fixed bed hydroconversion unit, a fluidized catalytic conversion unit, or a residue hydrocracking unit that may utilize an ebullated bed reactor. Products from the upgrading operations may be used as feed to a steam cracker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC, Saudi Aramco Technologies Company, Chevron Lummus Global LLC
    Inventors: Ujjal Mukherjee, Essam Abdullah Al-Sayed, Pedro Santos, Kareemuddin Shaik, Theodorus Maesen, Mazin Tamimi, Julie Chabot, Ibrahim Abba, Kandasamy Sundaram, Sami Barnawi, Ronald M. Venner, Abdul Rahman Zafer Akhras
  • Patent number: 11697778
    Abstract: Processes herein may be used to thermally crack various hydrocarbon feeds, and may eliminate the refinery altogether while making the crude to chemicals process very flexible in terms of crude. In embodiments herein, crude is progressively separated into at least light and heavy fractions. Depending on the quality of the light and heavy fractions, these are routed to one of three upgrading operations, including a fixed bed hydroconversion unit, a fluidized catalytic conversion unit, or a residue hydrocracking unit that may utilize an ebullated bed reactor. Products from the upgrading operations may be used as feed to a steam cracker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignees: LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC, Saudi Aramco Technologies Company, Chevron Lummus Global LLC
    Inventors: Ujjal Mukherjee, Kareemuddin Shaik, Pedro Santos, Essam Abdullah Al-Sayed, Theodorus Maesen, Mazin Tamimi, Julie Chabot, Ibrahim Abba, Kandasamy Sundaram, Sami Barnawi, Ronald Venner