Patents by Inventor Karin Barthelet
Karin Barthelet 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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Publication number: 20240059981Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for trapping silicon compounds in a gaseous or liquid feedstock, comprising bringing the feedstock into contact with a trapping mass with a liquid hourly space velocity LHSV of less than 5 h?1 or a gas hourly space velocity GHSV of less than 500 h?1.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2021Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLESInventors: Nicolas LEGAGNEUX, Marie-Claire MARION, Karin BARTHELET
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Publication number: 20240050922Abstract: The present invention relates to a mass for trapping silicon compounds, comprising a porous alumina-based support and at least one metal chosen from the metals from groups VIB and VIIIB, and exhibiting a grain density of at least 1.20 g/ml, a specific surface of at least 300 m2/g and pores with a mean size of less than 6.5 nm, as determined by mercury porosimetry. The present invention also relates to a process for the preparation of said trapping mass and to a trapping process using said trapping mass.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLESInventors: Nicolas LEGAGNEUX, Marie-Claire MARION, Karin BARTHELET, Patrick EUZEN, Joseph LOPEZ
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Patent number: 11504693Abstract: The present invention relates to an adsorbent comprising an alumina support and at least one alkali element, said adsorbent being obtained by introducing at least one alkali element, identical to or different from sodium, onto an alumina support the sodium content of which, expressed as Na2O equivalent, before the introduction of the alkali element or elements, is comprised between 1000 and 5000 ppm by weight with respect to the total weight of the support. The invention also relates to processes for the preparation of said adsorbent and use thereof in a process for the elimination of acidic molecules such as COS and/or CO2.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2015Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: IFP Energies nouvellesInventors: Karin Barthelet, Arnaud Baudot, Marc-Antoine Lelias, Olivier Ducreux
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Patent number: 11446607Abstract: Capturing mercury or arsenic heavy metal from a moist gas containing water vapour, by: a) cooling the moist gas by heat exchange with a heat transfer fluid produced in e) in order to obtain a gas cooled to a temperature Tf, vaporizing the heat transfer fluid; b) separating condensed water and condensates contained in the cooled gas obtained in a) obtaining a gas depleted in water and a liquid stream containing water; c) compressing vaporized heat transfer fluid obtained from a) obtaining compressed heat transfer fluid; d) heating water-depleted gas by heat exchange with compressed heat transfer fluid obtained in c) obtaining a cooled heat transfer fluid and a gas reheated to a temperature Tc; e) decompressing cooled heat transfer fluid obtained in d), recycling heat transfer fluid to a); f) contacting reheated gas obtained in d) with a capture mass for said heavy metal.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2014Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLESInventors: Florent Guillou, Fabien Porcheron, Karin Barthelet, Arnaud Baudot, Yann Lepine, Clotilde Jubin
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Patent number: 10961172Abstract: A process for purifying an olefinic feedstock containing olefins with 4 carbon atoms and impurities including isobutanal, ethanol and acetone, the process including a pre-treatment containing at least one step of eliminating the ethanol and the water present in the olefinic feedstock and a step of simultaneously eliminating the isobutanal and the acetone, by passing the feedstock from the pre-treatment over at least one fixed bed of at least one adsorbent containing at least one material with a zeolite framework, the material with a zeolite framework being chosen from zeolites, AIPOs, SAPOs and mixtures thereof; the step of simultaneously eliminating the isobutanal and the acetone being carried out at a temperature of between 0 and 200° C., at a pressure of 0.1 to 10 MPa and with an hourly space velocity of the feedstock over the fixed bed of 0.1 to 10 h?1.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignees: IFP Energies nouvelles, TOTAL RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FELUYInventors: Karin Barthelet, Emmanuelle Bracco, Vincent Coupard, Nikolai Nesterenko
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Publication number: 20200385324Abstract: A process for purifying an olefinic feedstock containing olefins with 4 carbon atoms and impurities including isobutanal, ethanol and acetone, the process including a pre-treatment containing at least one step of eliminating the ethanol and the water present in the olefinic feedstock and a step of simultaneously eliminating the isobutanal and the acetone, by passing the feedstock from the pre-treatment over at least one fixed bed of at least one adsorbent containing at least one material with a zeolite framework, the material with a zeolite framework being chosen from zeolites, AIPOs, SAPOs and mixtures thereof; the step of simultaneously eliminating the isobutanal and the acetone being carried out at a temperature of between 0 and 200° C., at a pressure of 0.1 to 10 MPa and with an hourly space velocity of the feedstock over the fixed bed of 0.1 to 10 h?1.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2018Publication date: December 10, 2020Applicants: IFP Energies nouvelles, TOTAL RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FELUYInventors: Karin BARTHELET, Emmanuelle BRACCO, Vincent COUPARD, Nikolai NESTERENKO
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Patent number: 10456770Abstract: A capture mass for heavy metals, in particular mercury, contained in a gaseous or liquid feed, said mass comprising: copper which is present at least in part in the sulphide form, CuxSy; a porous support based on alumina; characterized in that said porous support has a total pore volume (TPV) in the range 0.8 to 1.5 cm3/g, a mesopore volume (V6nm-100nm) in the range 0.5 to 1.3 cm3/g, and a macropore volume (V100nm) in the range 0.33 to 0.45 cm3/g, it being understood that the ratio between the mesopore volume and the macropore volume (V6nm-100nm/V100nm) is in the range 1 to 5.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLESInventors: Karin Barthelet, Antoine Hugon
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Patent number: 10428282Abstract: This invention pertains to a method for purifying an olefinic feedstock that comprises olefins with 4 carbon atoms and impurities including isobutanal, ethanol, and acetone, where said method comprises a pretreatment that comprises a step for eliminating acetone and optionally a step for eliminating the water that is present in said olefinic feedstock, and a step for simultaneously eliminating isobutanal and ethanol by running the feedstock obtained from the pretreatment over at least one fixed bed having at least one adsorbent that comprises at least one porous refractory oxide-based material, optionally impregnated with one or more alkaline or alkaline-earth cations; where said step for simultaneously eliminating isobutanal and ethanol operates at a temperature of between 0 and 200° C., at a pressure of 0.1 to 10 MPa, and with an hourly volumetric flow rate (VVH) of the feedstock on the fixed bed of between 0.1 and 10 h?1.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignees: TOTAL RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FELUY, IFP Energies nouvellesInventors: Karin Barthelet, Emmanuelle Bracco, Vincent Coupard, Nikolai Nesterenko
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Publication number: 20190177624Abstract: This invention pertains to a method for purifying an olefinic feedstock that comprises olefins with 4 carbon atoms and impurities including isobutanal, ethanol, and acetone, where said method comprises a pretreatment that comprises a step for eliminating acetone and optionally a step for eliminating the water that is present in said olefinic feedstock, and a step for simultaneously eliminating isobutanal and ethanol by running the feedstock obtained from the pretreatment over at least one fixed bed having at least one adsorbent that comprises at least one porous refractory oxide-based material, optionally impregnated with one or more alkaline or alkaline-earth cations; where said step for simultaneously eliminating isobutanal and ethanol operates at a temperature of between 0 and 200° C., at a pressure of 0.1 to 10 MPa, and with an hourly volumetric flow rate (VVH) of the feedstock on the fixed bed of between 0.1 and 10 h?1.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2018Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicants: TOTAL RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FELUY, IFP Energies nouvellesInventors: Karin BARTHELET, Emmanuelle BRACCO, Vincent COUPARD, Nikolai NESTERENKO
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Patent number: 9889404Abstract: Capturing at least one heavy metal, from mercury and arsenic, contained in a moist gas comprising water vapor, by the following steps: a) heating the moist gas by heat exchange with a compressed heat transfer fluid obtained in step e) in order to obtain a condensed heat transfer fluid and a gas reheated to a temperature Tc; b) bringing the reheated gas into contact with a heavy metal capture mass in order to obtain a gas depleted in heavy metal; c) decompressing the cooled heat transfer fluid; d) cooling the gas depleted in heavy metal by heat exchange with the heat transfer fluid produced in step c) in order to obtain a cooled gas at a temperature Tf, the heat transfer fluid being vaporized; e) compressing the vaporized heat transfer fluid in a manner such as to obtain a compressed heat transfer fluid, the compressed heat transfer fluid being recycled.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLESInventors: Florent Guillou, Fabien Porcheron, Karin Barthelet, Arnaud Baudot, Yann Lepine, Clotilde Jubin
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Publication number: 20170361302Abstract: A capture mass for heavy metals, in particular mercury, contained in a gaseous or liquid feed, said mass comprising: copper which is present at least in part in the sulphide form, CuxSy, a porous support based on alumina; characterized in that said porous support has a total pore volume (TPV) in the range 0.8 to 1.5 cm3/g, a mesopore volume (V6 nm-100 nm) in the range 0.5 to 1.3 cm3/g, and a macropore volume (V100 nm) in the range 0.33 to 0.45 cm3/g, it being understood that the ratio between the mesopore volume and the macropore volume (V6 nm-100 nm/V100 nm) is in the range 1 to 5.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2017Publication date: December 21, 2017Applicant: IFP Energies NouvellesInventors: Karin BARTHELET, Antoine HUGON
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Publication number: 20170225144Abstract: The present invention relates to an adsorbent comprising an alumina support and at least one alkali element, said adsorbent being obtained by introducing at least one alkali element, identical to or different from sodium, onto an alumina support the sodium content of which, expressed as Na2O equivalent, before the introduction of the alkali element or elements, is comprised between 1000 and 5000 ppm by weight with respect to the total weight of the support. The invention also relates to processes for the preparation of said adsorbent and use thereof in a process for the elimination of acidic molecules such as COS and/or CO2.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2015Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: IFP Energies nouvellesInventors: Karin BARTHELET, Arnaud BAUDOT, Marc-Antoine LELIAS, Olivier DUCREUX
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Patent number: 9561487Abstract: The present invention concerns the elimination of heavy metals, in particular mercury and possibly arsenic and lead, present in a gaseous or liquid effluent by means of a capture mass comprising a support essentially based on alumina obtained by the gel method and at least one element selected from the group constituted by copper, molybdenum, tungsten, iron, nickel and cobalt. The invention is advantageously applicable to the treatment of gas of industrial origin, synthesis gas, natural gas, gas phase condensates and liquid hydrocarbon feeds.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLESInventors: Fabien Porcheron, Karin Barthelet, Arnaud Baudot, Antoine Daudin, Marc-Antoine Lelias, Yannick Gelie, Alexandre Nicolaos
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Publication number: 20170022431Abstract: Process for the elimination of mercury contained in a heavy hydrocarbon-containing feedstock downstream of a main fractionation unit, a process in which: a) the non-elemental mercury contained in the compounds of said feedstock is transformed to elemental mercury; b) a fractionation of said hydrocarbon-containing feedstock is carried out in a fractionation unit in order to produce a top effluent comprising elemental mercury; c) the top effluent obtained in stage b) is brought into contact with a mercury capture material contained in a unit for the capture of mercury, in order to obtain an effluent that is at least partially de-mercurized.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: IFP Energies nouvellesInventors: Florent GUILLOU, Arnaud BAUDOT, Charles-Philippe LIENEMANN, Antoine HUGON, Karin BARTHELET, Fabien PORCHERON
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Publication number: 20170022430Abstract: Process for the elimination of mercury contained in a heavy hydrocarbon-containing feedstock upstream of a main fractionation unit, a process in which: a) the non-elemental mercury contained in the compounds of said feedstock is transformed to elemental mercury, b) a separation of the feedstock obtained in stage a) is carried out in a separation unit, that consists of producing a liquid effluent and a gaseous effluent comprising elemental mercury; c) the gaseous effluent originating from stage b) comprising the elemental mercury is brought into contact with a mercury capture material contained in a unit for the capture of mercury, in order to produce an effluent that is at least partially de-mercurized.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: IFP Energies nouvellesInventors: Florent GUILLOU, Arnaud BAUDOT, Charles-Philippe LIENEMANN, Alexandre GIBERT, Karin BARTHELET, Fabien PORCHERON
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Patent number: 9486738Abstract: The present invention concerns the elimination of heavy metals, in particular mercury and possibly arsenic and lead, present in a dry or moist gaseous effluent (1) by means of a capture mass (2) comprising a porous support at least part of which is of low mesoporosity and an active phase based on sulphur. The invention is advantageously applicable to the treatment of gas of industrial origin, synthesis gas or natural gas.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2013Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: IFP Energies NouvellesInventors: Fabien Porcheron, Karin Barthelet, Arnaud Baudot, Marc-Antoine Lelias, Alexandre Nicolaos, Tiziana Armaroli, Clotilde Jubin
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Publication number: 20160175771Abstract: Capturing mercury or arsenic heavy metal from a moist gas containing water vapour, by: a) cooling the moist gas by heat exchange with a heat transfer fluid produced in e) in order to obtain a gas cooled to a temperature Tf, vaporizing the heat transfer fluid; b) separating condensed water and condensates contained in the cooled gas obtained in a) obtaining a gas depleted in water and a liquid stream containing water; c) compressing vaporized heat transfer fluid obtained from a) obtaining compressed heat transfer fluid; d) heating water-depleted gas by heat exchange with compressed heat transfer fluid obtained in c) obtaining a cooled heat transfer fluid and a gas reheated to a temperature Tc; e) decompressing cooled heat transfer fluid obtained in d), recycling heat transfer fluid to a); f) contacting reheated gas obtained in d) with a capture mass for said heavy metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2014Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicant: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLESInventors: Florent GUILLOU, Fabien PORCHERON, Karin BARTHELET, Arnaud BAUDOT, Yann LEPINE, Clotilde JUBIN
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Publication number: 20160166983Abstract: Capturing at least one heavy metal, from mercury and arsenic, contained in a moist gas comprising water vapour, by the following steps: a) heating the moist gas by heat exchange with a compressed heat transfer fluid obtained in step e) in order to obtain a condensed heat transfer fluid and a gas reheated to a temperature Tc; b) bringing the reheated gas into contact with a heavy metal capture mass in order to obtain a gas depleted in heavy metal; c) decompressing the cooled heat transfer fluid; d) cooling the gas depleted in heavy metal by heat exchange with the heat transfer fluid produced in step c) in order to obtain a cooled gas at a temperature Tf, the heat transfer fluid being vaporized; e) compressing the vaporized heat transfer fluid in a manner such as to obtain a compressed heat transfer fluid, the compressed heat transfer fluid being recycled.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2014Publication date: June 16, 2016Applicant: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLESInventors: Florent GUILLOU, Fabien PORCHERON, Karin BARTHELET, Arnaud BAUDOT, Yann LEPINE, Clotilde JUBIN
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Patent number: 9339787Abstract: The invention concerns a capture mass for capturing heavy metals in a liquid or gaseous effluent, comprising a porous solid support, copper sulphide and at least one second metal sulphide the metal of which is selected from the group constituted by chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt and nickel, and in which the ratio of the percentage by weight of the metal or metals other than copper to the percentage by weight of copper is in the range 0.01 to 2. The invention also concerns a process for preparing said capture mass and a process for capturing heavy metals in a gaseous or liquid effluent, in which said effluent is brought into contact with said capture mass.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: IFP Energies NouvellesInventors: Fabien Porcheron, Arnaud Baudot, Karin Barthelet
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Patent number: 9132375Abstract: A process for the elimination of heavy metals, in particular mercury and possibly arsenic and lead, present in a gaseous or liquid effluent by means of a fixed bed process using an adsorbent in the form of monolithic or supported extrudates, said extrudates being characterized by a length h and a section comprising at least three lobes. The adsorbent is composed of at least one active phase based on sulphur in the elemental form or in the form of a metallic sulphide. The process is advantageously applicable to the treatment of gas of industrial origin, synthesis gas, natural gas, gas phase condensates and liquid hydrocarbon feeds.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLESInventors: Fabien Porcheron, Karin Barthelet, Arnaud Baudot, Antoine Daudin, Jean-Marc Schweitzer, Jeremy Gazarian