Patents by Inventor Kenneth Paul Keckler

Kenneth Paul Keckler 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).

  • Process for removal of sulfur from components for blending of transportation fuels
    Patent number: 8057661
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for removing highly deleterious non-basic nitrogen compounds upstream from an acid catalyzed thiophene alkylation process using adsorbents capable of adsorbing the non-basic nitrogen compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: BP Corporation North America Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Paul Keckler, Avelino Corma, Thomas Knox, Paul Greenough, Michael Graham Hodges
  • Process for removal of sulfur from components for blending of transportation fuels
    Patent number: 7473349
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for removing highly deletenious non-basic nitrogen compounds upstream from an acid catalyzed thiophene alkylation process using adsorbents capable of adsorbing the non-basic nitrogen compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: BP Corporation North America Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Paul Keckler, Avelino Corma, Thomas Knox, Paul Greenough, Michael G. Hodges
  • Process For Removal Of Sulfur From Components For Blending Of Transportation Fuels
    Publication number: 20080302704
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for removing highly deleterious non-basic nitrogen compounds upstream from an acid catalyzed thiophene alkylation process using adsorbents capable of adsorbing the non-basic nitrogen compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: BP Corporation North America Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Paul Keckler, Avelino Corma, Thomas Knox, Paul Greenough, Michael Graham Hodges
  • Process for recovery and recycle of ammonia from an acrylonitrile reactor effluent stream using an ammonium phosphate quench system
    Patent number: 5895635
    Abstract: A process for the recovery of unreacted ammonia from the reactor effluent obtained from a reaction zone used to produce acrylonitrile or methacrylonitrile comprising quenching the reactor effluent with an aqueous solution of ammonium phosphate wherein the ratio of ammonium ions to phosphate ions in the solution is between about 0.7 to about 1.3, preferably between about 0.9 to 1.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1999
    Assignee: The Standard Oil Company
    Inventors: James Frank Brazdil, Jr., Kenneth Paul Keckler, Richard Paul Hauser