Patents by Inventor Krista Marie Prentice
Krista Marie Prentice 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: 9359565Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for using field enhanced separations to produce multiple fractions from a petroleum input. A liquid thermal diffusion and/or electric field separation is used to produce the fractions. The fractions can then be used to form multiple outputs that share a first feature while being different with regard to a second feature. For example, a first fraction from the plurality of fractions can have a desired value for a first property such as viscosity index. Two or more additional fractions from the plurality of fractions can then be blended together to make a blended fraction or output. The blended fraction can have a value for the first property that is substantially similar to the value for the first fraction. However, for a second property, the first fraction and the blended fraction can have distinct values. As a result, multiple output fractions can be formed that share a first feature but differ in a second feature.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: Krista Marie Prentice, Jason M. McMullan, Michel Daage, Gregory J. DeMartin, John Stephen Szobota, Ronald M. Gould, Anastasios Ioannis Skoulidas, Ajit Bhaskar Dandekar, Patrick Loring Hanks, Charles Lambert Baker, Jr., Lei Zhang, X B Cox, III
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Patent number: 8992764Abstract: An integrated process for producing naphtha fuel, diesel fuel and/or lubricant base oils from feedstocks under sour conditions is provided. The ability to process feedstocks under higher sulfur and/or nitrogen conditions allows for reduced cost processing and increases the flexibility in selecting a suitable feedstock. The sour feed can be delivered to a catalytic dewaxing step without any separation of sulfur and nitrogen contaminants. The integrated process includes an initial dewaxing of a feed under sour conditions, optional hydrocracking of the dewaxed feed, and a separation to form a first diesel product and a bottoms fraction. The bottoms fraction is then exposed to additional hydrocracking and dewaxing to form a second diesel product and optionally a lubricant base oil product. Alternatively, a feedstock can be hydrotreated, fractionated, dewaxed, and then hydrocracked to form a diesel fuel and a dewaxed, hydrocracked bottoms fraction that is optionally suitable for use as a lubricant base oil.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Krista Marie Prentice, Michel Daage, Ajit Bhaskar Dandekar, Christopher Gordon Oliveri, Rohit Vijay, Stephen J. McCarthy, Wenyih F. Lai, Bradley R. Fingland
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Patent number: 8906224Abstract: Sweet and sour lubricant feeds are block and continuous processed to produce lubricant basestocks. Total liquid product yields at a desired pour point are maintained for catalytic dewaxing of both sweet and sour conditions. The desired pour point is achieved for both the sweet and sour feeds by varying the catalytic dewaxing reaction temperature as a function of sulfur content entering the reactor.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2010Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Exxonmobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Krista Marie Prentice, Michel Daage, Gary Paul Schleicher, Christine Nicole Elia, Stephen J. McCarthy, Wenyih F. Lai, Shifang L. Luo, Robert Andrew Migliorini
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Publication number: 20140197075Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for using field enhanced separations to produce multiple fractions from a petroleum input. A liquid thermal diffusion and/or electric field separation is used to produce the fractions. The fractions can then be used to form multiple outputs that share a first feature while being different with regard to a second feature. For example, a first fraction from the plurality of fractions can have a desired value for a first property such as viscosity index. Two or more additional fractions from the plurality of fractions can then be blended together to make a blended fraction or output. The blended fraction can have a value for the first property that is substantially similar to the value for the first fraction. However, for a second property, the first fraction and the blended fraction can have distinct values. As a result, multiple output fractions can be formed that share a first feature but differ in a second feature.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2013Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Krista Marie Prentice, Michel Daage, Jason M. McMullan, Gregory J. DeMartin, John Stephen Szobota, Ronald M. Gould, Anastasios Ioannis Skoulidas, Hyungsik Lee, Pawel K. Peczak, Charles Lambert Baker, JR., Thomas Francis Degan, JR., Lei Zhang, X B III, Philip J. Lenart
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Publication number: 20140042056Abstract: A suitable feedstock for forming lubricant base oils is separated into at least a lower boiling portion and a higher boiling portion. The lower boiling portion is combined with a feed suitable for use as a fuels hydrocracking feed. The combined feed is hydrocracked and catalytically dewaxed in order to form fuels and Group II, Group II+, or Group III light neutral basestocks. The higher boiling portion of the feedstock is solvent processed in order to form Group I heavy neutral base oils and/or Group I brightstock base oils. The higher boiling portion of the feedstock can correspond to both a bottoms fraction and one or more additional fractions boiling above a fractionation cut point.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2012Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: Michel Daage, Jason Thomas Calla, Krista Marie Prentice, Ajit Bhaskar Dandekar
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Patent number: 8617383Abstract: An integrated process for producing naphtha fuel, diesel fuel and/or lubricant base oils from feedstocks under sour conditions is provided. The ability to process feedstocks under higher sulfur and/or nitrogen conditions allows for reduced cost processing and increases the flexibility in selecting a suitable feedstock. The sour feed can be delivered to a catalytic dewaxing step without any separation of sulfur and nitrogen contaminants, or with only a high pressure separation so that the dewaxing still occurs under sour conditions. Various combinations of hydrotreating, catalytic dewaxing, hydrocracking, and hydrofinishing can be used to produce fuel products and lubricant base oil products.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2011Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Krista Marie Prentice, Michel Daage, Ajit Bhaskar Dandekar, Christopher Gordon Oliveri, Rohit Vijay, Stephen J. McCarthy, Wenyih F. Lai, Bradley R. Fingland
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Patent number: 8394255Abstract: An integrated process for producing naphtha fuel, diesel fuel and/or lubricant base oils from feedstocks under sour conditions is provided. The ability to process feedstocks under higher sulfur and/or nitrogen conditions allows for reduced cost processing and increases the flexibility in selecting a suitable feedstock. The sour feed can be delivered to a catalytic dewaxing step without any separation of sulfur and nitrogen contaminants, or a high pressure separation can be used to partially eliminate contaminants. The integrated process includes an initial hydrotreatment, hydrocracking, catalytic dewaxing of the hydrocracking effluent, and an option final hydrotreatment.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Stephen J. McCarthy, Gary Paul Schleicher, Krista Marie Prentice, Michel Daage, Christopher Gordon Oliveri, Thomas Francis Degnan, José Guadalupe Santiesteban, Ajit Bhaskar Dandekar, William Joseph Novak, Wenyih F. Lai
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Patent number: 8366908Abstract: An integrated process for producing lubricant base oils from feedstocks under sour conditions is provided. The ability to process feedstocks under higher sulfur conditions allows for reduced cost processing and increases the flexibility in selecting a suitable feedstock. The sour feed can be delivered to a catalytic dewaxing step without any separation of sulfur and nitrogen contaminants, or a high pressure separation can be used to partially eliminate contaminants.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Krista Marie Prentice, Gary Paul Schleicher, Lei Zhang, Timothy Lee Hilbert, Michel A. Daage, Sylvain Hantzer, Wenyih F. Lai, David Mentzer, William Francis Heaney, Christine Nicole Elia, Shifang Luo, Stephen J. McCarthy, Mohan Kalyanaraman
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Publication number: 20110315596Abstract: An integrated process for producing naphtha fuel, diesel fuel and/or lubricant base oils from feedstocks under sour conditions is provided. The ability to process feedstocks under higher sulfur and/or nitrogen conditions allows for reduced cost processing and increases the flexibility in selecting a suitable feedstock. The sour feed can be delivered to a catalytic dewaxing step without any separation of sulfur and nitrogen contaminants. The integrated process includes an initial dewaxing of a feed under sour conditions, optional hydrocracking of the dewaxed feed, and a separation to form a first diesel product and a bottoms fraction. The bottoms fraction is then exposed to additional hydrocracking and dewaxing to form a second diesel product and optionally a lubricant base oil product. Alternatively, a feedstock can be hydrotreated, fractionated, dewaxed, and then hydrocracked to form a diesel fuel and a dewaxed, hydrocracked bottoms fraction that is optionally suitable for use as a lubricant base oil.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: Krista Marie Prentice, Michel Daage, Ajit Bhaskar Dandekar, Christopher Gordon Oliveri, Rohit Vijay, Stephen J. McCarthy, Wenyih F. Lai, Bradley R. Fingland
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Publication number: 20110315599Abstract: An integrated process for producing naphtha fuel, diesel fuel and/or lubricant base oils from feedstocks under sour conditions is provided. The ability to process feedstocks under higher sulfur and/or nitrogen conditions allows for reduced cost processing and increases the flexibility in selecting a suitable feedstock. The sour feed can be delivered to a catalytic dewaxing step without any separation of sulfur and nitrogen contaminants, or with only a high pressure separation so that the dewaxing still occurs under sour conditions. Various combinations of hydrotreating, catalytic dewaxing, hydrocracking, and hydrofinishing can be used to produce fuel products and lubricant base oil products.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANYInventors: Krista Marie Prentice, Michel Daage, Ajit Bhaskar Dandekar, Christopher Gordon Oliveri, Rohit Vijay, Stephen J. McCarthy, Wenyih F. Lai, Bradley R. Fingland
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Publication number: 20110174684Abstract: Sweet and sour lubricant feeds are block and continuous processed to produce lubricant basestocks. Total liquid product yields at a desired pour point are maintained for catalytic dewaxing of both sweet and sour conditions. The desired pour point is achieved for both the sweet and sour feeds by varying the catalytic dewaxing reaction temperature as a function of sulfur content entering the reactor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2010Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: Krista Marie Prentice, Michel Daage, Gary Paul Schleicher, Christine Nicole Elia, Stephen J. McCarthy, Wenyih F. Lai, Shifang L. Luo, Robert Andrew Migliorini
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Publication number: 20100187155Abstract: An integrated process for producing naphtha fuel, diesel fuel and/or lubricant base oils from feedstocks under sour conditions is provided. The ability to process feedstocks under higher sulfur and/or nitrogen conditions allows for reduced cost processing and increases the flexibility in selecting a suitable feedstock. The sour feed can be delivered to a catalytic dewaxing step without any separation of sulfur and nitrogen contaminants, or a high pressure separation can be used to partially eliminate contaminants. The integrated process includes an initial hydrotreatment, hydrocracking, catalytic dewaxing of the hydrocracking effluent, and an option final hydrotreatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2009Publication date: July 29, 2010Inventors: Stephen J. McCarthy, Gary Paul Schleicher, Krista Marie Prentice, Michel Daage, Christopher Gordon Oliveri, Thomas Francis Degnan, Jose Guadalupe Santiesteban, Ajit Bhaskar Dandekar, William Joseph Novak, Wenyih F. Lai
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Publication number: 20100187156Abstract: An integrated process for producing lubricant base oils from feedstocks under sour conditions is provided. The ability to process feedstocks under higher sulfur conditions allows for reduced cost processing and increases the flexibility in selecting a suitable feedstock. The sour feed can be delivered to a catalytic dewaxing step without any separation of sulfur and nitrogen contaminants, or a high pressure separation can be used to partially eliminate contaminants.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2009Publication date: July 29, 2010Inventors: Krista Marie Prentice, Gary Paul Schleicher, Lei Zhang, Timothy Lee Hilbert, Michel A. Daage, Sylvain Hantzer, Wenyih F. Lai, David Mentzer, William Francis Heaney, Christine Nicole Elia, Shifang Luo, Stephen J. McCarthy, Mohan Kalyanaraman