Patents by Inventor Lorenzo C. DeCaul
Lorenzo C. DeCaul 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: 11198660Abstract: In a process for producing a methyl-substituted biphenyl compound, at least one methyl-substituted cyclohexylbenzene compound of the formula: wherein each of m and n is independently 1, 2, or 3, is contacted with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst to produce a hydrogenation reaction product comprising at least one methyl-substituted bicyclohexane compound, and the methyl-substituted bicyclohexane compound is then contacted with a dehydrogenation catalyst to produce a dehydrogenation reaction product comprising at least one methyl-substituted biphenyl compound.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2017Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Jihad M. Dakka, Lorenzo C. Decaul, Michael P. Lanci, Wei Tang
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Patent number: 10870610Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes for producing neopentane. The processes generally relate to demethylating isooctane to produce neopentane. The isooctane may be provided by the alkylation of isobutane with butylenes.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2017Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Kun Wang, Lorenzo C. DeCaul, Steven W. Levine, Etienne Mazoyer, James R. Lattner, Helge Jaensch, Ali A. Kheir
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Publication number: 20200325086Abstract: In a process for producing a methyl-substituted biphenyl compound, at least one methyl-substituted cyclohexylbenzene compound of the formula: wherein each of m and n is independently 1, 2, or 3, is contacted with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst to produce a hydrogenation reaction product comprising at least one methyl-substituted bicyclohexane compound, and the methyl-substituted bicyclohexane compound is then contacted with a dehydrogenation catalyst to produce a dehydrogenation reaction product comprising at least one methyl-substituted biphenyl compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2017Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: Jihad M. Dakka, Lorenzo C. Decaul, Michael P. Lanci, Wei Tang
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Patent number: 10654770Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes for producing neopentane. The processes generally relate to demethylating diisobutylene to produce neopentane. The diisobutylene may be provided by the dimerization of isobutylene.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Kun Wang, Lorenzo C. DeCaul, James R. Lattner
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Patent number: 10487023Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes for producing neopentane. The processes generally relate to demethylating neohexane and/or neoheptane to produce neopentane. The neohexane and/or neoheptane may be provided by the isomerization of C6-C7 paraffins.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2017Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Kun Wang, Lorenzo C. DeCaul, Michele L. Paccagnini, Etienne Mazoyer, James R. Lattner, Helge Jaensch, Ali A. Kheir
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Publication number: 20190225561Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes for producing neopentane. The processes generally relate to demethylating isooctane to produce neopentane. The isooctane may be provided by the alkylation of isobutane with butylenes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2017Publication date: July 25, 2019Inventors: Kun Wang, Lorenzo C. DeCaul, Steven W. Levine, Etienne Mazoyer, James R. Lattner, Helge Jaensch, Ali A. Kheir
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Publication number: 20190177248Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes for producing neopentane. The processes generally relate to demethylating diisobutylene to produce neopentane. The diisobutylene may be provided by the dimerization of isobutylene.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2017Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Kun Wang, Lorenzo C. DeCaul, James R. Lattner
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Publication number: 20190169092Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes for producing neopentane. The processes generally relate to demethylating neohexane and/or neoheptane to produce neopentane. The neohexane and/or neoheptane may be provided by the isomerization of C6-C7 paraffins.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2017Publication date: June 6, 2019Inventors: Kun Wang, Lorenzo C. DeCaul, Michele L. Paccagnini, Etienne Mazoyer, James R. Lattner, Helge Jaensch, Ali A. Kheir
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Patent number: 9856186Abstract: A process is described for converting at least one isomer of a dialkyl-substituted biphenyl compound, such as at least one 2,X? dialkylbiphenyl isomer (where X? is 2?, 3? and/or 4?), into at least one different isomer, 3,3?, 3,4? and/or 4,4? dialkylbiphenyl isomer. The process comprises contacting a feed comprising the dialkyl-substituted biphenyl compound isomer with an acid catalyst under isomerization conditions.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2015Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Michael Salciccioli, Jihad M. Dakka, Emiel de Smit, Neeraj Sangar, Scott J. Weigel, Sumathy Raman, Terry E. Helton, Lorenzo C. DeCaul, Christine N. Elia, Chuansheng Bai, Ranjita Ghose
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Patent number: 9815767Abstract: Provided are compounds of the following: wherein R1 is a saturated or unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbon optionally substituted with an alkyl and/or an OXO-ester, and R2 is a C4 to C14 hydrocarbyl, preferably the residue of a C4 to C14 OXO-alcohol. Also provided are processes for making the compounds and plasticized polymer compositions containing said compounds.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2016Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Jihad M. Dakka, Lorenzo C. DeCaul, Christine A. Costello, Edmund J. Mozeleski, Pierre Osterrieth, Stephen Zushma, Allen D. Godwin, Diana Smimova, Catherine A. Faler, Victor DeFlorio, Didier A. Naert
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Patent number: 9809505Abstract: Methods are provided for improving the yield of aromatics during conversion of oxygenate feeds. An oxygenate feed can contain a mixture of oxygenate compounds, including one or more compounds with a hydrogen index of less than 2, so that an effective hydrogen index of the mixture of oxygenates is between about 1.4 and 1.9. Methods are also provided for converting a mixture of oxygenates with an effective hydrogen index greater than about 1 with a pyrolysis oil co-feed. The difficulties in co-processing a pyrolysis oil can be reduced or minimized by staging the introduction of pyrolysis oil into a reaction system. This can allow varying mixtures of pyrolysis oil and methanol, or another oxygenate feed, to be introduced into a reaction system at various feed entry points.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2017Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: John S. Buchanan, Stephen H. Brown, Lorenzo C. DeCaul, Brett T. Loveless, Rohit Vijay, Stephen J. McCarthy, Michel Daage, Mayank Shekhar
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Publication number: 20170305810Abstract: Methods are provided for improving the yield of aromatics during conversion of oxygenate feeds. An oxygenate feed can contain a mixture of oxygenate compounds, including one or more compounds with a hydrogen index of less than 2, so that an effective hydrogen index of the mixture of oxygenates is between about 1.4 and 1.9. Methods are also provided for converting a mixture of oxygenates with an effective hydrogen index greater than about 1 with a pyrolysis oil co-feed. The difficulties in co-processing a pyrolysis oil can be reduced or minimized by staging the introduction of pyrolysis oil into a reaction system. This can allow varying mixtures of pyrolysis oil and methanol, or another oxygenate feed, to be introduced into a reaction system at various feed entry points.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2017Publication date: October 26, 2017Applicant: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: John S. Buchanan, Stephen H. Brown, Lorenzo C. DeCaul, Brett T. Loveless, Rohit Vijay, Stephen J. McCarthy, Michel Daage, Mayank Shekhar
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Patent number: 9758447Abstract: In a process for dehydrogenating cyclohexylbenzene and/or alkyl-substituted cyclohexylbenzene compounds, a dehydrogenation catalyst comprising at least one Group 10 metal compound on a support is heated in the presence of hydrogen from a first temperature from 0° C. to 200° C. to a second, higher temperature from 60° C. to 500° C. at a ramp rate no more than 100° C./hour. The dehydrogenation catalyst is contacted with hydrogen at the second temperature for a time from 3 to 300 hours to produce an activated dehydrogenation catalyst. A feed comprising cyclohexylbenzene and/or an alkyl-substituted cyclohexylbenzene compound is then contacted with hydrogen in the presence of the activated dehydrogenation catalyst under conditions effective to produce a dehydrogenation reaction product comprising biphenyl and/or an alkyl-substituted biphenyl compound.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2015Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Jihad M. Dakka, Lorenzo C. DeCaul, Gregory J. De Martin, Michael Salciccioli, Neeraj Sangar, Aaron B. Pavlish, Ali A. Kheir, Gary D. Mohr
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Patent number: 9732013Abstract: Methods are provided for improving the yield of aromatics during conversion of oxygenate feeds. An oxygenate feed can contain a mixture of oxygenate compounds, including one or more compounds with a hydrogen index of less than 2, so that an effective hydrogen index of the mixture of oxygenates is between about 1.4 and 1.9. Methods are also provided for converting a mixture of oxygenates with an effective hydrogen index greater than about 1 with a pyrolysis oil co-feed. The difficulties in co-processing a pyrolysis oil can be reduced or minimized by staging the introduction of pyrolysis oil into a reaction system. This can allow varying mixtures of pyrolysis oil and methanol, or another oxygenate feed, to be introduced into a reaction system at various feed entry points.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2015Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: John S. Buchanan, Stephen H. Brown, Lorenzo C. DeCaul, Brett T. Loveless, Rohit Vijay, Stephen J. McCarthy, Michel Daage, Mayank Shekhar
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Patent number: 9725377Abstract: This invention relates to process for producing biphenyl esters, the process comprising: (a) contacting a feed comprising toluene, xylene or mixtures thereof with hydrogen in the presence of a hydroalkylation catalyst to produce a hydroalkylation reaction product comprising (methylcyclohexyl)toluene, wherein the hydroalkylation catalyst comprises: 1) binder present at 40 wt % or less (based upon weight of final catalyst composition), 2) a hydrogenation component present at 0.2 wt % or less (based upon weight of final catalyst composition), and 3) an acidic component comprising a molecular sieve having a twelve membered (or larger) ring pore opening, channel or pocket and a largest pore dimension of 6.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Emiel de Smit, Neeraj Sangar, Michael Salciccioli, Jihad M. Dakka, Lorenzo C. DeCaul, Terry E. Helton, Scott J. Weigel
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Patent number: 9708230Abstract: In a process for producing biphenyl compounds, a Cn aromatic hydrocarbon may be hydroalkylated to give C2n cycloalkylaromatic compounds and byproduct Cn saturated cyclic hydrocarbons. The C2n cycloalkylaromatic compounds are dehydrogenated to provide the biphenyl compounds. The Cn saturated cyclic hydrocarbons may also be dehydrogenated back to the corresponding Cn aromatic hydrocarbon, which may be recycled to provide additional feed. Although both the intermediate C2n cycloalkylaromatic compounds and the byproduct Cn saturated cyclic hydrocarbons should be dehydrogenated, at least part of the dehydrogenation of the Cn saturated cyclic hydrocarbons should take place in the absence of C2n or greater hydrocarbons. Thus, dehydrogenation of the byproduct Cn saturated cyclic hydrocarbons should take place at least in part separately from dehydrogenation of the C2n cycloalkylaromatic compounds.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Michael Salciccioli, Jihad M. Dakka, Neeraj Sangar, Lorenzo C. DeCaul, Ali A. Kheir
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Patent number: 9663417Abstract: In a process for producing methyl-substituted biphenyl compounds, a feed comprising at least one aromatic hydrocarbon selected from the group consisting of toluene, xylene and mixtures thereof is contacted with hydrogen in the presence of a hydroalkylation catalyst under conditions effective to produce a hydroalkylation reaction product comprising (methylcyclohexyl)toluenes and/or (dimethylcyclohexyl)xylenes. At least part of the hydroalkylation reaction product is then dehydrogenated in the presence of a dehydrogenation catalyst under conditions effective to produce a dehydrogenation reaction product comprising a mixture of methyl-substituted biphenyl compounds.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Jihad M. Dakka, Lorenzo C. DeCaul
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Patent number: 9580572Abstract: A composition is described comprising a mixture of (methylcyclohexyl)toluene isomers having the following formula: wherein the mixture comprises at least 50 wt % in total of the 3,3, 3,4 4,3 and 4,4-isomers of (methylcyclohexyl)toluene.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Jihad M. Dakka, Lorenzo C. DeCaul, Wei Tang
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Patent number: 9579632Abstract: A catalyst composition comprises (i) a support; (ii) a dehydrogenation component comprising at least one metal or compound thereof selected from Groups 6 to 10 of the Periodic Table of Elements; and (iii) tin or a tin compound, wherein the tin is present in an amount of 0.01 wt % to about 0.25 wt %, the wt % based upon the total weight of the catalyst composition.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2011Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Jihad M. Dakka, Lorenzo C. DeCaul, Terry E. Helton, Keith H. Kuechler, Jenna L. Wallace
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Patent number: 9556087Abstract: In a process for producing methyl-substituted biphenyl compounds, a feed comprising at least one aromatic hydrocarbon selected from the group consisting of toluene, xylene and mixtures thereof is contacted with hydrogen in the presence of a hydroalkylation catalyst under conditions effective to produce a hydroalkylation reaction product comprising (methylcyclohexyl)toluenes and/or (dimethylcyclohexyl)xylenes together with dialkylated C21+ compounds. At least part of the dialkylated C21+ compounds is then removed from the hydroalkylation reaction product to produce a dehydrogenation feed; and at least part of the dehydrogenation feed is dehydrogenated in the presence of a dehydrogenation catalyst under conditions effective to produce a dehydrogenation reaction product comprising a mixture of methyl-substituted biphenyl compounds.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Jihad M. Dakka, Lorenzo C. DeCaul, Victor DeFlorio