Patents by Inventor Marcelo Edral Pacheco

Marcelo Edral Pacheco 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).

  • Patent number: 11939535
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the conversion of plant oils, animal fats, waste food oils and carboxylic acids into renewable liquid fuels, such as bio-naphtha, bioQAV and renewable diesel, for use in combination with fossil fuels. The process is composed of two steps: hydrotreatment and hydrocracking. The effluent from the hydrotreatment step contains aromatics, olefins and compounds resulting from the polymerization of esters and acids. This is due to the use of partially reduced catalysts without the injection of a sulfiding agent and allows for the production of bioQAV of suitable quality for use in combination with fossil kerosene. Concurrently, the process generates, in addition to products in the distillation range of naphtha, kerosene and diesel, high molecular weight linear paraffins (up to 40 carbon atoms).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Petróleo Brasileiro S.A.—Petrobras
    Inventors: Jefferson Roberto Gomes, José Luiz Zotin, Anilza De Almeida Lyra Correa, Marcelo Edral Pacheco, Rodrigo Caetano Chistone
  • Publication number: 20230332057
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for converting vegetable oils, animal fats, residual edible oils and carboxylic acids into renewable liquid fuels, such as bionaphtha, bioJET-A1 and renewable diesel, for use in a mixture with fossil fuels. The process consists of two steps: hydrotreating and hydrocracking. The effluent from the hydrotreatment step presents aromatics, olefins and compounds resulting from the polymerization of esters and acids in its composition. This fact occurs due to the use of partially reduced catalysts and without injection of sulfide agent and allows obtaining a bioJET-A1 with adequate quality for use in a mixture with fossil kerosene. At the same time, the process generates, in addition to products in the distillation range of naphtha, kerosene and diesel, high molecular weight linear paraffins (with up to 40 carbon atoms).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Jefferson Roberto Gomes, Jose Luiz Zotin, Rodrigo Caetano Chistone, Anilza De Almeida Lyra Correa, Marcelo Edral Pacheco
  • Publication number: 20230174874
    Abstract: The present invention refers to the processing of a 100% renewable load in FCC units, wherein the load comprises triglycerides of vegetable and animal source, free fatty acids, fatty acid esters, ketones, alcohols and long-chain aldehydes, using catalyst and appropriate operating conditions in order to obtain 100% renewable products with a high content of aromatic compounds, in the range of naphtha, kerosene, diesel and heavy gas oil. The product thus obtained complies with all the properties of the ASTM D1655 standard, even for contents of up to 10% renewable content. In addition, there is no need to reduce the freezing point of the fossil QAV for the introduction of the renewable component, with no impact on the yield and economy of the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Jose Luiz Zotin, Marcelo Edral Pacheco, Rodrigo Caetano Chistone, William Richard Gilbert, Isa Santos Duarte, Andrea De Rezende Pinho, Jefferson Roberto Gomes
  • Publication number: 20230047725
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the conversion of plant oils, animal fats, waste food oils and carboxylic acids into renewable liquid fuels, such as bio-naphtha, bioQAV and renewable diesel, for use in combination with fossil fuels. The process is composed of two steps: hydrotreatment and hydrocracking. The effluent from the hydrotreatment step contains aromatics, olefins and compounds resulting from the polymerization of esters and acids. This is due to the use of partially reduced catalysts without the injection of a sulfiding agent and allows for the production of bioQAV of suitable quality for use in combination with fossil kerosene. Concurrently, the process generates, in addition to products in the distillation range of naphtha, kerosene and diesel, high molecular weight linear paraffins (up to 40 carbon atoms).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Jefferson Roberto Gomes, José Luiz Zotin, Anilza De Almeida Lyra Correa, Marcelo Edral Pacheco, Rodrigo Caetano Chistone
  • Patent number: 8507738
    Abstract: A co-processing combining a first selective catalytic bed consisting of only one metal element selected from group VIB metals and of at least one conventional hydrotreating bimetallic catalytic bed. The co-processing provides control of the hydroconversion reactions of the triglycerides and/or fatty acids of biomass oil diluted in a refinery stream of petroleum hydrocarbons and minimizes the generation of gaseous products that are undesirable to the process, while maintaining the levels of unsaturated hydrocarbons hydrogenation and of heteroatomic contaminants removal from the refinery stream of petroleum hydrocarbons. The co-processing selectively providing n-paraffins of even number of carbon atoms, generated from the biomass oil, which are incorporated in a hydrotreated liquid product in petroleum refining HDT units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras
    Inventors: Jefferson Roberto Gomes, José Luiz Zotin, Marcelo Edral Pacheco, Raissa Maria Cotta Ferreira Da Silva
  • Publication number: 20100270207
    Abstract: A co-processing combining a first selective catalytic bed consisting of only one metal element selected from group VIB metals and of at least one conventional hydrotreating bimetallic catalytic bed. The co-processing provides control of the hydroconversion reactions of the triglycerides and/or fatty acids of biomass oil diluted in a refinery stream of petroleum hydrocarbons and minimizes the generation of gaseous products that are undesirable to the process, while maintaining the levels of unsaturated hydrocarbons hydrogenation and of heteroatomic contaminants removal from the refinery stream of petroleum hydrocarbons. The co-processing selectively providing n-paraffins of even number of carbon atoms, generated from the biomass oil, which are incorporated in a hydrotreated liquid product in petroleum refining HDT units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A. - PETROBRAS
    Inventors: Jefferson Roberto Gomes, José Luiz Zotin, Marcelo Edral Pacheco, Raissa Maria Cotta Ferreira Da Silva
  • Patent number: 7785461
    Abstract: A process for the selective hydrodesulfurization of a naphtha containing olefins and organosulfur compounds is disclosed, which minimizes the hydrogenation of the olefins and results in a product with a low sulfur content. The process involves a two-stage hydrodesulfurization with H2S removed from the first stage effluent. A flow of hydrogen and at least one added non-reactive compound is fed into the first stage, wherein the H2 molar fraction ranges from 0.2 to 1.0, and with H2S at the reactor intake limited to a maximum of 0.1% by volume. The second stage involves a feedstream of hydrogen and at least one added non-reactive compound, wherein the H2 molar fraction ranges from 0.2 to 0.7 and with H2S at the reactor intake limited to a maximum of 0.05% by volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras
    Inventors: Rafael Menegassi De Almeida, Jefferson Roberto Gomes, Marcelo Edral Pacheco, Marcus Vinicius Eiffle Duarte, Rogerio Oddone, Giane Ribeiro Stuart