Patents by Inventor Paul Joseph Berlowitz

Paul Joseph Berlowitz 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).

  • Alkoxylated alkyl ester and alcohol emulsion compositions for fuel cell reformer start-up
    Patent number: 7481854
    Abstract: The present invention relates to emulsion compositions for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system. In particular, the invention includes emulsion compositions comprising hydrocarbon fuel, water and alkoxylated alcohol surfactants for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Exxonmobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Ramesh Varadaraj, Paul Joseph Berlowitz
  • Alkoxylated alkyl ester and alcohol emulsion compositions for fuel cell reformer start-up
    Patent number: 7413584
    Abstract: The present invention relates to emulsion compositions for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system. In particular, the invention includes emulsion compositions comprising hydrocarbon fuel, water and alkoxylated alcohol surfactants for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Ramesh Varadaraj, Paul Joseph Berlowitz
  • Alkyl sorbitan emulsion compositions for fuel cell reformer start-up
    Patent number: 7132180
    Abstract: The present invention relates to emulsion compositions for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system. In particular, the invention includes emulsion compositions comprising hydrocarbon fuel, water and alkyl sorbitan surfactants for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Ramesh Varadaraj, Paul Joseph Berlowitz
  • Alkoxylated triazine emulsion compositions for fuel cell reformer start-up
    Patent number: 7081143
    Abstract: The present invention relates to emulsion compositions for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system. In particular, the invention includes emulsion compositions comprising hydrocarbon fuel, water and alkoxylated triazine surfactants for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Ramesh Varadaraj, Paul Joseph Berlowitz
  • Alkoxylated alkyl ester and alcohol emulsion compositions for fuel cell reformer start-up
    Patent number: 6869706
    Abstract: Emulsion compositions for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system comprises hyrdocarbon fuel, water and alkoxylated alkyl ester and alcohol surfactants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Ramesh Varadaraj, Paul Joseph Berlowitz
  • Low emissions F-T fuel/cracked stock blends
    Patent number: 6860909
    Abstract: A blend useful as a diesel fuel, as well as a method for its production, comprising a high quality Fischer-Tropsch derived distillate boiling in the range of a diesel fuel blended with a cracked stock boiling in the range of a diesel fuel wherein the final blend contains 10-35 wt. % aromatics and 1-20 wt. % polyaromatics and produces low regulated emissions levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Paul Joseph Berlowitz, Robert Jay Wittenbrink, Bruce Randall Cook
  • Wide cut Fischer Tropsch diesel fuels
    Patent number: 6833064
    Abstract: A wide cut Fischer-Tropsch derived diesel fuel is produced wherein the distillate boils in a wider range than a conventional diesel fuel while providing favorable low temperature properties and environmentally beneficial effects. In particular, the fuel comprises a hydrocarbon distillate derived from the Fischer-Tropsch process having T90 greater than 640° F. (338° C.) but less than 1000° F. (538° C.) and a cold filter plugging point less than or equal to +5° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Paul Joseph Berlowitz, Robert Jay Wittenbrink, Daniel Francis Ryan, William Berlin Genetti, Jack Wayne Johnson
  • Winter diesel fuel production from a fischer-tropsch wax
    Patent number: 6787022
    Abstract: A process for the production of a winter diesel fuel from wax containing hydrocarbons produced by the Fischer-Tropsch hydrocarbon synthesis process. A 300° F.+ Fischer-Tropsch fraction is upgraded first by hydroisomerization followed by catalytic dewaxing resulting in a diesel fuel suitable for use as a winter diesel fuel having excellent cold flow properties and reduced emissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Paul Joseph Berlowitz, Daniel Francis Ryan, Robert Jay Wittenbrink, W. Berlin Genetti, Jack Wayne Johnson
  • Low emissions F-T fuel/cracked stock blends
    Publication number: 20040144689
    Abstract: A blend useful as a diesel fuel, as well as a method for its production, comprising a high quality Fischer-Tropsch derived distillate boiling in the range of a diesel fuel blended with a cracked stock boiling in the range of a diesel fuel wherein the final blend contains 10-35 wt. % aromatics and 1-20 wt. % polyaromatics and produces low regulated emissions levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Inventors: Paul Joseph Berlowitz, Robert Jay Wittenbrink, Bruce Randall Cook
  • Ethoxylated alkyl amine emulsion compositions for fuel cell reformer start-up
    Patent number: 6736867
    Abstract: The present invention relates to emulsion compositions for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system. In particular, the invention includes emulsion compositions comprising hydrocarbon fuel, water and ethoxylated alkyl amine surfactants for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: ExxonMobile Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Ramesh Varadaraj, Paul Joseph Berlowitz
  • Alkyl polyglycerol emulsion compositions for fuel cell reformer start-up
    Patent number: 6730138
    Abstract: The present invention relates to emulsion compositions for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system. In particular, the invention includes emulsion compositions comprising hydrocarbon fuel, water and alkyl polyglycerol surfactants for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Ramesh Varadaraj, Paul Joseph Berlowitz
  • Wax transport composition
    Patent number: 6677388
    Abstract: Wax in water emulsions prepared from Fischer-Tropsch derived waxes, Fischer-Tropsch process water, and two alkyl ethoxylated phenol nonionic surfactants having different hydrophilic-lipophilic balances provide high performance pipeline transport of waxes with reduced pipeline fouling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Tapan Chakrabarty, Robert Jay Wittenbrink, Paul Joseph Berlowitz, Loren Leon Ansell
  • Low sulfur, low emission blends of fischer-tropsch and conventional diesel fuels
    Patent number: 6663767
    Abstract: A blended fuel, useful as a diesel fuel, wherein the fuel blend contains an undercut conventional diesel fuel, blended with a Fischer-Tropsch derived diesel fuel, such that the blend demonstrates better than expected emissions and a reduced sulfur content. In particular, the blend is an asymmetric diesel fuel blend comprising a Fischer-Tropsch derived hydrocarbon distillate having a T95 of at least 600° F., blended with a petroleum derived hydrocarbon distillate having an initial boiling point and a T95 no greater than 640° F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Paul Joseph Berlowitz, Daniel Francis Ryan, Robert Jay Wittenbrink, Jack Wayne Johnson, John Richard Bateman
  • Alkoxylated triazine emulsion compositions for fuel cell reformer start-up
    Publication number: 20030170511
    Abstract: The present invention relates to emulsion compositions for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system. In particular, the invention includes emulsion compositions comprising hydrocarbon fuel, water and alkoxylated triazine surfactants for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Inventors: Ramesh Varadaraj, Paul Joseph Berlowitz
  • Alkoxylated alkyl ester and alcohol emulsion compositions for fuel cell reformer start-up
    Publication number: 20030170512
    Abstract: The present invention relates to emulsion compositions for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system. In particular, the invention includes emulsion compositions comprising hydrocarbon fuel, water and alkoxylated alcohol surfactants for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Inventors: Ramesh Varadaraj, Paul Joseph Berlowitz
  • Alkoxylated branched alkyl alcohol emulsion compositions for fuel cell reformer start-up
    Publication number: 20030170513
    Abstract: The present invention relates to emulsion compositions for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system. In particular, the invention includes emulsion compositions comprising hydrocarbon fuel, water and alkoxylated branched alkyl alcohol surfactants for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Inventors: Ramesh Varadaraj, Paul Joseph Berlowitz
  • Microemulsion compositions for fuel cell reformer start-up
    Publication number: 20030165722
    Abstract: The present invention relates to microemulsion compositions for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system. In particular, the invention includes microemulsion compositions comprising hydrocarbon fuel, water and alkyl ethoxylated amine-alkyl salicylic acid complex surfactants for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Inventors: Ramesh Varadaraj, Paul Joseph Berlowitz
  • Alkyl polyglycerol emulsion compositions for fuel cell reformer start-up
    Publication number: 20030165723
    Abstract: The present invention relates to emulsion compositions for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system. In particular, the invention includes emulsion compositions comprising hydrocarbon fuel, water and alkyl polyglycerol surfactants for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Inventors: Ramesh Varadaraj, Paul Joseph Berlowitz
  • Low emissions fuel emulsion
    Publication number: 20030163946
    Abstract: Emulsions of a hydrocarbon and water in which the hydrocarbon preferably is a Fischer-Tropsch derived hydrocarbon fuel and in which emulsion a major portion of the hydrocarbon has particle sizes of 1 micron or less produce reduced particulate matter emissions upon combustion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2002
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Inventors: Paul Joseph Berlowitz, Robert Jay Wittenbrink, Tapan Chakrabarty
  • Alkyl sorbitan emulsion compositions for fuel cell reformer start-up
    Publication number: 20030165721
    Abstract: The present invention relates to emulsion compositions for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system. In particular, the invention includes emulsion compositions comprising hydrocarbon fuel, water and alkyl sorbitan surfactants for starting a reformer of a fuel cell system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Inventors: Ramesh Varadaraj, Paul Joseph Berlowitz