Patents by Inventor Rashmi RANI

Rashmi RANI 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: 12252576
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process for producing linear alpha olefins in high yield carried out by oligomerization of ethylene in the presence of a novel catalyst composition. The catalyst composition includes Zirconium compound, an organoaluminum compound, and at least one Lewis base selected from cyclic and acyclic ethers (i.e., di-n-butyl ether and diethyl ether). The process for oligomerization of ethylene is carried out in an inert organic solvent in the presence of said catalyst composition. The process as disclosed herein provides significantly high activity of the said catalyst composition resulting in high yield of the alpha olefins (>95 wt. %) as the product and significantly minimum polymer as by-product. The process provides higher yield of C6-C10 fraction with >60 wt. %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Indian Oil Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Sukhdeep Kaur, Rashmi Rani, Gurmeet Singh, Dheer Singh, Anju Chopra, Gurpreet Singh Kapur, Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar
  • Patent number: 11851506
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparation of a catalyst for polymerization of olefins. The catalyst has a particle size of between 5 to 30 microns with activity ranging from 3-4 Kg (co)polymer per g of catalyst and excellent hydrogen response. The method for preparation of the catalyst comprises the steps of: a) contacting a liquid magnesium complex, an electron donor, and a titanium halide compound to form a solution; b) obtaining the solid uniform catalyst particles by precipitation; and c) washing the catalyst particles to obtain solid uniform catalyst., for producing (co)polymer of ethylene with other olefins have fines less than 10 wt. %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Indian Oil Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Gurmeet Singh, Rashmi Rani, Sukhdeep Kaur, Yajnaseni Biswas, Anju Chopra, Gurpreet Singh Kapur, Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar
  • Patent number: 11840594
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing highly reactive polyisobutylene by liquid phase polymerization of isobutylene or isobutylene containing feed stock, wherein at least 70 mole % of polymer chains in the polyisobutylene have exo olefin end groups. Further, the present invention provides a catalyst composition for polymerization, comprising of a Lewis acid complexed with at least two Lewis bases selected from sterically hindered ether and linear dialkyl ether; or a Lewis base complexed with at least two Lewis acids selected from aluminium halides mixture. The present invention additionally provides that Lewis acid with Lewis bases mixture or Lewis base with Lewis acids mixture constituting the catalyst show synergistic effect resulting in high isobutylene conversion and production of polyisobutylene having high exo olefin content, while maintaining desired molecular weight range of 250-10000 Dalton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Rajasekhar Tota, Gurmeet Singh, Rashmi Rani, Sujit Mondal, Gurpreet Singh Kapur, Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar
  • Publication number: 20230159676
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparation of a catalyst for polymerization of olefins. The catalyst has a particle size of between 5 to 30 microns with activity ranging from 3-4 Kg (co)polymer per g of catalyst and excellent hydrogen response. The method for preparation of the catalyst comprises the steps of: a) contacting a liquid magnesium complex, an electron donor, and a titanium halide compound to form a solution; b) obtaining the solid uniform catalyst particles by precipitation; and c) washing the catalyst particles to obtain solid uniform catalyst., for producing (co)polymer of ethylene with other olefins have fines less than 10 wt.%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Gurmeet SINGH, Rashmi RANI, Sukhdeep KAUR, Yajnaseni BISWAS, Anju CHOPRA, Gurpreet Singh KAPUR, Sankara Sri Venkata RAMAKUMAR
  • Publication number: 20230159672
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process for producing linear alpha olefins in high yield carried out by oligomerization of ethylene in the presence of a novel catalyst composition. The catalyst composition includes Zirconium compound, an organoaluminum compound, and at least one Lewis base selected from cyclic and acyclic ethers (i.e., di-n-butyl ether and diethyl ether). The process for oligomerization of ethylene is carried out in an inert organic solvent in the presence of said catalyst composition. The process as disclosed herein provides significantly high activity of the said catalyst composition resulting in high yield of the alpha olefins (>95 wt. %) as the product and significantly minimum polymer as by-product. The process provides higher yield of C6-C10 fraction with >60 wt. %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Sukhdeep KAUR, Rashmi RANI, Gurmeet SINGH, Dheer SINGH, Anju CHOPRA, Gurpreet Singh KAPUR, Sankara Sri Venkata RAMAKUMAR
  • Patent number: 11344871
    Abstract: The present invention describes a catalyst composition for use as a catalyst system for an ethylene oligomerization, providing high activity and produce linear oligomer product having broad weight percent distribution i.e. C4 to C16. The catalyst composition comprises a zirconium amide compound, an organoaluminum compound and an additive. The present invention also provides a process for preparation of the zirconium amide compound comprising reacting a zirconium component having formula ZrXm.nTHF, wherein X is halogen atom; m is an integer having value equal or less than 4 and n is a number equal or less than 2, and a substituted amide of formula RCONR?R?, wherein R, R? and R? are saturated or unsaturated aliphatic C1-C10 hydrocarbon or aromatic C6-C14 hydrocarbon, in the presence of an organic solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Indian Oil Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Gurmeet Singh, Rashmi Rani, Sukhdeep Kaur, Dheer Singh, Anju Chopra, Gurpreet Singh Kapur, Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar
  • Publication number: 20220025076
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing highly reactive polyisobutylene by liquid phase polymerization of isobutylene or isobutylene containing feed stock, wherein at least 70 mole % of polymer chains in the polyisobutylene have exo olefin end groups. Further, the present invention provides a catalyst composition for polymerization, comprising of a Lewis acid complexed with at least two Lewis bases selected from sterically hindered ether and linear dialkyl ether; or a Lewis base complexed with at least two Lewis acids selected from aluminium halides mixture. The present invention additionally provides that Lewis acid with Lewis bases mixture or Lewis base with Lewis acids mixture constituting the catalyst show synergistic effect resulting in high isobutylene conversion and production of polyisobutylene having high exo olefin content, while maintaining desired molecular weight range of 250-10000 Dalton.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Rajasekhar TOTA, Gurmeet SINGH, Rashmi RANI, Sujit MONDAL, Gurpreet Singh KAPUR, Sankara Sri Venkata RAMAKUMAR
  • Publication number: 20210178376
    Abstract: The present invention describes a catalyst composition for use as a catalyst system for an ethylene olisomerization, providing high activity and produce linear oligomer product having broad weight percent distribution i.e. C4 to C16. The catalyst composition comprises a zirconium amide compound, an organoaluminum compound and an additive. The present invention also provides a process for preparation of the zirconium amide compound comprising reacting a zirconium component having formula ZrXmnTHF, wherein X is halogen atom; m is an integer having value equal or less than 4 and n is a number equal or less than 2, and a substituted amide of formula RCONR?R?, wherein R, R? and R? are saturated or unsaturated aliphatic C1-C10 hydrocarbon or aromatic C6-C14 hydrocarbon, in the presence of an organic solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Gurmeet SINGH, Rashmi RANI, Sukhdeep KAUR, Dheer SINGH, Anju CHOPRA, Gurpeet Singh KAPUR, Sankara Sri Venkata RAMAKUMAR
  • Patent number: 10689465
    Abstract: The present invention provides an external electron donor composition comprising essentially of monoether as activity limiting agent for polymerization of olefins along with alkoxy silane as selectivity controlling agent, wherein mole percentage of the alkoxy silane to monoether is from 1 to 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Indian Oil Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Sukhdeep Kaur, Usharani Sahoo, Gurmeet Singh, Rashmi Rani, Gurpreet Singh Kapur, Shashikant
  • Publication number: 20180362675
    Abstract: The present invention provides an external electron donor composition comprising essentially of monoether as activity limiting agent for polymerization of olefins along with alkoxy silane as selectivity controlling agent, wherein mole percentage of the alkoxy silane to monoether is from 1 to 100.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: Indian Oil Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Sukhdeep KAUR, Usharani SAHOO, Gurmeet SINGH, Rashmi RANI, Gurpreet Singh KAPUR, SHASHIKANT
  • Patent number: 9873752
    Abstract: The present invention describes a process for preparation of catalyst component comprising contacting magnesium based precursor along with an internal donor based on phenylene dioates with an acyl halides in a solvent to obtain a solid precatalyst component; and contacting the solid precatalyst component with transition metal compound to obtain the catalyst component. The present invention also relates to a process for preparation of a catalyst system from said catalyst component and preparation of a polyolefins having free flowing characteristics with bulk densities (BD) of at least about 0.3 g/cc from the catalyst system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LTD.
    Inventors: Gurmeet Singh, Bhasker Bantu, Sukhdeep Kaur, Naresh Kumar, Mahender Singh Negi, Mohasin Momin, Rashmi Rani, Gurpreet Singh Kapur, Shashikant
  • Patent number: 9758602
    Abstract: The present invention describes a process for preparing catalyst for the polymerization of ethylene consisting essentially of the steps of (i) contacting a magnesium based precursor with a solvent; and (ii) then contacting the magnesium based precursor in the solvent with a transition metal compound to obtain the catalyst, wherein step (ii) is single contact step. The present invention also relates to a process for preparation of a catalyst system and a process of polymerizing and/or copolymerizing of ethylene to obtain a polyethylene using the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Gurmeet Singh, Naresh Kumar, Bhasker Bantu, Sukhdeep Kaur, Rashmi Rani, Mohasin Momin, Gurpreet Singh Kapur, Shashikant, Biswajit Basu, Ravinder Kumar Malhotra
  • Publication number: 20160244537
    Abstract: The present invention describes a process for preparing catalyst for the polymerization of ethylene consisting essentially of the steps of (i) contacting a magnesium based precursor with a solvent; and (ii) then contacting the magnesium based precursor in the solvent with a transition metal compound to obtain the catalyst, wherein step (ii) is single contact step. The present invention also relates to a process for preparation of a catalyst system and a process of polymerizing and/or copolymerizing of ethylene to obtain a polyethylene using the catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Gurmeet SINGH, Naresh KUMAR, Bhasker BANTU, Sukhdeep KAUR, Rashmi RANI, Mohasin MOMIN, Gurpreet Singh KAPUR, Shashikant, Biswajit BASU, Ravinder Kumar MALHOTRA
  • Publication number: 20160215077
    Abstract: The present invention describes a process for preparation of catalyst component comprising contacting magnesium based precursor along with an internal donor based on phenylene dioates with an acyl halides in a solvent to obtain a solid precatalyst component; and contacting the solid precatalyst component with transition metal compound to obtain the catalyst component. The present invention also relates to a process for preparation of a catalyst system from said catalyst component and preparation of a polyolefins having free flowing characteristics with bulk densities (BD) of at least about 0.3 g/cc from the catalyst system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Gurmeet SINGH, Bhasker BANTU, Sukhdeep KAUR, Naresh KUMAR, Mahender Singh NEGI, Mohasin MOMIN, Rashmi RANI, Gurpreet Singh KAPUR, SHASHIKANT