Patents by Inventor Robert L. Bunting, Jr.

Robert L. Bunting, Jr. 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: 11298669
    Abstract: The invention involves a scale collection device that is located within downflow reactor head for removing solids from feed streams to increase reactor operating cycle time without impact on effective reactor space for catalyst loading. More particularly, a filtering zone is located in an upper portion of a reactor vessel above a rough liquid distribution tray and a distribution tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Zhanping Xu, Steven J. Lesniak, Robert L. Bunting, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10556212
    Abstract: The invention involves a scale collection device that is located within downflow reactor head for removing solids from feed streams to increase reactor operating cycle time without impact on effective reactor space for catalyst loading and reactor pressure drop. More particularly, a scale collection device is located in an upper portion of a reactor vessel above a rough liquid distribution tray and a vapor-liquid distribution tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Zhanping Xu, Pengfei Chen, Robert L. Bunting, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10549249
    Abstract: The invention involves a scale collection device that is located within downflow reactor head for removing solids from feed streams to increase reactor operating cycle time without impact on effective reactor space for catalyst loading. More particularly, a filtering zone is located in an upper portion of a reactor vessel above a rough liquid distribution tray and a distribution tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Zhanping Xu, Steven J. Lesniak, Robert L. Bunting, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10537866
    Abstract: The invention involves a scale collection device that is located within downflow reactor head for removing solids from feed streams to increase reactor operating cycle time without impact on effective reactor space for catalyst loading. More particularly, a filtering zone is located in an upper portion of a reactor vessel above a rough liquid distribution tray and a distribution tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Robert L. Bunting, Jr., Steven J. Lesniak, Zhanping Xu
  • Publication number: 20190232244
    Abstract: The invention involves a scale collection device that is located within downflow reactor head for removing solids from feed streams to increase reactor operating cycle time without impact on effective reactor space for catalyst loading. More particularly, a filtering zone is located in an upper portion of a reactor vessel above a rough liquid distribution tray and a distribution tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Zhanping Xu, Steven J. Lesniak, Robert L. Bunting, JR.
  • Publication number: 20190232243
    Abstract: The invention involves a scale collection device that is located within downflow reactor head for removing solids from feed streams to increase reactor operating cycle time without impact on effective reactor space for catalyst loading. More particularly, a filtering zone is located in an upper portion of a reactor vessel above a rough liquid distribution tray and a distribution tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Robert L. Bunting, JR., Steven J. Lesniak, Zhanping Xu
  • Publication number: 20190232199
    Abstract: The invention involves a scale collection device that is located within downflow reactor head for removing solids from feed streams to increase reactor operating cycle time without impact on effective reactor space for catalyst loading. More particularly, a filtering zone is located in an upper portion of a reactor vessel above a rough liquid distribution tray and a distribution tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Zhanping Xu, Steven J. Lesniak, Robert L. Bunting, JR.
  • Publication number: 20190193038
    Abstract: The invention involves a scale collection device that is located within downflow reactor head for removing solids from feed streams to increase reactor operating cycle time without impact on effective reactor space for catalyst loading and reactor pressure drop. More particularly, a scale collection device is located in an upper portion of a reactor vessel above a rough liquid distribution tray and a vapor-liquid distribution tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Zhanping Xu, Pengfei Chen, Robert L. Bunting, JR.
  • Patent number: 8921627
    Abstract: A process has been developed for producing diesel boiling range fuel from renewable feedstocks such as plant oils and animal oils, fats, and greases. The process involves treating a renewable feedstock by hydrogenating and deoxygenating to provide a hydrocarbon fraction useful as a diesel or aviation boiling range fuel or fuel blending component. If desired, the hydrocarbon fraction can be isomerized to improve cold flow properties. A portion of the hydrogenated and deoxygenated feedstock is used as a non-flashing liquid quench stream to control the temperature of the hydrogenation and deoxygenation reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Paul A. Sechrist, Robert L. Bunting, Jr., Nicholas W. Bridge
  • Publication number: 20100137662
    Abstract: A process has been developed for producing diesel boiling range fuel from renewable feedstocks such as plant oils and animal oils, fats, and greases. The process involves treating a renewable feedstock by hydrogenating and deoxygenating to provide a hydrocarbon fraction useful as a diesel or aviation boiling range fuel or fuel blending component. If desired, the hydrocarbon fraction can be isomerized to improve cold flow properties. A portion of the hydrogenated and deoxygenated feedstock is used as a non-flashing liquid quench stream to control the temperature of the hydrogenation and deoxygenation reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: Paul A. Sechrist, Robert L. Bunting, JR., Nicholas W. Bridge
  • Patent number: 5837208
    Abstract: Quench fluids being charged to a hydroprocessing reactor and liquid flowing downward within the reactor are admixed between the catalyst beds located in the reactor by an apparatus comprising three circular trays (16, 21, 22) and a mixing chamber (20). The mixing chamber receives liquid collected by the top tray and the quench material. The liquid effluent of the mixing chamber then falls upon a first distribution tray (21) while the vapor flows through an annular gap (17) between the first distribution tray (21) and the vessel wall (1). The two phases are then recontacted as they pass through a plurality of mixing caps (13) distributed over the surface of a lower second distribution tray (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: UOP
    Inventors: Jeffrey Richard Grott, Robert L. Bunting, Jr., Richard K. Hoehn, Randall Forrest Goodspeed