Patents by Inventor Scott Wellington

Scott Wellington 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).

  • Publication number: 20050167329
    Abstract: Methods and systems for contacting a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that include a crude product are described. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. The produced crude product may include sulfur, residue, Micro-Carbon Residue, C5 asphaltenes, or mixtures thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050167323
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a residue content of at least 0.2 grams of residue per gram of crude feed. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. In some embodiments, gas is produced during contact with one or more catalysts and the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Scott Wellington, Thomas Brownscombe, Stanley Milam
  • Publication number: 20050167328
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that include a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. Contacting conditions are controlled such that one or more hydrogen uptake conditions are different. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050167321
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a residue content of at least 0.2 grams of residue per gram of crude feed. At least one of the catalyst includes one or more transition metal sulfides. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Scott Wellington, Stanley Milam
  • Publication number: 20050167332
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with two or more catalysts produces a total product that include a crude product. The crude feed has a total acid number of at least 0.1. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25 ° C. and 0.101 MPa. The crude product has a total acid number of at most 90% of the total acid number of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050155908
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that include a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: July 21, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050155906
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with a hydrogen source in the presence of an inorganic salt catalyst produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a residue content of at least 0.2 grams of residue per gram of crude feed. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. The crude product may include hydrocarbons with different boiling range distributions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: July 21, 2005
    Inventors: Scott Wellington, Thomas Brownscombe
  • Publication number: 20050150818
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed may include at least 0.0001 grams of sulfur per gram of crude feed. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The crude product may have a sulfur content of about 30% to about 70% of the sulfur content of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050148487
    Abstract: Inventions described herein generally relate a process for contacting a polymeric feed with one or more inorganic salt catalysts to produce a total product comprising a liquid product and, in some embodiments, non-condensable gas. In some embodiments, the inorganic salt catalyst exhibits an emitted gas inflection of an emitted gas in a temperature range between 50° C. and 500° C., as determined by Temporal Analysis of Products. In some embodiments, the inorganic salt catalyst has a heat transition in a temperature range between 200° C. and 500° C., as determined by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), at a rate of 10° C. per minute. Inventions described herein also generally relate to compositions that have novel combinations of components therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Thomas Brownscombe, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050145537
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a residue content of at least 0.2 grams of residue per gram of crude feed. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. The crude product may include, hydrocarbon gas that is non-condensable at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa, naphtha, kerosene, residue, or mixtures thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Scott Wellington, Stanley Milam
  • Publication number: 20050145536
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with a hydrogen source in the presence of an inorganic salt catalyst produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a residue content of at least 0.2 grams of residue per gram of crude feed. The inorganic salt catalyst may includes one or more alkali metal salts and/or one or more alkaline-earth metal salts. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Scott Wellington, Thomas Brownscombe
  • Publication number: 20050145538
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with a hydrogen source in the presence of an inorganic salt catalyst produces a total product that includes a crude product. The inorganic salt catalyst may include one or more inorganic salts. The crude feed has a residue content of at least 0.2 grams of residue per gram of crude feed. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Scott Wellington, Thomas Brownscombe
  • Publication number: 20050145543
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The one or more catalysts may include a catalyst having a median pore diameter of at least 180 ?. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050139522
    Abstract: Systems and methods for contacting a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that include a crude product are described. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The one or more catalysts may include one or more vanadium catalysts. Methods and compositions of the one or more vanadium catalysts are described. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. In some embodiments, hydrogen is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050139521
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a total content of alkali metal, and alkaline-earth metal, in metal salts of organic acids of at least 0.00001 grams per gram of crude feed. The one or more catalysts may include a first and a second catalyst. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa and has a total content of alkali metal, and alkaline-earth metal, in metal salts of organic acids of at most 90% of the total content of alkali metal, and alkaline-earth metal, in metal salts of organic acids of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050139512
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a residue content of at least 0.2 grams of residue per gram of crude feed. The one or more catalysts include a transition metal sulfide catalyst. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Scott Wellington, Stanley Milam
  • Publication number: 20050139520
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a total Ni/V/Fe content of at least 0.00002 grams per gram of crude feed. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. At least one of the catalysts has a pore size distribution with a median pore diameter of at least 230 ?. The crude product has a total Ni/V/Fe of at most 90% of the total Ni/V/Fe content of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050139518
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed may include at least 0.1 grams of vacuum gas oil per gram of crude feed. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The crude product may have a vacuum gas oil content of about 30% to about 70% of the vacuum gas oil content of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050139519
    Abstract: Methods and systems for contacting of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product are described. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. The produced crude product may include oxygen, sulfur, residue, or mixtures thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington
  • Publication number: 20050133414
    Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed may include Micro-Carbon Residue (MCR), oxygen, sulfur, or mixtures thereof. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The crude product may have a MCR residue and/or oxygen content of at most 90% of the MCR residue content and/or oxygen content of the crude feed. In some instances, the crude product may have a sulfur content of about 30% to about 70% of the sulfur content of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Inventors: Opinder Bhan, Scott Wellington