Patents by Inventor Shigeko Okuhara
Shigeko Okuhara 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).
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Patent number: 9567531Abstract: The fluid catalytic cracking process according to the present invention includes a first step of feeding a feedstock to a first fluid catalytic cracker, and catalytically cracking the feedstock in the first fluid catalytic cracker, so as to produce a fraction (LCO) having a boiling range of 221 to 343° C. and having a total aromatic content of 40 to 80 volume %; and a second step of feeding an oil to be processed containing the fraction to a second fluid catalytic cracker having a reaction zone, a separation zone, a stripping zone, and a regeneration zone, and catalytically cracking the oil in the reaction zone of the second fluid catalytic cracker, in the presence of a cracking catalyst, at an outlet temperature of the reaction zone of 550 to 750° C., a contact time between the oil and the catalyst of 0.1 to 1 second, and a catalyst/oil ratio of 20 to 40 wt/wt.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2009Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: NIPPON OIL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichiro Fujiyama, Toshiaki Okuhara, Shigeko Okuhara
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Patent number: 8476479Abstract: In processing of biomass by catalytic cracking in a fluidized catalytic cracker having a reaction zone, a separation zone, a stripping zone, and a regeneration zone, the feedstock oil containing the biomass is processed in the reaction zone using a catalyst containing 10 to 50 mass % of ultrastable Y-type zeolite under the conditions: outlet temperature of the reaction zone 580 to 680° C., catalyst/oil ratio 10 to 40 wt/wt, reaction pressure 1 to 3 kg/cm2 G, and contact time of the feedstock oil with the catalyst in the reaction zone 0.1 to 1.0 sec, and the catalyst is then treated in the regeneration zone under the conditions: regeneration zone temperature 640 to 720° C., regeneration zone pressure 1 to 3 kg/cm2 G, and exhaust gas oxygen concentration at the regeneration zone outlet 0 to 3 mol %.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2007Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Nippon Oil CorporationInventors: Yuichiro Fujiyama, Shigeko Okuhara
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Patent number: 8313548Abstract: A method of designing a gas-solid separator that has an inner cylinder having a closed lower end and an opened upper end, and extending in a vertical direction; an outer cylinder that coaxially covers the inner cylinder from the outside and has a gas vent port formed on the upper end side of the inner cylinder and communicating with an exterior; and a plurality of axially extending long holes formed a side surface on the lower end side of the inner cylinder in a circumferential direction, one of long side edge parts of each of the long holes being provided with a guide blade that protrudes outward and is inclined circumferentially so as to cover the long hole.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2007Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignees: Japan Cooperation Center, Petroleum, Nippon Oil CorporationInventors: Yuichiro Fujiyama, Toshiaki Okuhara, Shigeko Okuhara, legal representative, Akira Uchiura
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Patent number: 8101132Abstract: To provide a mixing device capable of effectively mixing stock oil with a catalyst, while increasing the amount of throughput, the relations of 8.0?Q×(W/D)/(u1+u2), Q=300 to 2000 [kg/m2s], W/D=0.2 to 0.5, u1=5 to 300 [m/s], and u2=5 to 300 [m/s] are satisfied when a mass flow per unit area of a moving bed is Q [kg/nes], the difference between an outer diameter and an inner diameter of the moving bed is W [m], an inner diameter of a reaction tube is D [m], a linear velocity of a horizontal component of the stock oil at a jet orifice of the internal stock oil injection nozzle u1 [m/s], and a linear velocity of a horizontal component of the stock oil at a jet orifice of the external stock oil injection nozzle u2 [m/s].Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2007Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignees: Japan Cooperation Center, Petroleum, Nippon Oil CorporationInventors: Yuichiro Fujiyama, Toshiaki Okuhara, Shigeko Okuhara, legal representative
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Patent number: 8083824Abstract: A gas-solid separator has: an inner cylinder 10 having a closed lower end 11 and an opened upper end 1, and extending in a vertical direction; and an outer cylinder 2 that coaxially covers the inner cylinder 10 from the outside and has a gas vent port 6 formed on the upper end side and communicating with an exterior, wherein a plurality of axially extending long holes 4 are formed on a side surface on the lower end 11 side of the inner cylinder 10 in a circumferential direction, one of long side edge parts of each of the long holes 4 is provided with a guide blade 5 that protrudes outward and is inclined circumferentially so as to cover the long hole 4, and in a section of the outer cylinder 2 that surrounds the plurality of long holes 4 of the inner cylinder 10, an inner diameter D1 of a lower part is larger than an inner diameter D2 of an upper part.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2007Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignees: Japan Cooperation Center, Petroleum, Nippon Oil CorporationInventors: Yuichiro Fujiyama, Toshiaki Okuhara, Shigeko Okuhara, legal representative
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Patent number: 8070846Abstract: A method for operating a gas-solid separator that has: an inner cylinder 10 having a closed lower end 11 and an opened upper end 1, and extending in a vertical direction; an outer cylinder 2 that coaxially covers the inner cylinder 10 from the outside and has a gas vent port 6 formed on the upper end side of the inner cylinder and communicating with an exterior; and a plurality of axially extending long holes 4 having a length L[m] and formed on a side surface on the lower end 11 side of the inner cylinder 10 in a circumferential direction, one of long side edge parts of each of the long holes being provided with a guide blade 5 that protrudes outward and is inclined circumferentially so as to cover the long hole 4, wherein the length L of each long hole 4 is defined such as to satisfy an expression of non-dimensional Stokes number St=(?pdp2/(18?))·U/L?0.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2007Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignees: Japan Cooperation Center, Petroleum, Nippon Oil CorporationInventors: Yuichiro Fujiyama, Toshiaki Okuhara, Shigeko Okuhara, legal representative, Akira Uchiura
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Patent number: 7988756Abstract: A gas-solid separator has: an inner cylinder 10 having a closed lower end 11 and an opened upper end 1, and extending in a vertical direction; and an outer cylinder 2 that coaxially covers the inner cylinder 10 from the outside and has a gas vent port 6 formed on the upper end side of the inner cylinder and communicating with an exterior, wherein a plurality of axially extending long holes 4 are formed on a side surface on the lower end 11 side of the inner cylinder 10 in a circumferential direction, one of long side edge parts of each of the long holes 4 is provided with a guide blade 5 that protrudes outward and is inclined circumferentially so as to cover the long hole 4, and a part between the long holes 4 of the inner cylinder 10 is concaved in a center direction of the inner cylinder 10.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2007Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignees: Japan Cooperation Ctr., Petroleum, Nippon Oil CorporationInventors: Yuichiro Fujiyama, Toshiaki Okuhara, Shigeko Okuhara, legal representative
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Publication number: 20110113675Abstract: In processing of biomass by catalytic cracking in a fluidized catalytic cracker having a reaction zone, a separation zone, a stripping zone, and a regeneration zone, the feedstock oil containing the biomass is processed in the reaction zone using a catalyst containing 10 to 50 mass % of ultrastable Y-type zeolite under the conditions: outlet temperature of the reaction zone 580 to 680° C., catalyst/oil ratio 10 to 40 wt/wt, reaction pressure 1 to 3 kg/cm2 G, and contact time of the feedstock oil with the catalyst in the reaction zone 0.1 to 1.0 sec, and the catalyst is then treated in the regeneration zone under the conditions: regeneration zone temperature 640 to 720° C., regeneration zone pressure 1 to 3 kg/cm2 G, and exhaust gas oxygen concentration at the regeneration zone outlet 0 to 3 mol %.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2007Publication date: May 19, 2011Inventors: Yuichiro Fujiyama, Toshiaki Okuhara, Shigeko Okuhara
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Publication number: 20100186355Abstract: A solid-gas separator constructed from a vertically extending inner tube (10) having a closed lower end (11) and an open upper end (1), and from an outer tube (2) coaxially covering the inner tube (10) from the outside and having a gas vent (6) located on the upper end side of the inner tube and communicated with the outside. Circumferentially arranged axially extending long holes (4) are formed in a side face of the inner tube (10), on its lower end (11) side, and guide blades (5) are each arranged at the edge of one long side of a long hole (4), projected outward, and inclined to the circumferential direction so as to cover the long hole (4).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2007Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicants: JAPAN COOPERATION CENTER, PETROLEUM, NIPPON OIL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichiro Fujiyama, Toshiaki Okuhara, Shigeko Okuhara, Akira Uchiura
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Publication number: 20100186356Abstract: A gas-solid separator has: an inner cylinder 10 having a closed lower end 11 and an opened upper end 1, and extending in a vertical direction; and an outer cylinder 2 that coaxially covers the inner cylinder 10 from the outside and has a gas vent port 6 formed on the upper end side of the inner cylinder and communicating with an exterior, wherein a plurality of axially extending long holes 4 are formed on a side surface on the lower end 11 side of the inner cylinder 10 in a circumferential direction, one of long side edge parts of each of the long holes 4 is provided with a guide blade 5 that protrudes outward and is inclined circumferentially so as to cover the long hole 4, and a part between the long holes 4 of the inner cylinder 10 is concaved in a center direction of the inner cylinder 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2007Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicants: JAPAN COOPERATION CENTER, PETROLEUM, NIPPON OIL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichiro Fujiyama, Toshiaki Okuhara, Shigeko Okuhara
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Publication number: 20100150797Abstract: To provide a mixing device capable of effectively mixing stock oil with a catalyst promptly and evenly, while increasing the amount of throughput. In a mixing device 1, when a mass flow per unit area of a moving bed is Q [kg/m2s], the difference between an outer diameter and an inner diameter of the moving bed W [m], an inner diameter of a reaction tube D [m], a linear velocity of a horizontal component of the stock oil at a jet orifice of the internal stock oil injection nozzle u1 [m/s], the stock oil being supplied from the internal stock oil supply part, and a linear velocity of a horizontal component of the stock oil at a jet orifice of the external stock oil injection nozzle u2 [m/s], the stock oil being supplied from the external stock oil supply part, the relations of 8.0?Q×(W/D)/(u1+u2), Q=300 to 2000 [kg/m2s], W/D=0.2 to 0.5, u1=5 to 300 [m/s], and u2=5 to 300 [m/s] are satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2007Publication date: June 17, 2010Inventors: Yuichiro Fujiyama, Toshiaki Okuhara, Shigeko Okuhara
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Publication number: 20100089795Abstract: The fluid catalytic cracking process according to the present invention includes a first step of feeding a feedstock to a first fluid catalytic cracker, and catalytically cracking the feedstock in the first fluid catalytic cracker, so as to produce a fraction (LCO) having a boiling range of 221 to 343° C. and having a total aromatic content of 40 to 80 volume %; and a second step of feeding an oil to be processed containing the fraction to a second fluid catalytic cracker having a reaction zone, a separation zone, a stripping zone, and a regeneration zone, and catalytically cracking the oil in the reaction zone of the second fluid catalytic cracker, in the presence of a cracking catalyst, at an outlet temperature of the reaction zone of 550 to 750° C., a contact time between the oil and the catalyst of 0.1 to 1 second, and a catalyst/oil ratio of 20 to 40 wt/wt.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: NIPPON OIL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichiro FUJIYAMA, Toshiaki OKUHARA, Shigeko OKUHARA
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Publication number: 20100043365Abstract: A method for operating a gas-solid separator that has: an inner cylinder 10 having a closed lower end 11 and an opened upper end 1, and extending in a vertical direction; an outer cylinder 2 that coaxially covers the inner cylinder 10 from the outside and has a gas vent port 6 formed on the upper end side of the inner cylinder and communicating with an exterior; and a plurality of axially extending long holes 4 having a length L[m] and formed on a side surface on the lower end 11 side of the inner cylinder 10 in a circumferential direction, one of long side edge parts of each of the long holes being provided with a guide blade 5 that protrudes outward and is inclined circumferentially so as to cover the long hole 4, wherein the length L of each long hole 4 is defined such as to satisfy an expression of non-dimensional Stokes number St=(?pdp2/(18?))·U/L?0.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2007Publication date: February 25, 2010Inventors: Yuichiro Fujiyama, Toshiaki Okuhara, Shigeko Okuhara, Akira Uchiura
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Publication number: 20100000189Abstract: A gas-solid separator has: an inner cylinder 10 having a closed lower end 11 and an opened upper end 1, and extending in a vertical direction; and an outer cylinder 2 that coaxially covers the inner cylinder 10 from the outside and has a gas vent port 6 formed on the upper end side and communicating with an exterior, wherein a plurality of axially extending long holes 4 are formed on a side surface on the lower end 11 side of the inner cylinder 10 in a circumferential direction, one of long side edge parts of each of the long holes 4 is provided with a guide blade 5 that protrudes outward and is inclined circumferentially so as to cover the long hole 4, and in a section of the outer cylinder 2 that surrounds the plurality of long holes 4 of the inner cylinder 10, an inner diameter D1 of a lower part is larger than an inner diameter D2 of an upper part.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2007Publication date: January 7, 2010Inventors: Yuichiro Fujiyama, Toshiaki Okuhara, Shigeko Okuhara