Patents by Inventor Thaddeus P. Kobylinski
Thaddeus P. Kobylinski 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: 6293978Abstract: A process for converting organic compounds using composite materials in membrane reactors. The composite materials include a gas-tight ceramic, a porous metallic support, and an interfacial zone therebetween eliminate the need for mechanical seals between two such dissimilar materials. Oxygen ion-conducting dense ceramic membranes are formed on a porous metallic alloy to provide an interfacial zone identifiable by a gradient of composition in at least one metallic element across the interfacial zone between the dense ceramic membrane and the porous support. Processes using composite materials in accordance with the invention are, for example, used for production of synthesis gas comprising carbon monoxide and molecular hydrogen, whereby the synthesis gas is, advantageously, free of deleterious and/or inert gaseous diluents such as nitrogen.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2001Date of Patent: September 25, 2001Assignee: BP Corporation North America Inc.Inventors: Mark S. Kleefisch, Carl A. Udovich, Joseph G. Masin, Thaddeus P. Kobylinski
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Publication number: 20010003232Abstract: Composite materials of the invention, which include a gas-tight ceramic, a porous metallic support, and an interfacial zone therebetween eliminate the need for mechanical seals between two such dissimilar materials. Oxygen ion-conducting dense ceramic membranes are formed on a porous metallic alloy to provide an interfacial zone identifiable by a gradient of composition in at least one metallic element across the interfacial zone between the dense ceramic membrane and the porous support. Processes using composite materials in accordance with the invention are, for example, used for production of synthesis gas comprising carbon monoxide and molecular hydrogen, whereby the synthesis gas is, advantageously, free of deleterious and/or inert gaseous diluents such as nitrogen.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2001Publication date: June 14, 2001Inventors: Mark S. Kleefisch, Carl A. Udovich, Joseph G. Masin, Thaddeus P. Kobylinski
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Patent number: 6200541Abstract: Composite materials of the invention, which include a gas-tight ceramic, a porous metallic support, and an interfacial zone therebetween eliminate the need for mechanical seals between two such dissimilar materials. Oxygen ion-conducting dense ceramic membranes are formed on a porous metallic alloy to provide an interfacial zone identifiable by a gradient of composition in at least one metallic element across the interfacial zone between the dense ceramic membrane and the porous support. Processes using composite materials in accordance with the invention are, for example, used for production of synthesis gas comprising carbon monoxide and molecular hydrogen, whereby the synthesis gas is, advantageously, free of deleterious and/or inert gaseous diluents such as nitrogen.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 1999Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: BP Amoco CorporationInventors: Mark S. Kleefisch, Carl A. Udovich, Joseph G. Masin, Thaddeus P. Kobylinski
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Patent number: 5980840Abstract: The present invention relates to devices for conducting, simultaneously, exothermic and endothermic chemical conversions with transfer of heat therebetween. More particularly, this invention relates to autothermic modules using oxygen ion-conducting dense ceramic membranes to separate, selectively, oxygen from an oxygen-containing gas and supply it directly to partial combustion of gaseous organic compounds. Processes using autothermic modules in accordance with this invention are, advantageously, used for production of synthesis gas comprising carbon monoxide and molecular hydrogen which synthesis gas is substantially free of deleterious and/or inert gaseous diluents such as nitrogen. In particular, for conversions, within the integral autothermic module, of natural gas or other forms of gaseous lower alkanes to synthesis gas by means of partial combustion followed by reforming.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 1997Date of Patent: November 9, 1999Assignee: BP Amoco CorporationInventors: Mark S. Kleefisch, Carl A. Udovich, Alakananda Bhattacharyya, Thaddeus P. Kobylinski
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Patent number: 5935533Abstract: The present invention relates to composite materials for membrane reactors which include a gas-tight ceramic, a porous support, and an interfacial zone therebetween. More particularly, this invention relates to composite materials using oxygen ion-conducting dense ceramic membranes formed on a porous support comprising a metallic alloy to provide an interfacial zone identifiable by a gradient of composition in at least one metallic element across the interfacial zone between the dense ceramic membrane and the porous support. Processes using composite materials in accordance with the invention are, for example, used for production of synthesis gas comprising carbon monoxide and molecular hydrogen which synthesis gas is, advantageously, free of deleterious and/or inert gaseous diluents such as nitrogen.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1997Date of Patent: August 10, 1999Assignee: BP Amoco CorporationInventors: Mark S. Kleefisch, Carl A. Udovich, Joseph G. Masin, Thaddeus P. Kobylinski
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Patent number: 5723074Abstract: Preparation, structure, and properties of mixed metal oxide compositions and their uses are described. Mixed metal oxide compositions of the invention have stratified crystalline structure identifiable by means of powder X-ray diffraction patterns. In the form of dense ceramic membranes, the present compositions demonstrate an ability to separate oxygen selectively from a gaseous mixture containing oxygen and one or more other volatile components by means of ionic conductivities.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 1996Date of Patent: March 3, 1998Assignee: Amoco CorporationInventors: Uthamalingam Balachandran, Mark S. Kleefisch, Thaddeus P. Kobylinski, Sherry L. Morissette, Shiyou Pei
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Patent number: 5639437Abstract: Preparation, structure, and properties of mixed metal oxide compositions containing at least strontium, cobalt, iron and oxygen are described. The crystalline mixed metal oxide compositions of this invention have, for example, structure represented bySr.sub..alpha. (Fe.sub.1-x Co.sub.x).sub..alpha.+.beta. O.sub..delta.where x is a number in a range from 0.01 to about 1, .alpha. is a number in a range from about 1 to about 4, .beta. is a number in a range upward from 0 to about 20, and .delta. is a number which renders the compound charge neutral, and wherein the composition has a non-perovskite structure. Use of the mixed metal oxides in dense ceramic membranes which exhibit oxygen ionic conductivity and selective oxygen separation, are described as well as their use in separation of oxygen from an oxygen-containing gaseous mixture.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 1996Date of Patent: June 17, 1997Assignee: Amoco CorporationInventors: Uthamalingam Balachandran, Mark S. Kleefisch, Thaddeus P. Kobylinski, Sherry L. Morissette, Shiyou Pei
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Patent number: 5580497Abstract: Preparation, structure, and properties of mixed metal oxide compositions containing at least strontium, cobalt, iron and oxygen are described. The crystalline mixed metal oxide compositions of this invention have, for example, structure represented bySr.sub..alpha. (Fe.sub.1-x Co.sub.x).sub..alpha.+.beta. O.sub..delta.where x is a number in a range from 0.01 to about 1, .alpha. is a number in a range from about 1 to about 4, .beta. is a number in a range upward from 0 to about 20, and .delta. is a number which renders the compound charge neutral, and wherein the composition has a non-perovskite structure. Use of the mixed metal oxides in dense ceramic membranes which exhibit oxygen ionic conductivity and selective oxygen separation, are described as well as their use in separation of oxygen from an oxygen-containing gaseous mixture.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1994Date of Patent: December 3, 1996Assignee: Amoco CorporationInventors: Uthamalingam Balachandran, Mark S. Kleefisch, Thaddeus P. Kobylinski, Sherry L. Morissette, Shiyou Pei
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Patent number: 5356728Abstract: This invention discloses cross-flow electrochemical reactor cells containing oxygen permeable materials which have both electron conductivity and oxygen ion conductivity, cross-flow reactors, and electrochemical processes using cross-flow reactor cells having oxygen permeable monolithic cores to control and facilitate transport of oxygen from an oxygen-containing gas stream to oxidation reactions of organic compounds in another gas stream. These cross-flow electrochemical reactors comprise a hollow ceramic blade positioned across a gas stream flow or a stack of crossed hollow ceramic blades containing a channel or channels for flow of gas streams. Each channel has at least one channel wall disposed between a channel and a portion of an outer surface of the ceramic blade, or a common wall with adjacent blades in a stack comprising a gas-impervious mixed metal oxide material of a perovskite structure having electron conductivity and oxygen ion conductivity.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 1993Date of Patent: October 18, 1994Assignee: Amoco CorporationInventors: Uthamalingam Balachandran, Roger B. Poeppel, Mark S. Kleefisch, Thaddeus P. Kobylinski, Carl A. Udovich
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Patent number: 5112527Abstract: A process for converting natural gas to synthesis gas includes the steps of subjecting a homogeneous mixture of natural gas and air to partial oxidation in the presence of a bifunctional partial oxidation/steam reforming catalyst and a sufficient amount of water to control reaction temperature, and subjecting the resulting product to steam reforming in order to substantially completely convert unconverted alkanes to carbon monoxide and hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 1991Date of Patent: May 12, 1992Assignee: Amoco CorporationInventor: Thaddeus P. Kobylinski
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Patent number: 4729981Abstract: Catalyst for synthesis gas conversion in which a gas comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen is converted to a liquid hydrocarbon is prepared by subjecting cobalt or nickel on a refractory metal oxide support to an activation procedure at a temperature of from about 100.degree. to about 450.degree. C. comprising, in sequence, (A) reduction in hydrogen, (B) oxidation in an oxygen-containing gas, and (C) reduction in hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1986Date of Patent: March 8, 1988Assignee: Shell Internationale Research Maatschappij B.V.Inventors: Thaddeus P. Kobylinski, Charles L. Kibby, Richard B. Pannell, Elizabeth L. Eddy
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Catalyst for conversion of synthesis gas to diesel fuel and process for preparation of such catalyst
Patent number: 4717702Abstract: A catalyst for the conversion of synthesis gas comprising cobalt on a high surface area, high purity, low acidity alumina support of gamma-alumina, eta-alumina or mixtures thereof, whereby the catalyst is prepared by (A) impregnation of the alumina support with a non-aqueous, organic solvent impregnation solution of cobalt nitrate containing sufficient amounts of a Group IIIB or IVB metal salt to provide said catalyst with from about 0.05 to about 100 parts by weight of a Group IIIB or IVB metal oxide per 100 parts by weight cobalt, (B) reduction of the impregnated alumina support by heating, in the presence of hydrogen, at a heating rate of from about 0.5.degree. to about 5.degree. C. per minute to a maximum temperature in the range of 180.degree. to about 220.degree. C. for a hold time of 6 to about 24 hours and thereafter heating the impregnated alumina support in the presence of hydrogen while heating up to a maximum hold temperature of from about 250.degree. to about 400.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1986Date of Patent: January 5, 1988Assignee: Shell Internationale Research Maatschappij BVInventors: Harold Beuther, Charles L. Kibby, Thaddeus P. Kobylinski, Richard B. Pannell -
Patent number: 4670414Abstract: Synthesis gas comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen is converted to a liquid hydrocarbon by contacting the synthesis gas under conversion conditions with a catalyst prepared by subjecting a cobalt carbonyl-impregnated alumina or silica support to an activation procedure at a temperature not exceeding 500.degree. C. comprising, in sequence, (A) reduction in hydrogen, (B) oxidation in an oxygen-containing gas, and (C) reduction in hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1986Date of Patent: June 2, 1987Inventors: Thaddeus P. Kobylinski, Charles L. Kibby, Richard B. Pannell, Elizabeth L. Eddy
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Patent number: 4605680Abstract: Synthesis gas is converted to diesel fuel and a high octane gasoline in two stages. In the first stage the synthesis gas is converted to straight chain paraffins mainly boiling in the diesel fuel boiling range utilizing a catalyst consisting essentially of cobalt, preferably promoted with a Group IIIB or IVB metal oxide, on a support of gamma-alumina, eta-alumina or mixtures thereof. A straight chain paraffin portion of the effluent in the C.sub.5 -C.sub.9 range is converted in a second stage to a highly aromatic and branched chain paraffinic gasoline using a platinum group metal catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 1985Date of Patent: August 12, 1986Assignee: Chevron Research CompanyInventors: Harold Beuther, Charles L. Kibby, Thaddeus P. Kobylinski, Richard B. Pannell
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Patent number: 4605676Abstract: Synthesis gas comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen is converted to a liquid hydrocarbon by contacting the synthesis gas under conversion conditions with a catalyst prepared by subjecting cobalt or nickel on a refractory metal oxide support to an activation procedure at a temperature below 500.degree. C. comprising, in sequence, (A) reduction in hydrogen, (B) oxidation in an oxygen-containing gas, and (C) reduction in hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1985Date of Patent: August 12, 1986Assignee: Chevron Research CompanyInventors: Thaddeus P. Kobylinski, Charles L. Kibby, Richard B. Pannell, Elizabeth L. Eddy
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Patent number: 4605679Abstract: Synthesis gas comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen is converted to a liquid hydrocarbon by contacting the synthesis gas under conversion conditions with a catalyst prepared by subjecting a cobalt carbonyl-impregnated alumina or silica support to an activation procedure at a temperature not exceeding 500.degree. C. comprising, in sequence, (A) reduction in hydrogen, (B) oxidation in an oxygen-containing gas, and (C) reduction in hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1985Date of Patent: August 12, 1986Assignee: Chevron Research CompanyInventors: Thaddeus P. Kobylinski, Charles L. Kibby, Richard B. Pannell, Elizabeth L. Eddy
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Patent number: 4585798Abstract: Synthesis gas comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen is converted to a liquid hydrocarbon by contacting the synthesis gas under conversion conditions with a supported cobalt-ruthenium catalyst in which the cobalt to ruthenium molar ratio is greater than about 200:1. The catalyst is preferably prepared by using a non-aqueous impregnation solution and using an activation procedure involving reduction, oxidation and reduction.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 1984Date of Patent: April 29, 1986Assignee: Gulf Research & Development CompanyInventors: Harold Beuther, Thaddeus P. Kobylinski, Charles L. Kibby, Richard B. Pannell
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Patent number: 4541916Abstract: A process for converting coal to liquid hydrocarbonaceous products involving a liquefaction reaction in the presence of a coal derived recycle slurry and a non-coal derived solvent comprising a hydrocarbonaceous oil or distillation bottom residue thereof intrinsically contaminated with greater than 300 ppm total of vanadium and nickel. The liquefaction reaction is performed under hydrogen pressure (approximately 500-4000 psi) and under elevated temperature (approximately 300.degree.-500.degree. C.) using a weight ratio of non-coal derived solvent to coal of about 1/1 or less. The conversion of coal to liquids is greatly enhanced by the use of such a non-coal derived solvent under these conditions.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 1984Date of Patent: September 17, 1985Assignee: Gulf Research & Development CorporationInventors: Harold Beuther, Thaddeus P. Kobylinski, Win-Chung Lee, Bruce K. Schmid
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Patent number: 4497903Abstract: Synthesis gas conversion catalyst prepared from synthetic layered aluminosilicate having a montmorillonite-type structure and containing cobalt substituted in the crystal lattice are activated for the conversion of synthesis gas by a sequential reduction, oxidation and reduction treatment. A Group VIII noble metal such as ruthenium can be impregnated on the catalyst prior to the final reduction stage. The catalyst is used in the production of liquid hydrocarbons from synthesis gas.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1982Date of Patent: February 5, 1985Assignee: Gulf Research & Development CompanyInventors: Charles L. Kibby, Thaddeus P. Kobylinski
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Patent number: 4492774Abstract: A process for converting synthesis gas to liquid hydrocarbons using a catalyst prepared from synthetic layered aluminosilicate having a montmorillonite-type structure and containing cobalt substituted in the crystal lattice and activated for the conversion by a sequential reduction, oxidation and reduction treatment.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1982Date of Patent: January 8, 1985Assignee: Gulf Research & Development CompanyInventors: Charles L. Kibby, Thaddeus P. Kobylinski