Patents by Inventor Thomas H. Colle

Thomas H. Colle 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).

  • Reforming process for manufacture of para-xylene
    Publication number: 20040044261
    Abstract: A process for selectively producing para-xylene from a feedstock enriched in C8 isoalkanes and/or isoalkenes is disclosed. The feed is contacted with Group VIII metal loaded molecular sieve catalyst of low acidity under dehydrocyclization conditions wherein the molecular sieve has a channel size ranging from about 5-8 Angstroms and a 10 to 12 membered ring structure containing at least two elements selected from the group consisting of Si, Al, P, Ge, Ga and Ti.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Xiaobing Feng, Thomas H. Colle, Gary D. Mohr
  • Reforming process for manufacture of para-xylene
    Patent number: 6653518
    Abstract: A process for selectively producing para-xylene from a feedstock enriched in C8 isoalkanes and/or isoalkenes is disclosed. The feed is contacted with Group VIII metal loaded molecular sieve catalyst of low acidity under dehydrocyclization conditions wherein the molecular sieve has a channel size ranging from about 5-8 Angstroms and a 10 to 12 membered ring structure containing at least two elements selected from the group consisting of Si, Al, P, Ge, Ga and Ti.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc
    Inventors: Xiaobing Feng, Thomas H. Colle, Gary D. Mohr
  • Reforming process for manufacture of para-xylene
    Publication number: 20030004381
    Abstract: A process for selectively producing para-xylene from a feedstock enriched in C8 isoalkanes and/or isoalkenes is disclosed. The feed is contacted with Group VIII metal loaded molecular sieve catalyst of low acidity under dehydrocyclization conditions wherein the molecular sieve has a channel size ranging from about 5-8 Angstroms and a 10 to 12 membered ring structure containing at least two elements selected from the group consisting of Si, Al, P, Ge, Ga and Ti.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Inventors: Xiaobing Feng, Thomas H. Colle, Gary D. Mohr
  • Synthesis of large crystal zeolites
    Patent number: 5958366
    Abstract: Large crystal zeolites are prepared by heating a zeolite synthesis mixture under agitation to a temperature equal to or less than the effective nucleation temperature of the zeolite synthesis mixture and thereafter the zeolite synthesis mixture is heated without agitation to a temperature equal to or greater than the effective nucleation temperature of the zeolite synthesis mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Exxon Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Scott Smith, Johannes Petrus Verduijn, deceased, Jannetje Maatje van den Berge, executrix, Thomas H. Colle, Gary David Mohr, Gotz Burgfels, Josef Schonlinner
  • Sodium addition to low rank coal to enhance particulate removal from combustion effluent
    Patent number: 4765259
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for rendering coal more suitable for combustion in systems having electrostatic precipitators for removal of particulates from effluent combustion gas streams, which comprises contacting the coal with an aqueous solution of a sodium compound for a time sufficient to permit the sodium in said solution to react with the coal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Thomas H. Colle, Ashok K. Moza