Patents by Inventor Travis Conant

Travis Conant 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: 20230265221
    Abstract: Catalysts for the hydrogenation of aromatic containing polymers are described. Such a catalyst can include, based on the total weight of the catalyst, 99.1 wt. % to 99.95 wt. % of a metal oxide support, and 0.05 wt. % to 0.9 wt. % of catalytic metal nanoparticles comprising platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd), ruthenium (Ru), any combination thereof, or alloy thereof. The catalyst can have a specific surface area of 5 m2/g to 80 m2/g, a pore volume of 0.01 cm3/g to 0.35 cm3/g, and a catalyst median particle size of less than 300 microns. Processes to produce the catalyst and methods of hydrogenating aromatic containing polymers are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: SABIC Global Technologies B.V.
    Inventors: Liheng WU, Dick NAGAKI, Jun WANG, Kaiwalya SABNIS, Xianghua YU, Travis CONANT, Paulette HAZIN
  • Publication number: 20220135497
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and processes to produce aromatic and olefinic compounds by aromatization and thermal cracking of hydrocarbons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: SABIC Global Technologies B.V.
    Inventors: Travis CONANT, Dustin FICKEL, Raul VELASCO PELAEZ, Joseph William SCHROER
  • Patent number: 11041127
    Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for obtaining ethylene and propylene products from, for example, shale gas and shale gas condensate feedstocks. These systems and method operate by utilizing a hydrocracker train to crack C4 and C5 hydrocarbons to a product stream of propane and ethane or using a hydrogenolysis train to process C4 and C5 hydrocarbons to a product stream of propane and ethane that is provided to a cracker for an efficient conversion to ethylene and propylene. The disclosed systems are configured to reduce the amount of offsite hydrogen needed and also provide product streams that include a well-defined set of products as compared to existing approaches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Dustin Fickel, Travis Conant, Dick Alan Nagaki, Raul Velasco Pelaez
  • Publication number: 20210162380
    Abstract: Disclosed is a catalyst comprising a zeolite comprising a framework, the framework comprising silicon and aluminum, and a noble metal. The zeolite has undergone at least a first exchange with a Group I or II cation or ammonium and thereafter is contacted with a second Group I or II cation. The step of contacting comprises an exchange, incipient wetness, or dry impregnation. The noble metal is deposited at the zeolite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Travis CONANT, Dustin FARMER, Alla KHANMAMEDOVA, Neeta KULKARNI, Scott STEVENSON, Jun WANG
  • Patent number: 10899979
    Abstract: A process for producing olefins comprising introducing a steam cracker feed to a liquid steam cracker furnace section to produce a steam cracker product comprising olefins, and wherein an amount of olefins in the steam cracker product is greater than in the steam cracker feed; separating the steam cracker product in a separation unit into a hydrogen stream, a methane stream, an olefin gas stream (ethylene and propylene), a saturated gas stream (ethane and propane), a hydrocarbons gas stream (C4-5 hydrocarbons), an aromatics stream (C6-8 aromatic hydrocarbons), a raffinate stream (C6-8 non-aromatic hydrocarbons), and a heavies stream (C9+ hydrocarbons); feeding the hydrocarbons gas stream and hydrogen to one or more hydroprocessing reactors to produce a hydrocracking product comprising ethane and propane; and recycling the hydrocracking product and the saturated gas stream to the liquid steam cracker furnace section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Sabic Global Technologies, B.V.
    Inventors: Dustin Fickel, Travis Conant, Raul Velasco Pelaez, Kaushik Anil Gandhi
  • Publication number: 20200385642
    Abstract: A process for producing olefins comprising introducing a steam cracker feed to a liquid steam cracker furnace section to produce a steam cracker product comprising olefins, and wherein an amount of olefins in the steam cracker product is greater than in the steam cracker feed; separating the steam cracker product in a separation unit into a hydrogen stream, a methane stream, an olefin gas stream (ethylene and propylene), a saturated gas stream (ethane and propane), a hydrocarbons gas stream (C4-5 hydrocarbons), an aromatics stream (C6-8 aromatic hydrocarbons), a raffinate stream (C6-8 non-aromatic hydrocarbons), and a heavies stream (C9+ hydrocarbons); feeding the hydrocarbons gas stream and hydrogen to one or more hydroprocessing reactors to produce a hydrocracking product comprising ethane and propane; and recycling the hydrocracking product and the saturated gas stream to the liquid steam cracker furnace section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Dustin FICKEL, Travis CONANT, Raul Velasco PELAEZ, Kaushik Anil GANDHI
  • Publication number: 20200255750
    Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for obtaining ethylene and propylene products from, for example, shale gas and shale gas condensate feedstocks. These systems and method operate by utilizing a hydrocracker train to crack C4 and C5 hydrocarbons to a product stream of propane and ethane or using a hydrogenolysis train to process C4 and C5 hydrocarbons to a product stream of propane and ethane that is provided to a cracker for an efficient conversion to ethylene and propylene. The disclosed systems are configured to reduce the amount of offsite hydrogen needed and also provide product streams that include a well-defined set of products as compared to existing approaches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Dustin FICKEL, Travis CONANT, Dick Alan NAGAKI, Raul VELASCO PELAEZ
  • Patent number: 10106474
    Abstract: The disclosure is for a process for producing propylene and hexene (along with ethylene, pentenes, product butenes, heptenes and octenes) by metathesis from butenes (iso-, 1- and cis and trans 2-) and pentenes and then aromatizing the hexenes (along with higher olefins, such as heptenes and octenes) to benzene (along with toluene, xylenes, ethylbenzene and styrene). Since the desired products of the metathesis reaction are propylene and hexene, the feed to the metathesis reaction has a molar ratio for 1-butene:2-butene which favors production of propylene and 3-hexene with the concentration of hexenes and higher olefins in the metathesis product being up to 30 mole %. An isomerization reactor may be used to obtain the desired molar ratio of 1-butene:2-butene for the feed composition into the metathesis reactor. After the metathesis reaction, of hexene and higher olefins are separated for aromatization to benzene and other aromatics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jaap W. van Hal, Scott A. Stevenson, Jim Allman, David L. Sullivan, Travis Conant
  • Publication number: 20140148629
    Abstract: The disclosure is for a process for producing propylene and hexene (along with ethylene, pentenes, product butenes, heptenes and octenes) by metathesis from butenes (iso-, 1- and cis and trans 2-) and pentenes and then aromatizing the hexenes (along with higher olefins, such as heptenes and octenes) to benzene (along with toluene, xylenes, ethylbenzene and styrene). Since the desired products of the metathesis reaction are propylene and hexene, the feed to the metathesis reaction has a molar ratio for 1-butene:2-butene which favors production of propylene and 3-hexene with the concentration of hexenes and higher olefins in the metathesis product being up to 30 mole %. An isomerization reactor may be used to obtain the desired molar ratio of 1-butene:2-butene for the feed composition into the metathesis reactor. After the metathesis reaction, of hexene and higher olefins are separated for aromatization to benzene and other aromatics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jaap W. van Hal, Scott A. Stevenson, Jim Allman, David L. Sullivan, Travis Conant
  • Patent number: 8722950
    Abstract: The invention is for a process for producing propylene and hexene (along with ethylene, pentenes, product butenes, heptenes and octenes) by metathesis from butenes (iso-, 1- and cis and trans 2-) and pentenes and then aromatizing the hexenes (along with higher olefins, such as heptenes and octenes) to benzene (along with toluene, xylenes, ethylbenzene and styrene). Since the desired products of the metathesis reaction are propylene and hexene, the feed to the metathesis reaction has a molar ratio for 1-butene:2-butene which favors production of propylene and 3-hexene with the concentration of hexenes and higher olefins in the metathesis product being up to 30 mole %. An isomerization reactor may be used to obtain the desired molar ratio of 1-butene:2-butene for the feed composition into the metathesis reactor. After the metathesis reaction, of hexene and higher olefins are separated for aromatization to benzene and other aromatics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
    Inventors: Jaap W. van Hal, Scott A. Stevenson, Jim Allman, David L. Sullivan, Travis Conant
  • Publication number: 20130150643
    Abstract: Methods for olefin metathesis including contacting a olefin feed stream with a metathesis catalyst at a temperature and at a pressure sufficient to maintain the reactor olefin compositions in a mixed-phase condition including components in the liquid phase and components in the vapor phase, where the mixed-phase reaction conditions shift the equilibrium to desired product olefins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Travis Conant, Scott A. Stevenson