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).
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Publication number: 20230265221Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2021Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: SABIC Global Technologies B.V.Inventors: Liheng WU, Dick NAGAKI, Jun WANG, Kaiwalya SABNIS, Xianghua YU, Travis CONANT, Paulette HAZIN
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Publication number: 20220135497Abstract: Disclosed are systems and processes to produce aromatic and olefinic compounds by aromatization and thermal cracking of hydrocarbons.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2019Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: SABIC Global Technologies B.V.Inventors: Travis CONANT, Dustin FICKEL, Raul VELASCO PELAEZ, Joseph William SCHROER
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Patent number: 11041127Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 10, 2018Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.Inventors: Dustin Fickel, Travis Conant, Dick Alan Nagaki, Raul Velasco Pelaez
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Publication number: 20210162380Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Travis CONANT, Dustin FARMER, Alla KHANMAMEDOVA, Neeta KULKARNI, Scott STEVENSON, Jun WANG
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Patent number: 10899979Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Sabic Global Technologies, B.V.Inventors: Dustin Fickel, Travis Conant, Raul Velasco Pelaez, Kaushik Anil Gandhi
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Publication number: 20200385642Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2018Publication date: December 10, 2020Inventors: Dustin FICKEL, Travis CONANT, Raul Velasco PELAEZ, Kaushik Anil GANDHI
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Publication number: 20200255750Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2018Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Dustin FICKEL, Travis CONANT, Dick Alan NAGAKI, Raul VELASCO PELAEZ
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Patent number: 10106474Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 4, 2014Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventors: Jaap W. van Hal, Scott A. Stevenson, Jim Allman, David L. Sullivan, Travis Conant
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Publication number: 20140148629Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventors: Jaap W. van Hal, Scott A. Stevenson, Jim Allman, David L. Sullivan, Travis Conant
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Patent number: 8722950Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 26, 2010Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Saudi Basic Industries CorporationInventors: Jaap W. van Hal, Scott A. Stevenson, Jim Allman, David L. Sullivan, Travis Conant
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Publication number: 20130150643Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2011Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventors: Travis Conant, Scott A. Stevenson