Patents by Inventor Vincent Coupard
Vincent Coupard 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: 11905471Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydrogenolysis process wherein a hydrocarbon-based feedstock comprising aromatic compounds having at least 8 carbon atoms is treated by means of a hydrogen feed and in the presence of a catalyst, in order to convert C2+ alkyl chains of said aromatic compounds into methyl groups and to produce a hydrogenolysis effluent enriched in methyl-substituted aromatic compounds, wherein the catalyst comprises a support, comprising at least one refractory oxide, and an active phase comprising nickel and molybdenum, wherein: the nickel content being between 0.1 and 25% by weight relative to the total weight of the catalyst; the molybdenum content being between 0.1 and 20% by weight relative to the total weight of the catalyst; and the catalyst comprising a molar ratio of molybdenum to nickel of between 0.2 and 0.9. The present invention also relates to said catalyst and to the process for preparing said catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLESInventors: Vincent Coupard, Anne-Claire Dubreuil, Alexandre Jouve, Denis Uzio
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Publication number: 20230373892Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the dehydrogenation of a feedstock comprising ethanol, using at least one multitubular reactor advantageously comprising a plurality of tubes comprising at least one dehydrogenation catalyst, and a calender, said feedstock being introduced into the tubes in gas form, at an inlet temperature of greater than or equal to 240° C., a pressure between 0.1 and 1.0 MPa, and a WWH between 2 and 15 h?1, wherein a heat-transfer fluid circulates in said calender at a flow rate such that the weight ratio of said heat-transfer fluid relative to said feedstock is greater than or equal to 1.0, and such that said heat-transfer fluid is introduced into said calender in gas form at an inlet temperature of greater than or equal to 260° C. and at an inlet pressure of greater than or equal to 0.10 MPa, and less than or equal to 1.10 MPa, and leaves the calender at least partly in liquid form.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2021Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicants: IFP Energies nouvelles, COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELINInventors: Jean-Christophe GABELLE, Vincent COUPARD, Rejane DASTILLUNG, Mickael MEJEAN
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Publication number: 20230265464Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing alcohols comprising: a. an IBE-type fermentation step in at least one bioreactor (R1) in the presence of a natural strain microorganism, and fed at least with an aqueous solution (1) of C5 and/or C6 sugars and a recycled acetone stream (3), in order to produce fermentation gases and a fermentation broth containing fermentation products; b. a step of recovering the fermentation products, in order to obtain a stream of fermentation products (2); c. a step of treating the stream of fermentation products comprising an acetone separation section in order to produce at least an acetone effluent (3) and an aqueous alcohol effluent (4); d. a step for recycling at least a fraction of the acetone effluent (3) from step c) to step a).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2021Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: IFP Energies NouvellesInventors: Marcel ROPARS, Nicolas LOPES FERREIRA, Sandra MENIR, Helena GONZALEZ PENAS, Eszter TOTH, Vincent COUPARD
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Patent number: 11618721Abstract: A method for isomerising dehydration in the presence of a specific catalyst, to produce at least one alkene, carried out on a feedstock containing a non-linear primary monoalcohol, where the catalyst includes a zeolite having a series of 8MR channels and a binder having certain pore volume, which catalyst is multilobe-shaped and has characteristics including certain average mesopore volume Vm, and mesopores having a certain diameter, an average certain macropore volume VM, the macropores having a certain diameter, and certain average micropore volume V?, the micropores having a certain diameter, and the catalyst has a certain exposed geometric area.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignees: IFP Energies Nouvelles, TOTAL RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FELUYInventors: Sylvie Maury, Vincent Coupard, Delphine Bazer-Bachi, Joseph Lopez, Nikolai Nesterenko, Guillaume Duplan, Colin Dupont
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Patent number: 11584698Abstract: Process for preparing a catalyst composition containing a modified crystalline aluminosilicate and a binder, wherein the catalyst composition comprises from 5 to 95% by weight of crystalline aluminosilicate as based on the total weight of the catalyst composition, the process being remarkable in that it comprises a step of steaming said crystalline aluminosilicate: at a temperature ranging from 100° C. to 380° C.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Total Research & Technology FeluyInventors: Nikolai Nesterenko, Colin Dupont, Vincent Coupard, Sylvie Maury, Thibault Heinz
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Patent number: 11492311Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and a process for converting aromatic compounds, wherein: methyl-substituted aromatic compounds are extracted from a hydrocarbon feedstock (2) comprising aromatic compounds having at least 8 carbon atoms in an extraction unit (1), to produce at least one effluent enriched in methyl-substituted aromatic compounds (3A, 3B) and an effluent depleted in methyl-substituted aromatic compounds (4); and C2+ alkyl chains of the aromatic compounds of the depleted effluent (4) are converted into methyl groups in a hydrogenolysis unit (5) placed downstream of the extraction unit (1), to produce a hydrogenolysis effluent enriched in methyl-substituted aromatic compounds (7).Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: IFP Energies nouvellesInventors: Vincent Coupard, Alexandre Pagot, Vanessa Vincent-Genod
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Publication number: 20220314206Abstract: Catalyst comprising a nickel-based active phase and an alumina support, characterized in that: the nickel is distributed both on a crust at the periphery of the support, and in the core of the support, the thickness of said crust being between 2% and 15% of the diameter of the catalyst; the nickel density ratio between the crust and the core is strictly greater than 3; said crust comprises between 40% and 80% by weight of nickel element relative to the total weight of nickel contained in the catalyst; the size of the nickel particles in the catalyst is less than 7 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: IFP Energies NouvellesInventors: Anne-Claire DUBREUIL, Vincent COUPARD, Malika BOUALLEG
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Patent number: 11453853Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for cleaning a solid support of a fermentation reactor for the production of alcohols by fermentation using a sugary fluid, the solid support comprising a polyurethane foam inoculated with a biomass produced by a solvent-producing strain belonging to the genus Clostridium, the process comprising placing the solid support in contact with a fluid originating from the fermentation must enriched in alcohol and/or acetone and/or an aqueous solution at basic pH.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: IFP Energies NouvellesInventors: Helena Gonzalez Penas, Marcel Ropars, Eszter Toth, Belinda Perez Bibbins, Nicolas Lopes Ferreira, Vincent Coupard, Angelique Bisson, Jean-Christophe Gabelle
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Publication number: 20220288569Abstract: Catalyst comprising a nickel-based active phase and an alumina support, characterized in that: the nickel is distributed both on a crust at the periphery of the support, and in the core of the support, the thickness of said crust being between 2% and 15% of the diameter of the catalyst; the nickel density ratio between the crust and the core is strictly greater than 3; said crust comprises between 40% and 80% by weight of nickel element relative to the total weight of nickel contained in the catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: IFP Energies NouvellesInventors: Anne-Claire DUBREUIL, Vincent COUPARD, Malika BOUALLEG, Carine CHOLLET, Alexandre JOUVE
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Publication number: 20220250041Abstract: Catalyst comprising nickel and sulfur on an alumina support, said catalyst being characterized in that: the nickel is distributed both on a crust at the periphery of the support, and in the core of the support, the thickness of said crust being between 2% and 15% of the diameter of the catalyst; the nickel density ratio between the crust and the core is strictly greater than 3; said crust comprises more than 25% by weight of nickel element relative to the total weight of nickel contained in the catalyst, the size of the nickel particles in the catalyst, measured in oxide form, is between 7 and 25 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2020Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: IFP Energies nouvellesInventors: Anne-Claire DUBREUIL, Vincent COUPARD, Malika BOUALLEG
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Patent number: 11358911Abstract: A process for dehydrating an ethanol feedstock to give ethylene, includes: a) a vaporization stage; b) a heating stage; c) a dehydration stage in a multitubular reactor comprising tubes having a length of between 2 and 4 m, said tubes comprising a, preferably zeolitic, dehydration catalyst, the feedstock having an inlet temperature of greater than 400° C. and less than 550° C. and an inlet pressure of between 0.8 and 1.8 MPa, the heat transfer fluid having an inlet temperature of greater than 430° C. and less than 550° C. and a mass flow rate such that the ratio of the mass flow rates of the heat transfer fluid relative to the feedstock is greater than or equal to 10; d) separation into an effluent comprising ethylene and an aqueous effluent; e) purification of the aqueous effluent and separation of a stream of purified water and a stream of unconverted ethanol.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignees: IFP Energies nouvelles, TOTAL RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FELUYInventors: Kirill Drobyshev, Vincent Coupard, Nikolai Nesterenko, Jean-Christophe Gabelle
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Patent number: 11267771Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for treating, by reactive distillation, an olefinic feedstock comprising linear olefins containing n carbon atoms, and branched olefins, the branched olefins comprising tertiary branched olefins, for example a mixture of n-butenes and of tertiary branched olefins comprising isobutene, so as to produce an olefinic effluent with a mass content of tertiary branched olefin of less than or equal to 3% by weight and a heavy hydrocarbon effluent, said process comprising the feeding of a reactive distillation section with said olefinic feedstock and with an alcohol feedstock comprising a primary alcohol, said reactive distillation section comprising a column composed at least of an upper reflux zone into which is introduced said alcohol feedstock, comprising, for example, ethanol, an intermediate reaction zone comprising at least 6 reactive doublets, and a lower fractionation zone at the level of which said section is fed with said olefinic feedstock, said reactive distillatType: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignees: IFP Energies Nouvelles, Total Research & Technology FeluyInventors: Kirill Drobyshev, Vincent Coupard, Nikolai Nesterenko
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Publication number: 20220064086Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and a process for converting aromatic compounds, wherein: methyl-substituted aromatic compounds are extracted from a hydrocarbon feedstock (2) comprising aromatic compounds having at least 8 carbon atoms in an extraction unit (1), to produce at least one effluent enriched in methyl-substituted aromatic compounds (3A, 3B) and an effluent depleted in methyl-substituted aromatic compounds (4); and C2+ alkyl chains of the aromatic compounds of the depleted effluent (4) are converted into methyl groups in a hydrogenolysis unit (5) placed downstream of the extraction unit (1), to produce a hydrogenolysis effluent enriched in methyl-substituted aromatic compounds (7).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2019Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: IFP Energies nouvellesInventors: Vincent COUPARD, Alexandre PAGOT, Vanessa VINCENT-GENOD
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Publication number: 20220064088Abstract: The invention relates to a process for treating an alcoholic feedstock, comprising: a) a stage of preheating of said alcoholic feedstock to a temperature of between 70° C. and 200° C.; b) a stage of pretreatment on an acidic solid, operating at a temperature of between 70° C. and 200° C., to produce a pretreated alcoholic feedstock; c) a stage of partial vaporization to produce a vaporized stream and a liquid stream; and d) a stage of purification of the liquid stream resulting from stage c), to give a stream rich in water, a stream rich in monoalcohol and a stream rich in impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2019Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicants: TOTAL RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FELUY, IFP Energies NouvellesInventors: Nicolas ARIBERT, Ludovic CHAHEN, Arnaud LANOUE, Vincent COUPARD, Nikolai NESTERENKO
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Publication number: 20220056350Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydrogenolysis process wherein a hydrocarbon-based feedstock comprising aromatic compounds having at least 8 carbon atoms is treated by means of a hydrogen feed and in the presence of a catalyst, in order to convert C2+ alkyl chains of said aromatic compounds into methyl groups and to produce a hydrogenolysis effluent enriched in methyl-substituted aromatic compounds, wherein the catalyst comprises a support, comprising at least one refractory oxide, and an active phase comprising nickel and molybdenum, wherein: the nickel content being between 0.1 and 25% by weight relative to the total weight of the catalyst; the molybdenum content being between 0.1 and 20% by weight relative to the total weight of the catalyst; and the catalyst comprising a molar ratio of molybdenum to nickel of between 0.2 and 0.9. The present invention also relates to said catalyst and to the process for preparing said catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2019Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: IFP Energies nouvellesInventors: Vincent COUPARD, Anne-Claire DUBREUIL, Alexandre JOUVE, Denis UZIO
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Publication number: 20220041972Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for cleaning a solid support of a fermentation reactor for the production of alcohols by fermentation using a sugary fluid, the solid support comprising a polyurethane foam inoculated with a biomass produced by a solvent-producing strain belonging to the genus Clostridium, the process comprising placing the solid support in contact with a fluid originating from the fermentation must enriched in alcohol and/or acetone and/or an aqueous solution at basic pH.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2019Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: IFP Energies NouvellesInventors: Helena GONZALEZ PENAS, Marcel ROPARS, Eszter TOTH, Belinda PEREZ BIBBINS, Nicolas LOPES FERREIRA, Vincent COUPARD, Angelique BISSON, Jean-Christophe GABELLE
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Publication number: 20220041525Abstract: A process for dehydrating an ethanol feedstock to give ethylene, includes: a) a vaporization stage; b) a heating stage; c) a dehydration stage in a multitubular reactor comprising tubes having a length of between 2 and 4 m, said tubes comprising a, preferably zeolitic, dehydration catalyst, the feedstock having an inlet temperature of greater than 400° C. and less than 550° C. and an inlet pressure of between 0.8 and 1.8 MPa, the heat transfer fluid having an inlet temperature of greater than 430° C. and less than 550° C. and a mass flow rate such that the ratio of the mass flow rates of the heat transfer fluid relative to the feedstock is greater than or equal to 10; d) separation into an effluent comprising ethylene and an aqueous effluent; e) purification of the aqueous effluent and separation of a stream of purified water and a stream of unconverted ethanol.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2019Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicants: IFP Energies nouvelles, TOTAL RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FELUYInventors: Kirill DROBYSHEV, Vincent COUPARD, Nikolai NESTERENKO, Jean-Christophe GABELLE
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Patent number: 11230511Abstract: A process for the isomerizing dehydration of a feedstock including a primary monoalcohol, alone or as a mixture, of formula R—CH2—OH, wherein R is a nonlinear alkyl radical of general formula CnH2n+1 where n is an integer between 3 and 20, the process taking place in the gas phase at a weighted average temperature between 275° C. and 400° C., at a pressure between 0.3 MPa and 1 MPa and at a WWH (weight per weight per hour) between 5 and 10 h?1, in the presence of a catalyst containing at least one silicic binder and at least one zeolite having at least one series of channels, the opening of which is defined by a ring of 8 oxygen atoms (8MR), process wherein vaporized feedstock entering the reactor has a weight content of water of from 4% to 35%.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2017Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignees: TOTAL RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FELUY, IFP Energies NouvellesInventors: Sylvie Maury, Vincent Coupard, Thibault Heinz, Guillaume Duplan, Joseph Lopez, Nikolai Nesterenko
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Publication number: 20210371360Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for treating, by reactive distillation, an olefinic feedstock comprising linear olefins containing n carbon atoms, and branched olefins, the branched olefins comprising tertiary branched olefins, for example a mixture of n-butenes and of tertiary branched olefins comprising isobutene, so as to produce an olefinic effluent with a mass content of tertiary branched olefin of less than or equal to 3% by weight and a heavy hydrocarbon effluent, said process comprising the feeding of a reactive distillation section with said olefinic feedstock and with an alcohol feedstock comprising a primary alcohol, said reactive distillation section comprising a column composed at least of an upper reflux zone into which is introduced said alcohol feedstock, comprising, for example, ethanol, an intermediate reaction zone comprising at least 6 reactive doublets, and a lower fractionation zone at the level of which said section is fed with said olefinic feedstock, said reactive distillatType: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2019Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicants: IFP Energies Nouvelles, Total Research & Technology FeluyInventors: Kirill DROBYSHEV, Vincent COUPARD, Nikolai NESTERENKO
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Publication number: 20210340480Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing alcohols, in which a sugary fluid is introduced into a fermentation reactor (2) to produce a fermentation must enriched in isopropanol, butanol, ethanol and acetone relative to the sugary fluid, the fermentation reactor (2) comprising a biomass produced by a strain belonging to the genus Clostridium which is supported on a solid support (9) comprising a polyurethane foam; and to a fermentation reactor (2) comprising said biomass supported on said solid support (9).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: IFP Energies nouvellesInventors: Helena GONZALEZ PENAS, Marcel ROPARS, Eszter TOTH, Vincent COUPARD, Sandra MENIR, Nicolas LOPES FERREIRA