Patents by Inventor Wilfried Weiss

Wilfried Weiss 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).

  • Patent number: 12365842
    Abstract: A process for treating a plastics pyrolysis oil: a) selective hydrogenation of feedstock in the presence of hydrogen and at least one selective hydrogenation catalyst, at 100 to 150° C., a partial pressure of hydrogen of 1.0 to 10.0 MPa abs. and an hourly space velocity of 1.0 to 10.0 h?1, to obtain a hydrogenated effluent; b) hydrotreatment of hydrogenated effluent in the presence of hydrogen and at least one hydrotreatment catalyst, at 250 to 370° C., a partial pressure of hydrogen of 1.0 to 10.0 MPa abs. and an hourly space velocity of 1.0 to 10.0 h?1, to obtain a hydrotreatment effluent; c) separation of hydrotreatment effluent obtained from b) in the presence of an aqueous stream, at a temperature of 50 to 370° C., to obtain at least one gaseous effluent, an aqueous liquid effluent and a hydrocarbon liquid effluent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: IFP Energies Nouvelles
    Inventors: Wilfried Weiss, Jerome Bonnardot
  • Patent number: 12365843
    Abstract: A process for treating plastics pyrolysis oil by a) selectively hydrogenating a feedstock in the presence hydrogen and a selective hydrogenation catalyst, at a temperature between 100 and 150° C., a hydrogen partial pressure between 1.0 and 10.0 MPa abs. and an hourly space velocity between 1.0 and 10.0 h?1, to obtain a hydrogenated effluent; b) hydrotreating the hydrogenated effluent in the presence of hydrogen and a hydrotreating catalyst, at a temperature between 250 and 370° C., a hydrogen partial pressure between 1.0 and 10.0 MPa abs. and an hourly space velocity between 0.1 and 10.0 h?1, to obtain a hydrotreating effluent; c) separating the hydrotreating effluent in the presence of an aqueous stream, at a temperature between 50 and 370° C., to obtain at least one gaseous effluent, a liquid aqueous effluent and a liquid hydrocarbon effluent; e) recycling at least one fraction of the product obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: IFP Energies Nouvelles
    Inventors: Wilfried Weiss, Jerome Bonnardot
  • Patent number: 12351764
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for treating a plastics pyrolysis oil, comprising: a) selective hydrogenation of said feedstock in the presence of at least hydrogen and of at least one selective hydrogenation catalyst; b) hydrotreatment of said hydrogenated effluent in the presence of at least hydrogen and of at least one hydrotreatment catalyst, to obtain a hydrotreated effluent; c) hydrocracking of said hydrotreated effluent in the presence of at least hydrogen and of at least one hydrocracking catalyst, to obtain a hydrocracked effluent; d) separation of the hydrocracked effluent in the presence of an aqueous stream, at a temperature of between 50 and 370° C., to obtain at least one gaseous effluent, an aqueous liquid effluent and a hydrocarbon-based liquid effluent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignees: IFP Energies nouvelles, REPSOL S.A.
    Inventors: Wilfried Weiss, Jérôme Bonnardot, Iñigo Ribas Sangüesa
  • Patent number: 12344800
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for treating a plastics pyrolysis oil, comprising: a) hydrogenation of said feedstock in the presence of at least hydrogen and of at least one hydrogenation catalyst at an average temperature of between 140 and 340° C., the outlet temperature of step a) being at least 15° C. higher than the inlet temperature of step a), to obtain a hydrogenated effluent; b) hydrotreatment of said hydrogenated effluent in the presence of at least hydrogen and of at least one hydrotreatment catalyst, to obtain a hydrotreated effluent, the average temperature of step b) being higher than the average temperature of step a); c) separation of the hydrotreated effluent in the presence of an aqueous stream, at a temperature of between 50 and 370° C., to obtain at least one gaseous effluent, an aqueous liquid effluent and a hydrocarbon-based liquid effluent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignees: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES, REPSOL S.A.
    Inventors: Wilfried Weiss, Dominique Decottignies, Jérôme Bonnardot, Iñigo Ribas Sangüesa, Lidia Escudero Castejon
  • Patent number: 12344805
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for treating a feedstock comprising a plastics pyrolysis oil and a feedstock derived from renewable sources, comprising: a) optionally, a step of selective hydrogenation of the feedstock comprising a plastics pyrolysis oil, b) a hydrodemetallization of the feedstock comprising a plastics pyrolysis oil or of the effluent of step a), c) a hydrotreatment of said effluent obtained from step b), and in which said feedstock derived from renewable sources is introduced in step a) and/or in step b) and/or in step c), the weight ratio between the flow rate of the feedstock comprising the plastics pyrolysis oil and the flow rate of feedstock derived from renewable sources introduced being between 0.05 and 20, d) a separation in the presence of an aqueous stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventors: Marisa De Sousa Duarte, Dominique Decottignies, Vincent Souchon, Wilfried Weiss, Jérôme Bonnardot
  • Patent number: 12338402
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing olefins from a hydrocarbon feedstock 11 having a sulfur content of at least 0.1 weight %, an initial boiling point of at least 180° C. and a final boiling point of at least 600° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: IFP Energies Nouvelles
    Inventors: Wilfried Weiss, Isabelle Merdrignac
  • Publication number: 20250197742
    Abstract: The present invention relative to a process for the hydroconversion of a feedstock including a fraction of less than 50% by weight of plastic and/or SRF pyrolysis oil (102) and a heavy hydrocarbon fraction (101) containing a portion of at least 50% by weight with a boiling point of at least 300° C. and containing sulfur and nitrogen. The hydroconversion uses one or more ebullated bed or hybrid ebullated-entrained bed reactors (20), and preferably two successive hydroconversion steps. The process according to the invention allows the production of higher-quality, lower-boiling materials, for example for the production of fuels or chemical compounds for the petrochemical industry, with improved yields of certain cuts and while allowing facilitated processing of the hydroconverted products in downstream steps such as fixed-bed hydrotreatment and while maintaining good stability of the unconverted fraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: IFP Energies Nouvelles
    Inventors: Matthieu DREILLARD, Joao MARQUES, Wilfried WEISS, Duc NGUYEN-HONG
  • Publication number: 20250083360
    Abstract: A process for treating a plastic feedstock, including a dissolution step involving placing the plastic feedstock in contact with a dissolution solvent, at between 100° C. and 300° C. and pressure of between 1 and 20.0 MPa abs, to dissolve at least a portion of the polymers of the plastic feedstock and to obtain a crude polymer solution. Also, extraction by placing the crude polymer solution in contact with an extraction solvent, at between 100° C. and 300° C., a pressure between 1 and 20.0 MPa abs and at a mass ratio between the mass flow rate of the extraction solvent and the mass flow rate of the crude polymer solution between 0.05 and 20.0, to obtain an extracted polymer solution and a spent solvent. Furthermore, recovering the polymers to obtain a solvent fraction and a purified polymer fraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: IFP Energies nouvelles
    Inventors: Damien LEINEKUGEL LE COCQ, Wilfried WEISS, Mathilde SIBEAUD, Frederic AUGIER
  • Publication number: 20250051659
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the hydroconversion of a feedstock including a plastic fraction (102), notably derived from plastic waste, and a heavy hydrocarbon fraction (101), notably a heavy hydrocarbon fraction containing a portion of at least 50% by weight, preferably at least 80% by weight, having a boiling temperature of at least 300° C. Hydroconversion involves one or more ebullated bed or hybrid ebullated-entrained bed reactors (20), and preferably two successive hydroconversion steps, in order to produce higher-quality, lower-boiling materials, for example for fuel production purposes, while at the same time allowing waste plastics to be upgraded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: IFP Energies nouvelles
    Inventors: Jean-Patrick BARBÉ, Charles BONNIN, Wilfried WEISS, Joao MARQUES, Duc NGUYEN-HONG
  • Publication number: 20250034465
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the treatment of a plastics pyrolysis oil, comprising: a) the hydrogenation of said feedstock as a mixture with at least a part of the liquid effluent resulting from stage c) and in the presence of hydrogen and of a catalyst at a temperature between 14° and 340° C.; b) the hydrotreating of said hydrogenated effluent in the presence of hydrogen and of a catalyst; c) a separation of the hydrotreated effluent operated at high temperature and high pressure, in order to obtain a gaseous effluent and a liquid effluent, a part of which is recycled upstream of stage a), d) a separation operated at low temperature and high pressure and fed with the gaseous effluent and the other part of the liquid effluent resulting from stage c) and an aqueous solution, in order to obtain a hydrocarbon effluent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicants: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES, REPSOL S.A.
    Inventors: Wilfried WEISS, Dominique DECOTTIGNIES, Jérôme BONNARDOT, Iñigo RIBAS SANGÜESA, Martin SANTOS MARTINEZ, Sheyla CARRASCO HERNANDEZ
  • Publication number: 20240400917
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for processing a pyrolysis oil from plastics and/or solid recovered fuels, comprising: a) optional selective hydrogenation of the feedstock; b) hydroconversion in an ebullated bed, entrained bed and/or moving bed, in order to obtain a hydroconverted effluent; c) separation of the effluent from step b) in the presence of an aqueous stream to obtain a gaseous effluent, an aqueous effluent and a hydrocarbon liquid effluent; d) optional fractionation to obtain at least one gaseous stream and a fraction having a boiling point of less than or equal to 150° C. and a fraction having a boiling point of greater than 150° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventors: Marisa DE SOUSA DUARTE, Wilfried WEISS, Duc NGUYEN-HONG
  • Patent number: 12098333
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing olefins from a hydrocarbon feedstock 11 having a sulfur content of at least 0.1 weight %, an initial boiling point of at least 180° C. and a final boiling point of at least 600° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventors: Wilfried Weiss, Isabelle Merdrignac
  • Patent number: 12049591
    Abstract: Between 40% and 75% by weight of a first bitumen base B1 an asphalt obtained by a solvent deasphalting of a first vacuum residue R1 resulting from the distillation of an effluent hydroconverted by a process for the ebullated bed hydroconversion of a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock, and Between 25% and 60% by weight of a second bitumen base B2 and/or of a flux F, F at least one heavy aromatic cut with a hydrogen content of greater than 8.5% by weight, B2, R1 or a second vacuum residue R2 resulting from a distillation of a crude oil or a mixture of R1 and R2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventors: Alain Quignard, Wilfried Weiss, Isabelle Merdrignac, Jeremie Barbier
  • Publication number: 20240240091
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for treating a plastics and/or solid recovery fuel pyrolysis oil, comprising: a) optionally, selective hydrogenation of the feedstock; b) hydroconversion in an ebullated bed, in an entrained bed and/or in a moving bed, to obtain a hydroconverted effluent; c) hydrotreatment of said hydroconverted effluent from step b) to obtain a hydrotreated effluent, without any intermediate separation step between steps b) and c), c?) optionally, hydrocracking of said effluent from step c), c) separation of the effluent from step c) or c?) in the presence of an aqueous stream, to obtain a gaseous effluent, an aqueous liquid effluent and a liquid hydrocarbon effluent; d) optionally a fractionation to obtain at least one gas stream and one cut with a boiling point of less than or equal to 175° C. and one cut with a boiling point of greater than 175° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventors: Alain QUIGNARD, Wilfried WEISS, Duc NGUYEN-HONG
  • Publication number: 20240240090
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for treating a feedstock comprising a plastics pyrolysis oil and a feedstock derived from renewable sources, comprising: a) optionally, a step of selective hydrogenation of the feedstock comprising a plastics pyrolysis oil, b) a hydrodemetallization of the feedstock comprising a plastics pyrolysis oil or of the effluent of step a), c) a hydrotreatment of said effluent obtained from step b), and in which said feedstock derived from renewable sources is introduced in step a) and/or in step b) and/or in step c), the weight ratio between the flow rate of the feedstock comprising the plastics pyrolysis oil and the flow rate of feedstock derived from renewable sources introduced being between 0.05 and 20, d) a separation in the presence of an aqueous stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventors: Marisa DE SOUSA DUARTE, Dominique DECOTTIGNIES, Vincent SOUCHON, Wilfried WEISS, Jérôme BONNARDOT
  • Patent number: 11959030
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing olefins from a hydrocarbon feedstock 11 with a sulfur content of at least 0.1 weight %, an initial boiling point of at least 180° C. and a final boiling point of at least 600° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventors: Wilfried Weiss, Isabelle Merdrignac
  • Publication number: 20240067891
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing olefins from a hydrocarbon feedstock 11 having a sulfur content of at least 0.1 weight %, an initial boiling point of at least 180° C. and a final boiling point of at least 600° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: IFP Energies nouvelles
    Inventors: Wilfried WEISS, Isabelle MERDRIGNAC
  • Publication number: 20240059977
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for treating a plastics pyrolysis oil, comprising: a) hydrogenation of said feedstock in the presence of at least hydrogen and of at least one hydrogenation catalyst at an average temperature of between 140 and 340° C., the outlet temperature of step a) being at least 15° C. higher than the inlet temperature of step a), to obtain a hydrogenated effluent; b) hydrotreatment of said hydrogenated effluent in the presence of at least hydrogen and of at least one hydrotreatment catalyst, to obtain a hydrotreated effluent, the average temperature of step b) being higher than the average temperature of step a); c) separation of the hydrotreated effluent in the presence of an aqueous stream, at a temperature of between 50 and 370° C., to obtain at least one gaseous effluent, an aqueous liquid effluent and a hydrocarbon-based liquid effluent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicants: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES, REPSOL S.A.
    Inventors: Wilfried WEISS, Dominique DECOTTIGNIES, Jérôme BONNARDOT, Iñigo RIBAS SANGÜESA, Lidia ESCUDERO CASTEJON
  • Publication number: 20240051186
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for treating a plastic feedstock, comprising: a) a dissolution step involving placing the feedstock in contact with a dissolution solvent, at a dissolution temperature of between 100° C. and 300° C. and a dissolution pressure of between 1 and 20.0 MPa abs, the dissolution solvent having a boiling point of between ?50° C. and 250° C., to obtain a crude polymer solution; b) a step of adsorption by placing the crude polymer solution in contact with an adsorbent, at a temperature of between 100 and 300° C. and a pressure of between 1.0 and 20.0 MPa abs, to obtain a refined polymer solution; and then c) a step of recovering the polymers, to obtain at least one solvent fraction and one purified polymer fraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: IFP Energies nouvelles
    Inventors: Wilfried WEISS, Damien LEINEKUGEL LE COCQ, Mathilde SIBEAUD, Amir Hossein AHMADI-MOTLAGH
  • Publication number: 20240042650
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for treating a plastic feedstock comprising polymers, comprising: a) a dissolution step involving placing the plastic feedstock in contact with a dissolution solvent, at a dissolution temperature of between 100° C. and 300° C. and a dissolution pressure of between 1 and 20.0 MPa abs, to dissolve at least a portion of the polymers of the plastic feedstock and to obtain a crude polymer solution; b) a step of washing by placing the crude polymer solution in contact with a dense solution, at a temperature of between 100° C. and 300° C., a pressure of between 1 and 20.0 MPa abs and at a mass ratio between the dense solution and the crude polymer solution of between 0.05 and 20.0, to obtain a washed polymer solution and a washing effluent; and then c) a step of recovering the polymers, to obtain a solvent fraction and a purified polymer fraction. FIG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES
    Inventors: Damien LEINEKUGEL LE COCQ, Wilfried WEISS, Amir Hossein AHMADI-MOTLAGH, Yacine HAROUN