Patents by Inventor William R. GUNTHER

William R. GUNTHER 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: 10323196
    Abstract: Methods and systems producing gasoline boiling range hydrocarbons from light paraffins are disclosed. Such methods may include exposing a paraffin-containing stream to a catalyst in a side riser of a fluid catalytic cracking reactor under effective conditions for dehydrogenating at least a portion of paraffins in the stream into olefins and thereby producing an olefin-containing stream, wherein the paraffin-containing stream comprises greater than 50 wt % isobutane; and alkylating olefins in the olefin-containing stream to produce a product stream comprising an alkylate fraction comprising hydrocarbons boiling between 100° F. and 400° F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY
    Inventors: William R. Gunther, Christopher G. Smalley, Brian A. Cunningham, James R. Bielenberg
  • Publication number: 20180265789
    Abstract: Methods and systems producing gasoline boiling range hydrocarbons from light paraffins are disclosed. Such methods may include exposing a paraffin-containing stream to a catalyst in a side riser of a fluid catalytic cracking reactor under effective conditions for dehydrogenating at least a portion of paraffins in the stream into olefins and thereby producing an olefin-containing stream, wherein the paraffin-containing stream comprises greater than 50 wt % isobutane; and alkylating olefins in the olefin-containing stream to produce a product stream comprising an alkylate fraction comprising hydrocarbons boiling between 100° F. and 400° F.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: William R. Gunther, Christopher G. Smalley, Brian A. Cunningham, James R. Bielenberg
  • Publication number: 20180178157
    Abstract: Processes for separating methane from a gas mixture that comprises methane and C2 gas, including C2+ gas, and other gases, including CO2 and H2S, that are based upon formation of gas hydrates, and systems useful for implementing such processes, are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Matthew S. METTLER, Ashish B. MHADESHWAR, William R. GUNTHER, Rustom M. BILLIMORIA