Patents by Inventor Yasutoshi Iguchi

Yasutoshi Iguchi 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: 9505986
    Abstract: The aviation fuel oil base of the present invention is obtained by hydrotreating an oil to be treated containing an oxygen-containing hydrocarbon compound derived from an animal or vegetable oils and fat and a sulfur-containing hydrocarbon compound and then hydroisomerizing the resultant hydrotreated oil, wherein a yield of a fraction having a boiling range of 140 to 300° C. is 70 mass % or more; an isoparaffin content is 80 mass % or more; a content of isoparaffin having 2 or more branches is 17 mass % or more; an aromatic content is less than 0.1 vol %; an olefin content is less than 0.1 vol %; a sulfur content is less than 1 mass ppm; and an oxygen content is less than 0.1 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutoshi Iguchi, Hideki Ono, Akira Koyama
  • Patent number: 9464250
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process of producing an aviation fuel base oil having excellent combustibility, oxidation stability and life cycle characteristics, hydrotreating in the presence of hydrogen a feedstock comprising an oxygen-containing hydrocarbon compound originating from an animal or vegetable fat (preferably an animal or vegetable fat that contains fatty acids each having 10 to 14 carbon atoms in the fatty acid carbon chain in the total amount of 60 percent by mass or more) and a sulfur-containing hydrocarbon compound. The present invention also provides a process for producing an aviation fuel base oil by blending such an aviation fuel base oil and an aviation fuel base oil produced by refining crude oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Koyama, Tatsuo Hamamatsu, Yasutoshi Iguchi, Hideshi Iki
  • Patent number: 9447333
    Abstract: The present invention provides an environment friendly aviation fuel base oil having combustibility, oxidation stability and excellent life cycle characteristics and contributing to diversification of primary energy, which is produced by hydrotreating a feedstock comprising a mixed oil of an oxygen-containing hydrocarbon compound originating from an animal or vegetable fat and a sulfur-containing hydrocarbon compound or a feedstock comprising said mixed oil and a petroleum base oil produced by refining crude oil and an aviation fuel composition comprising the aviation fuel base oil, and an aviation fuel composition containing such an aviation fuel base oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Koyama, Tatsuo Hamamatsu, Yasutoshi Iguchi, Hideshi Iki
  • Publication number: 20140323777
    Abstract: The aviation fuel oil base of the present invention is obtained by hydrotreating an oil to be treated containing an oxygen-containing hydrocarbon compound derived from an animal or vegetable oils and fat and a sulfur-containing hydrocarbon compound and then hydroisomerizing the resultant hydrotreated oil, wherein a yield of a fraction having a boiling range of 140 to 300° C. is 70 mass % or more; an isoparaffin content is 80 mass % or more; a content of isoparaffin having 2 or more branches is 17 mass % or more; an aromatic content is less than 0.1 vol %; an olefin content is less than 0.1 vol %; a sulfur content is less than 1 mass ppm; and an oxygen content is less than 0.1 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutoshi IGUCHI, Hideki ONO, Akira KOYAMA
  • Patent number: 8784645
    Abstract: The method for manufacturing a hydrocarbon oil of the present invention comprises a first step wherein a plurality of reaction zones filled with a specific catalyst is disposed in series and a feedstock oil containing an oxygen-containing hydrocarbon compound derived from an animal or vegetable oil is supplied and hydrotreated under the conditions of a hydrogen pressure of 1 MPa or more and 10 MPa or less in each of the reaction zones; and a second step wherein hydrogen, hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide and water are removed from a product to be treated obtained in the first step to obtain a hydrocarbon oil. Among the plurality of reaction zones, the inlet temperature of the reaction zone disposed on the most upstream side is 150° C. or more and 250° C. or less, the inlet temperature of the second most upstream reaction zone or below is equal to or higher than the condensation temperature of water, and the outlet temperature of the reaction zone disposed on the most downstream side is 260° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Yasutoshi Iguchi, Tatsuo Hamamatsu, Hideki Ono, Akira Koyama, Hideshi Iki
  • Patent number: 8551325
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a hydrocarbon oil, comprising: a first step wherein a feedstock oil containing an oxygen-containing organic compound and a water-insoluble chlorine-containing compound is brought into contact with a hydrogenation catalyst comprising a support containing a porous inorganic oxide and one or more metals selected from Group VIA and Group VIII of the periodic table supported on the support in the presence of hydrogen to generate a hydrocarbon oil and water in a vapor state by the hydrodeoxygenation of an oxygen-containing organic compound and convert the water-insoluble chlorine-containing compound into a water-soluble chlorine-containing compound; a second step wherein the water in the reaction product of the first step is maintained in a vapor state and the reaction product of the first step is brought into contact with a nitrogen-containing Brønsted base compound which has a boiling point at normal pressure of 100° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuo Hamamatsu, Hideki Ono, Yasutoshi Iguchi, Hideshi Iki, Yoshihiko Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20120209038
    Abstract: The aviation fuel oil base of the present invention is obtained by hydrotreating an oil to be treated containing an oxygen-containing hydrocarbon compound derived from an animal or vegetable oils and fat and a sulfur-containing hydrocarbon compound and then hydroisomerizing the resultant hydrotreated oil, wherein a yield of a fraction having a boiling range of 140 to 300° C. is 70 mass % or more; an isoparaffin content is 80 mass % or more; a content of isoparaffin having 2 or more branches is 17 mass % or more; an aromatic content is less than 0.1 vol %; an olefin content is less than 0.1 vol %; a sulfur content is less than 1 mass ppm; and an oxygen content is less than 0.1 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutoshi Iguchi, Hideki Ono, Akira Koyama
  • Publication number: 20120011920
    Abstract: The invention provides a gas oil composition wherein the molar ratio of isoparaffins with carbon number of m and two or more branches to isoparaffins with carbon number of m and one branch within the range of C10-21 is 0.05-3.5, wherein m is an integer of 10-21, and the molar ratio of isoparaffins with carbon number of n and two or more branches to isoparaffins with carbon number of n and one branch within the range of C22-25 is 0.1-10.0, wherein n is an integer of 22-25. The invention also provides a gas oil composition wherein the molar ratio of isoparaffins with carbon number of m and two or more branches to isoparaffins with carbon number of m and one branch within the range of C10-23 is 0.05-4.0, wherein m is an integer of 10-23, and the distillate volume at a distillation temperature of 250° C. (E250) is 15-65%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Inventors: Yasutoshi Iguchi, Hideaki Sugano, Osamu Tamura
  • Patent number: 8080068
    Abstract: The invention provides a gas oil composition having a C10-24 paraffin composition that satisfies the condition represented by inequality (1-1) below, a slow-cooling cloud point of no higher than ?6.0° C. and a pour point of no higher than ?7.5° C. The invention further provides a gas oil composition having a C10-24 paraffin composition that satisfies the condition represented by inequality (1-2) below, a distillate volume at a distillation temperature of 250° C. (E250) of 5-45% and a slow-cooling cloud point of higher than ?6.0° C. In inequalities (1-1) and (1-2), n is the carbon number of the paraffin and f(n) is the paraffin composition parameter for the carbon number of n represented by formula (2) below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Yasutoshi Iguchi, Hideaki Sugano, Osamu Tamura
  • Publication number: 20110237853
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a hydrocarbon oil, comprising: a first step wherein a feedstock oil containing an oxygen-containing organic compound and a water-insoluble chlorine-containing compound is brought into contact with a hydrogenation catalyst comprising a support containing a porous inorganic oxide and one or more metals selected from Group VIA and Group VIII of the periodic table supported on the support in the presence of hydrogen to generate a hydrocarbon oil and water in a vapor state by the hydrodeoxygenation of an oxygen-containing organic compound and convert the water-insoluble chlorine-containing compound into a water-soluble chlorine-containing compound; a second step wherein the water in the reaction product of the first step is maintained in a vapor state and the reaction product of the first step is brought into contact with a nitrogen-containing Brønsted base compound which has a boiling point at normal pressure of 100° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuo Hamamatsu, Hideki Ono, Yasutoshi Iguchi, Hideshi Iki, Yoshihiko Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20110219677
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process of producing an aviation fuel base oil having excellent combustibility, oxidation stability and life cycle characteristics, hydrotreating in the presence of hydrogen a feedstock comprising an oxygen-containing hydrocarbon compound originating from an animal or vegetable fat (preferably an animal or vegetable fat that contains fatty acids each having 10 to 14 carbon atoms in the fatty acid carbon chain in the total amount of 60 percent by mass or more) and a sulfur-containing hydrocarbon compound. The present invention also provides a process for producing an aviation fuel base oil by blending such an aviation fuel base oil and an aviation fuel base oil produced by refining crude oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Koyama, Tatsuo Hamamatsu, Yasutoshi Iguchi, Hideshi Iki
  • Publication number: 20110219676
    Abstract: The present invention provides an environment friendly aviation fuel base oil having combustibility, oxidation stability and excellent life cycle characteristics and contributing to diversification of primary energy, which is produced by hydrotreating a feedstock comprising a mixed oil of an oxygen-containing hydrocarbon compound originating from an animal or vegetable fat and a sulfur-containing hydrocarbon compound or a feedstock comprising said mixed oil and a petroleum base oil produced by refining crude oil and an aviation fuel composition comprising the aviation fuel base oil, and an aviation fuel composition containing such an aviation fuel base oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Koyama, Tatsuo Hamamatsu, Yasutoshi Iguchi, Hideshi Iki
  • Publication number: 20110218376
    Abstract: The method for manufacturing a hydrocarbon oil of the present invention comprises a first step wherein a plurality of reaction zones filled with a specific catalyst is disposed in series and a feedstock oil containing an oxygen-containing hydrocarbon compound derived from an animal or vegetable oil is supplied and hydrotreated under the conditions of a hydrogen pressure of 1 MPa or more and 10 MPa or less in each of the reaction zones; and a second step wherein hydrogen, hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide and water are removed from a product to be treated obtained in the first step to obtain a hydrocarbon oil. Among the plurality of reaction zones, the inlet temperature of the reaction zone disposed on the most upstream side is 150° C. or more and 250° C. or less, the inlet temperature of the second most upstream reaction zone or below is equal to or higher than the condensation temperature of water, and the outlet temperature of the reaction zone disposed on the most downstream side is 260° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasutoshi Iguchi, Tatsuo Hamamatsu, Hideki Ono, Akira Koyama, Hideshi Iki
  • Publication number: 20090165362
    Abstract: The invention provides a gas oil composition wherein the molar ratio of isoparaffins with carbon number of m and two or more branches to isoparaffins with carbon number of m and one branch within the range of C10-21 is 0.05-3.5, wherein m is an integer of 10-21, and the molar ratio of isoparaffins with carbon number of n and two or more branches to isoparaffins with carbon number of n and one branch within the range of C22-25 is 0.1-10.0, wherein n is an integer of 22-25. The invention also provides a gas oil composition wherein the molar ratio of isoparaffins with carbon number of m and two or more branches to isoparaffins with carbon number of m and one branch within the range of C10-23 is 0.05-4.0, wherein m is an integer of 10-23, and the distillate volume at a distillation temperature of 250° C. (E250) is 15-65%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Yasutoshi Iguchi, Hideaki Sugano, Osamu Tamura
  • Publication number: 20090101541
    Abstract: The invention provides a gas oil composition having a C10-24 paraffin composition that satisfies the condition represented by inequality (1-1) below, a slow-cooling cloud point of no higher than ?6.0° C. and a pour point of no higher than ?7.5° C. The invention further provides a gas oil composition having a C10-24 paraffin composition that satisfies the condition represented by inequality (1-2) below, a distillate volume at a distillation temperature of 250° C. (E250) of 5-45% and a slow-cooling cloud point of higher than ?6.0° C. In inequalities (1-1) and (1-2), n is the carbon number of the paraffin and f(n) is the paraffin composition parameter for the carbon number of n represented by formula (2) below.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Yasutoshi Iguchi, Hideaki Sugano, Osamu Tamura