Patents Issued in December 6, 2018
  • Publication number: 20180346782
    Abstract: A working fluid in cooperation with a solar thermal system comprises a heat conduction medium and a plurality of metal particles mixed in the heat conduction medium. Each of the metal particles includes a metal particle and a protection layer, and the protection layer is an oxide and covers the metal particle. A manufacturing method of metal particles is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Yu-Lun CHUEH, Ming-Chang LU
  • Publication number: 20180346783
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed relate to hydroxy-terminated poly(alkylene oxide) copolymer surfactants for use downhole, downhole compositions including the same, and methods of using the same. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of treating a subterranean formation. The method can include obtaining or providing a composition including a hydroxy-terminated poly(alkylene oxide) copolymer surfactant. The copolymer surfactant can include a first repeating unit having the structure —[R1O]—, wherein at each occurrence R1 is independently a substituted or unsubstituted (C2-C10)alkylene group. The copolymer surfactant can include a second repeating unit having the structure —[R2O]—, wherein at each occurrence R2 is independently a substituted or unsubstituted (C2-C10)alkylene group. The first repeating unit can have a lower molecular weight than the second repeating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Shantel J. Stone, Ryan Patrick Collins
  • Publication number: 20180346784
    Abstract: Included are methods and systems for drilling in a subterranean formation. A method comprises providing a drilling fluid comprising an aqueous base fluid and a betaine shale stabilizer; placing the drilling fluid into the subterranean formation; and drilling a wellbore in the subterranean formation. A drilling system comprises a drilling fluid comprising an aqueous base fluid and a betaine shale stabilizer; a drilling assembly; a drill string coupled to the drilling assembly; a pumping system fluidically coupled to the drill string, wherein the pumping system is capable of pumping the drilling fluid through the drill string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Maria Celeste Rellamas Tria, Catherine Martin Santos
  • Publication number: 20180346785
    Abstract: A date tree trunk- and rachis-based lost circulation material (LCM) is provided. The date tree trunk and rachis LCM includes superfine date tree trunk fibers produced from date tree trunks and superfine date tree rachis fibers produced from date tree rachises. The date tree trunks and rachises may be obtained from the date tree waste produced by the processing of date trees in the production of date fruits. The date tree trunk and rachis LCM may include fibers having lengths in the range of about 20 microns to about 300 microns. Methods of lost circulation control using a date tree trunk and rachis LCM and manufacture of a date tree trunk and rachis LCM are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Md Amanullah, Jothibasu Ramasamy
  • Publication number: 20180346786
    Abstract: Methods and materials for treating completed oil and gas wells that have been partially depleted as a prelude to refracturing are provided. These methods include: (a) preparing a polyurethane diverting agent by mixing a polyol-containing component and a polyisocyanate-containing component; and (b) introducing the polyurethane diverting agent into the well. The polyol-containing component includes a polymeric polyol having a viscosity at 25° C. of no more than 1000 mPa·s and the isocyanate-containing component includes an unblocked (cyclo)aliphatic polyisocyanate polymer, optionally including allophanate groups, and having a viscosity at 25° C. of no more than 1000 mPa·s and at least 99% solids content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: David P. Zielinski, Michael K. Jeffries
  • Publication number: 20180346787
    Abstract: Well treatments that use modified biopolymers for diversion, conformance, fluid loss control, and/or other well treatments, including a method of providing conformance, fluid loss control, or diversion in a subterranean formation, comprising: providing a treatment fluid comprising a base fluid and hydrogel particles, wherein the hydrogel particles comprise modified biopolymers that are crosslinked, the modified biopolymers comprising a biopolymer backbone and a side chains derived from synthetic monomers; and introducing the treatment fluid into a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ravikant S. Belakshe, Pratiksha Shivaji Meher, Larry Steven Eoff
  • Publication number: 20180346788
    Abstract: A method of modifying an alteration zone of a formation near a wellbore using a non-Newtonian polymeric composition created from a reaction of a non-Newtonian combination comprises the steps of mixing an anhydrous tetraborate and a fluid to create a crosslinker solution, mixing a crosslinkable polyvinyl alcohol and water to create a polymer solution, where the crosslinker solution and the polymer solution form the non-Newtonian combination, pumping the non-Newtonian combination to a reaction zone in the wellbore, where pumping the non-Newtonian combination is configured to induce mixing of the polymer solution and the crosslinker solution, allowing the non-Newtonian combination to react to form the non-Newtonian polymeric composition, allowing the non-Newtonian polymeric composition to migrate to the alteration zone, where the non-Newtonian polymeric composition migrates due to gravity, and allowing the non-Newtonian polymeric composition to interact with the alteration zone to modify the alteration zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: Abeer Mohammad AL-OLAYAN
  • Publication number: 20180346789
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are wellbore-cleaning compositions, and methods of using such in cleaning wellbores, including a solvent, a co-solvent, an anionic surfactant mixture comprising a first anionic surfactant and a second anionic surfactant, a non-ionic surfactant mixture comprising a first non-ionic surfactant, and a second non-ionic surfactant, and an aqueous fluid, wherein the wellbore-cleaning composition is in a single liquid phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Syed Afaq ALI, Samuel DANICAN, Stephen DAVIES
  • Publication number: 20180346790
    Abstract: Provided is a composition that includes (i) at least one compound represented by formula (I) as defined herein or a salt thereof and (ii) a nonionic surfactant. The composition is useful for limiting or preventing the formation and/or agglomeration of gas hydrates, by combining the composition and a production fluid that includes an aqueous phase and one or more gases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Arkema France
    Inventors: Tong Eak Pou, Frédéric Moser, Gilles Barreto, Jean-Philippe Gillet
  • Publication number: 20180346791
    Abstract: Methods and dispersing agents for dispersing a polymeric low dose hydrate inhibitor are disclosed. More specifically, the method comprises contacting an aqueous fluid containing a polymeric low dose hydrate inhibitor with a dispersing agent. The dispersing agent can be selected from the group consisting of a C1-C20 alkyl sulfate, a C10-C20 alkyl ether sulfate, a C10-C20 carbonyl sarcosinate, a C10-C20 alkylbenezene sulfonate, a quaternary-ammonium based corrosion inhibitor, a glycol ether, and a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Jeremy Wayne Bartels, Regan Andrew Jones, Kevin Patrick McNamee, Thomas M. Weathers, JR.
  • Publication number: 20180346792
    Abstract: Aqueous fluids containing hydrophobic particles are effective media for cleaning water-base drilling fluids and drilling fluid solids from the interior surface of a casing string. Hydrophobic fibers may be added to a drilling fluid, a spacer fluid, a sacrificial spacer fluid, a chemical wash, or combinations thereof. The disclosed fluids may be employed during primary cementing operations where it is not possible to use a bottom plug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2015
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Diankui FU, Bipin JAIN, Soo Hui GOH
  • Publication number: 20180346793
    Abstract: Materials and methods for protecting electric cables and connectors from corrosive atmospheres and chemicals, particularly in oil wells, are provided herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Ghanem H. Al-Zoraia, Weishu Zhao, Jin Huang, Fakuen Frank Chang, Feng Liang, Rajendra Arunkumar Kalgaonkar
  • Publication number: 20180346794
    Abstract: Systems, compositions, and methods for synergistic additives for use in the scavenging of sulfur-containing compounds encountered in oilfield operations are provided. In one embodiment, the methods comprise injecting a sulfide scavenging additive that does not comprise a significant amount of an aldehyde into at least a portion of a subterranean formation where one or more sulfur-containing species are present; and injecting a synergistic additive comprising at least one base into at least the portion of the subterranean formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Liu Shi, Funian Zhao, Liangwei Qu, Edward Corrin
  • Publication number: 20180346795
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to compositions and methods for inhibiting corrosion at a surface in the production, transportation, storage, and separation of crude oil and natural gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Boyd Anthony Laurent, Prakasa Rao Anantaneni, Ryan Matthew Harrington, Subhasis De
  • Publication number: 20180346796
    Abstract: Disclosed are compositions including one or more corrosion inhibitors, one or more solvents and one or more Log P additives. The compositions are useful as corrosion inhibitors for use in the petroleum industry wherein the compositions are stable, pumpable, and pourable at temperatures as low as ?40° C. and as high as 60° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Jeremy Moloney, Kousik Kundu
  • Publication number: 20180346797
    Abstract: The present application relates to coated silica particles, compositions containing the coated silica particles, and methods for using these compositions in subterranean formations. The coated silica particle includes a cationic species non-covalently bound to an outer surface of the particle. The particle can include a nanoparticle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Rajendra Arunkumar Kalgaonkar, Fakuen Frank Chang
  • Publication number: 20180346798
    Abstract: Disclosed here compositions and methods suitable for injection of a nanosurfactant-containing fluid into a hydrocarbon-bearing formation for enhanced recovery operations. Embodiments of the composition contain a petroleum sulfonate surfactant, mineral oil, and a zwitterionic co-surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Amr I. Abdel-Fattah, Dmitry Kosynkin, Mohammad Alaskar, Ayrat Gizzatov, Shannon Lee Eichmann
  • Publication number: 20180346799
    Abstract: A method of making a proppant-gel matrix comprising: a) hydrating a gelling agent to form a hydrated gelling agent; b) adding a basic compound to the hydrated gelling agent to form a basic hydrated gelling agent having a pH in the range of 11.5 to 14.0; c) mixing the basic hydrated gelling agent and a proppant to form a basic hydrated gelling system; and d) adding a crosslinking agent to the basic hydrated gelling system to form the proppant-gel matrix, is disclosed. The proppant-gel matrix can then be used as a fracturing fluid in a hydraulic fracturing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Charles ZHA, Jan BEETGE
  • Publication number: 20180346800
    Abstract: Sealers are used to selectively divert flow through liner openings during stimulation operations. The sealers comprise an aggregate of dissolvable particles that will allow the sealer to dissolve more quickly once the stimulation operation is finished. The aggregate preferably comprises a distribution of different particle sizes. Larger particles will provide the primary bridge across the opening, with smaller sizes filling gaps between the larger particles and allowing the aggregate to more effectively plug the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: BJ Services, LLC
    Inventors: Diankui Fu, Angel F. Gonzalez, Leonid Vigderman, Lingjuan Shen
  • Publication number: 20180346801
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed relate to silane-based tackifiers for treatment of subterranean formations. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of treating a subterranean formation. The method includes placing in the subterranean formation a tackifier having the structure: or a salt thereof, wherein the variables are as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Monica Rajendra Dandawate, Shoy George Chittattukara, Rajender Salla, Philip D. Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20180346802
    Abstract: A polymer and hydraulic fracturing fluid provide an improved ability to transport proppant. In an embodiment, a method of designing a hydraulic fracturing fluid includes calculating an elastic modulus of a polymer. The method also includes calculating a critical velocity of a hydraulic fracturing fluid comprising the polymer and proppant based on the elastic modulus of the polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Noles Intellectual Properties, LLC
    Inventors: Jerry W. Noles, JR., Alex Jason Watts
  • Publication number: 20180346803
    Abstract: A method to reduce the viscosity of viscosified treatment fluids is disclosed herein. The method includes a water soluble polymer, a breaker system containing at least one aliphatic azo-compound, mixing the viscosified treatment fluid and the breaker composition and allowing the viscosified treatment fluid and the breaker composition to interact whereby the viscosity of the viscosified treatment is reduced. The application of the process in the production of oil and gas and to the treatment fluids is also discussed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Fatima Dugonjic-Bilic, Jasmin Meurer, Marita Neuber
  • Publication number: 20180346804
    Abstract: The invention provides polymers comprising repeating units derived from at least one monomer comprising at least one functionalized or unfunctionalized acryloyl moiety and at least one lactam moiety; at least one monomer comprising at least one sulfonic acid moiety or a salt thereof; and at least one crosslinker. The invention further provides various compositions comprising the polymers. The invention furthermore provides applications of these compositions in various industrial arts, particularly in oilfield operations such as drilling and cementing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Ryan Vincent BLAZEWICZ, Janice Jianzhao WAN G, Brent R. GONSKA
  • Publication number: 20180346805
    Abstract: A molded nanoparticle phosphor for light emitting applications is fabricated by converting a suspension of nanoparticles in a matrix material precursor into a molded nanoparticle phosphor. The matrix material can be any material in which the nanoparticles are dispersible and which is moldable. The molded nanoparticle phosphor can be formed from the matrix material precursor/nanoparticle suspension using any molding technique, such as polymerization molding, contact molding, extrusion molding, injection molding, for example. Once molded, the molded nanoparticle phosphor can be coated with a gas barrier material, for example, a polymer, metal oxide, metal nitride or a glass. The barrier-coated molded nanoparticle phosphor can be utilized in a light-emitting device, such as an LED. For example, the phosphor can be incorporated into the packaging of a standard solid state LED and used to down-convert a portion of the emission of the solid state LED emitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Imad Nasaani, Hao Pang
  • Publication number: 20180346806
    Abstract: Disclosed is a colored luminescent composite pigment including an association of at least one luminescent pigment having an average particle size of between 50 and 2000 ?m and at least one coloring agent. Also disclosed are compositions and materials including the pigment, to the method for the production thereof and to the use of same for coloring materials, particularly of a hydraulic binder composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: CHRYSO
    Inventor: Jean-Jacques HIVERT
  • Publication number: 20180346807
    Abstract: The invention discloses a long persistent luminescence emitter which has an electron-donating molecule that is stable in the radical cation state and an electron-accepting molecule that is stable in the radical anion state and from which luminescence is observed at 10 K after photo-irradiation of the long persistent luminescence emitter stops. According to the disclosed invention, persistent luminescence can be exhibited for a long time with only organic compounds without the use of any rare-earth elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Ryota KABE, Chihaya ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20180346808
    Abstract: A phosphor comprises a crystal phase that has a chemical composition of (Y1-x-y,Cex,Lay)?Si?-zAlzN?O, where the ? satisfies 5.5???6.5, the ? satisfies 9.5???12.5, the ? satisfies 17.5???22.5, the x satisfies 0<x?0.1, the y satisfies 0?y?0.4, and the z satisfies 0?z?0.5. A light emission spectrum of the phosphor includes a peak within a wavelength range of not less than 600 nm and not more than 660 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: MITSURU NITTA, NOBUAKI NAGAO
  • Publication number: 20180346809
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nanocrystal composite comprising a) a plurality of nanocrystals comprising a core comprising a metal or a semiconductive compound or a mixture thereof and at least one ligand, wherein said core is surrounded by at least one ligand, b) a polymeric matrix, wherein said polymeric matrix is formed by reaction of epoxy having functionality from 2 to 10 and polythiol having functionality from 2 to 10 or said polymeric matrix is formed by reaction of epoxy having functionality from 2 to 10, (meth)acrylate having functionality from 2 to 10 and polythiol having functionality from 2 to 10, and wherein said nanocrystals are embedded into said polymeric matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Carla Negele, Alissa Besler, Claudia Mai
  • Publication number: 20180346810
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a nanocrystal composite comprising a) a plurality of nanocrystals comprising a core comprising a metal or a semiconductive compound or a mixture thereof and at least one ligand, wherein said core is surrounded by at least one ligand, b) a polymeric matrix, wherein said polymeric matrix is formed by radical polymerisation of (meth)acrylate having functionality from 2 to 10 and thermal induced reaction of epoxy having functionality from 2 to 10 and polythiol having functionality from 2 to 10, and wherein said nanocrystals are embedded into said polymeric matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Lirong Chao
  • Publication number: 20180346811
    Abstract: Described herein is an etching solution comprising water, phosphoric acid solution (aqueous), and a hydroxyl group-containing solvent. Such compositions are useful for the selective removal of silicon nitride over silicon oxide from a microelectronic device having such material(s) thereon during its manufacture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Versum Marerials US, LLC
    Inventors: Yi-Chia Lee, Wen Dar Liu
  • Publication number: 20180346812
    Abstract: A method of reducing the swell potential of an expansive clay mineral. The method includes (a) carrying out a forcefield-modified molecular level simulation to determine an amount of a swelling reduction agent to be incorporated into the expansive clay mineral to form a swelling reduction agent incorporated expansive clay mineral with a reduced swell potential Si(ECM) that is no greater than a pre-set level T, wherein the swelling reduction agent comprises at least one cementation material of calcite, gypsum, and potassium chloride and/or at least one exchangeable cation of K+, Ca2+, and Mg2+, and wherein the forcefield-modified molecular level simulation comprises molecular mechanics, molecular dynamics, and Monte Carlo simulation techniques configured to simulate the reduced swell potential Si(ECM), and (b) incorporating the amount of the swelling reduction agent into the expansive clay mineral to form the swelling reduction agent incorporated expansive clay mineral.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Habib Ur-Rehman Ahmed, Sahel Nishat Abduljauwad, Ahmet Umran Dogan
  • Publication number: 20180346813
    Abstract: The invention relates to a ground cover in the form of a mulch, comprising a paper substrate originating from fibre-bearing pulp, preferably emanating from lignocellulosic material, which has been web-formed or sheet-formed. Paper based mulches face problems with biodegradability and microbial attacks, mechanical strength and cost. The solution according to the invention is that the fibres have been coated with one or more minerals, e.g., calcium carbonate, and the mulch comprises one or more functional agents, e.g., a colorant. Further, the mineral coated onto or into the fibres predominantly show up when precipitated in the form of one or more metal carbonates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Kaj Backfolk, Elina Skerfe, Isto Heiskanen
  • Publication number: 20180346814
    Abstract: An optically anisotropic layer is formed by a liquid crystal compound represented by General Formula 1, in which the long axes of the molecules are oriented. wherein L1 and L2 independently represent a linking group having a carbonyl group; F1 and F2 independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a halogen atom; n and m independently represent an integer from 0 to 4; a and b independently represent an integer from 1 to 4; T1 and T2 independently represent a spacer portion including a straight chain or branched alkylene or alkylene oxide group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms; and Ar represents a divalent group having at least one aromatic ring selected from a group consisting of aromatic hydrocarbon rings and aromatic heterocycles, the number of ? electrons in the Ar group being 8 or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi MATSUYAMA, Ryoji GOTO, Hiroyuki ISHIKAWA, Keita TAKAHASHI, Taiji KATSUMATA
  • Publication number: 20180346815
    Abstract: A process of forming a resveratrol-based flame retardant small molecule with a phosphonate/phosphinate molecule that includes a chloride group and a terminal functional group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: SCOTT B. KING, BRANDON M. KOBILKA, JOSEPH KUCZYNSKI, JASON T. WERTZ
  • Publication number: 20180346816
    Abstract: A process of forming a resveratrol-based flame retardant small molecule with a phosphonate/phosphinate molecule that includes a chloride group and a terminal functional group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: SCOTT B. KING, BRANDON M. KOBILKA, JOSEPH KUCZYNSKI, JASON T. WERTZ
  • Publication number: 20180346817
    Abstract: System and method for processing pyrolyzable materials in order to recover usable end products are disclosed. The pyrolysis process comprises a number of stages. First pre-treating is to reduce moisture content to approximately 15%. Second is to optimize the volatile organic under the heat and vacuum. This treatment stage is carried out at the temperature between 350 to 400° C. Next, the material is treated with heat and vacuum to produce hot gas and solid carbon residue. This stage is carried out at the temperature up to 800° C. The solid carbon residue can be separated from the hot gas, the volatile organic materials condensed to produce liquid hydrocarbon and gas products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Alexander Dementev
  • Publication number: 20180346818
    Abstract: A method for recovering hydrocarbon diluent from tailings comprising bitumen, particulate solids, hydrocarbon diluent and water, is provided comprising introducing the tailings into a high pressure stripping vessel operating at a pressure greater than 100 kPa; and introducing a stripping gas into the high pressure stripping vessel to strip the hydrocarbon diluent and water from the tailings and form a stripped tailings pool at the bottom of the vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: SUJIT BHATTACHARYA, BARRY BARA, CRAIG A. McKNIGHT, DANIEL JOHN BULBUC, GEORGE CYMERMAN
  • Publication number: 20180346819
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for extracting bitumen and other hydrocarbons from oil-wetted tar sands and converting it to useful petroleum products, the method comprising first mixing the tar sands material with a condensate consisting oil material and agitating the resulting slurry. After agitating the slurry it is passed through a dual-phase centrifuge and the bitumen and heavy end hydrocarbons are removed, while the light end hydrocarbons remain in the centrifuge cake. The centrifuge cake is heated as it passes through an indirect fired rotary thermal desorber and the hydrocarbon material evaporates are cooled in a quench tank to be collected in the quench supply and recovery tank. The process can also be applied to materials which have become contaminated by hydrocarbons, to extract and remove the hydrocarbons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Matt Nicosia, Ronald Patrick Garrett, Keith Allen Chapman
  • Publication number: 20180346820
    Abstract: A process for producing liquid hydrocarbon products from a biomass-containing feedstock and/or a biomass-derived feedstock is provided. The process comprises: a) contacting the feedstock with a hydropyrolysis catalyst composition and molecular hydrogen in a hydropyrolysis reactor vessel to produce a product stream comprising a deoxygenated hydrocarbon product, H2O, H2, CO2, CO, C1-C3 gases, char and catalyst fines; b) removing char and catalyst fines from said product stream; c) cooling the remaining product stream to a temperature of no more than 300° C.; and d) hydroconverting all or a portion of said deoxygenated hydrocarbon product in a hydroconversion reactor in the presence of one or more catalyst compositions suitable for the aromatic saturation of the deoxygenated hydrocarbon product and of the H2O, CO2, CO, H2, and C1-C3 gas generated in step a), to produce a product comprising C4+ hydrocarbon product, H2O, CO, CO2, and C1-C3 gases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Laxmi Narasimhan CHILKOOR SOUNDARARAJAN, Alan Anthony DEL PAGGIO, Dhairya Dilip MEHTA, Vikrant Nanasaheb URADE
  • Publication number: 20180346821
    Abstract: A process for the synthesis of linear paraffinic hydrocarbons from a feed of carbon monoxide and dihydrogen in the presence of a catalyst of a mesoporous oxide matrix and a content by weight of the element cobalt of 0.5% to 60%, wherein the catalyst is prepared by a) mixing, in an aqueous or hydro-organic solvent, a molecular precursor containing cobalt and a molecular precursor of the mesoporous oxide matrix containing element X of silicon, aluminium, titanium, zirconium and or cerium; b) aerosol spray drying the mixture to form spherical liquid droplets; c) drying to obtain solid particles at a temperature of 10° C. to 300° C.; d) activation by a reduction treatment to form nanoparticles of cobalt with an oxidation state of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: IFP Energies Nouvelles
    Inventors: Alexandra CHAUMONNOT, Antoine FECANT
  • Publication number: 20180346822
    Abstract: A process for the synthesis of linear paraffinic hydrocarbons from a feed comprising carbon monoxide and dihydrogen in the presence of a mesoporous oxide matrix and cobalt prepared by mixing, at least one molecular precursor of cobalt and at least one colloidal precursor of mesoporous oxide matrix and by silicon, aluminium, titanium, zirconium, cerium or mixtures thereof, dissolved in aqueous or hydro-organic solvent; spray drying the mixture obtained to form spherical liquid droplets; drying the droplets to obtain solid particles activating the solid particles by reduction to form nanoparticles of cobalt with an oxidation state of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: IFP Energies nouvelles
    Inventors: Alexandra CHAUMONNOT, Antoine FECANT
  • Publication number: 20180346823
    Abstract: A process for producing liquid hydrocarbon products from a biomass-containing feedstock and/or a biomass-derived feedstock is provided. The process comprises: a) contacting the feedstock with a hydropyrolysis catalyst composition and molecular hydrogen in a hydropyrolysis reactor vessel to produce a product stream comprising a partially deoxygenated hydrocarbon product, H2O, H2, CO2, CO, C1-C3 gases, char and catalyst fines; b) removing char and catalyst fines from said product stream; c) cooling the remaining product stream to a temperature in the range of from 150 to 400° C.; and d) hydroconverting said partially deoxygenated hydrocarbon product in a hydroconversion reactor in the presence of one or more catalyst compositions suitable for hydrodeoxygenation and aromatic saturation of the partially deoxygenated hydrocarbon product in the presence of H2O, CO2, CO, H2, and C1-C3 gas generated in step a), to produce a vapour phase product comprising a C4+ hydrocarbon product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Vikrant Nanasaheb URADE, Dhairya Dilip MEHTA, Laxmi Narasimhan CHILKOOR SOUNDARARAJAN, Alan Anthony DEL PAGGIO
  • Publication number: 20180346824
    Abstract: The method of vacuum distillation of a hydrocarbon feedstock comprises the following steps: heating the feedstock (12); introducing the feedstock into a flash zone of a vacuum distillation column; removal of at least one distillate stream from the vacuum distillation column at an intermediate level; withdrawing a column head stream at the head of the vacuum distillation column; partially condensing the column head stream to recover a liquid flow and a gaseous flow; passing the gaseous flow through a vacuum generator and recovering at least one condensate and a gaseous fraction of non-condensable gas. It is characterized in that the method comprises introducing into the vacuum distillation column a flow of a feedstock-stripping fluid, wherein the stripping fluid comprises a hydrocarbon mixture having a weighted average boiling temperature (Tmav) of between 150° C. and 250° C., preferably between 190° C. and 210° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: TECHNIP FRANCE
    Inventors: Patrick COTTIN, Helene PITARD
  • Publication number: 20180346825
    Abstract: The invention discloses a sequestrant composition for application to the elimination and/or reduction of hydrogen sulfide and/or mercaptans in fluid, particularly the reduction or elimination of hydrogen sulfide from gases and liquids, including gaseous and liquid hydrocarbons, and sewage gases, especially from natural gas and liquid hydrocarbon streams. The composition uses a main scavenger agent and sequestration rate accelerator additive that also acts as a precipitation prevention agent. The use of the composition is described as being the main scavenger agent for a 1,3-dioxolane alkyl, alkenyl and/or hydroxyl derivative and ketone-based accelerator additives that include ?-diketones and cyclic ketones, saturated and/or ?-unsaturated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Camilo Enrique La Rotta HERNÁNDEZ, Luis Henrique DE FREITAS, Guilherme Bazzeggio DA FONSECA
  • Publication number: 20180346826
    Abstract: It has been discovered that contaminants such as metals and/or amines can be transferred from a hydrocarbon phase to a water phase in an emulsion breaking process by using a composition that contains water-soluble C5-C12 polyhydroxy carboxylic acids, ammonium salts thereof, alkali metal salts thereof, and mixtures of all of these. The composition may also optionally include a mineral acid to reduce the pH of the desalter wash water. The method permits transfer of metals and/or amines into the aqueous phase with little or no hydrocarbon phase under-carry into the aqueous phase. Resolving the emulsion into the hydrocarbon phase and the aqueous phase occurs in a refinery desalting process using electrostatic coalescence. The composition is particularly useful in treating crude oil emulsions, and in removing calcium and other metals therefrom. The polyhydroxy carboxylic acid additionally inhibits metal corrosion of metal pipe or other equipment used in a crude unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
    Inventors: Mary Jane Legaspi Felipe, Jerry J. Weers, Tran M. Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20180346827
    Abstract: Methods for operating a system having two downflow high-severity FCC units for producing products from a hydrocarbon feed includes introducing the hydrocarbon feed to a feed separator and separating it into a lesser boiling point fraction and a greater boiling point fraction. The greater boiling point fraction is passed to the first FCC unit and cracked in the presence of a first catalyst at 500° C. to 700° C. to produce a first cracking reaction product and a spent first catalyst. The lesser boiling point fraction is passed to the second FCC unit and cracked in the presence of a second catalyst at 500° C. to 700° C. to produce a second cracking reaction product and a spent second catalyst. At least a portion of the spent first catalyst or the spent second catalyst is passed back to the first FCC unit, the second FCC unit or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Sameer A. Al-Ghamdi, Saad Al-Bogami, Abdennour Bourane
  • Publication number: 20180346828
    Abstract: A heavy oil hydrotreating system has a prehydrotreating reaction zone, a transition reaction zone, and a hydrotreating reaction zone that are connected in series successively, sensor units, and a control unit. In the initial reaction stage, the prehydrotreating reaction zone includes at least two prehydrotreating reactors connected in parallel, and the transition reaction zone includes or doesn't include prehydrotreating reactors; in the reaction process, the control unit controls material feeding to and material discharging from each prehydrotreating reactor in the prehydrotreating reaction zone according to pressure drop signals of the sensor units, so that when the pressure drop in any of the prehydrotreating reactors in the prehydrotreating reaction zone reaches a predetermined value, the prehydrotreating reactor in which the pressure drop reaches the predetermined value is switched from the prehydrotreating reaction zone to the transition reaction zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicants: China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, Fushun Research Institute of Petroleum and Petrochemicals, Sinopec Corp.
    Inventors: Tiebin LIU, Xinguo GENG, Yanbo WENG, Hongguang LI
  • Publication number: 20180346829
    Abstract: The subject process enhances catalytic activity for demetallization and desulfurization of a residue feed stream by injecting water into the feed and hydrotreating in two stages with interstage separation. Water injection improves the demetallation activity of the HDM catalyst and separating vapor comprising hydrogen sulfide from the demetallized effluent improves the activity of the HDS catalyst. We have discovered that the water injection and hydrogen sulfide removal together provide a profound synergetic effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Ping Sun, Grant H. Yokomizo
  • Publication number: 20180346830
    Abstract: Implementations described herein generally relate to methods for purifying alpha-olefins. The alpha-olefins may be used to form drag reducing agents for improving flow of hydrocarbons through conduits, particularly pipelines. In one implementation, a method of increasing alpha-olefin content is provided. The method includes providing an olefin feedstock composition having an alpha-mono-olefin and at least one of a diolefin having an equal number of carbon atoms to the alpha-mono-olefin and/or a triolefin having an equal number of carbon atoms to the alpha-mono-olefin. The method further includes contacting the olefin feedstock composition with ethylene in the presence of a catalyst composition including an olefin metathesis catalyst. The method further includes reacting the olefin feedstock composition and ethylene at metathesis reaction conditions to produce an alpha-olefin product comprising the alpha-mono-olefin and alpha-olefins having fewer carbon atoms than the alpha-mono-olefin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Stuart N. MILLIGAN
  • Publication number: 20180346831
    Abstract: In alternative embodiments, provided are systems and processes for the preparation of high-quality biodiesel and high-quality glycerol from oils: e.g., natural oils: corn oil, distillers corn, linseed, flaxseed, cottonseed, rapeseed (canola), peanut, sunflower, safflower, coconut, palm, soybean, comprising a high percentage (e.g. >10%) of organic acids, e.g. free fatty acids. In alternative embodiments, provided are systems and processes for the production of biodiesel meeting or exceeding the specifications for B100 biodiesel set forth in ASTM Specification D6751-14, as well as a glycerol co-product meeting or exceeding the standards for U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP)-grade glycerol from natural oil feedstocks comprising high percentages of organic acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: William Rusty SUTTERLIN, Ryan LONG, Lester Trummer GRAY, III, Hayden SAWYER