Noble Metal Or Oxide Thereof Patents (Class 208/138)
  • Patent number: 11951455
    Abstract: A process for dehydrogenating alkane or alkylaromatic compounds comprising contacting the given compound and a dehydrogenation catalyst in a fluidized bed. The dehydrogenation catalyst is prepared from an at least partially deactivated platinum/gallium catalyst on an alumina-based support that is reconstituted by impregnating it with a platinum salt solution, then calcining it at a temperature from 400° C. to 1000° C., under conditions such that it has a platinum content ranging from 1 to 500 ppm, based on weight of catalyst; a gallium content ranging from 0.2 to 2.0 wt %; and a platinum to gallium ratio ranging from 1:20,000 to 1:4. It also has a Pt retention that is equal to or greater than that of a fresh catalyst being used in a same or similar catalytic process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Lin Luo, Devon C. Rosenfeld, Andrzej M. Malek
  • Patent number: 11801486
    Abstract: A synthetic product production system is provided with: a synthesis plant for producing a synthetic product by synthesizing a hydrogen-containing gas and carbon dioxide; and a carbon dioxide supply line for supplying the carbon dioxide to the synthesis plant from a recovery and storage plant including a recovery device for recovering the carbon dioxide from a carbon dioxide-containing gas and an injection facility for fixing the recovered carbon dioxide into a stratum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Marushima, Tadateru Tanioka, Kazunori Fujita, Yoshimasa Ando, Takahiro Kamo, Kenichi Irie, Atsushi Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 11735746
    Abstract: Disclosed is a catalyst complex for a fuel cell. The catalyst complex includes a support including carbon (C), platinum (Pt) supported on the support, and an iridium (Ir) compound supported on the support, and the iridium compound includes at least one of iridium oxide represented by Chemical Formula 1, IrOx, and iridium-transition-metal oxide represented by Chemical Formula 2, IrMOx, wherein M is a transition metal selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co, Cu, Ni and combinations thereof, and x is from 1 to 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Jung Han Yu, Bo Ki Hong, Jong Kil Oh, Hyun Joo Lee, Chi Woo Roh
  • Patent number: 11299444
    Abstract: Processes are provided for the removal of hydrogen from a mixture. The process can be performed by contacting a mixture comprising hydrogen, oxygen, and one or more organic compounds with a synthetic zeolite to produce water or steam. The synthetic zeolite can include Si and Al and has a SiO2:Al2O3 molar ratio of greater than 4:1, an 8-membered ring zeolite having a framework type of AEI, AFT, AFX, CHA, CDO, DDR, EDI, ERI, IHW, ITE, ITW, KFI, MER, MTF, MWF, LEV, LTA, PAU, PWN, RHO, SFW or UFI, a degree of crystallinity of at least 80% as measured by ASTM D535-197, and at least 0.01 wt % of at least one catalytic metal, based on a weight of the synthetic zeolite, where the at least one catalytic metal can include Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Os, Ir, Pt, Au, Mo, W, Re, Co, Ni, Zn, Cr, Mn, Ce, Ga, alloys thereof, or mixtures thereof. At least 95% of the catalytic metal can be disposed within a plurality of pores of the synthetic zeolite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Aaron Sattler, Michele L. Paccagnini, Pedro M. Serna Merino, Henry K. Klutse
  • Patent number: 11235309
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalytically active material for the electrochemical oxidation of water, wherein the catalytically active material comprises an amorphous Ir-oxohydroxide, wherein the catalytically active material has a specific surface area (SBET) of ?50 m2.g?1; an electrode coated with the catalytically active material; a proton exchange membrane (PEM) based electrolyzer comprising the electrode; the use of the catalytically active material, the electrode or the electrolyzer the electrochemical oxidation of water; and a process for preparing the catalytically active material comprising the microwave-assisted thermal treatment of a basic solution of an Ir(III) or Ir(IV) complex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: FRITZ-HABER-INSTITUT DER MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Cyriac Massué, Sebastian Cap, Robert Schlögl
  • Patent number: 10981149
    Abstract: Catalysts and processes for a selective conversion of hydrocarbons. The catalyst comprises: a first component selected from the group consisting of Group VIII noble metals and mixtures thereof, a modifier selected from the group consisting of alkali metals or alkaline-earth metals and mixtures thereof, and a third component selected from the group consisting of tin, germanium, lead, indium, gallium, thallium and mixtures thereof; and a support forming a catalyst particle comprising a plurality of pores. The catalyst has a modifier profile index in a range of 1 to 1.4 across the catalyst particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Manuela Serban, Matthew C. Cole, Clayton C. Sadler
  • Patent number: 10787618
    Abstract: The invention relates to a reforming catalyst. The reforming catalyst comprises a reforming metal, such as Pt, a support, such as an alumina support, and a USY zeolite, which has had part of its aluminum framework substituted with Zr and Ti. The amount of USY zeolite does not exceed 5 wt %, and most preferably, contains 2-3 wt % USY zeolite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignees: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY, JGC CATALYST AND CHEMICALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Omer Refa Koseoglu, Robert Peter Hodgkins, Ali H. Alshareef, Koji Uchida, Mitsunori Watabe, Kenji Nita
  • Patent number: 10781379
    Abstract: A process for converting a feed comprising C2-C4 alkanes to higher hydrocarbon(s) including aromatic hydrocarbon(s) in n reaction zones operated in series, wherein m reaction zones are not participating in the conversion process and only (n-m) reaction zones are operated under reaction conditions sufficient to convert at least a portion of said a feed comprising C2-C4 alkanes to an effluent having said higher hydrocarbon(s). An object of the present invention is to provide a process for converting LPG to higher hydrocarbon(s) including aromatic hydrocarbon(s) wherein a high reactant, i.e. ethane, propane and/or butane, conversion can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventor: Christoph Dittrich
  • Patent number: 10662128
    Abstract: Multi-reactor systems with aromatization reactor vessels containing a catalyst with low surface area and pore volume, followed in series by aromatization reactor vessels containing a catalyst with high surface area and pore volume, are disclosed. Related reforming methods using the different aromatization catalysts also are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
    Inventors: Ryan W. Snell, Gabriela D. Alvez-Manoli, Xianghong Hao
  • Patent number: 10343150
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing a catalyst comprising a mesoporized zeolite, comprising the steps of: preparation of a protonic mesoporized zeolite, which contains at least one network of micropores and at least one network of mesopores, and treatment in a gas or liquid phase containing ammonia or ammonium ions. The invention also related to the obtained catalyst and the use of this catalyst in hydroconversion processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: TOTAL RAFFINAGE FRANCE
    Inventors: Delphine Minoux, Nadiya Danilina
  • Patent number: 10315927
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing high-purity aluminum hydroxide and alumina material is disclosed, which includes the steps of: reacting aluminum metal with a mixture of organic base and water to form aluminum hydroxide suspension; removing water by filtration to form aluminum hydroxide slurry, and for manufacturing alumina material, further drying/baking the slurry to form aluminum oxide powders. The method is amenable to mass production of high-purity aluminum hydroxide and aluminum oxide containing total silica and non-aluminum metal impurities less than 0.005% and having a bulk density higher than 3.0 g/cc. In addition, the invention also provides high-purity aluminum hydroxide and aluminum oxide prepared by using the method disclosed and bulk products prepared therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Shanghai Phichem Material Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Bing Zhao, Yun Zhang, Yinsheng Wang, Jinshan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10258965
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing a sulfur-resistant catalyst for aromatics saturated hydrogenation, comprising the steps of: preparing noble metal impregnation solutions from a noble metal and deionized water or an acid solution; impregnating a carrier with the impregnation solutions sequentially from high to low concentrations by incipient impregnation; homogenizing, drying, and calcinating to obtain the sulfur-resistant catalyst for aromatics saturated hydrogenation. The catalyst for aromatics saturated hydrogenation prepared by the method according to the present invention is primarily used in processing low-sulfur and high-aromatics light distillate, middle distillate, atmospheric gas oil, and vacuum gas oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: PETROCHINA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiaodong Yang, Yanfeng Liu, Sheng Hu, Chunmei Yu, Hongling Chu, Xinmiao Wang, Shanbin Gao, Bin Xie, Famin Sun, Wencheng Zhang, Jintao Guo, Quanguo Zhang, Lili Jiang, Xiaofeng Wang, Yuanyuan Ji, Ran Sun, Yuxiao Feng, Xianjun Wu, Guojia Zhang, Tan Zhao, Wenyong Liu, Rui Li, Ruifeng Li, Cheng Tang
  • Patent number: 10252255
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method for preparing a noble metal hydrogenation catalyst comprising preparing a carrier from a molecular sieve having a 10-member ring structure and/or an amorphous porous material; preparing a noble metal impregnation solution; and preparing noble metal impregnation solutions in a concentration gradient ranging from 0.05 to 5.0 wt % with deionized water, and sequentially impregnating the carrier with the impregnation solutions from low to high concentrations during the carrier impregnation process, or preparing a noble metal impregnation solution at a low concentration ranging from 0.05 to 0.5 wt % and impregnating the carrier by gradually increasing the concentration of the noble metal impregnation solution to 2.0 to 5.0 wt % in the impregnation process, followed by homogenization, drying, and calcination, as well as a noble metal hydrogenation catalyst, use thereof, and a method for preparing lubricant base oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: PETROCHINA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiaodong Yang, Chunmei Yu, Yanfeng Liu, Sheng Hu, Zhihua Zhang, Famin Sun, Wencheng Zhang, Jintao Guo, Wenyong Liu, Xinmiao Wang, Shanbin Gao, Bin Xie, Jinxian Jiang, Yuhe Yang, Rui Li, Guojia Zhang, Lili Jiang, Tan Zhao, Dongqing Wang, Jingying Zhao, Quanguo Zhang, Ruifeng Li, Shengbo Sun, Hong Li, Cheng Tang
  • Patent number: 10150106
    Abstract: A method of preparing a metal-doped zeolite catalyst with a modified topology (e.g. a pillared zeolite or a delaminated zeolite), and a method of using thereof in a process for converting an alkyl-aromatic hydrocarbon stream to BTX (benzene/toluene/xylene), wherein an enhanced pore topology in the metal-doped zeolite catalyst determines a selectivity to transalkylation of trimethylbenzene to xylene, which in turn leads to a higher xylene yield. Various embodiments of the method of preparing the metal-doped zeolite catalyst, and the process for converting the alkyl-aromatic hydrocarbon stream to BTX are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
    Inventors: Sulaiman Saleh Al-Khattaf, Syed Ahmed Ali, Abdullah Mohammed Aitani
  • Patent number: 10150750
    Abstract: A process for the oxidation of an organic carbonyl compound comprising reacting the compound, optionally in the presence of a solvent, with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a catalyst comprising a tin-containing zeolitic material and at least one potassium salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Nicolas Vautravers, Joaquim H. Teles, Andrei-Nicolae Parvulescu, Ulrich Müller
  • Patent number: 10131733
    Abstract: A catalyst composition, a method for hydrogenating styrenic block copolymer employing the same, and a hydrogenated polymer from the method are provided. The method for hydrogenating styrenic block copolymer includes subjecting a hydrogenation process to a styrenic block copolymer in the presence of a catalyst composition. In particular, the catalyst composition includes an oxide carrier, and a catalyst disposed on the oxide carrier, wherein the catalyst includes a platinum-and-rhenium containing phosphorus compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: TSRC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chih-Wei Hsu, Man-Yin Lo, Yin-Chieh Chen
  • Patent number: 9861960
    Abstract: A method of preparing a hydrogenation catalyst, for example, a phthalate hydrogenation catalyst, comprising nebulizing a liquid containing a noble metal and a chelating agent comprising at least one nitrogen-containing functional group to form a nebulized liquid, and contacting the nebulized liquid with silica particles; a hydrogenation catalyst prepared by that method; and a method of hydrogenating unsaturated hydrocarbons, such as phthalates, in which an unsaturated hydrocarbon is contacted with hydrogen gas in the presence of the hydrogenation catalyst of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Chuansheng Bai, Jean W. Beeckman, Adrienne J Thornburg, Natalie A. Fassbender, Theodore E. Datz
  • Patent number: 9789441
    Abstract: A catalyst article having an extruded support having a plurality of channels through which exhaust gas flows during operation of an engine, and a single layer coating or a bi-layer coating on the support, where the extruded support contains a third SCR catalyst, the single layer coating and the bilayer-coating contain platinum on a support with low ammonia storage and a first SCR catalyst. The catalytic articles are useful for selective catalytic reduction (SCR) of NOx in exhaust gases and in reducing the amount of ammonia slip. Methods for producing such articles are described. Methods of using the catalytic articles in an SCR process, where the amount of ammonia slip is reduced, are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Mikael Larsson, David Micallef, Jing Lu
  • Patent number: 9751080
    Abstract: Provided are catalysts comprising a small pore molecular sieve embedded with PGM and methods for treating lean burn exhaust gas using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Joseph Michael Fedeyko, Hai-Ying Chen, Paul Joseph Andersen
  • Patent number: 9663731
    Abstract: Processes and apparatuses for producing aromatic compounds from a naphtha feed stream are provided herein. In an embodiment, a process for producing aromatic compounds includes heating the naphtha feed stream to produce a heated naphtha feed stream. The heated naphtha feed stream is reformed within a plurality of reforming stages that are arranged in series to produce a downstream product stream. The plurality of reforming stages is operated at ascending reaction temperatures. The naphtha feed stream is heated by transferring heat from the downstream product stream to the naphtha feed stream to produce the heated naphtha feed stream and a cooled downstream product stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: David A. Wegerer, Keyur Y. Pandya
  • Patent number: 9657235
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for catalytic reforming of a naphtha hydrocarbon feedstock using a number of reaction zones in series, wherein the reaction zones contain a reforming catalyst bed. The process comprises comprising the following stages: sending hydrocarbon feedstock that is heated with hydrogen through the reaction zones to convert paraffinic and naphthenic compounds into aromatic compounds, with the effluent that is produced by each reaction zone, except for the last reaction zone, being heated before its introduction into the following reaction zone; drawing off a reformate from the last reaction zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: IFP Energies Nouvelles
    Inventors: Alexandre Pagot, Eric Lemaire, Heloise Dreux
  • Patent number: 9611437
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a method for obtaining synthesis gas from a gasifier that has a low methane content. The synthesis gas is obtained as an extraction gas from the quench section of the gasifier, and can be utilized as feedstock for a variety of chemical production processes without the need for expensive pre-treatment to remove methane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Lummus Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Shuncheng Ji, Chancelor L. Williams, Ron W. Herbanek
  • Patent number: 9555396
    Abstract: The process provided herein is concerned with disposal of oxidized sulfur compounds formed by oxidative desulfurization. The process uses solid base catalyst in the presence of a caustic solution or solid base catalyst pretreated with a base and eliminates the need to separate the sulfones from the hydrocarbon streams and recover the hydrocarbons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Omer Refa Koseoglu, Abdennour Bourane
  • Patent number: 9528051
    Abstract: A process for reforming hydrocarbons is presented. The process involves applying process controls over the reaction temperatures to preferentially convert a portion of the hydrocarbon stream to generate an intermediate stream, which will further react with reduced endothermicity. The intermediate stream is then processed at a higher temperature, where a second reforming reactor is operated under substantially isothermal conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Manuela Serban, Kurt M. Vanden Bussche, Mark D. Moser, David A. Wegerer
  • Patent number: 9447204
    Abstract: Catalyst deactivating agents and compositions containing catalyst deactivating agents are disclosed. These catalyst deactivating agents can be used in methods of controlling polymerization reactions, methods of terminating polymerization reactions, methods of operating polymerization reactors, and methods of transitioning between catalyst systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
    Inventors: Qing Yang, Max P. McDaniel, Tony R. Crain, Kathy S. Clear
  • Patent number: 9415378
    Abstract: A dehydrogenation catalyst is formed by forming a mixture comprising a bayerite aluminum hydroxide (Al(OH)3), a lanthanum (La) source, a cerium (Ce) source, a barium (Ba) source, a zirconium (Zr) source, and water into a shaped body. The shaped body is calcined at a temperature of at least 750° C. to form a catalyst support. The catalyst support is treated with a dehydrogenation catalyst component to form a treated catalyst support containing the dehydrogenation catalyst component. The treated catalyst support is then calcined. The resulting catalyst composition may be used by contacting a paraffin hydrocarbon feed with a catalyst within a reactor in the presence of steam under dehydrogenation reaction conditions suitable to form dehydrogenated hydrocarbon products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James W. Kauffman, Patricia A. Hooks, Balamurali Krishna R. Nair, Xiankuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 9387467
    Abstract: Regenerable aromatization catalysts having high surface area and pore volume, as well as methods for producing these catalysts, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
    Inventor: Gyanesh P. Khare
  • Patent number: 9364815
    Abstract: A method of forming a dehydrogenation catalyst support is carried out by forming a mixture comprising a bayerite aluminum hydroxide (Al(OH)3) and water into a support material. The support material is particulized. The particulized support material is compressed to a pressure of at least 5,000 psig to form a shaped body. The shaped body is calcined in pure steam at a temperature of at least 750° C. for at least 0.25 hours to form a catalyst support having an average pore diameter of 200 ? or greater. The catalyst support can then be treated with a dehydrogenation catalyst component so that the catalyst support contains the dehydrogenation catalyst component to form a dehydrogenation catalyst that can then be used by contacting a hydrocarbon feed with the catalyst within a reactor in the presence of steam under dehydrogenation reaction conditions suitable to form dehydrogenated hydrocarbon products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James W. Kauffman, Patricia A. Hooks, Balamurali Krishna R. Nair
  • Patent number: 9227179
    Abstract: A hydroprocessing catalyst composition that comprises a support material and a selenium component and which support material further includes at least one hydrogenation metal component. The hydroprocessing catalyst is prepared by incorporating a selenium component into a support particle and, after calcination thereof, incorporating at least one hydrogenation metal component into the selenium-containing support. The metal-incorporated, selenium-containing support is calcined to provide the hydroprocessing catalyst composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Karl Marvin Krueger, Puneet Gupta
  • Patent number: 9199893
    Abstract: Provided is a process for producing aromatics including the steps of preparing a C8 hydrocarbon stream, feeding a naphtha stream and the C8 hydrocarbon stream to a reforming unit, and reforming the naphtha stream and the C8 hydrocarbon stream to yield aromatics. The process combines a co-feed containing C8 hydrocarbons, an alkali/alkaline earth metal-containing reforming catalyst, and a high temperature operating regime to achieve significant improvements in a reforming process for the production of xylenes and other aromatics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Mark P. Lapinski, Manuela Serban, Steven L. Krupa, Mark D. Moser, Kurt M. Vanden Bussche
  • Patent number: 9114934
    Abstract: In a spindle conveyor for conveying workpieces, in particular vehicle wheels, there is a rail system which includes at least one supporting rail. A plurality of transport carriages each have a chassis that is able to move on the supporting rail in a transporting direction and a carrying device for workpieces carried along by the chassis. The carrying device includes at least one workpiece spindle for receiving the workpiece and which is pivotable, at least in a particular section of the spindle conveyor, between a conveying position and a particular position different from the conveying position wherein the workpiece spindle is tilted in the particular position with respect to a vertical plane (V) which extends parallel to the transporting direction. Also, a plant for treating workpieces having such a spindle conveyor which conveys the workpieces through the plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: EISENMANN AG
    Inventors: Dietmar Binder, Ulrich Hofbauer
  • Patent number: 9107452
    Abstract: Cut filler compositions, cigarette paper, cigarette filters, cigarettes, methods for making cigarettes and methods for smoking cigarettes are provided, which involve the use of a catalyst capable converting carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide. The catalyst comprises nanoscale metal and/or metal oxide particles supported on high surface area support particles. The catalyst can be prepared by combining a metal precursor solution with high surface area support particles to form a mixture, or by combining a metal precursor solution with a colloidal solution to form a mixture, and then heat treating the mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: PHILIP MORRIS USA INC.
    Inventors: Sarojini Deevi, Kent B. Koller
  • Patent number: 9084986
    Abstract: A CO2 reforming catalyst may include at least one catalyst metal supported in a porous carrier. The at least one catalyst metal may include a transition metal (e.g., Ni, Co, Cr, Mn, Mo, Ag, Cu, Zn, and/or Pd). Each particle of the at least one catalyst metal may be bound with the porous carrier in a form of an alloy. The porous carrier may form a rod-shaped protruding portion around the catalyst metal particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: In Hyuk Son, Seung Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 8933283
    Abstract: This invention relates to a petroleum refining method for producing high value-added clean petroleum products and aromatics (Benzene/Toluene/Xylene) together, by which low pollution petroleum products including liquefied petroleum gas or low-sulfur gas oil and aromatics can be efficiently produced together from a fluid catalytic cracked oil fraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: SK Innovation Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheol Joong Kim, Jae Wook Ryu, Kyeong Hak Seong, Byoung Mu Chang, Byeung Soo Lim, Jong Hyung Lee, Kyung Seok Noh, Hyuck Jae Lee, Sam Ryong Park, Sun Choi, Seung Hoon Oh, Yong Seung Kim, Gyung Rok Kim
  • Patent number: 8926829
    Abstract: A process for reforming a hydrocarbon stream is presented. The process involves splitting a naphtha feedstream to at least two feedstreams and passing each feedstream to separation reformers. The reformers are operated under different conditions to utilize the differences in the reaction properties of the different hydrocarbon components. The process utilizes a common catalyst, and common downstream processes for recovering the desired aromatic compounds generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Manuela Serban, Antoine Negiz, Kurt M. VandenBussche, Mark D. Moser, David A. Wegerer, Gregory J. Gajda
  • Patent number: 8912110
    Abstract: One embodiment is a catalyst for catalytic reforming of naphtha. The catalyst can have a noble metal including one or more of platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, osmium, and iridium, an alkali or alkaline-earth metal, a lanthanide-series metal, and a support. Generally, an average bulk density of the catalyst is about 0.300 to about 1.00 gram per cubic centimeter. The catalyst has a platinum content of less than about 0.375 wt %, a tin content of about 0.1 to about 2 wt %, a potassium content of about 100 to about 600 wppm, and a cerium content of about 0.1 to about 1 wt %. The lanthanide-series metal can be distributed at a concentration of the lanthanide-series metal in a 100 micron surface layer of the catalyst less than two times a concentration of the lanthanide-series metal at a central core of the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Manuela Serban, Mark P. Lapinski
  • Patent number: 8894842
    Abstract: The present invention concerns an optimized reforming catalyst comprising at least platinum, at least one promoter metal selected from the group formed by rhenium and iridium, at least one halogen, and at least one alumina support with a low sulphur and phosphorus content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: IFP Energies Nouvelles
    Inventors: Sylvie Lacombe, Malika Boualleg, Eric Sanchez
  • Patent number: 8882992
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multistage reforming process to produce a high octane product. A naphtha boiling range feedstock is processed in a multi-stage reforming process, in which the process involves at least 1) a penultimate stage for reforming the naphtha feedstock to produce a penultimate effluent 2) a final stage for further reforming at least a portion of the penultimate effluent 3) a regeneration step for the final stage catalyst. The severity of the penultimate stage can be increased during final stage catalyst regeneration in order to maintain the target RON of the reformate product and avoid reactor downtime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Cong-Yan Chen, Stephen J. Miller, James N. Ziemer
  • Publication number: 20140326642
    Abstract: The hydrotreating catalyst of the present invention is a hydrotreating catalyst including a catalyst support including an amorphous composite metal oxide having solid acidity, and at least one active metal supported by the catalyst support and selected from noble metals of Group 8 to Group 10 in the periodic table, wherein the hydrotreating catalyst contains a carbonaceous substance including a carbon atom, and the content of the carbonaceous substance in the hydrotreating catalyst is 0.05 to 1% by mass in terms of the carbon atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicants: JAPAN OIL, GAS AND METALS NATIONAL CORPORATION, INPEX CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL & SUMIKIN ENGINEERING CO., LTD., JAPAN PETROLEUM EXPLORATION CO., LTD., COSMO OIL CO., LTD., JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Tanaka, Takuya Niitsuma, Kazuhiko Tasaka, Marie Iwama
  • Patent number: 8840779
    Abstract: A supported catalyst comprises a zeolite having a silica to alumina molar ratio of 500 or less, a first metal oxide binder having a crystallite size greater than 200 ? and a second metal oxide binder having a crystallite size less than 100 ?, wherein the second metal oxide binder is present in an amount less than 15 wt % of the total weight of the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Stephen J. McCarthy, Wenyih F. Lai, Darryl Donald Lacy, Robert Ellis Kay
  • Patent number: 8772560
    Abstract: The invention relates to a modified zeolite catalyst, useful for the conversion of paraffins, olefins and aromatics in a mixed feedstock such as FCC gasoline that contain high content of olefin, aromatic and n-paraffin into isoparaffins. The invention further relates to the use of such a catalyst, for example but not limited to, in a process for the conversion of paraffins, olefins and aromatics in a mixed feedstock into the product having high amount of branched paraffins with decreased aromatics and olefins, a useful gasoline blend, with negligible production of lighter gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research
    Inventors: Viswanadham Nagabhatla, Raviraj Kamble, Amit Sharma, Jagdish Kumar, Bhagwan Singh Negi, Murali Dhar Gudimella, Madhukar Onkarnath Garg
  • Patent number: 8758599
    Abstract: One exemplary embodiment can be a catalyst for catalytic reforming of naphtha. The catalyst can have a noble metal including one or more of platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, osmium, and iridium, a lanthanide-series metal including one or more elements of atomic numbers 57-71 of the periodic table, and a support. Generally, an average bulk density of the catalyst is about 0.300-about 0.620 gram per cubic centimeter, and an atomic ratio of the lanthanide-series metal:noble metal is less than about 1.3:1. Moreover, the lanthanide-series metal can be distributed at a concentration of the lanthanide-series metal in a 100 micron surface layer of the catalyst less than about two times a concentration of the lanthanide-series metal at a central core of the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Mark Paul Lapinski, Paul Barger
  • Patent number: 8753503
    Abstract: One exemplary embodiment can be a process for producing a reformate by combining a stream having an effective amount of isopentane and a stream having an effective amount of naphtha for reforming. Generally, the naphtha has not less than about 95%, by weight, of one or more compounds having a boiling point of about 38-about 260° C. as determined by ASTM D86-07. The process may include introducing the combined stream to a reforming reaction zone. The combined stream can have an isopentane:naphtha mass ratio of about 0.10:1.00-about 1.00:1.00.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Steven L. Krupa, Mark P. Lapinski, Clayton C. Sadler
  • Patent number: 8680351
    Abstract: A process for reforming a hydrocarbon stream is presented. The process involves splitting a naphtha feedstream to at least two feedstreams and passing each feedstream to separation reformers. The reformers are operated under different conditions to utilize the differences in the reaction properties of the different hydrocarbon components. The process utilizes a common catalyst, and common downstream processes for recovering the desired aromatic compounds generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Manuela Serban, Antoine Negiz, Kurt M. VandenBussche, Mark D. Moser, David A. Wegerer
  • Patent number: 8658021
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multistage reforming process to produce a high octane product. A naphtha boiling range feedstock is processed in a multi-stage reforming process, in which the process involves at least 1) a penultimate stage for reforming the naphtha feedstock to produce a penultimate effluent 2) a final stage for further reforming at least a portion of the penultimate effluent 3) a regeneration step for the final stage catalyst. The severity of the penultimate stage can be increased during final stage catalyst regeneration in order to maintain the target RON of the reformate product and avoid reactor downtime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventors: Cong-Yan Chen, Stephen J. Miller, James N. Ziemer, Ann J. Liang
  • Patent number: 8642496
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for forming a catalyst comprising catalytic nanoparticles and a catalyst support, wherein the catalytic nanoparticles are embedded in the catalyst support, comprising forming the catalytic nanoparticles on carbon particle, dispersing the carbon particle in a solution comprising precursors of the catalyst support to form a suspension, heating the suspension to form a gel, subjecting the gel to incineration to form a powder, and sintering the powder to form the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Inventors: Zetao Xia, Liang Hong, Wei Wang, Zhao Lin Liu
  • Patent number: 8604262
    Abstract: A process for reforming a hydrocarbon stream is presented. The process involves splitting a naphtha feedstream to at least two feedstreams and passing each feedstream to separation reformers. The reformers are operated under different conditions to utilize the differences in the reaction properties of the different hydrocarbon components. The process utilizes a common catalyst, and common downstream processes for recovering the desired aromatic compounds generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: David A. Wegerer, Kurt M. Vanden Bussche, Mark D. Moser
  • Patent number: 8569197
    Abstract: For preparing a reforming catalyst comprising a support, a group VIIIB metal and a group VIIB metal, comprises the following steps in the order a) then b) or b) then a): a step a) impregnating the support with an aqueous solution of hydrochloric acid comprising a group VIIIB metal; a step b) impregnating the support with an aqueous solution comprising a group VIIB metal and a sulphur-containing complexing agent in a reducing environment, or a step b) impregnation with an aqueous solution comprising a group VIIB metal, then with a solution comprising a sulphur-containing complexing agent in a reducing environment. The reducing environment is any reducing atmosphere comprising more than 0.1% by weight of a reducing gas or a mixture of reducing gases; or reducing solutions comprising, with respect to the group VIIB metal, in the range 0.1 to 20 equivalents of reducing metals, reducing organic compounds or inorganic reducing compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: IFP Energies Nouvelles
    Inventor: Yohan Oudart
  • Patent number: 8569555
    Abstract: A hydrocarbon aromatization process comprising adding a nitrogenate, an oxygenate, or both to a hydrocarbon stream to produce an enhanced hydrocarbon stream, and contacting the enhanced hydrocarbon stream with an aromatization catalyst, thereby producing an aromatization reactor effluent comprising aromatic hydrocarbons, wherein the catalyst comprises a non-acidic zeolite support, a group VIII metal, and one or more halides. Also disclosed is a hydrocarbon aromatization process comprising monitoring the presence of an oxygenate, a nitrogenate, or both in an aromatization reactor, monitoring at least one process parameter that indicates the activity of the aromatization catalyst, modifying the amount of the oxygenate, the nitrogenate, or both in the aromatization reactor, thereby affecting the parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP
    Inventors: Christopher D. Blessing, Scott H. Brown, Tin-Tack Peter Cheung, David J. Glova, Daniel M. Hasenberg, Dennis L. Holtermann, Gyanesh P. Khare, Daniel B. Knorr, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20130153465
    Abstract: Systems and methods that include providing, e.g., obtaining or preparing, a material that includes a hydrocarbon carried by an inorganic substrate, and exposing the material to a plurality of energetic particles, such as accelerated charged particles, such as electrons or ions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: XYLECO, INC.
    Inventor: Marshall Medoff