Hydrocarbon Is Aromatic Patents (Class 585/266)
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Patent number: 12227702Abstract: Method for treating a partially desulphurised sulphur-containing hydrocarbon feedstock from a preliminary hydrodesulphurisation step in the presence of a catalyst comprising an active phase comprising a group VII metal and a mesoporous and macroporous alumina support comprising a bimodal distribution of mesopores, wherein: —the volume of mesopores having a diameter greater than or equal to 2 nm and less than 18 nm is between 10 and 30% by volume of the total pore volume of the support; —the volume of mesopores having a diameter greater than or equal to 18 nm and less than 50 nm is between 30 and 50% by volume of the total pore volume of the support; —the volume of macropores having a diameter greater than or equal to 50 nm and less than 8000 nm is between 30 and 50% by volume of the total pore volume of the support.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: IFP Energies nouvellesInventors: Philibert Leflaive, Etienne Girard, Antoine Fecant
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Patent number: 10814312Abstract: Provided are a high-performance desulfurizing agent for gases and a gas desulfurization method that provide a high desulfurization performance even at low temperatures and can maintain its desulfurization performance for a long period of time. The desulfurizing agent is characterized in that it includes a zinc oxide, an aluminum oxide and copper, the agent further including nickel by from 1.0 mass % to 10 mass % and ruthenium by from 0.1 mass % to 1.0 mass %. The gas desulfurization method is characterized in that the desulfurizing agent is brought into contact with the gas in the coexistent of hydrogen, thus decomposing/removing sulfur compound contained in the gas.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shimpei Norioka, Susumu Takami, Hirofumi Ohtsuka, Takenori Hirano
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Patent number: 10745628Abstract: A hydrogenation catalyst with a small amount of supported metal that is excellent in stability and inhibition of side reactions is provided. The catalyst hydrogenates an aromatic hydrocarbon compound into an alicyclic hydrocarbon compound, and a Group X metal represented by nickel is supported in a composite support including at least alumina and titania. The composite support preferably includes at least an alumina substrate coated with titania. It is also preferable that the Group X metal is prereduced by hydrogen. In the case that the Group X metal is nickel, the nickel content is preferably 5-35 wt % as nickel oxide in the catalyst. The substrate includes, for example, a porous structure formed by a plurality of needle-shaped or column-shaped intertwined three-dimensionally.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: CHIYODA CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi Imagawa, Haruto Kobayashi, Akihiro Muto, Shinichi Inoue
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Patent number: 9718050Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst comprising at least one metal selected from the group formed by metals of group VIB and of group VIII of the periodic table, used alone or as a mixture, and a support comprising at least one zeolite NU-86, at least one zeolite Y and at least one porous mineral matrix containing at least aluminum and/or at least silicon. The invention also relates to a process for hydrocracking of hydrocarbon feeds employing said catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLESInventors: Audrey Bonduelle, Emmanuelle Guillon, Magalie Roy-Auberger
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Patent number: 9035113Abstract: The disclosure describes a high energy density jet fuel composition, having a smoke point about 18 mm as determined by ASTM D1322 and a thermal stability of no more than 25 mm Hg as determined by ASTM D 3241, and a method for making a jet fuel composition, wherein the net heat of combustion is determined by the aromatics content, cycloparaffins content, and normal plus or iso paraffins content in the jet fuel composition.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2009Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Cherron U.S.A. Inc.Inventors: Jaime Lopez, Janine Lichtenberger, William J. Cannella, Curtis L. Munson
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Patent number: 9023299Abstract: A liquid/gas reactor includes a bulk catalyst bed and means for supplying fresh feed and recycled at least partially converted liquid product stream to the bulk catalyst bed. The reactor also includes means for collecting an at least partially converted liquid product stream from the bulk catalyst bed and recycling at least a portion thereto. A minor catalyst bed extends substantially vertically through the bulk catalyst bed. Means for supplying recycled at least partially converted product stream only to the minor catalyst bed is also provided. A separating wall is disposed between the bulk catalyst bed and the minor catalyst bed.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2012Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Davy Process Technology LimitedInventors: Edward Adrian Lord, Arthur James Reason
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Patent number: 8975460Abstract: A process is proposed for preparing acetylene by the Sachsse-Bartholomé process by combustion of a natural gas/oxygen mixture in one or more burners to obtain a cracking gas which is cooled in two or more stages in burner columns, each burner having one or more burner columns assigned thereto, and said cracking gas being quenched with pyrolysis oil in the first cooling stage, to obtain a low boiler fraction comprising benzene, toluene and xylene from the one or more burner columns, which is cooled with direct cooling water and separated in a phase separator into an aqueous phase and an organic phase which comprises benzene, toluene and xylene and is fully or partly introduced to the top of the one or more burner columns as a return stream, wherein the organic phase comprising benzene, toluene and xylene from the phase separator, prior to full or partial recycling to the top of the one or more burner columns, is supplied to a selective hydrogenation over a catalyst which comprises at least one platinum group mType: GrantFiled: July 15, 2011Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Lucia Königsmann, Maximilian Vicari, Thomas Heidemann, Dirk Groβschmidt, Jürgen Michel
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Patent number: 8946110Abstract: The invention relates to a method of preparing a catalytic composition comprising at least one non-noble metal from group VIII and at least one metal from group VIB of the periodic table. The invention also relates to the catalytic composition thus produced, which has a high specific activity in reactions involving the hydroprocessing of light and intermediate fractions, preferably in reactions involving the hydrotreatment of hydrocarbon streams, including hydrodesulphurization (HDS), hydrodenitrogenation (HDN) and hydro-dearomatization (HDA).Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2006Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Instituto Mexicano del PetroleoInventors: José Antonio Toledo Antonio, Miguel Pérez Luna, María Antonia Cortés Jacome, José Escobar Aguilar, María de Lourdes Mosqueira Mondragón, Carlos Angeles Chávez, Esteban López Salinas, Víctor Pérez Moreno, Gerardo Ferrat Torres, Rodolfo Juventino Mora Vallejo, Marcelo Lozada y Cassou
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Method for selective hydrogenation of phenylacetylene using composite bed in the presence of styrene
Patent number: 8916736Abstract: The present invention discloses a process for the selective hydrogenation of phenylacetylene in the presence of styrene conducted in a combined bed, which process comprises under hydrogenation reaction conditions, passing a hydrocarbon fraction feedstock containing phenylacetylene and styrene through a combined bed reactor containing a catalyst A and a catalyst B to contact the feedstock with the catalyst A and the catalyst B in turn, wherein the catalyst A is a nickel-based catalyst, the catalyst B is at least one selected from the group consisting of palladium-based catalysts and copper-based catalysts, and a weight ratio of the catalyst A loaded to the catalyst B loaded is from 0.5:1 to 5:1.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2009Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignees: Shanghai Research Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Sinopec, China Petroleum & Chemical CorporationInventors: Siqin Li, Juntao Liu, Zhiyan Zhu, Junhua Zhu, Jun Kuai -
Patent number: 8912377Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing aromatic products (benzene/toluene/xylene) and olefin products from petroleum fractions obtained by fluid catalytic cracking, and, more particularly, to a method of producing products comprising high-concentration aromatic products and high value-added light olefin products from light cycle oil obtained by fluid catalytic cracking.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2009Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: SK Innovation Co., Ltd.Inventors: Cheol Joong Kim, Tae Jin Kim, Do Woan Kim, Sung Won Kim, Sang Hun Oh, Sam Ryong Pakr, Seung Hoon Oh, Yoon Kyung Lee, Gyung Rok Kim, Hong Seok Jung, Eun Kyoung Kim, Byoung In Lee, Dae Hyun Choo
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Patent number: 8895791Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of regenerating a ruthenium catalyst suitable for hydrogenation, which comprises flushing the catalyst with inert gas in a regeneration step until the original activity or part of the original activity has been attained. The method is particularly useful for ruthenium catalysts which are used for the hydrogenation of aromatics.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2007Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Jochem Henkelmann, Michael Becker, Daniela Mirk, Felix Richter, Thomas Schäfer
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Patent number: 8889936Abstract: The present patent application describes a method of regenerating a ruthenium catalyst for the hydrogenation of benzene, which comprises flushing the catalyst with inert gas in a regeneration step until the original activity or part of the original activity has been attained.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2007Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Jochem Henkelmann, Michael Becker, Michael Schönherr, Wilhelm Ruppel, Ulrike Wegerle, Bianca Stäck
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Patent number: 8772196Abstract: Disclosed is a composition useful in the saturation of aromatics contained in a hydrocarbon feedstock. The composition includes a support composition having a high macroporosity of greater than 51 percent. The support composition comprises an amorphous silica-alumina having unique properties.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2008Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Russell Craig Ackerman, Christian Gabriel Michel, John Anthony Smegal, Johannes Anthonius Robert Van Veen
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Publication number: 20140114103Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing cyclohexane from benzene and/or methylcyclopentane (MCP) by hydrogenation or isomerization. Prior to the cyclohexane preparation, the dimethylpentanes (DMP) are removed in a distillation apparatus (D1) from a hydrocarbon mixture (HM1) comprising not only benzene and/or MCP but also DMP. If cyclohexane is already present in the hydrocarbon mixture (HM1), this cyclohexane is first removed together with DMP from benzene and/or MCP. This cyclohexane already present can be separated again from DMP in a downstream distillation step and recycled into the process for cyclohexane preparation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Markus Schmitt, Katharina Spuhl, Jochen Bürkle, Stefan Bitterlich, Steffen Tschirschwitz, Michael Hübner, Pawel Czajka
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Patent number: 8653313Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved process for preparing a substituted or unsubstituted phenylcyclohexane by catalytic hydrogenation of a substituted or unsubstituted biphenyl.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2011Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Gabriele Gralla, Gunnar Heydrich
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Patent number: 8637425Abstract: A process is described for preparing a catalyst comprising at least one porous support and at least one metallic phase containing nickel and tin in a proportion such that the Sn/Ni molar ratio is in the range 0.01 to 0.2, said process comprising at least the following steps in succession: a) depositing nickel on at least said support in order to obtain a supported nickel-based monometallic catalyst; b) reducing said monometallic catalyst in the presence of at least one reducing gas; c) depositing, in the gas phase and in the presence of at least one reducing gas, at least one organometallic tin compound onto said reduced monometallic catalyst; and d) activating the solid derived from said step c) in the presence of at least one reducing gas.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: IFP Energies nouvellesInventors: Lars Fischer, Anne-Claire Dubreuil, Cecile Thomazeau, Layane Deghedi, Jean-Pierre Candy, Jean-Marie Basset, Fabienne Le Peltier
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Patent number: 8636976Abstract: This invention relates to a crystalline molecular sieve having, in its as-synthesized form, an X-ray diffraction pattern including d-spacing maxima at 13.18±0.25 and 12.33±0.23 Angstroms, wherein the peak intensity of the d-spacing maximum at 13.18±0.25 Angstroms is at least as great as 90% of the peak intensity of the d-spacing maximum at 12.33±0.23 Angstroms. This invention also relates to a method of making thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2012Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Wieslaw J. Roth, Thomas Yorke, Michael C. Kerby, Simon C. Weston
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Publication number: 20140005031Abstract: Inorganic material having at least two elementary spherical particles, each of said spherical metallic particles: a polyoxometallate with formula (XxMmOyHh)q?, where H is hydrogen, O is oxygen, X is phosphorus, silicon, boron, nickel or cobalt and M is one or more vanadium, niobium, tantalum, molybdenum, tungsten, iron, copper, zinc, cobalt and nickel, x is 0, 1, 2 or 4, m is 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 or 18, y is 17 to 72, h is 0 to 12 and q is 1 to 20.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2011Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicants: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES, UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIEInventors: Alexandra Chaumonnot, Clement Sanchez, Cedric Boissiere, Frederic Colbeau-Justin, Karin Marchand, Elodie Devers, Audrey Bonduelle, Denis Uzio, Antoine Daudin, Bertrand Guichard, Denis Uzio, Antoine Daudin
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Patent number: 8529752Abstract: This invention relates to a process for hydrocarbon conversion comprising contacting a hydrocarbon feedstock with a crystalline molecular sieve, in its ammonium exchanged form or in its calcined form, under conversion conditions to form a conversion product, said crystalline molecular sieve comprising unit cells with MWW topology and is characterized by diffraction streaking from the unit cell arrangement in the c direction as evidenced by the arced hk0 patterns of electron diffraction pattern.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2011Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Wieslaw J. Roth, Thomas Yorke, Douglas Lewis Dorset, Mohan Kalyanaraman, Michael Charles Kerby, Simon Christopher Weston
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Publication number: 20130165316Abstract: A process for the preparation of a catalyst from a catalytic precursor comprising a support based on alumina and/or silica-alumina and/or zeolite and comprising at least one element of group VIB and optionally at least one element of group VIII, by impregnation of said precursor with a solution of a C1-C4 dialkyl succinate. An impregnation step for impregnation of said precursor which is dried, calcined or regenerated, with at least one solution containing at least one carboxylic acid other than acetic acid, then maturing and drying at a temperature less than or equal to 200° C., optionally a heat treatment at a temperature lower than 350° C., followed by an impregnation step with a solution containing at least one C1-C4 dialkyl succinate followed by maturing and drying at a temperature less than 200° C. without subsequent calcination step. The catalyst is used in hydrotreatment and/or hydroconversion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2012Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicants: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES, TOTAL RAFFINAGE MARKETINGInventors: Total Raffinage Marketing, IFP Energies Nouvelles
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Patent number: 8470251Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for converting heavy hydrocarbon feed into lighter hydrocarbon products. The heavy hydrocarbon feed is slurried with a particulate solid material to form a heavy hydrocarbon slurry and hydrocracked in a slurry hydrocracking unit to produce vacuum gas oil (VGO) and pitch. A first vacuum column separates VGO from pitch, and a second vacuum column further separates VGO from pitch. As much as 15 wt-% of VGO can be recovered by the second vacuum column and recycled to the slurry hydrocracking unit. A pitch composition is obtained which can be made into particles and transported without sticking together.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2012Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: James F. McGehee, David N. Myers, Mark Van Wees, Paul R. Zimmerman, Ruth Buskus Kleinworth
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Publication number: 20130157840Abstract: This disclosure provides a molecular sieve composition having a first and second crystalline molecular sieve, made by the method comprising: (a) providing a reaction mixture comprising at least one source of ions of tetravalent element Y, at least one source of alkali metal hydroxide, water, optionally at least one seed crystal, and optionally at least one source of ions of trivalent element X, the reaction mixture having the following molar composition: Y:X2=2 to infinity, preferably from about 2 to about 1000, OH?:Y=0.001 to 2, preferably from 0.1 to 1, M+:Y=0.001 to 2, preferably from 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2013Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Wenyih Frank Lai, Robert Ellis Kay
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Publication number: 20130150623Abstract: An object is to provide a process for providing hydrogen or heavy hydrogens conveniently without the necessity of large-scale equipment and a process capable of performing hydrogenation (protiation, deuteration or tritiation) reaction conveniently without the use of an expensive reagent and a special catalyst. The production process includes a process for producing hydrogen or heavy hydrogens, containing subjecting water or heavy water to mechanochemical reaction in the presence of a catalyst metal, and a process for producing a hydrogenated (protiated, deuterated or tritiated) organic compound, containing subjecting an organic compound and water or heavy water to mechanochemical reaction in the presence of a catalyst metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2011Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: Shiono Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hironao Sajiki, Yasunari Monguchi, Yoshinari Sawama, Shinichi Kondo
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Patent number: 8450541Abstract: A method for producing products containing cyclic organic compounds from biomass oil includes adding a biomass oil to a vessel; heating the biomass oil to crack the biomass oil; removing undesired or unreacted materials, heavy ends, and light ends from the cracked biomass oil; and extracting components from the cracked biomass oil to produce a mixture of products containing between 5% and 90% cyclic organic compounds by weight. A method for producing a high-octane aviation fuel with low lead content includes cracking a biomass oil, separating a middle distillate mixture from cracked biomass oil, decarboxylating the middle distillate mixture to produce a mixture of products containing at least about 50% cyclic alkane and alkene compounds by weight, and blending the mixture of products with a fuel having an octane number below 95 to produce an aviation fuel having an octane number of at least 100.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2009Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: The University of North DakotaInventors: Wayne S. Seames, Darrin S. Muggli, Brian M. Tande
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Patent number: 8329956Abstract: In a process for producing cyclohexylbenzene, benzene and hydrogen are contacted under hydroalkylation conditions with a catalyst system comprising a MCM-22 family molecular sieve and at least one hydrogenation metal. The conditions comprise a temperature of about 140° C. to about 175° C., a pressure of about 135 psig to about 175 psig (931 kPag to 1207 kPag), a hydrogen to benzene molar ratio of about 0.30 to about 0.65 and a weight hourly space velocity of benzene of about 0.26 to about 1.05 hr?1.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2012Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Jane C. Cheng, Tan-Jen Chen, Prasenjeet Ghosh
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Patent number: 8314277Abstract: The service life and deactivation rate of a benzene saturation catalyst is improved through use of a new sulfur guard bed containing a chloride additive. This sulfur guard bed, which contains supported CuO material having an increased resistance to reduction, shows such improvement. Thus, the danger of run-away reduction followed by a massive release of water and deactivation of an isomerization catalyst is practically eliminated. The fact that the guard bed material preserves the active metal phase-copper in an active (oxide) form is an important advantage leading to very low sulfur content in the product stream. The sulfur capacity per unit weight of sorbent is also significantly increased, making this sorbent a superior cost effective sulfur guard product. The guard bed is effective in treating mixed phase feed streams.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2011Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
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Patent number: 8309777Abstract: An aromatics hydrogenation catalyst composition which comprises a noble metal component and a support comprising zirconia, silica, and, optionally, alumina. The catalyst composition is manufactured by co-mulling silica, a zirconium compound, and, optionally, alumina to form a mixture that is formed into a shape, such as by extrusion to form an extrudate, with the shape being calcined and noble metal being incorporated into the shape. The catalyst composition may be used in the saturation of aromatic compounds.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2010Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: John Anthony Smegal, Johannes Anthonius Robert Van Veen
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Publication number: 20120184790Abstract: A reaction-rectification process is performed in an integrated reaction-rectification system which combines catalytic isomerization and hydroisomerization reactors and distillations zones in an integral column.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2012Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: "RRT", LtdInventors: Oleg Valerievich GIYAZOV, Oleg Igorevich PARPUTS
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Patent number: 8202480Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for converting heavy hydrocarbon feed into lighter hydrocarbon products. The heavy hydrocarbon feed is slurried with a particulate solid material to form a heavy hydrocarbon slurry and hydrocracked in a slurry hydrocracking unit to produce vacuum gas oil (VGO) and pitch. A first vacuum column separates VGO from pitch, and a second vacuum column further separates VGO from pitch. As much as 15 wt-% of VGO can be recovered by the second vacuum column and recycled to the slurry hydrocracking unit. A pitch composition is obtained which can be made into particles and transported without sticking together.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2009Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: James F. McGehee, David N. Myers, Mark Van Wees, Paul R. Zimmerman, Ruth Buskus Kleinworth
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Patent number: 8178728Abstract: In a process for producing cyclohexylbenzene, benzene and hydrogen are contacted under hydroalkylation conditions with a catalyst system comprising a MCM-22 family molecular sieve and at least one hydrogenation metal. The conditions comprise a temperature of about 140° C. to about 175° C., a pressure of about 135 psig to about 175 psig (931 kPag to 1207 kPag), a hydrogen to benzene molar ratio of about 0.30 to about 0.65 and a weight hourly space velocity of benzene of about 0.26 to about 1.05 hr?1.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2009Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Jane C. Cheng, Tan-Jen Chen, Prasenjeet Ghosh
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Publication number: 20120116136Abstract: The present invention concerns a device for distributing a polyphase mixture constituted by at least one gas phase and at least one liquid phase, said mixture being in downflow mode passing through at least one bed of solid particles, and said device comprising at least one tray (1) located above a bed of solid particles, a plurality of mixing channels (2) for said liquid and gas phases, a dispersive system (3) of the jet breaker tray type (3) with a controlled porosity provided with flanges (36) over at least a portion of its perimeter, disposed beneath the mixing channels (2) and above the bed of solid particles, said distribution device being characterized in that the dispersive system (3) comprises at least one separating element (32).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2011Publication date: May 10, 2012Applicant: IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLESInventors: Frederic AUGIER, Frederic BAZER-BACHI, Christophe BOYER, Emilie GAGNIERE
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Patent number: 8163171Abstract: The invention relates to hydrocarbon fluids having high purity with respect to at least one of sulfur species, nitrogen species, oxygenated species, and unsaturated species, particularly hydrocarbon fluids low in aromatics, a method of making said hydrocarbon fluids, a catalyst for use in said method, an apparatus whereby said method may be practiced, and uses of said fluids.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2005Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.Inventors: Thomas Andrew Gribschaw, Sylvain Hantzer, Stephen John McCarthy, Steven E. Silverberg, Vijay Swarup
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Publication number: 20120004480Abstract: The service life and deactivation rate of a benzene saturation catalyst is improved through use of a new sulfur guard bed containing a chloride additive. This sulfur guard bed, which contains supported CuO material having an increased resistance to reduction, shows such improvement. Thus, the danger of run-away reduction followed by a massive release of water and deactivation of an isomerization catalyst is practically eliminated. The fact that the guard bed material preserves the active metal phase-copper in an active (oxide) form is an important advantage leading to very low sulfur content in the product stream. The sulfur capacity per unit weight of sorbent is also significantly increased, making this sorbent a superior cost effective sulfur guard product. The guard bed is effective in treating mixed phase feed streams.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012
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Publication number: 20110262837Abstract: The present invention is directed to a composite particle that is microscopically two-dimensional with a third nanoscopic dimension, and to methods of making same. The particle may include a support and a metal layer. The metal layer may be catalytically active such that the particle is adapted to act as a catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2011Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: James H. ARPS, Kent Edward COULTER
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Publication number: 20110257449Abstract: A method for preparing a ruthenium catalyst, including a step of reducing a ruthenium catalyst precursor by holding the ruthenium catalyst precursor in an aqueous solution containing a metal salt at a temperature within the range of more than 180° C. and 220° C. or less and a hydrogen partial pressure within the range of 0.6 MPa or more and 5 MPa or less. A method for producing a cycloolefin, including a step of preparing a ruthenium catalyst by the method including a step of reducing a ruthenium catalyst precursor in an aqueous solution containing a metal salt by holding the ruthenium catalyst precursor at a temperature within the range of more than 180° C. and 220° C. or less and a hydrogen partial pressure within the range of 0.6 MPa or more and 5 MPa or less, and a step of partially hydrogenating a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon by use of the ruthenium catalyst obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2009Publication date: October 20, 2011Inventors: Mitsuo Konishi, Masakazu Sato
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Patent number: 8026402Abstract: A high shear mechanical device incorporated into a process and system for the production of cyclohexane is capable of decreasing mass transfer limitations, thereby enhancing the cyclohexane production process. A system for the production of cyclohexane from benzene and hydrogen, the system comprising a reactor, solid catalyst, and a high shear device, the outlet of which is fluidly connected to the inlet of the reactor; the high shear device capable of providing an emulsion of hydrogen gas bubbles within a liquid comprising benzene, the bubbles having an average bubble diameter of less than about 100 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2008Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Inventors: Abbas Hassan, Ebrahim Bagherzadeh, Rayford G. Anthony, Gregory Borsinger, Aziz Hassan
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Publication number: 20110230691Abstract: The invention describes a heteropolycompound constituted by a nickel salt of a lacunary Keggin type heteropolyanion comprising tungsten in its structure, with formula: Nix+y/2AW11-yO39-5/2y,zH2O wherein Ni is nickel, A is selected from phosphorus, silicon and boron, W is tungsten, O is oxygen, y=0 or 2, x=3.5 if A is phosphorus, x=4 if A is silicon, x=4.5 if A is boron, and x=m/2+2 for the rest, and z is a number in the range 0 to 36, in which said heteropolycompound has no nickel atom in substitution for a tungsten atom in its structure, said nickel atoms being placed in the counter-ion position in the structure of said compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2009Publication date: September 22, 2011Inventors: Audrey Bonduelle, Fabrice Bertoncini, Karima Ben Tayeb, Carole Lamonier, Michel Fournier, Edmond Payen
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Patent number: 8003836Abstract: A process has been developed for producing diesel boiling range fuel from renewable feedstocks such as plant oils, animal fats and oils, and greases. The process involves treating a renewable feedstock by hydrogenating and deoxygenating to provide a diesel boiling range fuel hydrocarbon product. If desired, the hydrocarbon product can be isomerized to improve cold flow properties. A portion of the hydrocarbon product is recycled to the treatment zone to increase the hydrogen solubility of the reaction mixture.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2010Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Terry L. Marker, Peter Kokayeff, Suheil F. Abdo, Tom N. Kalnes
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Patent number: 7999142Abstract: A process has been developed for producing diesel boiling range fuel from renewable feedstocks such as plant oils and animal oils, fats, and greases. The process involves treating a renewable feedstock by hydrogenating and deoxygenating i.e. decarboxylating, decarbonylating, and/or hydrodeoxygenating to provide a hydrocarbon fraction useful as a diesel boiling range fuel or diesel boiling range fuel blending component. If desired, the hydrocarbon fraction can be isomerized to improve cold flow properties. A portion of the hydrogenated and deoxygenated feedstock is selectively separated and then recycled to the treatment zone to increase the hydrogen solubility of the reaction mixture.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2008Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Tom N. Kalnes, Terry L. Marker, John P. Brady, Peter Kokayeff
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Patent number: 7982076Abstract: A process has been developed for producing diesel boiling range fuel from renewable feedstocks such as plant oils, animal fats and oils, and greases. The process involves treating a renewable feedstock by hydrogenating and deoxygenating to provide a diesel boiling range fuel hydrocarbon product. If desired, the hydrocarbon product can be isomerized to improve cold flow properties. A portion of the hydrocarbon product is recycled to the treatment zone to increase the hydrogen solubility of the reaction mixture.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2008Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Terry L. Marker, Peter Kokayeff, Suheil F. Abdo, Tom N. Kalnes
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Publication number: 20110166398Abstract: A process is described for preparing a catalyst comprising at least one porous support and at least one metallic phase containing nickel and tin in a proportion such that the Sn/Ni molar ratio is in the range 0.01 to 0.2, said process comprising at least the following steps in succession: a) depositing nickel on at least said support in order to obtain a supported nickel-based monometallic catalyst; b) reducing said monometallic catalyst in the presence of at least one reducing gas; c) depositing, in the gas phase and in the presence of at least one reducing gas, at least one organometallic tin compound onto said reduced monometallic catalyst; and d) activating the solid derived from said step c) in the presence of at least one reducing gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2010Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: IFP New EnergiesInventors: Lars FISCHER, Anne-Claire DUBREUIL, Cecile THOMAZEAU, Layane DEGHEDI, Jean-Pierre CANDY, Jean-Marie BASSET, Fabienne LE PELTIER
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Patent number: 7947859Abstract: According to the present invention, when cycloolefins are produced by partially hydrogenating a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon with hydrogen in the presence of a ruthenium catalyst, water, and a metal sulfate, the decrease in catalytic activity and cycloolefin selectivity is suppressed by reducing the concentration of chloride ions dissolved in the water in which the catalyst is present to 300 wt ppm or less and regenerating a part or all of the catalyst for reuse. Zinc sulfate is preferably used as the metal sulfate. Further, the raw materials and catalyst to be supplied to the reaction preferably have a reduced chloride ion content. This method can suppress the decrease in long-term catalytic activity and cycloolefin selectivity. Furthermore, the catalytic activity and cycloolefin selectivity after catalyst regeneration can be maintained at a high level. As a result, cycloolefins can be efficiently produced for a long period of time.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2006Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals CorporationInventors: Mitsuo Konishi, Teruhiko Inoue
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Patent number: 7919659Abstract: A catalyst for production of a cycloolefin by partial hydrogenation of a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, wherein the catalyst comprises zirconia as a carrier, and particles having an average primary particle diameter in a range of from 3 to 50 nm and an average secondary particle diameter in a range of from 0.1 to 30 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2005Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Asahi Kasei Chemicals CorporationInventor: Akiyoshi Fukuzawa
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Patent number: 7915460Abstract: A process has been developed for producing diesel boiling range fuel or fuel blending component from renewable feedstocks such as plant oils and greases. The process involves treating a renewable feedstock by hydrogenating and deoxygenating i.e. decarboxylating and/or hydrodeoxygenating to provide a hydrocarbon fraction useful as a diesel fuel. The hydrocarbon fraction is isomerized to improve cold flow properties. At least one interstage stream of the hydrogenating and deoxygenating reaction zone is heat exchanged with the feed to the isomerization reaction zone, and/or the effluent of the hydrogenating and deoxygenating reaction zone is heat exchanged with the feed to the isomerization reaction zone.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2008Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignees: UOP LLC, ENI S.p.A.Inventors: Tom N. Kalnes, John P. Brady, Marco Di Stanislao
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Publication number: 20110021852Abstract: A hydrogenation catalyst system is provided. The catalyst system includes a metal complex of Formula (I), an organic lithium compound and an organic compound having a cyclic structure including at least one double bond. In Formula (I), M is transition metals. R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are the same or different, including hydrogen, C1-8 alkyl, and C1-8 alkoxy, or two of R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are linked together to form a ring. X1, X2 and X3 are a cyclic group, hydrogen, chlorine, bromine, alkyl or alkoxy, wherein when one of X1, X2 and X3 is a cyclic group, and the others are the same or different, including hydrogen, chlorine, bromine, alkyl or alkoxy. The invention also provides a selective hydrogenation process utilizing the catalyst system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2010Publication date: January 27, 2011Inventors: Kuo-Chen SHIH, Hung-Yu Chen, Mao-Lin Hsueh, Yi-Zhen Chen
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Patent number: 7803265Abstract: A process is disclosed for converting distillate to gasoline-range hydrocarbons using a two-stage catalyst system including a first catalyst containing platinum, palladium, or platinum and palladium, and an acidic support, and a second catalyst containing iridium and an inorganic oxide support, and optionally nickel.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2009Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: ConocoPhillips CompanyInventors: Tushar V. Choudhary, Paul F. Meier, Edward L. Sughrue, II, Walter E. Alvarez
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Publication number: 20100228063Abstract: A process for recovering benzene, the process including: feeding hydrogen and a hydrocarbon fraction comprising benzene, components lighter than benzene, components heavier than benzene, and diolefins to a catalytic distillation reactor system comprising at least one reaction zone comprising a hydrogenation catalyst; concurrently in the catalytic distillation reactor system: contacting the diolefins and hydrogen in the presence of the hydrogenation catalyst to selectively hydrogenate at least a portion of the diolefins; and fractionating the hydrocarbon fraction to form a fraction comprising benzene and other C6 hydrocarbons, and a heavies fraction comprising C7+ hydrocarbons; recovering the heavies fraction from the first catalytic distillation reactor system as a bottoms fraction; and withdrawing the fraction comprising benzene and other C6 hydrocarbons from the catalytic distillation reactor system as a benzene concentrate fraction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2010Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicant: CATALYTIC DISTILLATION TECHNOLOGIESInventors: Martinus J. Almering, Purvis K. Ho, Mitchell E. Loescher, Montri Vichailak
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Publication number: 20100197971Abstract: In a process for producing cyclohexylbenzene, benzene and hydrogen are fed to at least one reaction zone. The benzene and hydrogen are then contacted in the at least one reaction zone under hydroalkylation conditions with a catalyst system comprising a molecular sieve having an X-ray diffraction pattern including d-spacing maxima at 12.4±0.25, 6.9±0.15, 3.57±0.07 and 3.42±0.07 Angstrom, and at least one hydrogenation metal to produce an effluent containing cyclohexylbenzene. The ratio of the total number of moles of hydrogen fed to said at least one reaction zone to the number of moles of benzene fed to said at least one reaction zone is between 0.4 and 0.9:1.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2008Publication date: August 5, 2010Inventors: Tan-Jen Chen, Francisco M. Benitez, Jane C. Cheng, Jon E. Stanat, John Scott Buchanan
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Publication number: 20100191017Abstract: In a process for producing cyclohexylbenzene, benzene and hydrogen are contacted with a catalyst under hydroalkylation conditions to produce an effluent containing cyclohexylbenzene. The catalyst comprises a composite of a molecular sieve, an inorganic oxide different from said molecular sieve and at least one hydrogenation metal, wherein at least 50 wt % of said hydrogenation metal is supported on the inorganic oxide.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2008Publication date: July 29, 2010Inventors: Tan-Jen Chen, John Scott Buchanan, Jane Chi-ya Cheng, Terry E. Helton
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Patent number: 7763164Abstract: This invention focuses on the specialized catalyst and/or additive for lower FCCU gasoline and diesel blendstock component sulfur content. This invention utilizes a specified ratio of the transition metal oxides of cobalt and molybdenum to accomplish gasoline and diesel blendstock sulfur reduction. This is accomplished by minimizing sulfur compound formation in the FCCU riser. The cobalt and molybdenum oxides in the presence of H2S from cracked organic sulfur compounds are converted to metal sulfides. A portion of the overall sulfur reduction in the gasoline and diesel blendstock occurs emitted NOx also is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2007Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: Marathon Petroleum Company LLCInventors: William Jay Turner, Ronald Lee Cordle, David J. Zalewski, Jeffrey A. Sexton