Hydrogen Supplied By Water Or Alcohol Patents (Class 585/272)
  • Patent number: 7763164
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Marathon Petroleum Company LLC
    Inventors: William Jay Turner, Ronald Lee Cordle, David J. Zalewski, Jeffrey A. Sexton
  • Patent number: 7650953
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the vehicle field, more particularly, to a hydrogen hybrid power electric vehicle which combusts hydrogen instead of gasoline or diesel, characterized in that an alcohol cracking hydrogen generator is in serial connection in the line of an exhaust pipe of the hydrogen engine of the vehicle which can produce hydrogen on board by cracking alcohol using the afterheat of the exhaust gases so as to drive the vehicle to run and the electric motor to generate power. When a vehicle is driven by a hydrogen engine according to the present invention combined with an electric motor, ultra-low emission or zero-emission can be reached. Plenty of raw materials can be used to produce hydrogen such as sugarcane, maize, sweet broomcorn and cassava etc. all of which are inexhaustible regenerative resources. The alcoholic materials used to produce hydrogen can be 50°-65° hydrous methanol or ethanol, which involve easy processing technology and low costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Inventor: Yintan Dong
  • Patent number: 7619125
    Abstract: A hydrogenation promoter of the present invention is produced by reacting an alkyne compound or an alkene compound, a palladium compound represented by a general formula Pd(II)XjLk (where L represents a monodentate ligand or a polydendate ligand other than a phosphorus-containing ligand (when two or more Ls are present in the compound, the Ls may be the same or different), X represents an anionic group, j represents a value determined according to the valence of X so that Xj has a valence of ?2 as a whole, and k represents an integer in the range of 0 to 4), and a base in an organic solvent. Specifically, The hydrogenation promoter of the invention includes palladium nanoparticles containing the alkyne compound or the alkene compound as an agglomeration-preventing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignees: Kanto Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya Industrial Science Research Institute
    Inventors: Junichi Hori, Kunihiko Murata, Nobuhito Kurono, Takeshi Ohkuma, Ryoji Noyori
  • Patent number: 7585339
    Abstract: Process for selectively reforming ethanol to a hydrogen-rich product in the presence of at least one catalyst comprising a catalytically active material supported on a carrier, the process comprising the following steps in which the at least one catalyst is active: transferring a stream of ethanol and steam and a hydrogen-comprising stream, the molar ratio of ethanol to hydrogen being 0.2-1, to a dehydration/hydrogenation reactor for dehydrating ethanol to ethylene and for hydrogenating ethylene to produce an ethane-containing stream, adiabatically pre-reforming the ethane-comprising stream to a stream comprising methane, steam reforming the stream comprising methane to produce a mixture comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide, converting the mixture comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide from the steam reforming step under water gas shift conditions to produce a hydrogen-rich product stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Haldor Topsoe A/S
    Inventors: Søren Dahl, Charlotte Stub Nielsen, Poul Erik Højlund Nielsen, Kim Aasberg-Petersen
  • Patent number: 7514387
    Abstract: A reformer comprises a housing; a substrate disposed in the housing, wherein the substrate comprises a stabilized aluminate and a stabilized zirconate; and a catalyst disposed on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Umicore AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: William J. LaBarge
  • Patent number: 6248531
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a trans-platinum based compound for use in a method for labelling a bio-organic molecule, having formula (I), wherein A represents a reactive moiety for attachment to a label, D represents a reactive moiety for attachment to a bio-organic molecule, and X1 and X2 represent the same or different inert moieties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: Kreatech Biotechnology B.V.
    Inventors: Hendrik-Jan Houthoff, Jan Reedijk, Herman H. Volkers, Robert Jochem Heetebrij
  • Patent number: 6013847
    Abstract: Benzene is hydrogenated using a platinum containing catalyst in the presence of water and an organic chloride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: Phillips Petroleum Company
    Inventor: Fan-Nan Lin
  • Patent number: 5639927
    Abstract: A process of producing cycloolefin, comprises the step of subjecting a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon to partial hydrogenation reaction in the presence of water and a ternary catalyst containing (a) ruthenium, (b) zinc and (c) at least one selected from the group consisting of gold, silver and copper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Suzuki, Tatsuya Ezaki
  • Patent number: 5569802
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a catalyst for the selective hydrogenation of an unsaturated compound, based on a noble metal and/or a noble-metal oxide on an aluminum oxide support, and to a process for the preparation of the catalyst. The present invention further relates to a process for the selective hydrogenation of unsaturated compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Assignee: Huels Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Gerd L uken, Lothar Fischer, Wilhelm Droste, Bernd Nowitzki
  • Patent number: 4495373
    Abstract: The invention provides an improvement in the partial nuclear hydrogenation of an aromatic hydrocarbon compound in the liquid phase with admixture of water catalyzed by a ruthenium-containing solid catalyst. The scope of the invention is in the use of a novel ruthenium-containing catalyst supported on a silica gel and the like carrier and the catalyst is prepared by the hydrolysis and gelation of an alkoxide of silicon or aluminum in a solution containing a ruthenium compound, e.g. ruthenium alkoxide, followed by drying of the gelled material so that the resultant catalyst is very uniformly impregnated with the ruthenium ingredient to be imparted with greatly improved catalytis activity and selectivity for the intended reaction over conventional ruthenium-containing catalysts prepared by post-impregnation of a preformed silica gel carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1985
    Assignee: Director-General of the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Shuichi Niwa, Juichi Imamura, Fujio Mizukami, Kazuo Shimizu, Yoshio Orito
  • Patent number: 4251674
    Abstract: In an ethylene manufacturing process in which the effluent from the cracking furnaces is provided to an acetylene reactor to therein selectively hydrogenate acetylene to ethylene, method and apparatus is provided whereby methanol is injected into the cracking furnace to produce carbon monoxide in sufficient quantities to substantially optimize the selectivity of the conversion of acetylene to ethylene in the acetylene reactors. The concentration of the carbon monoxide in the effluent flowing from the cracking furnace is utilized to manipulate the flow of methanol to the cracking furnace so as to maintain a desired concentration of carbon monoxide in the effluent flowing from the cracking furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1981
    Assignee: Phillips Petroleum Company
    Inventors: Ricardo J. Callejas, John R. Mitchell
  • Patent number: 4225733
    Abstract: Provided is a method for hydrogenating an aromatic compound by reacting the aromatic compound with hydrogen iodide in the presence of ruthenium catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1980
    Assignee: Agency of Industrial Science & Technology
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kameyama, Masayuki Dokiya, Kenzo Fukuda
  • Patent number: 4204081
    Abstract: There is disclosed a process for the preparation of cyclopentene which comprises selectively hydrogenating cyclopentadiene in a liquid phase by contacting cyclopentadiene with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst comprising (1) a soluble nickel compound, (2) an organoaluminum compound or a lithium alkyl compound, and (3) at least one cocatalyst compound selected from the group consisting of H.sub.2 O; NH.sub.3 ; ROH where R is an alkyl or a halogenated alkyl radical containing from 1 to 20 carbon atoms; ##STR1## where R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 may be hydrogen, or an alkyl radical containing from 1 to 6 carbon atoms; ##STR2## where R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 may be hydrogen or halogen, or an alkyl radical containing from 1 to 6 carbon atoms; R.sub.1 O R.sub.2 wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be the same or different alkyl radicals containing from 1 to 6 carbon atoms; and ##STR3## wherein R.sub.1 may be alkyl or an aromatic radical containing from 1 to 8 carbon atoms and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1980
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Henry R. Menapace