Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds inventions 02/08

20080051613 - Lubricants for use in processing of metallic material: A lubricant for use in press working of a metallic material includes a paraffinic hydrocarbon. The paraffinic hydrocarbon is contained at a rate of 96-100 wt % of total weight of the lubricant. The lubricant has a kinetic viscosity of 2.0 or less at 40° C. Preferably, the paraffinic hydrocarbon... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080051614 - Solidified biomass and production method thereof: [PROBLEMS] The object of the present invention is to provide solidified biomass utilizable as alternative fuel to coal coke as well as material for a variety of application purposes and methods of producing the same. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A solidified biomass consisting of semi-carbonized solid matter or pre-semi-carbonized solid... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20080051615 - Process for the production of benzene, toluene, and xylenes: A hydrocarbon conversion process for producing an aromatics product containing of benzene, toluene, xylenes, or mixtures thereof. The process is carried out by converting precursors of benzene, toluene, and xylenes that are contained in a hydrocarbon feed (C6+ non-aromatic cyclic hydrocarbons, A8+ single-ring aromatic hydrocarbons having at least one alkyl... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company

20080051616 - Hydrogenation of hydrocarbon resins: The invention is directed to a process for the hydrogenation of hydrocarbon resins in the presence of a precious metal catalyst, wherein the hydrogenation is performed in the additional presence of at least one metal oxide, capable of reacting with sulfide and/or halogen.... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080051617 - Production of aromatics from methane: In a process for converting methane to aromatic hydrocarbons, a feed containing methane is contacted with a dehydrocyclization catalyst in a reaction zone under conditions effective to convert the methane to aromatic hydrocarbons. The reaction zone is contained within a reactor and the reactor or an internal component of the... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company Law Technology

20080051618 - Dehydrogenation process of dimethylnaphthalene using metal catalyst: Disclosed herein is a process of producing high purity and high yield dimethylnaphthalene by dehydrogenating a dimethyltetralin isomer using a metal catalyst for dehydrogenation. The metal catalyst contains a carrier selected from alumina (Al2O3), silica (SiO2), a silica-alumina mixture and zeolite. The metal catalyst also contains 0.05 to 2.5% by... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080051619 - Olefin-separation process: This invention is drawn to a process for recovering detergent-range olefins from a feed stream by adsorption. The adsorbent and desorbent are selected to enable olefins with a range of carbon numbers to be recovered simultaneously in light of differing adsorbent retention characteristics.... Agent: Honeywell Intellectual Property Inc Patent Services

20080045761 - Method and apparatus for steam dealkylation in a plant for the catalytic reforming of hydrocarbons: A method and apparatus for treating a fraction consisting predominantly of hydrocarbons having at least seven carbon atoms (C7+ fraction) as produced in a plant for catalytic reforming of hydrocarbon-containing feedstock, is disclosed. Following hydration, the C7+ fraction is taken to steam dealkylation where the useable products benzene and hydrogen... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080045759 - Method and apparatus for steam dealkylation of hydrocarbons in an olefin plant: A method and apparatus for treating a fraction consisting predominantly of hydrocarbons having at least six carbon atoms (C6+ fraction) as produced in a plant for generating hydrocarbons from the steam reforming of hydrocarbon-containing feedstock, is disclosed. The C6+ fraction is conducted to steam dealkylation following hydration where the usable... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080045760 - Method and apparatus for steam dealkylation of hydrocarbons in an olefin plant: A method and apparatus for treating a fraction consisting predominantly of hydrocarbons having at least seven carbon atoms (C7+ fraction) as produced in a plant for generating hydrocarbons from the steam reforming of hydrocarbon-containing starting material (olefin plant), is disclosed. The C7+ fraction is conducted to steam dealkylation following hydration... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080045762 - Process for producing a pretreated feedstock: A process for producing a pretreated feedstock is provided. The feedstock is selected from grasses, cereal straws, stover, and combinations thereof, and least about 80% of the feedstock has a particle length of between about 2 cm and about 40 cm. This process comprises wetting the feedstock in liquid, pressing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080045763 - Paraffin alkylation: A process for paraffin alkylation of isoalkane with isoolefins in which an olefin component comprising oligomerized propylene, oligomerized isoolefin or mixtures thereof is fed to a paraffin alkylation unit wherein the dissociated olefin components forming the oligomers react with isoalkane to produce a reaction mixture containing an alkylate and unreacted... Agent: Osha Liang LLP / Cdtech

20080045764 - Method of preventing adamantane consolidation: The present invention provides a method of controlling the amount of the solvent contained in adamantane purified by using a naphthene-based solvent to 0.35% by mass or less, or controlling the amount of the solvent contained in adamantane purified by using a non-naphthene-based solvent to 0.05% by mass or less... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080045765 - Process for producing cumene: A process for producing cumene is provided which comprises the step of contacting benzene and propylene under at least partial liquid phase alkylating conditions with a particulate molecular sieve alkylation catalyst, wherein the particles of said alkylation catalyst have a surface to volume ratio of about 80 to less than... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company

20080045766 - Supported catalyst comprising delta- or theta-modified aluminium oxide supports: p

20080045767 - Synthesis of chabazite-containing molecular sieves and their use in the conversion of oxygenates to olefins: wherein X is a trivalent element; Y is a tetravalent element; and n is from 0 to less than 0.01. The method comprises preparing a reaction mixture capable of forming said material, said mixture comprising a source of water, a source of an oxide of a tetravalent element Y and... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company

20080045768 - Novel molecular sieve composition, a method of making and a process of using the same: This disclosure relates to a crystalline MCM-22 family molecular sieve composition having, in its as-synthesized form, an X-ray diffraction pattern including a peak at d-spacing maximum of 12.33±0.23 Angstroms, a distinguishable peak at a d-spacing maximum between 12.57 to about 14.17 Angstroms and a non-discrete peak at a d-spacing maximum... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company

20080039667 - Process for enhanced olefin production: The present invention relates to a process for the production of light weight olefins comprising olefins having from 2 to 3 carbon atoms per molecule from an oxygenate feedstock. The process comprises passing the oxygenate feedstock to an oxygenate conversion zone containing a metal aluminophosphate catalyst to produce a light... Agent: Honeywell Intellectual Property Inc Patent Services

20080039668 - Aromatics alkylation: The present invention provides a process for producing an alkylaromatic compound comprising the step of contacting an alkylatable aromatic compound with an alkylating agent under alkylation conditions in the presence of a alkylation catalyst comprising phosphorus and a porous crystalline inorganic oxide material having an X-ray diffraction pattern including the... Agent: Darryl M. Tyus Exxonmobil Chemical Company

20080039669 - Olefin oligomerization process: In a process for oligomerizing an olefinic hydrocarbon feedstock comprising at least 65 wt % olefins and/or sulfur-containing molecules, the feedstock is contacted under oligomerization conditions with (a) a first unidimensional 10-ring molecular sieve catalyst and (b) a second multidimensional crystalline molecular sieve catalyst. The first and second catalysts may... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company

20080039670 - Methanol-water mixtures in olefin production via oxygenate conversion: Processing schemes and arrangements are provided for producing light olefins from an oxygenate-containing feedstock and using methanol-water mixtures to recover oxygenates such as for further processing to form additional light olefins.... Agent: Honeywell Intellectual Property Inc Patent Services

20080039671 - Process for chemical conversions in membrane reactors and recovery of purified product: Processes for chemical conversion of volatile organic compounds to value added products using membrane reactors and recovery of one or more purified conversion product are described. Useful membranes are preselected to control the relative amount of noncondensable co-product in gaseous reactor effluent such that the energy required for the subsequent... Agent: Ineos Usa LLC

20080033220 - Fuel compositions: A method for increasing the cetane number of a fuel composition containing a Fischer-Tropsch derived fuel component, in order to reach a target cetane number X, is provided by adding to the composition a concentration c of an ignition improver, wherein c is lower than the concentration which theory would... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20080033221 - Hydrogenation promoter, hydrogenation catalyst, and process for producing alkene compound: 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... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080033222 - Process and apparatus for preparing ethylbenzene using vapor phase alkylation and liquid phase transalkylation: A process for preparing ethylbenzene from benzene and ethylene in which a vapor phase alkylation reactor is combined with a liquid phase transalkylation reactor wherein the xylenes content of the ethylbenzene product is less than 700 wppm. Also disclosed are ethylbenzene processes in which a series-arranged or combined vapor phase... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company

20080033223 - Method for the production of c5 aldehydes and propene from a c4 stream containing 1-butene and 2-butene: Processes for preparing a C5 aldehyde and propene are disclosed, the processes comprising: (a) providing a feedstream, the feedstream comprising butane, 1-butene, 2-butene and 1,3-butadiene, the 1,3-butadiene present in the feedstream in an amount up to 1000 ppm; (b) contacting the feedstream with hydrogen and carbon monoxide in the presence... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080033224 - Catalytic composition and its application to olefin oligomerization: An improved catalytic composition for oligomerization, in particular dimerization, of monoolefins comprises the product resulting from bringing the following three constituents into contact in any order: a) at least one divalent nickel compound; b) at least one hydrocarbylaluminium dihalide, optionally enriched with an aluminium trihalide; and c) at least one... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.

20080033225 - Production of light olefins: This invention is directed to a process for producing olefin product from an oxygenate feed that includes dimethyl ether (DME). The process uses an olefin forming catalyst that contains a porous crystalline material, preferably a porous crystalline aluminosilicate molecular sieve material. The process produces high quantities of light olefin (i.e.,... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company Law Technology

20080033226 - Protecting catalytic sites of metalloaluminophosphate molecular sieves: Metalloaluminophosphate molecular sieves and metalloaluminophosphate molecular sieve catalyst particles are protecting from degradation by water by maintaining said molecular sieves or catalysts in contact with a liquid mixture of alcohol and water, the mixture of alcohol and water containing from 45 wt % to 99.8 wt % alcohol. The metalloaluminophosphate... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company Law Technology

20080033227 - Recovery of sulfur value in an alkylation process: The present invention provides an improved sulfuric acid catalyzed alkylation process wherein the sulfur content from one or more streams in the alkylation process is recovered by an extraction agent. The extraction agent of the invention comprises ammonia or ammonium hydroxide. Advantageously, the recovered sulfur content is converted to sulfuric... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center