Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds inventions 12/08

20080319240 - Removing amines from hydrocarbon streams: Corrosive amine salts in hydrocarbon streams such as desalted crude oil streams can be prevented or avoided by adding certain amine scavenging chemicals to the streams to remove the amines therefrom. Suitable amine scavengers include, but are not necessarily limited to, carboxylic anhydrides and copolymers of carboxylic anhydrides, aromatic anhydrides,... Agent: Madan, Mossman & Sriram, P.C.

20080319241 - Method for producing adamantane: A method for producing adamantane includes isomerizing exo-tetrahydrodicyclopentadiene into adamantane in an acidic chloroaluminate ionic liquid composed of aluminum(III) trichloride and a quaternary ammonium halide having a quaternary ammonium cation selected from a group consisting of tetraalkylammonium, dialkylpyridinium, and trialkylimidazolium.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080319242 - Liquid phase alkylation process: The present invention provides an improved process for conversion of feedstock comprising an alkylatable aromatic compound and an alkylating agent to desired alkylaromatic conversion product under at least partial liquid phase conversion conditions in the presence of specific catalyst comprising a porous crystalline material, e.g. a crystalline aluminosilicate, and binder... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company

20080319243 - Toluene disproportionation catalyst: A process for the disproportionation of a toluene containing feedstock employing a nickel modified mordenite catalyst comprising particulate mordenite having nickel dispersed throughout the catalyst particles to provide surface nickel and interior nickel within the mordenite crystal structure. The catalyst is pretreated to selectively deactivate the surface nickel to provide... Agent: Fina Technology Inc

20080319244 - Method for the production of (e,z)-7,8-cyclohexadecene-1-one: p

20080319245 - Catalyst and process for producing liquefied petroleum gas: A catalyst for producing a liquefied petroleum gas according to the present invention comprises a methanol synthesis catalyst component in which an olefin-hydrogenation catalyst component is supported on a Zn—Cr-based methanol synthesis catalyst, and a zeolite catalyst component. It can be used in a reaction of carbon monoxide and hydrogen... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080312478 - Recovery of kinetic hydrate inhibitor: A method for treating a fluid having hydrate-forming constituents is provided. In one or more embodiments, the method includes including a mixture (110) comprising glycol and one or more kinetic inhibitors to a fluid (105) that includes one or more hydrate-forming constituents and water to provide a treated fluid comprising... Agent: Adam P Brown Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

20080312480 - Catalytic process for converting renewable resources into paraffins for use as diesel blending stocks: A process for converting renewable resources such as vegetable oil and animal fat into paraffins in a single step which comprises contacting a feed which is a renewable resources with hydrogen and a catalyst which comprises molybdenum, a non-precious metal and an oxide to produce a hydrocarbon product having a... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080312479 - Enhancing conversion of lignocellulosic biomass: A method for preparing biomass for slurry processing. The method includes solubilizing the solid material into either a dissolved state or a suspended solid in a liquid phase, and processing the liquid phase to produce chemicals and fuels.... Agent: Honeywell Intellectual Property Inc Patent Services

20080312481 - Propylene production: A process for producing propylene from ethylene and a feed stream comprising 1-butene, 2-butene, n-butane, and isobutane is disclosed. A butenes stream (1-butene and 2-butene) is produced from the feed stream by removing the paraffins. The butenes stream is reacted in the presence of an isomerization catalyst to produce an... Agent: Lyondellbasell Industries

20080312482 - Process for para-xylene production from 2,4,4-trimethylpentene: The subject process obtains a high yield of high-purity para-xylene from 2,4,4-trimethylpentene as contained in butene dimer. A process combination may include dimerization of the isobutene to obtain C8 iso-olefins and isoparaffins, aromatization of the dimerized C8 product, and recovery of high-purity para-xylene from the dimerized product by low-intensity crystallization.... Agent: Honeywell Intellectual Property Inc Patent Services

20080312483 - Process for producing aromatic hydrocarbon and hydrogen: A process for producing aromatic hydrocarbons and hydrogen, in which a lower hydrocarbons-containing feedstock gas is reformed by being supplied to and being brought into contact with a catalyst under high temperature conditions thereby forming aromatic hydrocarbons and hydrogen. The method includes the steps of (a) supplying a hydrogen gas... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080312484 - Low corrosion in zeolite oligomerisation: Water reacts on molecular sieve catalysts used in oligomerisation reactions and forms oxygenated compounds, in particular organic acids that may cause corrosion problems downstream of the reactor, in particular in distillation tower overhead systems and downstream thereof. A lowering of the presence of water in the feed prior to contacting... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company

20080312485 - Method of producing propylene containing biomass-origin carbon: Ethanol obtained from ordinary biomass resources contains many impurities other than water and these impurities themselves or their decomposition products contaminate ethylene when the ethylene is produced by a dehydration reaction, whereby the activity of metathesis catalyst is adversely affected. A method for producing propylene of the present invention is... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080312486 - Method for separation of hydrocarbon oils from a waxy feedstock and apparatus for implementation of said method: The invention allows increasing the hard wax yield and at the same time to simplify the whole process since the slack wax cooling and hard wax crystallization could be carried out without preliminary dilution of said slack wax feedstock. Furthermore by virtue of the present invention there is no need... Agent: Lilling & Lilling PLLC

20080306314 - Hydrocarbyl- and hydroxy-substituted aromatic condensate: This invention relates to a composition containing: (a) a hydrocarbon fluid; and (b) a hydrocarbyl- and hydroxy-substituted aromatic condensate comprising the reaction product of: (1) at least 75 mole percent based on the total amount of (b)(1) and (b)(2) of a hydrocarbyl- and hydroxy-substituted aromatic compound wherein the hydrocarbyl substituent... Agent: The Lubrizol Corporation Attn: Docket Clerk, Patent Dept.

20080306315 - Metal-organic framework catalysts and their use in hydrocarbon transformation: The invention relates to a porous heterogeneous catalyst material comprising frameworks of inorganic cornerstones connected by organic bridges, characterized in that as organic bridges are used ligands having a complexed catalytically active metal. The metals are preferably palladium and platinum. The ligands preferably contain nitrogen donor groups for complexing the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080306316 - Process for reacting an aromatic hydrocarbon in the presence of hydrogen: Processes comprising: providing a starting material comprising one or more aromatic hydrocarbons, and having an aromatic sulfur compound content and a total sulfur content; reducing the aromatic sulfur compound content and the total sulfur content in the starting material; and hydrogenating the one or more aromatic hydrocarbons in the presence... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080306317 - Aromatic alkylation with phosphorus-modified zeolite catalyst: A catalyst is formed from a phosphorus-containing ZSM-5-type zeolite. The ZSM-5-type zeolite has a silica/alumina molar ratio of at least 200. The phosphorus-containing ZSM-5-type zeolite also has a phosphorus content of at least 8% by weight of zeolite and has multiple phosphorus species exhibited by at least two 31P MAS... Agent: Grady K. Bergen

20080306318 - Process for producing para-xylene: A process for producing a PX-rich product comprises (a) separating a feedstock containing C8 hydrocarbons to produce a C8 hydrocarbons rich stream; (b) separating at least a first portion of the C8 hydrocarbons rich stream to produce a first PX-rich stream and a first PX-depleted stream; (c) isomerizing at least... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company Law Technology

20080306319 - Oligomerisation: The application discloses novel processes for the oligomerisation of unsaturated hydrocarbons, and more specifically the use of selected ionic liquids in the oligomerisation of unsaturated hydrocarbons, which allows for selection of the oligomers formed.... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20080306320 - Dehydrogenation and polymerization process: Process for the production of an isoprene containing rubber compound by dehydrogenation of an isoamylene containing feedstock supplied to a dehydrogenation reactor containing a particulate dehydrogenation catalyst comprising iron and potassium and having a pore diameter of at least 500 nanometers. The dehydrogenation reactor is operated at a temperature of... Agent: Fina Technology Inc

20080306321 - Process for producing liquid hydrocarbon with hydrocracking catalyst: Provided is a process and catalyst for hydrocracking paraffinic hydrocarbons which provides satisfactorily high cracking activity and middle distillate yield as well as the low pour point of the resulting gas oil all together. The catalyst of the present invention comprises a crystalline aluminosilicate, alumina-boria and a noble metal of... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080300434 - Synthesis of liqiud fuels and chemicals from oxygenated hydrocarbons: Processes and reactor systems are provided for the conversion of oxygenated hydrocarbons to hydrocarbons, ketones and alcohols useful as liquid fuels, such as gasoline, jet fuel or diesel fuel, and industrial chemicals. The process involves the conversion of mono-oxygenated hydrocarbons, such as alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, furans, carboxylic acids, diols, triols,... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080300435 - Synthesis of liquid fuels and chemicals from oxygenated hydrocarbons: Processes and reactor systems are provided for the conversion of oxygenated hydrocarbons to hydrocarbons, ketones and alcohols useful as liquid fuels, such as gasoline, jet fuel or diesel fuel, and industrial chemicals. The process involves the conversion of mono-oxygenated hydrocarbons, such as alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, furans, carboxylic acids, diols, triols,... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080300436 - Selective hydrogenation catalyst and methods of making and using same: A method for producing a selective hydrogenation catalyst for hydrogenating a highly unsaturated hydrocarbon to an unsaturated hydrocarbon comprising contacting an inorganic catalyst support with a chlorine-containing compound to form a chlorided catalyst support and adding palladium to the chlorided catalyst support to form a supported-palladium composition. A selective hydrogenation... Agent: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company

20080300437 - Process for liquid phase hydrogenation: A process and catalyst for the liquid phase selective hydrogenation of alkynes to alkenes with high selectivity to alkenes relative to alkanes, high alkyne conversion, and sustained catalytic activity comprising a reactant comprising an alkyne and a non-hydrocarbon solvent/absorbent, contacting the reactant stream with a hydrogen-containing stream in the presence... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20080300438 - Conversion of co-fed methane and hydrocarbon feedstocks into higher value hydrocarbons: In one aspect, the inventive process comprises a process for pyrolyzing a hydrocarbon feedstock containing nonvolatiles in a regenerative pyrolysis reactor system. The process comprises: (a) heating the nonvolatile-containing hydrocarbon feedstock upstream of a regenerative pyrolysis reactor system to a temperature sufficient to form a vapor phase that is essentially... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company Law Technology

20080300439 - Process for the separation of c5 hydrocarbons present in streams prevalently containing c4 products used for the production of highoctane hydrocarbon compounds by the se-lective dimerization of isobutene: A process is described for the separation of C5 hydrocarbons present, in a quantity ranging from 0.2 to 20% by weight, in streams prevalently containing C4 products used for the production of high-octane hydrocarbon compounds, by the selective dimerization of isobutene, characterized in that the dimerization reaction is carried out... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080300440 - Method for catalytically dehydrating propane to form propylene: The invention relates to a method for producing propylene during which a first gas mixture, which is technically free of oxygen but contains propane, water vapor and hydrogen, and which has a temperature of at least 400° C., is led into a reaction device having at least one catalyst bed... Agent: Marshall & Melhorn, LLC

20080300441 - Hydrocarbon sequestering product, a method to obtain the product, a method to sequester hydrocarbons and a hydrocarbon sequestration facility: A hydrocarbon sequestering product, a method to obtain the product, and a method and a facility to sequester hydrocarbons, wherein the product comprises an oleophilic filamentous material that gets in contact with a medium contaminated by one or more hydrocarbons with the purpose of sequestrating the hydrocarbon(s) present in the... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP