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Mineral oils: processes and products November recently filed with US Patent Office 11/09

20090288982 - Process for producing low sulfur and high cetane number petroleum fuel: The present invention relates to a process for reducing sulfur content in petroleum fuel, such as diesel fuel, and raising the Cetane Number to a value above 50.... Agent: Law Office Of Martin Jerisat Suite 3300

20090288983 - High coking value pitch: A high coking value pitch prepared from coal tar distillate and has a low softening point and a high carbon value while containing substantially no quinoline insolubles is disclosed. The pitch can be used as an impregnant or binder for producing carbon and graphite articles.... Agent: Graftech International Holdings, Inc.

20090288984 - Selective heavy gas oil recycle for optimal integration of heavy oil conversion and vacuum gas oil treating: An improved process for heavy oil conversion and upgrading and a combined method for heavy oil conversion and vacuum gas-oil treatment are described herein. The method utilizes the creation and recycle of a separate product from the vacuum still, which is thereafter recycled back to the heavy oil conversion reactor.... Agent: John F. Ritter Axens North America, Inc.

20090288985 - Process for producing light olefins and aromatics: A process for producing light olefins and aromatics, which comprises reacting a feedstock with a catalytic cracking catalyst in at least two reaction zones, wherein the reaction temperature of at least one reaction zone downstream of the first reaction zone is higher than that of the first reaction zone and... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20090288986 - Process for multistage residue hydroconversion integrated with staight-run and conversion gasoils hydroconversion steps: This invention relates to a novel integrated hydroconversion process for converting heavy atmospheric or vacuum residue feeds and also converting and reducing impurities in the vacuum gas oil liquid product. This is accomplished by utilizing two residue hydroconversion reaction stages, two vapor-liquid separators, and at least two additional distillate ebullated-bed... Agent: John F. Ritter Axens North America, Inc.

20090288987 - Systems, methods, and catalysts for producing a crude product: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts comprising one or more metals from Column 6 of the Periodic Table produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed contains oxygen and sulfur. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20090288988 - Process for the hydrotreatment of a gas-oil feedstock, hydrotreatment reactor for implementing said process, and corresponding hydrorefining unit: n

20090288989 - Systems, methods, and catalysts for producing a crude product: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The one or more catalyst may include an uncalcined catalyst. One or more other properties of the crude... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20090288990 - Catalyst for catalytic cracking fluidized bed: The present invention relates to a catalyst for catalytic cracking fluidized-bed, and the technical problems to be primarily solved by the present invention are high reaction temperature, low cryogenic activity of catalysts and worse selectivity during the preparation of ethylene-propylene by catalytically cracking naphtha. The present invention uses the composition... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090288991 - Addition of spent activated carbon to asphalt compositions and to coking units as feedstock or quencher: An asphalt mastic is prepared by combining spent activated carbon, that has not been regenerated, with liquid asphalt to achieve a composition that is useful for a variety of applications for which asphalt is used, including aggregate compositions and roofing materials. The activated carbon can also serve as a foaming... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090288992 - Desulfurization of hydrocarbons by ionic liquids and preparation of ionic liquids: The present invention relates to an ionic liquid compound of general formula C+A−, where C+ represents an organic cation such as alkyl-pyridinium, di-alkyl imidazolium and tri-alkyl imidazolium; and A− is an anion of halides of iron (III), such as, for example, FeCl4− and to a method of producing the ionic... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20090288993 - Desulfurizing adsorbent, preparing process and use thereof: An adsorbent for desulfurizing cracking gasoline or diesel fuel comprising 1) pillared clay, (2) inorganic oxide binder, (3) an oxide of one or more metals selected from Groups IIB, VB and VIB, and (4) at least one metal accelerant selected from cobalt, nickel, iron and manganese. The adsorbent exhibits excellent... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090288994 - Process for extraction of bitumen from oilsands: Bitumen within raw oilsands may be cracked and fully recovered by light hydrocarbon extraction following exposure to modified natural zeolite catalysts under cracking conditions. The recovered bitumen is reduced in viscosity, with lower boiling point distributions. Effective cracking of oilsands bitumen using economical, abundant and readily disposable natural zeolites represents... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.

20090283442 - Production of aviation fuel from renewable feedstocks: A hydrocarbon product stream having hydrocarbons with boiling points in the aviation fuel range is produced from renewable feedstocks such as plant and animal oils. The process involves treating a renewable feedstock by hydrogenating, deoxygenating, isomerization, and selectively hydrocracking the feedstock to produce paraffinic hydrocarbons having from about 9 to... Agent: Honeywell/uop Patent Services

20090283451 - Compositions to mitigate coke formation in steam cracking of hydrocarbons: The invention relates to a combination of compounds and a process using such combination useful for reducing or preventing coke formation in thermal cracking furnaces such as ethylene steam crackers. The combination is comprised of one or more compound of the formula R—Sx—R′ and one or more compound selected from... Agent: Steven D. Boyd, Esq. Arkema Inc.

20090283443 - Catalytic composition for hydrotreating of hydrocarbons and method for hydrotreating: A catalytic composition for hydrotreating of hydrocarbons in which a metallic component for hydrogenation is carried on a carrier comprising zeolite Y with aluminum and titanium inserted therein and a porous inorganic oxide, the zeolite Y having the following characteristics: (a) unit cell dimension (UD) in a range from 24.25... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20090283444 - Systems, methods, and catalysts for producing a crude product: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts containing a Column 6 metal and having a pore size distribution having a median pore size diameter of at least 90 Å wherein at least 60% of the total number of pores in the pore size distribution have a pore... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20090283445 - Fcc reactor and riser design for short contact-time catalytic cracking of hydrocarbons: The present invention is an improved design and operation of a short contact time Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Reactor wherein the upper internal riser and a lower internal riser are in fluid connection with one another and provide an improved disengaging zone for entraining the vapors from the dilute phase... Agent: Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company

20090283446 - Process for mixing in fluidized beds: Process for increasing mixing in a fluidized bed. A slide, which may be in the form of a tube or trough, transports particles from an upper zone downward to a lower zone at a different horizontal position, thereby changing the horizontal position of the particle and creating lateral mixing in... Agent: Honeywell/uop Patent Services

20090283447 - Electro-gasification process using pre-treated pet-coke: A method is provided for electro-gasification of pet-coke, including the steps of providing a pet-coke material; treating the pet-coke material to obtain a treated pet-coke material having an average particle size of between about 20 and about 106 μm; and exposing the treated pet-coke material to electro-gasification conditions to produce... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20090283448 - Desulfurization process: A hydrocarbon desulfurization system that circulates fluidizable solid particles through a fluidized bed reactor, a fluidized bed regenerator, and a fluidized bed reducer to thereby provide for substantially continuous desulfurization of a hydrocarbon-containing fluid stream and substantially continuous regeneration of the solid particles. A novel transport system is employed for... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20090283449 - Method of removing metals from hydrocarbon feedstock using esters of carboxylic acids: Method of removing metals from hydrocarbon feedstock using esters of carboxylic acids, and additives for the same, are provided, wherein hydrocarbon stream such as crude oil containing metals and slats thereof, such as calcium and calcium naphthenate, is mixed with an effective metal-removing-amount of an aqueous extraction-solution of non-precipitating and... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20090283450 - A process for direct liquefaction of coal: Process for direct coal liquefaction of coal, including: (1) preparing a coal slurry from raw coal; (2) preheating the coal slurry, then feeding it into reaction system to undergo liquefaction reaction; (3) separating reaction products in a separator to form a liquid phase and a gas phase, wherein the liquid... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090277817 - Method of hydrotreating wax and processes for producing fuel base and lubricating oil base: The wax hydrotreating process of the present invention is characterized by hydrotreating the wax by bringing the wax, under a hydrogen atmosphere and at a liquid space velocity of 0.4 to 4.0 h−1, into contact with a first catalyst 10 containing an ultrastable Y zeolite and an amorphous solid acid... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090272671 - Process and apparatus for using steam cracked tar as steam cracker feed: A process and apparatus are provided for steam cracking heavy feeds, including steam cracked tars. The invention heats a steam cracked tar feed to provide a depolymerized steam cracked tar containing lower boiling molecules than the steam cracked tar feed, hydrogenates the depolymerized steam cracked tar using a hydrogenating catalyst,... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company

20090272672 - Catalytic compositions for the highly selective hydrodealkylation of alkylaromatic hydrocarbons: Process for the catalytic hydrodealkylation alone of hydrocarbon compositions comprising C8-C13 alkylaromatic compounds mixed with C4-C10 aliphatic and cycloaliphatic products which, under the reaction conditions, undergo aromati-zation and subsequent hydrodealkylation, which comprises treating said hydrocarbon compositions in continuous and in the presence of hydrogen, with a catalyst consisting of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090272673 - Process for producing condensed-phase product from one or more gas-phase reactants: A process for producing at least one condensed-phase product from one or more gas-phase reactants in the presence of a solid catalyst having one or more catalyst components, wherein the solid catalyst has two or more regions in which the contact time of the one or more gas-phase reactants with... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090272674 - Nano zeolite containing hydrotreating catalyst and method of preparation: The present invention provides nano zeolite containing hydrotreating catalyst and methods of preparation, and more particularly to a nano-sized zeolite beta composite hydrotreating catalyst. The hydrotreating catalyst for desulfurization of diesel distillates includes between about 5 to about 75 wt % nano-sized zeolite beta composite, about 10 to about 30... Agent: Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20090272675 - desulfurization system and method for desulfurizing a fuel stream: A method for producing a substantially desulfurized a hydrocarbon fuel stream at temperatures less than 100° C. The method includes providing a nondesulfurized fuel cell hydrocarbon fuel stream that may include water and passing the fuel stream sequentially through a zeolite Y adsorbent and a selective sulfur adsorbent. The zeolite... Agent: Scott R. Cox Lynch, Cox, Gilman & Mahan, P.s.c.

20090272676 - Hot asphalt cooling and pelletization process: Systems and methods for pelletizing hot asphaltenes are provided. Asphaltenic hydrocarbons can be dispersed to provide two or more asphaltenic particles. The asphaltenic hydrocarbons can be at a temperature of from about 175° C. to about 430° C. The asphaltenic particles can be contacted with a film of cooling medium.... Agent: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC Attn: Christian Heausler