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Mineral oils: processes and products January recently filed with US Patent Office 01/10

20100018895 - Process for flexible vacuum gas oil conversion: The present invention relates to a process for the selective conversion of hydrocarbon feed having a Conradson Carbon Residue content of 0 to 6 wt %, based on the hydrocarbon feed. The hydrocarbon feed is treated in a two-step process. The first is thermal conversion and the second is catalytic... Agent: Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company

20100018896 - Process for flexible vacuum gas oil conversion using divided wall fractionation: This invention relates to a process for the selective conversion of vacuum gas oil. The vacuum gas oil is treated in a two step process. The first is thermal conversion and the second is catalytic cracking of the products of thermal conversion. The product slate can be varied by changing... Agent: Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company

20100018897 - Thermal cracking process and facility for heavy petroleum oil: The present invention relates to a process for thermal cracking of heavy petroleum oil, in which when a thermal cracking facility having a cracking furnace, two or more of trains each comprising two reaction vessels and one distillation tower is operated, each train is operated by repeating a cycle comprising... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100018898 - Composition and methods for preferentially increasing yields of one or more selected hydrocarbon products: Methods and compositions to preferentially increase or decrease the yield of at least a selected hydrocarbon product in one or more fluidized units are provided. An embodiment includes: providing a high activity component to a fluidized unit as physically separate and distinct particles in an amount sufficient to preferentially increase... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP / Intercat Equipment

20100018899 - Process and apparatus for producing a reformate by introducing isopentane: One exemplary embodiment can be a process for producing a reformate by combining a stream having an effective amount of isopentane and a stream having an effective amount of naphtha for reforming. Generally, the naphtha has not less than about 95%, by weight, of one or more compounds having a... Agent: Honeywell/uop Patent Services

20100018901 - Process and apparatus for producing a reformate by introducing methane: One exemplary embodiment can be a process for producing a reformate by combining a stream having an effective amount of methane and a stream having an effective amount of naphtha for reforming. Generally, the naphtha includes not less than about 95%, by weight, of one or more compounds having a... Agent: Honeywell/uop Patent Services

20100018900 - Process and apparatus for producing a reformate by introducing n-butane: One exemplary embodiment can be a process for producing a reformate by combining a stream having an effective amount of n-butane and a stream having an effective amount of naphtha for reforming. Generally, the naphtha has not less than about 95%, by weight, of one or more compounds having a... Agent: Honeywell/uop Patent Services

20100018902 - Methods for producing a total product at selected temperatures: Method of producing a total product are described. A method includes providing a feed and a supported inorganic salt catalyst to a contacting zone. Contact of the supported inorganic salt catalyst with the feed in the presence of a hydrogen source and steam in the contacting zone at a temperature... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20100018903 - Desulphurization of hydrocarbon feeds using electrolytic hydrogen: An apparatus for removing sulfur from a hydrocarbon feed includes a cell having two compartments and a membrane separating the compartments, wherein one compartment is communicated with a hydrogen source and the other compartment is communicated with the hydrocarbon feed to be treated, wherein the membrane comprises a palladium membrane... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20100018904 - prerefining process for the hydrodesulfurization of heavy sour crude oils to produce sweeter lighter crudes using moving catalyst system: A pre-refining catalytic hydrotreating process for the desulfurization, demetallization, and upgrading of heavy, sour crude oils operating at a moderate temperature and pressure through the utilization of moving catalyst bed technology.... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20100018905 - Deep hydrodesulfurization of hydrocarbon feedstreams: The distillate catalytic hydrodesulfurization of hydrocarbon fuels wherein the optimum hydrogen treat gas rate to maximize desulfurization is determined and introduced into the reaction zone to maintain a controlled amount of hydrogen at the surface of the catalyst during hydrodesulfurization.... Agent: Exxonmobil Research & Engineering Company

20100018906 - Apparatus and process for removal of carbon monoxide: One exemplary embodiment can be a process for lowering an amount of carbon monoxide in a stream rich in hydrogen. The process can include passing the stream rich in hydrogen through a carbon monoxide removal zone to produce a product stream having no more than about 10 vppm carbon monoxide... Agent: Honeywell/uop Patent Services

20100012551 - Light oil composition: The invention provides a light oil composition that does not cause deterioration in a Nylon-based material. Specifically, the invention provides a light oil composition containing paraffin(s) at a concentration of 97% by mass or more, wherein the content of isoparaffin(s) having 14 or fewer carbon atoms in the paraffin(s) is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100012552 - Process and apparatus for producing gasoline: One exemplary embodiment can be a process for producing a gasoline. The process can include contacting a feed having a naphtha and recycling at least a portion of the reaction zone effluent to the one or more reforming reaction zones. Generally, the reformate includes no more than about 15%, by... Agent: Honeywell/uop Patent Services

20100012553 - Tetra-sulfo iron-phthalocyanine and related methods: The present invention relates to making tetra-sulfo iron-phthalocyanine by reacting sulfonated reactant(s) in the presence a boron-containing promoter. The present invention also relates to making tetra-sulfo iron phthalocyanine more tolerant to oxygen by combining the tetra-sulfo iron-phthalocyanine with a stabilizing amount of a complexing agent (e.g., a stabilizing amine) and/or... Agent: The Dow Chemical Company Kagan Binder, PLLC

20100012554 - Selective catalysts for naphtha hydrodesulfurization: Naphtha is selectively hydrodesulfurized with retention of olefin content. More particularly, a CoMo metal hydrogenation component is loaded on a silica or modified silica support in the presence of an organic additive to produce a catalyst which is then used for hydrodesulfurizing naphtha while retaining olefins.... Agent: Exxonmobil Research & Engineering Company

20100012555 - Method for treating bitumen froth with high bitumen recovery and dual quality bitumen production: A process for removing contaminants, namely water and particulate solids, from hydrocarbon diluent-diluted bitumen froth (“dilfroth”) is provided to produce hydrocarbon diluent-diluted bitumen (“dilbit”), comprising subjecting the dilfroth to gravity settling in a primary settler to produce an overflow stream of primary raw dilbit, comprising bitumen containing water and some... Agent: Bennett Jones LLP C/o Ms Roseann Caldwell

20100006474 - Bituminous froth inline steam injection processing: An inline bitumen froth steam heater system including steam injection and static mixing devices is provided. The system heats and de-aerates input bitumen froth without creating downstream processing problems with the bitumen froth such as emulsification or live steam entrainment. The system is a multistage unit that injects and thoroughly... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100006478 - Process for the on-stream decoking of a furnace for cracking a hydrocarbon feed: A process for the on-stream decoking of a steam cracking furnace, the steam cracking furnace including multiple tube banks positioned between a hydrocarbon feedstock inlet and a convection section to radiant section crossover, each tube bank including a plurality of tubes arranged within the tube bank, the process comprising the... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company

20100006475 - Catalyst composition and a process that uses the catalyst composition for the hydroconversion of a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock: A catalyst composition that provides for a high percentage conversion of the pitch component of a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock and a process of using the catalyst composition. The catalyst composition comprises a nickel component, a molybdenum component in an amount less than 12 wt % of the catalyst composition, and... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20100006476 - Method of separating a mixture, and a plant for separating a mixture comprising water, oil and gas: A fluid is mixed into a mixture that has been separated from an oil well stream and comprises water, oil, and gas. The mixture comprising the fluid is led into a separator (3) and allowed to separate into a water phase and an oil/fluid phase. The cleaned water phase is... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20100006477 - Method of producing ashless coal: A method of producing ashless coal used in caking coal for coke for iron making includes a slurry preparation step (S1) of mixing a solvent with coal to prepare a slurry; an extraction step (S2) of extracting the slurry obtained in the slurry preparation step (S1) at a temperature in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100000908 - Process for the manufacture of hydrocarbon components: P

20100000909 - Process, reactor and facility for thermally cracking heavy petroleum oil: A cracking process in which superheated steam is directly contacted with the heavy petroleum oil by blowing the superheated steam into the reaction vessel to be thermally cracked to oil fractions and pitch, wherein the superheated steam is blown into the reaction vessel from the bottom portion thereof so that... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100000910 - System and method for separating a trace element from a liquid hydrocarbon feed: The present invention is generally directed to removing a trace element from a liquid hydrocarbon feed. The liquid hydrocarbon feed, containing the trace element, is mixed with the water along with a hydrocarbon-soluble additive. While being mixed, a compound, which in some cases is preferably insoluble, is formed by the... Agent: Chevron Corporation

20100000911 - Method for the elimination of oxygen, nitrogen oxides, acetylenes, and/or dienes from hydrogen-rich olefin-containing gas mixtures: The present invention relates to a process for removing at least one component selected from the group consisting of oxygen, nitrogen oxides, acetylenes and dienes from a gas mixture comprising the at least one component and also hydrogen, one or more olefins which are not dienes and possibly further gas... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP