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Mineral oils: processes and products July category listing 07/10

20100187155 - Integrated hydrocracking and dewaxing of hydrocarbons: An integrated process for producing naphtha fuel, diesel fuel and/or lubricant base oils from feedstocks under sour conditions is provided. The ability to process feedstocks under higher sulfur and/or nitrogen conditions allows for reduced cost processing and increases the flexibility in selecting a suitable feedstock. The sour feed can be... Agent: Exxonmobil Research & Engineering Company

20100187156 - Sour service hydroprocessing for lubricant base oil production: An integrated process for producing lubricant base oils from feedstocks under sour conditions is provided. The ability to process feedstocks under higher sulfur conditions allows for reduced cost processing and increases the flexibility in selecting a suitable feedstock. The sour feed can be delivered to a catalytic dewaxing step without... Agent: Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company

20100187157 - Equipment and process for upgrading oil: Equipment and a process for upgrading oil are provided to produce a refined oil lighter than a material oil by cracking the heavier material oil with the addition of hydrogen under relatively relaxed production conditions. An equipment for upgrading oil according to one aspect of the invention includes an emulsion... Agent: Hespos & Porco LLP

20100187158 - Fcc separator without a reactor: This invention is directed to a process for fluid catalytic cracking, including, fluidizing a hydrocarbon stream in a riser, cracking the hydrocarbon stream with catalyst in the riser to produce a cracked stream and spent catalyst, separating the cracked stream and the spent catalyst in a primary separator to obtain... Agent: Honeywell/uop Patent Services

20100187159 - Moving bed hydrocarbon conversion process: Moving bed hydrocarbon conversion processes are provided for contacting a catalyst moving downward through a reaction zone with a hydrocarbon feed, withdrawing the catalyst from the reaction zone and conveying the catalyst to a regeneration zone wherein the catalyst moves downward. The catalyst is withdrawn from the regeneration zone and... Agent: Honeywell/uop Patent Services

20100187160 - Method for purifying mineral oil fractions and device suitable for conducting said method: Disclosed is a method for reducing the organic sulfur content in a sulfur-containing liquid fuel, wherein the sulfur-containing fuel is first brought in contact with a hydrogen-containing gas in a presaturator and subsequently the hydrogen-enriched liquid fuel is brought in contact with a suitable adsorbent in a reactor. The adsorbent... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20100187161 - Process and plant for refining oil-containing solids: s

20100187162 - Improved process for converting carbon-based energy carrier material: A catalytic process is disclosed for converting solid or high viscosity carbon-based energy carrier materials, such as heavy crudes, oil sands, synthetic polymeric wastes and cellulosic or aquatic biomass. The conversion temperature is less than 450° C. The reaction products are separated from the catalyst within 10 seconds after being... Agent: Howrey LLP-eu

20100181228 - Process for producing petroleum coke: A process is provided for producing petroleum coke that is high in strength and sufficiently small in thermal expansion coefficient and sufficiently suppressed from puffing. The process includes coking a feedstock containing a first heavy oil having a sulfur content of 1.0 percent by mass or less, a nitrogen content... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20100181229 - Hydroisomerization catalyst, method of dewaxing hydrocarbon oil, process for producing base oil, and process for producing lube base oil: A hydroisomerization catalyst according to the present invention is obtained by calcining a catalyst composite including an ion-exchanged molecular sieve or a calcined material thereof which is obtained by performing ion exchange of a molecular sieve containing an organic template in a solution containing a cation species and using water... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100181230 - Catalyst for ultra-deep desulfurization of diesel via oxidative distillation, its preparation and desulfurization method: A catalyst for ultra-deep desulfurization of diesel via oxidative distillation is an amphiphilic oxidative catalyst, which is expressed as Qm[XMnOq], wherein 1≦m≦12; 9≦n≦18; 34≦q≦62; Q is a quaternary ammonium cation; X is P, Si, As or B; and M is Mo) or W. A desulfurization method comprises a) mixing well... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20100181231 - Method and apparatus for oil recovery from tar sands: A process for bitumen extraction from hydrocarbonaceous solids, such as tar sand or oil shale, is performed in fluidized bed of a swirl reactor. This provides active interaction of three phases: 1) liquid phase—bituminous oil with solvent; 2) solid phase—sand grains, clay; 3) gaseous phase—steam and gasses. The process also... Agent: Helpful Technologies, Inc.

20100176025 - Process for upgrading of liquid hydrocarbon fuels: Disclosed herein a process for upgrading the liquid hydrocarbon fuels by reducing aromatic content, sulfur content and nitrogen content wherein the process comprising isolating polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) transforming microbes and preparing biocatalyst by mutagenesis, contacting the biocatalyst with the liquid hydrocarbon fuel in an aqueous medium for transforming the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100176026 - Co-processing of diesel biofeed and heavy oil: Processes are provided for producing a diesel fuel product having a sulfur content of 10 ppm by weight or less from feed sources that include up to 50% by weight of a biocomponent feedstock. The biocomponent feedstock is co-processed with a heavy oil feed in a severe hydrotreating stage. The... Agent: Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company

20100176027 - Sour service hydroprocessing for diesel fuel production: An integrated process for producing diesel fuel from feedstocks, including diesel fuel production under sour conditions, is provided. The ability to process feedstocks under higher sulfur and/or nitrogen conditions allows for reduced cost processing and increases the flexibility in selecting a suitable feedstock. In addition to the benefits in sour... Agent: Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company

20100176028 - Hydrotreating processes for fabricating petroleum distillates from light fischer-tropsch liquids: A method for obtaining a petroleum distillate product is provided, the method includes subjecting an untreated light Fischer-Tropsch liquid to a two-step hydrogenation process, each step to be carried in the presence of a catalyst comprising an amorphous substrate having a metallic composition embedded therein. After the first step of... Agent: Honeywell/uop Patent Services

20100176029 - Upgrading slurry oil using chromatographic reactor systems: Methods and apparatus relate to reducing content of nitrogen-containing compounds within slurry oil using a chromatographic based assembly, which may not affect aromatic content, prior to feeding the slurry oil into a coking system. The slurry oil passes through the chromatographic based assembly to upgrade the slurry oil and make... Agent: Conocophillips Company -IPServices Group Attention: Docketing

20100176030 - Alumina having a complex pore structure, and catalyst and process for selective hydrogenation of cracking gasoline: The present invention discloses an alumina support having multiple pore structure, wherein the alumina support has a specific surface area of from 40 to 160 m2/g and a total pore volume of from 0.3 to 1.2 cm3/g; a pore volume of pores having a pore diameter of less than 30... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20100176031 - Porous solids, selective separations, removal of sulfur compounds, adsorption: Crystals of [VOBDC](H2BDC)0.71 were synthesized hydrothemally. The guest acid molecules were removed by heating in air to give high quality single crystals of VOBDC. VOBDC was observed to show crystal-to-crystal transformations on absorption of the guest molecules aniline, thiophene and acetone from the liquid phase. Accurate structural data of the... Agent: Robert W Strozier, P.l.l.c

20100176032 - Processing unconventional and opportunity crude oils using one or more mesopore structured materials: A process for removing contaminants and breaking emulsions in a feedstream comprising a crude source composition comprising unconventional or opportunity crude oil, the process comprising: providing the feedstream comprising the crude source composition comprising unconventional or opportunity crude oil, the feedstream comprising an emulsion comprising one or more contaminants, a... Agent: Paula D. Morris The Morris Law Firm, P.C.

20100176033 - System for removing tar oil from sand and method of extracting oil from sand: A method of extracting oil from sand. The method includes extracting a mass containing sand and oil and translating the sand and oil to a mixing tank. A solution containing terpenes is injected into the mixing tank using an eddy pump and the eddy pump creates a vortex within the... Agent: Zarley Law Firm P.L.C

20100170826 - Process for producing low molecular weight hydrocarbons from renewable resources: Described herein are methods for cracking a biocrude, particularly catalytically cracking a biocrude that primarily includes olefmic hydrocarbons. Also described herein are compositions and methods of producing such compositions that are useful as fuels or fuel production feedstock.... Agent: Ls9, Inc.

20100170827 - Selective cracking and coking of undesirable components in coker recycle and gas oils: Undesirable gas oil components are selectively cracked or coked in a coking vessel by injecting an additive into the vapors of traditional coking processes in the coking vessel prior to fractionation. The additive contains catalyst(s), seeding agent(s), excess reactant(s), quenching agent(s), carrier(s), or any combination thereof to modify reaction kinetics... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20100170830 - Mitigation of top of catalyst bed fouling: This invention relates to reactors with mitigation of fouling-related pressure buildup, the reactors having a reactor bed containing at least one catalyst layer through which reactants flow. The mitigation of fouling which occurs at the top of the reactor bed is accomplished by using at least one blowback ring located... Agent: Exxonmobil Research & Engineering Company

20100170829 - Polyalkyl succinic anhydride derivatives as additives for fouling mitigation in petroleum refinery processes: The present invention provides a method for reducing fouling, including particulate-induced fouling, in a hydrocarbon refining process including the steps of providing a crude hydrocarbon for a refining process; adding at least one polyalkyl succinic anhydride derivative additive disclosed herein. The additive can be complexed with a boronating agent, such... Agent: Exxonmobil Research & Engineering Company

20100170828 - Hydrocracking catalyst and process for producing fuel base material: Provided is a catalyst for hydrocracking a paraffinic hydrocarbon which provides satisfactorily high cracking activity and middle fraction yield as well as the low pour point of the fuel base material (the middle fraction) all together. The catalyst of the present invention comprises a USY zeolite derived from NaY used... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20100163461 - Method and system for controlling the amount of anti-fouling additive for particulate-induced fouling mitigation in refining operations: A method and system for controlling fouling in a hydrocarbon refining process that includes measuring a level of a particulate in a process stream of the hydrocarbon refining process in communication with a hydrocarbon refinery component, identifying an effective amount of additive capable of reducing particulate-induced fouling based at least... Agent: Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company (formerly Exxon Research And Engineering Company)

20100163454 - Hydrocracking processes yielding a hydroisomerized product for lube base stocks: Methods are disclosed for hydrocracking processes that convert a significant portion of a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock such as vacuum gas oil (VGO) to lower molecular weight, lower boiling hydrocarbons. In addition to molecular weight reduction, the processes also substantially reduce the pour point of a recovered higher boiling fraction or... Agent: Honeywell/uop Patent Services

20100163455 - Systems and methods for making a middle distillate product and lower olefins from a hydrocarbon feedstock: A system comprising a riser reactor comprising a gas oil feedstock and a first catalyst under catalytic cracking conditions to yield a riser reactor product comprising a cracked gas oil product and a first used catalyst; a intermediate reactor comprising at least a portion of the cracked gas oil product... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20100163456 - Surface modification of inorganic metal oxides for enhanced sulfur selectivity in transportion fuels: Disclosed are fuel filters and processes for removing sulfur-containing compounds from a post refinery fuel system. The fuel filter comprises an adsorbent comprising a surface modified inorganic oxide, wherein the surface modified inorganic oxide comprises a surface modifier disposed on an inorganic oxide substrate and the inorganic oxide substrate has... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20100163457 - Method of removal of calcium from hydrocarbon feedstock: The invention relates to field of processing hydrocarbon feedstock including crude oil, wherein metals such as calcium are removed. In the face of the rising prices of crude oil, refiners are forced to process opportunity crudes such as DOBA, which pose many problems including fouling of equipment due to certain... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20100163458 - method of converting effluents of renewable origin into fuel of excellent quality by using a molybdenum-based catalyst: The invention is concerned with a supported or unsupported catalyst comprising an active phase constituted by a sulfur-containing group VIB element, the group VIB element being molybdenum, and a hydrodeoxygenation process with a yield of hydrodeoxygenation product which is greater than or equal to 90% of charges from renewable sources... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.

20100163459 - Heavy oil upgrade process including recovery of spent catalyst: A process to upgrade heavy oil and convert the heavy oil into lower boiling hydrocarbon products is provided. The process employs a catalyst slurry comprising catalyst particles with an average particle size ranging from 1 to 20 microns. In the upgrade process, spent slurry catalyst in heavy oil is generated... Agent: Chevron Corporation

20100163460 - Microorganism mediated liquid fuels: A method for producing a liquid fuel from a hydrocarbon source. In one embodiment, the method comprises disintegrating a hydrocarbon source, treating the disintegrated hydrocarbon source, solubilizing the disintegrated hydrocarbon source, admixing a biochemical liquor, wherein the biochemical liquor comprises at least one conversion enzyme to form liquid hydrocarbons, separating... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose