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Mineral oils: processes and products January recently filed with US Patent Office 01/11

20110017635 - Systems and methods for producing a crude product: A process for hydroprocessing heavy oil feedstock is disclosed. The process operates in once-through mode, employing a plurality of contacting zones and at least a separation zone to convert at least a portion of the heavy oil feedstock to lower boiling hydrocarbons, forming upgraded products. In the once-through upgrade system,... Agent: Chevron Corporation

20110017636 - Systems and methods for producing a crude product: A process for hydroprocessing heavy oil feedstock is disclosed. The process operates in once-through mode, employing a plurality of contacting zones and at least a separation zone to convert at least a portion of the heavy oil feedstock to lower boiling hydrocarbons, forming upgraded products. The contacting zones operate under... Agent: Chevron Corporation

20110017637 - Systems and methods for producing a crude product: A process for hydroprocessing heavy oil feedstock is disclosed. The process operates in once-through mode, employing a plurality of contacting zones and separation zones in sequential mode, parallel mode, or combinations thereof to convert at least a portion of the heavy oil feedstock to lower boiling hydrocarbons, forming upgraded products.... Agent: Chevron Corporation

20110017638 - Systems and methods for producing a crude product: A flexible once-through process for hydroprocessing heavy oil feedstock is disclosed. The process employs a plurality of contacting zones and at least a separation zone to convert at least a portion of the heavy oil feedstock to lower boiling hydrocarbons, forming upgraded products. The contacting zones operate under hydrocracking conditions,... Agent: Chevron Corporation

20110017639 - Separating and stripping apparatus for external fcc risers: The present invention provides a compact riser separation system for Fluid Catalytic Cracking reactors possessing an external riser system wherein the riser enters the reactor from outside the reactor vessel.... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn: Michael Ritchie, Docketing

20110017640 - Rare earth carbonate compositions for metals tolerance in cracking catalysts: This is invention is a composition comprising discrete particles that comprise rare earth carbonate, preferably lanthanum carbonate, dispersed in a matrix. The composition may be combined with zeolite-containing cracking catalysts to enhance catalytic activity and/or selectivity in the presence of metals (Ni and V).... Agent: W.r. Grace & Co.-conn.

20110017641 - Pre-sulfiding and pre-conditioning of residuum hydroconversion catalysts for ebullated-bed hydroconversion processes: A hydroconversion process is disclosed, including contacting of hydrogen and a residuum hydrocarbon with a pre-conditioned and at least partially sulfided hydroconversion catalyst for converting at least a portion of the residuum hydrocarbon into at least one of a hydrotreated product and a hydrocracked product. Pre-sulfiding and pre-conditioning of the... Agent: Osha Liang LLP / Lummus

20110017642 - System and method for converting material comprising bitumen into light hydrocarbon liquid product: Various methods and systems for obtaining light hydrocarbon distillate from material comprising bitumen are disclosed. The method may include a primary leaching or extraction process that separates most of the bitumen from the material comprising bitumen and results in a bitumen-enriched solvent phase and first solvent-wet tailings. The bitumen-enriched solvent... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20110017643 - Oil sands treatment system and process: Oil sands ore containing bitumen is treated in a reactor chamber by ultrasonic oscillations impact such that cavitation of ore molecules occurs. The disintegration of the pulsating bubbles in the cavitation results in the separation of the oil, water, sand and air fractions of the oil sands. The oil fraction... Agent: David W. Wong

20110011768 - Process and apparatus for converting high boiling point resid to light unsaturated hydrocarbons: A process and apparatus process for preparing a resid-containing hydrocarbon feedstock for use in a regenerative pyrolysis reactor, comprising (a) feeding a resid-containing hydrocarbon feedstock to a thermal cracking unit; (b) thermally cracking at least about 60 wt. % of said resid having a boiling point of at least 565°... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company

20110011769 - Feed delivery system for a solid-liquid separation vessel: A method of delivering feed, for example a paraffinic solvent treated bitumen froth, to a separation vessel, for example a froth separation unit (FSU). The feed is delivered from one or more side inlets that may be substantially normal to, and flush with, the wall of the vessel. In contrast... Agent: Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

20110011770 - Methods for removal of colored- and sulfur-containing impurities from hydrocarbon streams: In various embodiments, the present disclosure describes methods for removing impurities from a hydrocarbon stream containing at least one vinyl aromatic compound such as, for example, styrene. The methods include pretreating at least one sorbent to make the at least one sorbent operable for adsorbing the impurities, contacting the hydrocarbon... Agent: Winstead PC

20110011771 - Sulfoxidation catalysts and methods and systems of using same: Catalysts amenable to oxidizing sulfur compounds and systems and methods of using these catalysts to effect the removal of sulfur from crude oil and crude oil distillates are disclosed. The catalyst is disposed with a titanyl moiety which serves to selectively coordinate sulfur compounds and affect their oxidation. The titanyl... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20110011772 - Nickel and cobalt plated sponge catalysts: Novel nickel and/or cobalt plated sponge based catalysts are disclosed. The catalyst have an activity and/or selectivity comparable to conventional nickel and/or cobalt sponge catalysts, e.g., Raney® nickel or Raney® cobalt catalysts, but require a reduced content of nickel and/or cobalt. Catalysts in accordance with the invention comprise nickel and/or... Agent: W.r. Grace & Co.-conn.

20110005968 - Coking process additives and related processes: This invention relates to coking process additives and, related processes, such as upgrading heavy hydrocarbons, producing petroleum coke and lighter hydrocarbon products, and/or thermally cracking heavy hydrocarbons. The additive includes an anionic clay to increase a liquid product yield. Suitable anionic clays may include hydrotalcite materials and hydrotalcite-like materials.... Agent: Carol Wilson Bp America Inc.

20110005969 - Compositions and processes for fracturing subterranean formations: The present invention is directed to novel additives packages, to fluid compositions including the additives, to methods of using the fluid compositions and the additives package, to methods of recovering hydrocarbons, and to petroleum products made from hydrocarbons derived from these methods. The novel additives packages may be used in... Agent: Dobrusin & Thennisch PC

20110005970 - Process and apparatus for upgrading steam cracker tar using hydrogen donor compounds: A process and apparatus are provided for upgrading steam cracker tars from steam crackers. The invention also relates to a steam cracking process and apparatus for reducing yields of tars produced from steam cracking while increasing yields of higher value products by heating steam cracker tar, in the presence of... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company

20110005971 - Naphtha productive aromatic hydrocarbon reforming system and method thereof: The invention discloses a catalytic reforming system and a method thereof. The system comprises a heating device and a reaction device and is characterized in that the reaction device (2-1, 2-2) is connected with a high-pressure separator (4); the high-pressure separator (4) is connected with a stabilizer system (6); the... Agent: J C Patents

20110005972 - Process for manufacturing naphthenic base oils from effluences of fluidized catalytic cracking unit: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing high-quality naphthenic base oil by subjecting, as a feedstock, light cycle oil (LCO) and slurry oil (SLO) obtained through fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) to hydrotreating and dewaxing.... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper LLP (us)

20110005973 - Method and apparatus for treatment of crude oil or bitumen under the conditions of auto-oscillations: Pa is negative pressure in backward flow between the opposite conical jets, P0 is the atmospheric pressure, ρ is the density of crude oil or bitumen, V is velocity of fluid in conical jets, λ is an experimental coefficient of fluid hydro resistance (λ=0.3 to 07), f is a required... Agent: Sergey Kostrov

20110005974 - Hydrotreating catalyst sulphiding agent and its use for in situ and ex situ presulphidation:

20110005975 - Method for removing mercury from hydrocarbon streams: Method of removing mercury from a mercury-comprising hydrocarbon stream, in which the hydrocarbon stream is brought into contact with an absorbent comprising copper on a support material, wherein the hydrocarbon stream is brought into contact with the absorbent in the presence of hydrogen.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20110005976 - Enhanced process for the hydroconversion of heavy oils through ebullated-bed systems: Process for the hydroconversion of heavy oils, selected from crude oils, heavy crude oils, bitumens from tar sands, distillation residues, distillation heavy cuts, distillation deasphalted residues, vegetable oils, oils from coal and oil shale, oils from the thermodecomposition of waste material, polymers, biomasses, comprising sending the heavy oil to a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20110000818 - process for converting inferior feedstock to high quality fuel oil: A catalytic conversion process can convert inferior feedstock to high quality fuel oil and propylene. A inferior feedstock is introduced into first and second reactor zone, wherein the feedstock carry out first step and second step reactions by contacting with catalytic conversion catalyst. Product vapors separate from spent catalyst by... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20110000819 - Process and system for preparation of hydrocarbon feedstocks for catalytic cracking: A process, apparatus and system for forming light olefins, the process including heating a resid-containing hydrocarbon feedstock containing at least 10 ppmw of metals to vaporize at least 90 wt. % of said hydrocarbon feedstock; separating in a knockout drum a hydrocarbon vapor portion having less than 10 ppmw metals... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company

20110000820 - Catalyst composition with nanometer crystallites for slurry hydrocracking: A process and apparatus is disclosed for converting heavy hydrocarbon feed into lighter hydrocarbon products. The heavy hydrocarbon feed is slurried with a catalyst comprising iron oxide and alumina to form a heavy hydrocarbon slurry and hydrocracked to produce lighter hydrocarbons. The iron sulfide crystallites have diameters in the nanometer... Agent: Honeywell/uop Patent Services

20110000821 - Structurally enhanced cracking catalysts: A cracking catalyst contains a substantially inert core and an active shell, the active shell containing a zeolite catalyst and a matrix. Methods of making and using the cracking catalyst are also described.... Agent: Basf Catalysts LLC

20110000822 - Method for the start-up of a catalytic process: The present invention relates to a process for starting up a hydrotreating process using a bulk metal catalyst, said process comprising the steps of: i) providing a hydrocarbon feed stream containing less than 100 ppmw nitrogen-containing species; ii) adding a nitrogen-containing compound to said hydrocarbon feed stream; and iii) contacting... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20110000823 - Membrane desulfurization of liquid hydrocarbons using an extractive liquid membrane contactor system and method: The process of the present invention is directed to the desulfurization of a sulfur-containing hydrocarbon stream with a membrane contactor, where sulfur compounds are concentrated in a sulfur-rich stream on a permeate side of the membrane using an extractive liquid, and a sulfur-lean stream is recovered as a retentate. The... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20110000824 - Hydroprocessing catalyst and method of making the same: The present invention is directed to a hydroprocessing catalyst containing at least one catalyst support, one or more metals, optionally one or more molecular sieves, optionally one or more promoters, wherein deposition of at least one of the metals is achieved in the presence of a modifying agent.... Agent: Chevron Corporation

20110000825 - Carbonaceous material upgrading using supercritical fluids: Systems and methods for extracting, handling and upgrading carbonaceous material. The systems and methods involve forming a reaction mixture of a carbonaceous material, a supercritical fluid, a catalyst and a source of hydrogen, and maintaining the reaction mixture at moderate temperatures for modest time periods. Exemplary reaction temperatures are those... Agent: Milstein Zhang & Wu LLC