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Mineral oils: processes and products March listing by industry category 03/11

20110073522 - Catalyst based on an amorphous material comprising silicon with a hierarchical and organized porosity, and an improved process for the treatment of hydrocarbon feeds: The present invention concerns a catalyst comprising at least one amorphous material comprising silicon with a hierarchical and organized porosity and at least one hydrodehydrogenating element selected from the group formed by elements from group VIB and/or group VIII of the periodic table of the elements. Said amorphous material comprising... Agent: Ifp Energies Nouvelles

20110073523 - Catalytic conversion process for producing more diesel and propylene: The present invention relates to a catalytic conversion process for producing more diesel and propylene, comprising contacting the feedstock oil with a catalyst having a relatively homogeneous activity in a reactor, wherein the reaction temperature, weight hourly space velocity and weight ratio of the catalyst/feedstock oil are sufficient to obtain... Agent: Research Institute Of Petroleum Processing, Sinopec

20110073524 - Steam cracking process: A steam cracking process is disclosed. The process comprises contacting a liquid hydrocarbon feed with a solid adsorbent to produce a treated feed and cracking the treated feed in a steam cracker to produce olefins and other hydrocarbon products. The process reduces coking in the convection tubes and extends the... Agent:

20110073525 - Apparatus and method for controlling or adding material to one or more units: Material delivery systems and methods are disclosed. Material delivery system includes delivery vessel, metering device, dispense mechanism, and mixer. The delivery vessel is configured to dispense material to a unit and metering device provides a metric indicative of the dispensed material to the unit. The dispense mechanism is configured to... Agent:

20110073526 - Method for desulfurization of hydrocarbon oils: Provided herein are processes for desulfurization of a hydrocarbon oil. The processes comprise providing a hydrocarbon oil comprising sulfur impurities and mixing the oil with a phase transfer agent and a source of hypochlorite ions to provide a mixture. The mixture separates into an aqueous hypochlorite phase and a non-polar... Agent: General Electric Company

20110073527 - Process for removing nitrogen compounds from a hydrocarbon stream: Disclosed is a process for removing nitrogen from a hydrocarbon feed stream by contacting the hydrocarbon feed stream with an adsorbent at nitrogen removal conditions to produce a hydrocarbon effluent stream having a lower nitrogen content relative to the hydrocarbon feed stream. The hydrocarbon feed stream comprises an aromatic compound,... Agent: Uop LLC

20110073528 - Method for deasphalting and extracting hydrocarbon oils: Provided herein are processes for deasphalting and extracting a hydrocarbon oil. The processes comprise providing an oil comprising asphaltenes and/or other impurities, combining the oil with a polar solvent an extracting agent to provide a mixture, and applying a stimulus to the mixture so that at least a portion of... Agent: General Electric Company

20110068045 - Dispersed metal sulfide-based catalysts: The invention provides a catalyst composition, which includes an emulsion of an aqueous phase in an oil phase, wherein the aqueous phase comprises an aqueous solution containing a group 6 metal and a group 8, 9 or 10 metal. The metals can be provided in two separate emulsions, and these... Agent: Intevep, S.a.

20110068046 - Mercury removal from water: Methods and apparatus relate to removal of mercury from water. The removal relies on transferring mercury from an aqueous stream to a natural gas stream upon contacting the aqueous stream with the natural gas stream. Processing of the natural gas stream after used to strip the mercury from the aqueous... Agent: Conocophillips Company

20110068047 - Methods and units for mitigation of carbon oxides during hydrotreating: This invention relates to methods and units for mitigation of carbon oxides during hydrotreating hydrocarbons including mineral oil based streams and biological oil based streams. A hydrotreating unit includes a first hydrotreating reactor for receiving a mineral oil based hydrocarbon stream and forming a first hydrotreated product stream, and a... Agent: Bp Corporation North America Inc.

20110068048 - Mercury removal with amine sorbents: Methods and apparatus relate to treatment of fluids to remove mercury contaminants in the fluid. Contact of the fluid with an amine that has absorbed a sulfur compound causes the mercury contaminants to be absorbed by the amine. Phase separation then removes from the fluid the amine loaded with the... Agent: Conocophillips Company

20110068049 - Method for removing metals and amines from crude oil: A method of removing metals and amines from crude oil comprising adding an effective metal removing amount of one or more hydroxycarboxylic acids selected from lactic acid and malic acid and salts thereof to said crude oil; adding wash water to said crude oil; mixing said crude oil, acid and... Agent:

20110068050 - Process for distillation and decarbonization of oil shale species using fluidized bed: The present invention discloses a process for dry distillation and decarbonization of oil shale species using fluidized bed. The shale oil contained in oil shale having certain size distribution in fluidizing condition is gasified by using high temperature dry gas and/or high temperature stream as heat carrier and fluidizing medium,... Agent:

20110062058 - Method for determining asphaltene stability of a hydrocarbon-containing material: A method for determining asphaltene stability in a hydrocarbon-containing material having solvated asphaltenes therein is disclosed. The method involves the steps of: (a) precipitating an amount of the asphaltenes from a liquid sample of the hydrocarbon-containing material with an alkane mobile phase solvent in a column; (b) dissolving a first... Agent: Chevron U.s.a. Inc.

20110062054 - Improved integrated process for hydrogenation and catalytic cracking of hydrocarbon oil: Disclosed is a combination process for improved hydrotreating and catalytic cracking of hydrocarbon oils, including: contacting residual oil, catalytic cracking cycle oil, and optional distillate oil with a hydrotreating catalyst under hydrotreating conditions in the presence of hydrogen followed by separation of the reaction products to obtain gas, hydrogenated naphtha,... Agent:

20110062055 - Method for the valorization of heavy charges by bubbling-bed deasphalting and hydrocracking: s

20110062056 - Excess air control for cracker furnace burners: A method for control of the air/fuel ratio of the burner(s) (excess air) of a thermal cracker which includes three steps. The first step is to direct a wavelength modulated beam of near infrared light from a tunable diode laser through combustion gas from the burner to a near infrared... Agent:

20110062057 - Methods for obtaining bitumen from bituminous materials: Methods for extracting bitumen from bituminous material through the use of a polar solvent. The method may include a primary leaching or extraction process that separates most of the bitumen from a material comprising bitumen and produces first solvent-wet tailings. A polar solvent is added to the first solvent-wet tailings... Agent: Marathon Oil Canada Corporation

20110056869 - Fuel production from feedstock containing lipidic material: This invention relates to the production of dewaxed and/or hydroisomerized fuel composition that includes a step of hydrotreating a feedstock containing the lipidic material. The fuel compositions are high quality fuel compositions in which the fuel can be ultimately tailored for a variety of end uses such as jet fuel... Agent: Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company

20110056870 - Integrated fluid catalytic cracking process for obtaining hydrocarbon blends having a high quality as fuel: The present invention relates to an integrated fluid catalytic cracking process (FCC) which allows hydrocarbon blends to be obtained having a high quality as fuel. In particular, it relates to an integrated process comprising a fluid catalytic cracking step wherein hydrocarbon cuts of an oil origin are converted into blends... Agent: Eni S.p.a.

20110056871 - Process for contacting hydrocarbon feed and catalyst: A process for distributing a deflecting media into an axial center of a riser to push catalyst outwardly toward the feed injectors ensures better contacting between hydrocarbon feed and catalyst.... Agent: Uop LLC

20110049008 - Lubricant base oil, method for production thereof, and lubricant oil composition: The lubricating base oil of the invention has a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 7 mm2/s or greater and less than 15 mm2/s, a viscosity index of 120 or greater, a urea adduct value of not greater than 4% by mass, a BF viscosity at −35° C. of not... Agent:

20110049009 - Lubricant base oil, method for production thereof, and lubricant oil composition: The lubricating base oil of the invention has a urea adduct value of not greater than 4% by mass, a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 25-50 mm2/s, a viscosity index of 140 or greater, a CCS viscosity at −35° C. of not greater than 15,000 mPa·s and a flash... Agent:

20110049010 - Systems and methods for hydroprocessing a heavy oil feedstock: Systems and methods for hydroprocessing a heavy oil feedstock are disclosed. The system employs a plurality of contacting zones and at least one separation zone, wherein a solvating hydrocarbon having a normal boiling point less than 538° C. (1000° F.) is employed. In the system, a mixture of heavy oil... Agent:

20110049011 - Method of processing fischer-tropsch synthetic oil to manufacture diesel fuel base stock and method of calculating cracking rate upon hydrocracking wax fraction: An object of the present invention is to provide a method of processing Fischer-Tropsch synthetic oil to manufacture a diesel fuel base stock, the method including: (a) fractionating, in a fractionator, Fischer-Tropsch synthetic oil obtained by a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis method into at least two fractions of a middle fraction containing... Agent:

20110049012 - Conversion of crude tall oil to renewable feedstock for diesel range fuel compositions: There is disclosed a method for conversion of crude tall oil into high-quality diesel fuels comprising the steps of: (a) removal of non-oil contaminants present in the crude tall oil and recovering valuable organic compounds present in the crude tall oil, thereby forming a refined tall oil stream; (b) removal... Agent:

20110049013 - Device for distributing feed and recovering effluents in a radial bed catalytic reactor: A radial bed catalytic conversion unit having an outer cylindrical chamber (1), an inner chamber (2) which is also cylindrical, the annular zone included between the outer chamber and the inner chamber, termed the reaction zone (I), is filled with catalyst under slow gravitational flow, and the feed is introduced... Agent:

20110049014 - Liquid hydrocarbon fuel from methane assisted by spontaneously generated voltage: A methane-containing gas such as natural gas is converted to a clean-burning hydrocarbon liquid fuel in a process wherein the gas is fed to a reaction vessel to contact a metallic catalyst grid that is formed from windings of a transition metal supported on an iron frame immersed in a... Agent:

20110049015 - Water removal and management system: A system and method for removing and managing water in liquid hydrocarbons is disclosed. The system and method utilize a water absorbent filter, such as one that utilizes super absorbent polymers, cellulose, cotton or other suitable material to remove water from the system that is either present as free water... Agent:

20110049016 - Bitumen upgrading using supercritical fluids: The invention provides systems and methods for extracting and upgrading heavy hydrocarbons from substrates such as oil sands, oil shales, and tar sands in a unitary operation. The substrate bearing the hydrocarbon is brought into contact with a supercritical or near-supercritical fluid, a source of hydrogen such as hydrogen gas,... Agent: