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Mineral oils: processes and products April category listing, related patent applications 04/11

20110094936 - Process for improving the lubricating properties of base oils using a fischer-tropsch derived bottoms: A method for improving the lubricating properties of a distillate base oil characterized by a pour point of 0 degrees C. or less and a boiling range having the 10 percent point falling between about 625 degrees F. and about 790 degrees F. and the 90 percent point falling between... Agent: Chevron U.s.a. Inc.

20110094937 - Residuum oil supercritical extraction process: Systems and methods for processing one or more hydrocarbons are provided. A hydrocarbon can be selectively separated to provide one or more finished products and an asphaltenic hydrocarbon using a pretreatment process. The asphaltenic hydrocarbon can be selectively separated to provide a deasphalted oil and one or more asphaltenes. At... Agent: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC

20110094938 - Process for the conversion of residue integrating moving-bed technology and ebullating-bed technology: The invention describes a process for the conversion of heavy carbon-containing fractions having an initial boiling point of at least 300° C. to upgradable lighter products, said process comprising passage of said feed through a hydrorefining reaction zone comprising at least one moving-bed reactor, and passage of at least a... Agent: Ifp Energies Nouvelles

20110094939 - Process for activating a hydrotreating catalyst: The invention pertains to a process for activating an hydrotreating catalyst comprising a Group VIB metal oxide and a Group VIII metal oxide which process comprises contacting the catalyst with an acid and an organic additive which has a boiling point in the range of 80-500° C. and a solubility... Agent:

20110094940 - Method for the pyrolytic extraction of hydrocarbon from oil shale: A method for the pyrolytic extraction of hydrocarbons such as shale oil from kerogen containing oil shale. Oil shale which has been ground into particulate form, is cascaded downwardly between a plurality of rotating trays within a heated processing chamber. As the hydrocarbons are volatized within the chamber, the volatiles... Agent: Wyssmont Co. Inc.

20110089080 - Process for manufacturing high quality naphthenic base oils: A method of manufacturing high-quality naphthenic base oils comprising a high aromatic content and a large amount of impurities with a boiling point higher than that of gasoline. High-quality naphthenic base oil may be manufactured from light cycle oil (LCO) and slurry oil (SLO), which are inexpensive, and have a... Agent: Sk Lubricants Co., Ltd.

20110089081 - Process for producing fuel from plastic waste material by using dolomite catalyst: A process for producing fuel by cracking a plastics-derived liquid, which is obtained from a pyrolysis process, using a dolomite catalyst. The plastics-derived liquid is produced by the pyrolysis of plastic waste, such as of one or more of polyethylene, polystyrene or polypropylene. The plastic-derived liquid is first subjected to... Agent:

20110089082 - Method and device for enhanced metal and amine removal from crude oil with controlled electrostatic coalescence: A method for removing metals, amines, and other impurities from crude oil in a desalting process that includes the steps of adding a wash water to the crude oil; adding the wash water to the crude oil to create an emulsion; adding to the wash water or the emulsion at... Agent: Assateague Oil LLC

20110089083 - Method for purification of uncatalyzed natural fuels from metal ions by means of at least one hemeprotein and use of the at least on hemeprotein: A method for purification of uncatalyzed natural fuels in liquid state from metal ions by removing at least one compound selected from the group consisting of natural occurring contaminating porphyrins, metalloporphyrins, chlorins and naturally occurring degradations products of these compounds, such as petroporphyrins, containing said metal ions from the fuels.... Agent:

20110089084 - Extraction and upgrading of bitumen from oil sands: A method to extract and process bitumen from oil sands involves processing in a pulse enhanced fluidised bed steam reactor, cracking the heavy hydrocarbon fractions, producing hydrogen in situ within the reactor and hydrogenating the cracked fractions using the natural bifunctional catalyst present in the oil sands. This method produces... Agent:

20110083994 - Onset haze measurement apparatus and procedure: An apparatus and method for determining at least one of the temperatures at which a petroleum product will manifest delayed haze and the temperature at which haze will not exist in the product is provided. The apparatus comprises a container for holding a sample of the product, a light source,... Agent:

20110083995 - Method for haze mitigation and filterability improvement base stocks: The present invention is a process for removing waxy haze from and improving the filterability of base stocks including heavy mineral oil base stocks, gas-to-liquids (GTL) and hydrodewaxed or hydroisomerized waxy feed basestocks by filtering the waxy haze causing particles out of the base stock employing a filter characterized by... Agent:

20110083996 - Alternative process for treatment of heavy crudes in a coking refinery: The present invention relates to a process for the pretreatment of heavy oils using a catalytic hydrotreating process prior to introduction to a refinery. More specifically, the invention relates to the use of an HDM reactor and an HDS reactor in order to improve the characteristics of the heavy oil,... Agent: Saudi Arabian Oil Company

20110083997 - Process for treating heavy oil: This invention relates to a process for hydroprocessing heavy oil under process intensification conditions to form an upgraded hydrocarbon product.... Agent:

20110083998 - Petrochemical processes: Petrochemical processes, including reforming processes are described herein. The reforming processes generally include introducing an input stream to a reforming unit having a reforming catalyst disposed therein, wherein the input stream includes a naphtha having an N+2A value of from about 65 to about 85 and contacting the input stream... Agent: Fina Technology, Inc.

20110083999 - Hydrocracking method using a modified zeolite: The present invention describes a method for hydrocracking and/or hydrotreating hydrocarbon-containing feeds using a catalyst comprising at least one hydro-dehydrogenizing metal selected from the group made up of group VIB and non-noble group VIII metals of the periodic table and a support comprising at least one zeolite having at least... Agent: Ifp Energies Nouvelles

20110084000 - Systems and methods for processing nozzle reactor pitch: Methods and systems for cracking hydrocarbon material in a nozzle reactor and processing any un-cracked hydrocarbon material passing through the nozzle reactor. The nozzle reactor used may have a configuration whereby cracking material is injected into the nozzle reactor at a high velocity, including supersonic speed. The hydrocarbon material is... Agent: Marathon Oil Canada Corporation

20110084001 - Method of oligomerization of an olefinic hydrocarbon feed using a catalyst based on a macroporous silica-alumina: t

20110084002 - Process for the removal of sulfones from oxidized hydrocarbon fuels: Described herein is a process for the removal of sulfones by mesoporous silica adsorbents having narrow pore size distribution which could be controlled to specification for the selective removal of sulfones from oxidised hydrocarbon fuels wherein the sulfones were present due to oxidative conversion of organo-sulfur compounds by a suitable... Agent:

20110079540 - Novel process and catalyst system for improving dewaxing catalyst stability and lubricant oil yield.: The invention provides for a process for dewaxing a waxy hydrocarbon feedstock to form a lubricant oil. The invention is also directed to a catalyst system comprising a hydrotreating catalyst upstream of a dewaxing catalyst, used in the dewaxing of a waxy hydrocarbon feedstock to form a lubricant oil. In... Agent: Chevron U. S. A. Inc.

20110079541 - Pressure cascaded two-stage hydrocracking unit: A method and apparatus for hydrocracking an oil feedstock to produce a light oil stream without build-up of heavy polynuclear aromatic (HPNA) hydrocarbons in the recycle stream is provided. The method includes the steps of (1) hydrocracking the oil feedstock with a hydrotreating catalyst in a first reactor to produce... Agent:

20110079542 - Stacking of low activity or regenerated catalyst above higher activity catalyst: Processes are provided for using employing lower activity hydrodesulfurization catalysts while achieving a desired product sulfur content. After determining effective reaction conditions for hydrodesulfurization using a reference catalyst system, an upstream portion of the catalyst system can be replaced with a lower activity upstream portion. The process allows tailored product... Agent: Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company

20110079543 - Heavy metals trapping co-catalyst for fcc processes: A metal trap particle used for passivation of metals during FCC cracking comprises a calcined spray dried particle formed from kaolin, magnesium oxide or magnesium hydroxide and calcium carbonate. The metal trap particle contains at least 10 wt. % magnesium oxide which improves metals passivation during FCC cracking.... Agent: