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Mineral oils: processes and products May archived by USPTO category 05/12

20120132563 - Increasing distillates yield in low temperature cracking process by using nanoparticles of solid acids: Solid acid nanoparticles are added to crude oil before initial distillation in order to increase the yield of light hydrocarbons obtained during initial distillation. According to one aspect, nanoparticles of a solid acid of a characteristic particle size are added to crude oil before initial distillation in order to increase... Agent:

20120132564 - Process for removing organic acids from crude oil and crude oil distillates: The present invention relates to a process for the removal of organic acids, particularly naphthenic acids, from crude oils and crude oil distillates by use of a supported basic ionic liquid in a mass ratio of crude oil and/or crude oil distillate and ionic liquid of from greater than 40:1,... Agent:

20120132565 - Asphalt oxidation process using liquid jet ejection: Provided is a process for increasing the softening temperature of asphalts by use of liquid jet ejector technology, which is used as both an air compressor and an air/oil mixer. The liquid jet ejector motive fluid is hot asphalt and the entrained vapor is air.... Agent: Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company

20120132566 - Removal of asphaltene contaminants from hydrocarbon streams using carbon based adsorbents: A process and adsorption vessel are provided for adsorbing asphaltenes from a hydrocarbon stream. Additionally, a process and adsorption vessel are provided for steam cracking a hydrocarbon stream containing asphaltenes by adsorbing asphaltenes from the hydrocarbon stream prior to steam cracking. Asphaltene adsorption is achieved through a carbon adsorbent having... Agent:

20120132567 - Offretite aluminosilicate composition and preparation and use of same: An offretite metalloalluminosilicate composition, including an aluminosilicate framework containing at least one metal selected from the group consisting of iron, divalent elements and combinations thereof, wherein at least a portion of the metal is incorporated into the framework, and wherein the portion is at least about 0.5% wt. with respect... Agent: Intevep, S.a.

20120132568 - Method for reducing the naphthenic acidity of petroleum feedstocks, and use thereof: The invention relates to a method for reducing the naphthenic acidity of a petroleum feedstock having a neutralization index of 0.5 to 10 mg of KOH/g and a water content lower than 0.2 wt %, wherein said method comprises contacting the petroleum feedstock with a compound selected from the oxides,... Agent: Total Raffinage Marketing

20120125811 - Process for cracking heavy hydrocarbon feed: A process for cracking a heavy hydrocarbon feed comprising a vaporization step, a coking step, a hydroprocessing step, and a steam cracking step is disclosed. The heavy hydrocarbon feed is passed to a first zone of a vaporization unit to separate a first vapor stream and a first liquid stream.... Agent:

20120125812 - Process for cracking heavy hydrocarbon feed: A process for cracking a heavy hydrocarbon feed comprising a vaporization step, a hydroprocessing step, and a steam cracking step is disclosed. The heavy hydrocarbon feed is passed to a first zone of a vaporization unit to separate a first vapor stream and a first liquid stream. The first liquid... Agent:

20120125813 - Process for cracking heavy hydrocarbon feed: A process for cracking a heavy hydrocarbon feed comprising a vaporization step, a coking step, a hydroprocessing step, and a steam cracking step is disclosed. The heavy hydrocarbon feed is passed to a first zone of a vaporization unit to separate a first vapor stream and a first liquid stream.... Agent:

20120125814 - Process for reforming hydrocarbon cuts: p

20120125815 - Rapid thermal processing of heavy hydrocarbon feedstocks: The present invention is directed to the upgrading of heavy hydrocarbon feedstock that utilizes a short residence pyrolytic reactor operating under conditions that cracks and chemically upgrades the feedstock. The method for upgrading a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock comprises introducing a particulate heat carrier into an upflow reactor, introducing the heavy... Agent:

20120125816 - Process, method, and system for removing heavy metals from fluids: Trace element levels of heavy metals in crude oil are reduced by contacting the crude oil with an oxidizing agent, extracting heavy metals into a water phase for subsequent separation from the crude oil. The oxidizing agent is selected from the group of hydroperoxides, organic peroxides, inorganic peracids and salts... Agent: Chevron U.s.a. Inc.

20120125817 - Process, method, and system for removing heavy metals from fluids: Trace element levels of heavy metals such as mercury in crude oil are reduced by contacting the crude oil with an oxidant such as oxyhalites, converting elemental mercury into heavy metal cations for subsequent separation from the crude oil. In an improved method for the removal of mercury, at least... Agent: Chevron U.s.a. Inc.

20120125818 - Process, method, and system for removing heavy metals from fluids: Trace element levels of heavy metals in crude oil are reduced by contacting the crude oil with an oxidizing agent, converting heavy metals into heavy metal cations for subsequent separation from the crude oil. At least a complexing agent is added to convert the heavy metal cations into soluble heavy... Agent: Chevron U.s.a. Inc.

20120125819 - Process for the conversion of hydrocarbonaceous feedstock: A hydrocarbonaceous feedstock is converted in a process comprising the following steps: (a) the feedstock is contacted with hydrogen under hydrotreating conditions to yield hydrotreated product; (b) the hydrotreated product is subjected to a separation treatment to separate at least hydrogen from the hydrotreated product to obtain a liquid hydrotreated... Agent:

20120125820 - Process, method, and system for removing heavy metals from fluids: Trace amount levels of heavy metals such as arsenic in crude oil are reduced by contacting the crude oil with an oxidizing agent, extracting heavy metals into a water phase for subsequent separation from the crude oil. In one embodiment, the oxidizing agent is selected from the group of hydroperoxides,... Agent:

20120118794 - Methods for mitigating fouling of process equipment: Methods for determining the fouling propensity of a hydrocarbon stream and for reducing fouling are provided. In one method, the fouling propensity of a hydrocarbon stream is determined by obtaining a parameter indicative of the fouling propensity by a regression of a series of temperature measurements data for the hydrocarbon... Agent: Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company

20120118791 - Two-stage, close-coupled, dual-catalytic heavy oil hydroconversion process: A process for the production of high yields of high quality products from heavy hydrocarbonaceous feedstock comprising a two-stage, close-coupled process, wherein the first stage comprises a thermal-catalytic zone into which is introduced a mixture comprising the feedstock, coal, dispersed catalyst, and hydrogen; and the second, close-coupled stage comprises a... Agent:

20120118792 - Converting heavy sour crude oil/emulsion to lighter crude oil using cavitations and filtration based systems: A process for converting heavy sulfur-containing crude oil into lighter crude oil with lower sulfur content and lower molecular weight is provided. The process is a low-temperature process using controlled cavitation.... Agent: Saudi Arabian Oil Company

20120118793 - Heavy metal passivator/trap for fcc processes: The present invention provides a catalyst mixture comprising FCC catalysts and a metal passivator/trap and use thereof in trapping metal contaminants during the catalytic cracking of hydrocarbon feedstocks.... Agent: Basf Corporation

20120111765 - Hydrocarbon composition: A hydrocarbon composition is described herein. The hydrocarbon composition has a relatively low viscosity and a relatively low oxygen content while having a relatively high vanadium, nickel, and iron metals content, and a relatively high distillate, residue, and micro-carbon residue content.... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20120111766 - Products produced from rapid thermal processing of heavy hydrocarbon feedstocks: The present invention is directed to the upgrading of heavy hydrocarbon feedstock that utilizes a short residence pyrolytic reactor operating under conditions that cracks and chemically upgrades the feedstock. The process of the present invention provides for the preparation of a partially upgraded feedstock exhibiting reduced viscosity and increased API... Agent:

20120111768 - Integrated interstitial metal hydride catalyst support systems and associated processes: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to the processing of hydrocarbon-containing feedstreams in the presence of an interstitial metal hydride comprising a surface, with a metal oxide integrally synthesized and providing a coating on the surface of the interstitial metal hydride. The catalysts and processes of the present invention... Agent: Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company

20120111767 - Interstitial metal hydride catalyst systems and associated processes: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to the processing of hydrocarbon-containing feedstreams in the presence of an interstitial metal hydride containing catalyst comprising a surface, and a Group VI/Group VIII metal sulfide coated onto the surface of the interstitial metal hydride. The catalysts and processes of the present invention... Agent: Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company

20120111769 - Crude oil desulfurization: A method of removing sulfur from sour oil by subjecting sour oil having a first sulfur content to high shear in the presence of at least one desulfurizing agent to produce a high shear treated stream, wherein the at least one desulfurizing agent is selected from the group consisting of... Agent: H R D Corporation

20120103866 - Pressure relief in high pressure processing system: The present disclosure provides a system and method for responding to an unintended increase in pressure within a high pressure processing system. The system and method of the present disclosure provides a pressure relief system that releases pressure reliably even if the material under pressure is of mixed phase. In... Agent: Chevron U.s.a. Inc.

20120103867 - Process for the production of kerosene and diesel fuels from light unsaturated fractions and btx-rich aromatic fractions: Process for the production of kerosene and diesel fuels from a so-called light cracked naphtha fraction, to which can be added any quantity of an LPG fraction and a BTX-rich aromatic fraction and which uses a stage for oligomerization of olefins and alkylation of olefins on the aromatic compounds.... Agent: Ifp Energies Nouvelles

20120103868 - Hydroprocessing of heavy hydrocarbon feeds in liquid-full reactors: A process to treat a heavy hydrocarbon feed in a liquid-full hydroprocessing reactor is disclosed. The heavy feed has a high asphaltenes content, high viscosity, high density and high end boiling point. Hydrogen is fed in an equivalent amount of at least 160 liters of hydrogen, per liter of feed,... Agent: E. I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company

20120103869 - Devices for injection of gaseous streams into a bed of fluidized solids: Injection nozzles for use in a gas distribution device are disclosed. In one aspect, the injection nozzle may include: a tube having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet; wherein the inlet comprises a plurality of flow restriction orifices. In another aspect, embodiments disclosed herein relate to an injection nozzle... Agent: Lummus Technology Inc.

20120103870 - Fluid catalytic cracking catalyst stripping: This disclosure relates to devices, e.g., baffle plate and combination dipleg valve/baffle devices, for use in achieving rapid disengagement of entrained hydrocarbons vapors, especially in high flux spent catalyst flow exiting from a cyclone separator dipleg in a fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) unit. The baffle plate is preferably located near... Agent: Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company

20120103871 - Method for reducing mercaptans in hydrocarbons: i

20120103872 - Method for reducing mercaptans in hydrocarbons: A method for reducing mercaptan concentration in a crude oil is disclosed. The method comprises contacting the crude with a treating solution comprising a hypochlorite solution, whereby the mercaptan sulfur is oxidized and converted to at least one sulfur oxoacid or salt thereof, yielding a treated crude oil having less... Agent:

20120103873 - Procede d'hydrotraitement et/ou d'hydrocraquage de charges azotees avec stripage a l'hydrogene: m

20120103874 - Oil recovery method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for recovering oil from oil-containing sorbents, such as drill cuttings obtained from drilling with an oil-based mud. The method includes peptizing the substrate with an acid reagent and direct thermal desorption with combustion effluent gases at high temperature under turbulent mixing conditions. Another method disclosed includes... Agent: Racional Energy & Environment Company