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Mineral oils: processes and products August inventions list 08/12

20120217186 - Method for producing lubricant base oil: A method for producing a lubricant base oil includes contacting feedstock containing normal paraffins having not less than 20 carbon atoms with a first catalyst in the presence of molecular hydrogen to obtain a first produced oil, and contacting the first produced oil with a second catalyst in the presence... Agent: Jx Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation

20120217187 - Optimizing heavy oil recovery processes using electrostatic desalters: The invention relates to improved bitumen recovery processes and systems. The process may include providing a bitumen froth feed stream, separating the stream in a froth separation unit to produce a diluted bitumen stream, treating the diluted bitumen stream in an electrostatic desalter to produce a treated bitumen stream, and... Agent:

20120211399 - Jet fuels having superior thermal stability: Disclosed herein are jet fuel compositions containing (a) a total aromatics content of from 2 vol. % to no more than about 25 vol. %; (b) a net heat of combustion of at least about 125,000 Btu/gal; (c) a concentration of less than about 5 vol. % of hydrocarbons having... Agent: Chevron U.s.a. Inc.

20120211400 - Alumina forming bimetallic tube for refinery process furnaces and method of making and using: Provided is a bimetallic tube for transport of hydrocarbon feedstocks in refinery process furnaces, and more particularly in furnace radiant coils, including: i) an outer tube layer being formed from stainless steels including chromium in the range of 15.0 to 26.0 wt. % based on the total weight of the... Agent: Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company

20120211401 - Process for hydrotreating naphtha fraction and process for producing hydrocarbon oil: A process for hydrotreating a naphtha fraction that includes a step of estimating the difference between the naphtha fraction hydrotreating reactor outlet temperature and inlet temperature, based on the reaction temperature of the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction and the ratio of the flow rate of the treated naphtha fraction returned to... Agent:

20120211402 - Process for converting a liquid feed material into a vapor phase product: A liquid feed material such as a heavy hydrocarbon feed in liquid form is contacted with a fluidized bed of heated solid particles which have a bulk horizontal velocity which is generally perpendicular to the flow of a fluidizing medium. The liquid feed material reacts on the solid particles to... Agent: Etx Systems Inc.

20120205284 - High density renewable fuels based on the selective dimerization of pinenes: An effective method for producing high density fuel candidates from pinenes is provided. MMT-K10 is an efficient catalyst for the reaction, although significant amounts of p-cymene and camphene produced as byproducts limit the overall yield to about 80%. Nafion is also an excellent catalyst for pinene dimerization and was capable... Agent:

20120205285 - Targeted pretreatment and selective ring opening in liquid-full reactors: A process for hydroprocessing hydrocarbons in a combined targeted pretreatment and selective ring-opening unit wherein the targeted pretreatment comprises at least two stages in a single liquid recycle loop. The process operates as a liquid-full process, wherein all of the hydrogen dissolves in the liquid phase. Heavy hydrocarbons and light... Agent: E. I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company

20120205286 - Hydrocracking process using a zeolite catalyst containing two distinct hydrogenating functions: Process for hydrocracking and/or hydrotreatment of hydrocarbon feeds utilizing a catalyst comprising at least one hydro-dehydrogenating element of group VIB and of non-precious group VIII used alone or mixed, and a support comprising at least one porous mineral matrix and at least one dealuminated USY zeolite having an overall silicon-to-aluminium... Agent: Ifp Energies Nouvelles

20120205287 - Method for restoring activity to a spent hydroprocessing catalyst, a spent hydroprocessing catalyst having restored catalytic activity, and a hyrdoprocessing process: A regenerated spent hydroprocessing catalyst treated with a chelating agent and having incorporated therein a polar additive.... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20120205288 - Fluidized-bed reactor and hydrotreating method thereof: The invention relates to a fluidized bed reactor and a hydrogenation method thereof. The fluidized bed reactor (7) comprises a reactor shell (103) vertical to the ground and a phase separator (111) at the upper part of the shell (103). An inner circulation zone is provided under the phase separator... Agent:

20120205289 - Method and apparatus for processing of spent lubricating oil: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for recovery of spent lubricating oil. The evaporation of hydrocarbon fractions from spent lubricating oil is carried out in three steps. The first step is at approximately 150-1030 mbar and between 70-240° C. in which is greater than 99% water, greater... Agent:

20120205290 - Hydroprocessing catalyst prepared with waste catalyst fines and its use: A hydroprocessing catalyst composition that comprises a shaped support that is formed from a mixture of inorganic oxide powder and catalyst fines and wherein the shaped support has incorporated therein at least one metal component, a chelating agent and a polar additive. The hydroprocessing catalyst composition is prepared by incorporating... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20120205291 - Method of making a hydroprocessing catalyst with a single step metal and chelant incorporation, the catalyst, and the use of the catalyst: A hydroprocessing catalyst composition that comprises a metal-incorporated support having incorporated therein a metal component and a chelating agent, and, further comprising a polar additive. The catalyst composition is prepared by incorporating in a single step at least one metal component and a chelating agent into a support material to... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20120205292 - Chelant and polar additive containing composition useful in the hydroprocessing of hydrocarbon feedstocks and method of making and use thereof: A hydroprocessing catalyst composition that comprises a chelant treated metal containing support material having incorporated therein a polar additive. The catalyst composition is prepared by incorporating at least one metal component into a support material followed by treating the metal incorporated support with a chelating agent and thereafter incorporating a... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20120199518 - Cyclone plenum turbulator: Methods and apparatus for preventing coke formation in a plenum are provided. The apparatus can include a turbulator for use in a plenum. The turbulator can include a deflector disposed inside the plenum proximate an inlet to the plenum from a cyclone, wherein the plenum and the cyclone are disposed... Agent: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC

20120199517 - Process for the recovery of oils from a solid matrix: Process for the recovery of oils from a solid matrix comprising: subjecting said solid matrix to extraction by mixing with an oil-in-water nanoemulsion, obtaining a solid- liquid mixture; subjecting said solid- liquid mixture to separation, obtaining a liquid phase comprising said oils and a solid phase comprising said solid matrix;... Agent: Eni S.p.a.

20120193269 - Automation and control of energy efficient fluid catalytic cracking processes for maximizing value added products: Petroleum oil is catalytically cracked by contacting oil with catalyst mixture consisting of a base cracking catalyst containing an stable Y-type zeolite and small amounts of rare-earth metal oxide, and an additive containing a shape-selective zeolite, in an FCC apparatus having a regeneration zone, a separation zone, and a stripping... Agent: Saudi Arabian Oil Company

20120193270 - Hydrocracking catalyst for heavy oil and method for hydrotreating heavy oil using same: Provided is a catalyst for hydrocracking of heavy oil which is excellent in both functions of cracking activity and desulfurization activity with respect to heavy oil by striking a balance between the cracking activity and desulfurization activity and which includes a support including a crystalline aluminosilicate and a porous inorganic... Agent:

20120193271 - Mechanical pyrolysis in a shear retort: Mechanical visbreaking and pyrolysis between counter-rotating coaxial centrifugal impellers in a continuous radial counterflow process minimizes wastewater discharges. In an embodiment, a cataclastic shear retort comminutes, shear thins, and shear heats an axial feed, such as tar sand, oil shale, coal tailings, distillation bottoms, or lignite. Pyrolyzing the feedstock in... Agent: Mccutchen Co.