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Mineral oils: processes and products December patent applications/inventions, industry category 12/12

20120325724 - Recovery of alkyl chloride adsorbtion capacity by basic solution treatment of spent adsorbent: Processes for the rejuvenation of a spent adsorbent, wherein the adsorption capacity of the spent adsorbent may be repeatedly restored by treating the spent adsorbent with a basic solution and subsequent adsorbent activation, thereby allowing a plurality of adsorption cycles using a single adsorbent sample. Processes for ionic liquid catalyzed... Agent:

20120318712 - Catalyst and method for fuels hydrocracking: Fuels hydrocracking can be used to generate a variety of product slates. Varying the temperature can allow an amount of naphtha product and an amount of unconverted product to be varied. The method can be enabled by a hydrocracking catalyst that includes a combination of metals with activity for hydrodesulfurization.... Agent: Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company

20120318713 - Methods of recovering rare earth elements: Processes described include reacting a fresh or spent catalyst, or sorbent, with a solution containing an extracting agent (such as an acid or a base). Preferably, the catalyst contains both alumina and a molecular sieve (or a sorbent), and the reaction is performed under relatively mild conditions such that the... Agent:

20120318714 - Ionic liquid catalyst for the improvement of heavy crude and vacuum residues: Heavy crude oil residue and vacuum residue is upgraded using an ionic liquid catalyst formulated with metals of Group VIB and VIIIB of the periodic table, which catalyst is highly miscible in the hydrocarbon phase. The combination of different metals and acidity from the protons that make up the ionic... Agent: Instituto Mexicano Del Petroleo

20120318715 - E-beam treatment to increase cetane: Methods and systems relate to treating an oil-in-water emulsion with an electron beam to decrease aromatic content therein for subsequent recovery of diesel products with upgraded cetane number. The method includes passing the emulsion formed of water and a hydrocarbon stream, such as light cycle oil, through an electron beam.... Agent: Phillips 66 Company

20120318716 - Solvent extraction process to stabilize, desulphurize and dry wide range diesels, stabilized wide range diesels obtained and their uses: A process allowing the removal of contaminants from an unstable oil such as those produced by thermal or catalytic cracking, wherein, in at least one step of the process, mixing of the unstable oil with a pure or impure solvent having a dipole moment greater than 2 is performed. The... Agent:

20120318717 - Hydrotreating catalyst for hydrocarbon oil and method for producing same, and hydrocarbon oil hydrotreating method using same: Provided are: a hydrotreating catalyst for hydrocarbon oil having a hydrodesulfurization activity additionally improved by: simultaneously and continuously adding an aqueous solution of an acidic compound containing titanium and an aqueous solution containing an alkaline compound to a hydrosol containing an alumina hydrate particle at a temperature of 10 to... Agent:

20120318718 - Bitumen extraction and dewatering in a filter press: A process for extraction of bitumen and other oil products from sand, other sedimentary deposits and from mine tailings, may comprise flowing solvent through these bitumen-containing materials held in a filter press, where elevated pressures and temperatures may be used. After exposure to solvent the sedimentary deposits may be exposed... Agent:

20120312721 - Predicting petroleum coke morphology from feedstock properties: According to one embodiment, a method includes desulfurizing a hydrocarbon feedstock in the presence of a desulfurization catalyst. A hydrocarbon product is recovered. The color of the hydrocarbon product is improved and the sulfur content of the hydrocarbon product is reduced by flash distilling the product.... Agent: Lyondell Chemical Company

20120312722 - Process for fluid catalytic cracking: One exemplary embodiment can be a process for fluid catalytic cracking The process can include providing a mixture of a fuel gas and at least one of steam and nitrogen to a catalyst stripping zone of a reaction zone. Usually, the fuel gas is added in an amount effective to... Agent: Uop, LLC

20120312723 - Mechanical processing of oil sands: A method of extracting bitumen from oil sands having a transition temperature at which the oil sands solidify includes forming formable oil sands into pellets and cooling at least a surface of the pellets sufficiently to prevent the pellets from aggregating; cooling the pellets to below the transition temperature; fracturing... Agent: Cryoex Oil Ltd.

20120305446 - Controlling temperature within a catalyst bed in a reactor vessel: A quenching medium is delivered directly to selected regions or locations within a catalyst bed in a hydroprocessing reactor vessel in order to control the reactivity of a hydroprocess occurring in the selected regions or locations separately from other regions or locations. Temperature sensors for providing temperature indications and conduits... Agent:

20120305447 - Process for treating a hydrocarbon-containing feed: A process for treating a hydrocarbon-containing feedstock is provided in which a hydrocarbon-containing feedstock comprising at least 20 wt. % of heavy hydrocarbons is mixed with hydrogen and a catalyst to produce a vapor comprising a first hydrocarbon-containing product. The vapor comprising the first hydrocarbon-containing product is separated from the... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20120305449 - 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

20120305448 - Process for treating a hydrocarbon-containing feed: A process for treating a hydrocarbon-containing feedstock is provided in which a hydrocarbon-containing feedstock comprising at least 20 wt. % of heavy hydrocarbons is mixed with hydrogen and a non-acidic metal-containing catalyst at a temperature of 375° C. to 500° C. to produce a vapor comprising a first hydrocarbon-containing product.... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20120305450 - Nanoporous articles and methods of making same: A method is provided for producing an ultra-low sulfur hydrocarbon product from a hydrocarbon feedstock containing refractory sulfur compounds utilizing a carbon adsorbent. Also described is a hydrocarbon processing system configured to produce an ultra-low sulfur hydrocarbon product from hydrocarbon feedstock containing refractory sulfur compounds. The hydrocarbon processing system also... Agent: Advanced Technology Materials, Inc.

20120305452 - Dry, stackable tailings and methods for producing the same: Methods for preparing solvent-dry, stackable tailings. The methods 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. The first solvent-wet tailings are washed with a second solvent that removes the first solvent from the tailings.... Agent: Marathon Oil Canada Corporation

20120305451 - Process and system for recovery of bitumen from oil sands: A process is described for bitumen extraction from oil sands. Solvent extraction is used, incorporating fines agglomeration to simplify subsequent separation. A high quality bitumen product is formed, having water and solids content that exceeds downstream processing and pipeline requirements. An embodiment of the process comprises combining a first solvent... Agent: