Amoco Corporation

Shell Oil Comapny

Bp Amoco Corporation

Don M Washecheck

George A Huff

Mark S Kleefisch

Mark P Kaminsky

Mark K Barr

Eugene H Hirschberg

Rodney L Mieville

Charles T Adams

Terrence A Renner

Lawrence C Robinson

Ronald A Dictor

Simon G Kukes

P Donald Hopkins

Victor K Shum

Pablo D Hendler

Cynthia D Ontiveros

Aileen E Alvarado-Swaisgood

Robert Charles Ryan

Ajay M Madgavkar

Howard Wong

John A Mahoney

Riitta L Ollendorff

Stanley W Sorrels

Riitta L Olleandorff

Om P Mahajan

A sorbent material, an activated carbon canister and a method are described which can be utilized to remove organic compounds from a vaporous stream with a relatively greater degree of safety, as compared to previously known methods. In the invention, essentially dry and wetted activated carbon particles are intermixed in a substantially homogeneous mixture which inhibits accidental combustion. The heat capacity of wetted carbon particles retards the heating of nearby unwetted particles, so as to inhibit the ignition of the nearby unwetted particles. The presence of wetted particles intermixed in the substantially homogeneous mixture has relatively little effect on the hydrocarbon adsorption performance of the mixture.

Reducing ignition risk for activated carbon

An exhaust gas emissions control system lowers cold-start hydrocarbon emissions by using heat exchange structure to lower the temperature of exhaust gas prior to the exhaust gas passing through a hydrocarbon adsorbent and using the extracted heat to heat a catalytic converter to its light-off temperature. In some embodiments, multi-component hydrocarbon adsorbers effective under different operating conditions further reduce cold-start hydrocarbon emissions.

Emissions control system and method

A catalyst and method of making a catalyst are provided for the selective hydrotreating of a selective hydrotreating feedstock comprising reacting the feedstock with hydrogen at hydrotreating conditions in the presence of a catalyst comprising a hydrogenation component and a support component. The hydrogenation component comprises a Group VIB metal component and a Group VIII metal component wherein the Group VIB metal component is present in an amount ranging from about 4 wt % to about 20 wt % and the Group VIII metal component is present in an amount ranging from about 0.5 wt % to about 10 wt %, both calculated as oxides and based on the total catalyst weight. The support component comprises from about 0.5 wt % to about 50 wt % of a magnesium component and from about 0.02 wt % to about 10 wt % of an alkali metal component, both calculated as oxides and based on the total catalyst weight. The present invention provides a process, catalyst, and method of making a catalyst resulting in higher selective hydrotreating feedstock octane at high levels of desulfurization, among numerous other benefits.

Selective hydrotreating catalyst

A contact material composition containing an intimately mixed, mixed oxide of at least one cationic species of a naturally occurring Group IIIB element, at least one cationic species of a Group IIA metal of magnesium, calcium, strontium, and barium and a cationic species of aluminum, as well as methods for hydrocarbon conversion using such contact material compositions are provided.

Hydrocarbon conversion

A contact material composition of an intimately mixed halogen-containing mixed oxide of at least one cationic species of a naturally occurring Group IIIB element, at least one cationic species of a Group IIA metal of magnesium, calcium, strontium and barium and at least one cationic species of germanium and gallium, as well as methods for hydrocarbon conversion using such contact material compositions are provided.

Hydrocarbon conversion catalyst

A contact material composition containing an intimately mixed, mixed oxide of at least one cationic species of a naturally occurring Group IIIB element, at least one cationic species of a Group IIA metal of magnesium, calcium, strontium, and barium and at least one additional metal cationic species of zirconium and hafnium, as well as methods for hydrocarbon conversion using such contact material compositions are provided.

A process, catalyst, and method of making a catalyst are provided for the selective hydrotreating of a selective hydrotreating feedstock comprising reacting the feedstock with hydrogen at hydrotreating conditions in the presence of a catalyst comprising a hydrogenation component and a support component. The hydrogenation component comprises a Group VIB metal component and a Group VIII metal component wherein the Group VIB metal component is present in an amount ranging from about 4 wt % to about 20 wt % and the Group VIII metal component is present in an amount ranging from about 0.5 wt % to about 10 wt %, both calculated as oxides and based on the total catalyst weight. The support component comprises from about 0.5 wt % to about 50 wt % of a magnesium component and from about 0.02 wt % to about 10 wt % of an alkali metal component, both calculated as oxides and based on the total catalyst weight. The present invention provides a process, catalyst, and method of making a catalyst resulting in higher selective hydrotreating feedstock octane at high levels of desulfurization, among numerous other benefits.

Selective hydrotreating

A contact material composition of an intimately mixed halogencontaining mixed oxide of at least one cationic species of a naturally occurring Group IIIB element, at least one cationic species of a Group IIA metal of magnesium, calcium, strontium and barium and at least one cationic species of germanium and gallium, as well as methods for hydrocarbon conversion using such contact material compositions are provided.

A contact material of a fluorine-containing compound of at least one of Sr, Ba, Sc, Y or La, as well as such contact material compositions themselves, is provided.

Fluorine-containing materials

A contact material composition containing an intimately mixed, mixed oxide of at least one cationic species of a naturally occurring Group 111B elment, at least one cationic species of a Group IIA metal of magnesium, calcium, strontium, and barium and at least one additional metal cationic species of zirconium and hafnium, as well as methods for hydrocarbon conversion using such contact material compositions are provided.

A method for converting lower alkanes to a higher molecular weight hydrocarbon using a contact material of a fluorine-containing compound of at least one of Sr, Ba, Sc, Y or La, as well as such contact material compositions themselves is provided.

Oxidative conversion of lower alkanes to higher hydrocarbons via

An oxidative coupling catalyst composition for converting methane to a higher hydrocarbon comprising a mixed oxide of: a) a Group IIIB metal selected from the group consisting of yttrium, scandium and lanthanum; b) a Group IIA metal selected from the group consisting of barium, calcium and strontium; and c) a Group IVA metal selected from the group consisting of tin, lead and germanium and wherein the cationic species are present in the approximate ratio of 1:0.5-3:2-4, respectively, and an improved process employing same.

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Naperville, IL, United States of America

Don M Washecheck