Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

Follicle, Inc.

Exxonmobil Chemical Patents Inc.

Exxonmobil Research and Engineering Company

Eric D Nelson

Erik Stafl

Christopher Rebholz

Moses Minta

Cor F Van Egmond

Michael Peter Nicoletti

David T Kirkland

James Meredith

Marcos L Nolan

James Richardson Lattner

Frank Hershkowitz

Larry Lee Iaccino

Robert D Kaminsky

James Harding Beech, Jr

Franklin F Mittricker

Steven E Silverberg

Loren K Starcher

Ronald G Searle

William A Symington

Lawrence Carl Smith

Peter C Rasmussen

Michele M Thomas

John B Stone

Stanley O Uptigrove

Mark A Nierode

Omar Angus Sites

Jasper L Dickson

Garth M Norman

Edward L Kimble

Christopher D W Jenkins

Andrea P Wight

Patrick D McMahon

Ross Mowrey

Albrecht Goethe

Michael Y Wen

Russ H Oelfke

Douglas E Smith

Lauren Blanton

Angus Sites

A battery operated hair dryer includes a battery management and control module to control how to efficiently dry a user's hair while maintaining the health and charge of the battery.

Battery operated hair dryer

Hair dryer

Charging base for a hair dryer

Provided is a natural gas processing facility for the liquefaction or regasification of natural gas. The facility includes a primary processing unit, e.g., refrigeration unit, for warming natural gas or chilling natural gas to at least a temperature of liquefaction. The facility also has superconducting electrical components integrated into the facility. The superconducting electrical components incorporate superconducting material so as to improve electrical efficiency of the facility by at least one percent over what would be experienced through the use of conventional electrical components. The superconducting electrical components may be one or more motors, one or more generators, one or more transformers, switch gears, one or more electrical transmission conductors, variable speed drives, or combinations thereof.

Superconducting system for enhanced natural gas production

Integrated systems and methods for low emission power generation in a hydrocarbon recovery processes are provided. One system includes a control fuel stream, an oxygen stream, a combustion unit, a first power generate on system and a second power generation system. The combustion unit is configured to receive and combust the control fuel stream and the oxygen stream to produce a gaseous combustion stream having carbon dioxide and water. The first power generation system is configured to generate at least one unit of power and a carbon dioxide stream. The second power generation system is configured to receive thermal energy from the gaseous combustion stream and convert the thermal energy into at least one unit of power.

Low emission power generation and hydrocarbon recovery systems and methods

An in situ method of producing hydrocarbon fluids from an organic-rich rock formation may include heating an organic-rich rock formation, for example an oil shale formation, in situ to pyrolyze formation hydrocarbons, for example kerogen, to form a production fluid containing hydrocarbon fluids. The method may include separating the production fluid into at least a gas stream and a liquid stream, where the gas stream is a low BTU gas stream. The low BTU gas stream is then fed to a gas turbine where it is combusted and is used to generate electricity.

Process for producing hydrocarbon fluids combining in situ heating, a power plant and a gas plant

Methods and systems for low emission power generation in hydrocarbon recovery processes are provided. One system includes integrated pressure maintenance and miscible flood systems with low emission power generation. The system may also include integration of a pressure swing reformer (PSR), air-blown auto-thermal reformer (ATR), or oxygen-blown ATR with a gas power turbine system, preferably a combined cycle gas power turbine system. Such systems may be employed to capture and utilize greenhouse gases (GHG) and generate power for use in hydrocarbon recovery operations.

The invention relates to the integration of a dehydroaromatization process with the processes for the utilization of associated gas; gases comprising methane and higher hydrocarbons, and/or liquefied natural gas (LNG) production or usage.

Process for methane conversion

The GTL process of the invention comprises: reacting a combustible carbonaceous material in a syngas reactor, preferably an autothermal reformer, under conditions to produce a synthesis gas; contacting the synthesis gas with an F-T catalyst to form liquid products and a tail gas; separating the tail gas from the liquid products; separating COfrom the light products in the tail gas; recovering the light products as additional products for sale or other use and utilizing at least a portion of the separated COas a feed stream to the syngas reactor.

Light ends recovery process for a GTL plant

This invention provides an integrated system and process for forming light olefins and polymers from oxygenates, and optionally from natural gas. The integrated system includes an air separation unit, which separates air components into an oxygen stream and a nitrogen stream, and which also forms a compressed air stream. According to the present invention, the oxygen stream, the nitrogen stream and/or the compressed air stream from the air separation unit may serve as a reactant in syngas generation, as a regeneration medium in the methanol-to-olefins reaction system, as a fluidizing stream, as a blanketing medium, as a stripping medium, as instrument air, and/or as a reactant in a sulfur removal unit.

Integrating an air separation unit into an oxygenate-to-olefins reaction system

A method for producing an olefin stream is provided based on conversion of an initial natural gas stream into a synthesis gas. The resulting synthesis gas is enriched with COpreviously separated from the natural gas stream. The synthesis gas is then used to form a methanol composition, which can then be used as feedstock for a methanol-to-olefin conversion reaction.

Methanol feed for producing olefin streams

A method for upgrading a hydrocarbon in which an oxygen source and a hydrogen source are ignited and the resulting synthetic gas is used to initiate a predominantly gas phase heavy oil upgrade reaction. The upgrade reaction is quenched with an additional source of un-upgraded hydrocarbon.

Heavy oil upgrade method and apparatus

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Eric D Nelson