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Bp Corporation North America Inc.

Honeywell International Inc.

British Nuclear Fuels Plc

Hyradix Incorporated

Sni S.p.a.

Advansix Resins & Chemicals Llc.

Gavin Paul Towler

Kurt M Vanden Bussche

Anil Rajaram Oroskar

Christopher Naunheimer

John Joseph Senetar

Laura Elise Leonard

Robert L Bedard

Gregory O Woodcock

Donald L Mittendorf

Tom N Kalnes

Michael A Schultz

Stanley Joseph Frey

Ivar Martin Dahl

Arne Karlsson

Duncan E Akporiaye

Laszlo T Nemeth

Robert T Sprague

Paul T Barger

Bryan K Glover

David A Wegerer

Andrea G Bozzano

Hayim Abrevaya

Stephen R Dunne

Rodolphe Dudebout

Rune Wendelbo

Timur V Voskoboynikov

Kishore J Doshi

Rusty M Pittman

John R Harness

Jeffery C Bricker

Christopher D Gosling

James W Priegnitz

Avram Michael Buchbinder

Aziz A Sattar

John Patrick Brady

William J Lechnick

Cynthia K Zimmerman

Christopher David Gatto

Robert Saunders Murray

Randy Scott Stier

Daniel R Sioui

Kenneth J Stippich

Kurt Vanden Bussche

Santi Kulprathipanja

Joseph A Kocal

Charles P Luebke

Jason T Corradi

Lubo Zhou

Robert B James

Ralph D Gillespie

Leonid B Galperin

Frank S Modica

Steven Lee Krupa

Lin Li

James A Kweeder

David Nathan Myers

Mark Van Wees

Carl John Stevens

Michael R Smith

Grant H Yokomizo

Saadet Ulas Acikgoz

Robert J Sanger

Elizabeth Carter

Nicholas W Bridge

Daniel James Pintar

Jeffrey C Bricker

Julie A Zarraga

Andrew Lindsay Wallwork

Timur V Voskoboinikov

Rajeev Gautam

William H Keesom

Emmanuel Gaubert

Carl N Zenz

Suzanne E Smith

A process utilizing a micro-emulsion is described. The micro-emulsion formed by contacting an ionic liquid, a co-solvent, a hydrocarbon, an optional surfactant, and an optional catalyst promoter to form the micro-emulsion. The micro-emulsion comprises a hydrocarbon component comprising the hydrocarbon and an ionic liquid component comprising the ionic liquid. The ionic liquid comprises a halometallate anion and a cation. The co-solvent has a polarity greater than a polarity of the hydrocarbon. The ionic liquid is present in an amount of 0.05 wt % to 40 wt % of the micro-emulsion. A product mixture comprising a product is produced in a process zone containing the micro-emulsion.

Hydrocarbon processes using halometallate ionic liquid micro-emulsions

A method of reducing catalyst agglomeration in a slurry hydrocracking zone containing at least two reactors is described. A hydrocarbon feed and a slurry hydrocracking catalyst are contacted in a first reactor to form a first effluent containing slurry hydrocracking reaction products, unreacted hydrocarbon feed, and the slurry hydrocracking catalyst, wherein the slurry hydrocracking catalyst agglomerates. The first effluent and an unsupported hydrogenation catalyst are contacted in a second reactor to form a second effluent containing the slurry hydrocracking reaction products, unreacted hydrocarbon feed, the slurry hydrocracking catalyst, and asphaltene reaction products.

Staged introduction of additives in slurry hydrocracking process

A micro-emulsion and a method of making the micro-emulsion are described. The micro-emulsion includes a hydrocarbon component, an ionic liquid component, and a co-solvent. The ionic liquid comprises a halometallate anion and a cation. The micro-emulsion can optionally include a surfactant, and a catalyst promoter. The co-solvent has a polarity greater than the polarity of the hydrocarbon. The ionic liquid is present in an amount of about 0.05 wt % to about 40 wt % of the micro-emulsion.

Halometallate ionic liquid micro-emulsions

A crude distillation and refining process and apparatus enables modular supply of the crude distillation column. Crude oil may be heated and then separated into only two liquid products in the crude distillation column. The separation between the light and heavy products may be controlled by the overhead product flow rate. Heat is recovered from an overhead stream and a bottoms stream by pre-heating the incoming crude oil stream by heat exchange with overhead stream and the bottoms stream. In an embodiment, a diesel-range distillate fraction may be condensed from an overhead stream in a first heat exchanger and a naphtha-range fraction may be condensed from the gas stream uncondensed by the first heat exchanger in a second heat exchanger.

Modular crude refining process

Apparatus and methods are provided for converting methane in a feed stream to acetylene. A hydrocarbon stream is introduced into a supersonic reactor and pyrolyzed to convert at least a portion of the methane to acetylene. The reactor effluent stream may be treated to convert acetylene to another hydrocarbon process.

Methane conversion apparatus and process using a supersonic flow reactor

One exemplary embodiment can be a process for producing a chemical feedstock. The process can include passing a feed to a hydrotreatment zone, passing an effluent from the hydrotreatment zone to a fractionation zone, passing a stream including one or more C5-C25 hydrocarbons from the fractionation zone to a fluid catalytic cracking zone to obtain an another stream including one or more C6-C10 hydrocarbons, and passing the another stream to an adsorption zone for removing at least one heteroatom compound having a sulfur or a nitrogen atom.

Process for producing a chemical feedstock and apparatus relating thereto

One exemplary embodiment can be a process for producing a biofuel while minimizing fossil fuel derived carbon dioxide emissions. The process can include providing a renewable feed to an ester degradation zone to produce a first stream including one or more alcohols and a second stream including one or more acids, providing the first stream to a treatment zone for removing one or more salts and to obtain a treated stream, providing the treated stream to a reforming zone to obtain an effluent including hydrogen, and providing the second stream and at least a portion of the effluent to a refining zone for producing the biofuel.

Process for producing a biofuel while minimizing fossil fuel derived carbon dioxide emissions

Methods for the production of ammonium sulfate nitrate include (a) providing at a temperature of less than about 175&#xb0; C. a melt including ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulfate, and water and the water content is greater than about 2 wt % based on the total weight of ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulfate and water in the melt, and (b) solidifying from the melt 1:2 ANS double salt by cooling at least a portion of the melt at a rate of less than about 100&#xb0; C./min.

Methods for preparing compositions comprising ammonium nitrate double salts

A process for the dehydrogenation of paraffins is presented. The process utilizes a rapid recycling of dehydrogenation catalyst between the dehydrogenation reactor and the catalyst regeneration unit. The process comprises preheating a combined hydrogen and paraffin hydrocarbon feedstream and passing the combined stream to a dehydrogenation reactor. The hydrocarbon feedstream and the catalyst pass through the reactor at a rate to limit the average residence time of the catalyst in the reactor. The catalyst is cycled to a regeneration unit, and passed through the regeneration unit to limit the average residence time of the catalyst in the regeneration unit.

Reactor flowscheme for dehydrogenation of propane to propylene

A fired heater has two types of burners. The first burner is located in a duct which provides oxygen-containing gas to the heater to be combusted with the fuel provided by the burner. The second burner is located in the heater and provides both air and fuel for combustion. The heater may be located downstream of a gas turbine engine that cogenerates electricity and provides the oxygen-containing gas.

Fired heater

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Gavin Paul Towler