Texaco Inc.

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Jitendra A Patel

Ajit K Bhattacharya

Guillermo Prada-Silva

Roy E Pratt

Joseph A Durkin

Arthur J Stipanovic

Jeffrey P Schoonmaker

A method of improving the fuel economy characteristic of a lubricant by friction reduction including mixing the lubricant with a C.sub.2 to C.sub.12 aliphatic carboxylate salt of molybdenum and a zinc dialkyldithiophosphate or zinc dialkyldithiocarbamate is disclosed. The synergistic interaction of the aliphatic carboxylate salt of molybdenum and the zinc salt results in at least a 30% reduction in the coefficient of friction at 100.degree. C.

Method of improving the fuel economy characteristics of a lubricant by

A motion sensor and photoelectric light sensor activated plug-in type electrical receptacle which conveniently plugs into a standard power outlet is disclosed. The device allows non-motion detector and/or non-photoelectric equipped devices to function as motion sensor and/or photoelectric sensor operated devices. The device has motion and photoelectric switches permitting customized applications. The device can be used with any wall or ceiling mounted electrical outlet to automatically turn on and off other plug-in type electrical devices such as night lights, radios, heaters, and thereof, when presence of people and/or pets is detected. This device conveniently plugs into any wall power outlet by means of two or three prongs without requiring new wiring or rewiring of the existing electric circuit.

Motion sensor/photoelectric light sensor plug-in receptacle

In an ebullated bed process, a residual hydrocarbon oil and a hydrogen containing gas is passed upwardly through an ebullated bed of catalyst in a hydrocracking zone at a temperature in the range of 650.degree. F. to 950.degree. F. and pressure of 1000 psia to 5000 psia. The hydrogen containing gas comprises hydrogen sulfide in an amount to maintain the sulfur content of the oil in the hydrocracking zone at 2 wt % to 10 wt %. A hydrocracked oil is recovered characterized by having a reduced sediment content.

Suppressing sediment formation in an ebullated bed process

A method for preparing a mixture of lower aliphatic alcohols from the reaction of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a sulfide-containing heavy metal catalyst under carbon-monoxide-hydrogenation conditions in which said catalyst comprises at least one sulfided heavy metal element selected from the group consisting of molybdenum, tungsten, rhenium, and an alkali or alkaline earth promoter which has been treated with a nitrogen-containing compound, or a theramlly stable derivative thereof is provided.

Catalyst treatment process

A method for preparing a mixture of lower aliphatic alcohols from the reaction of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a sulfide-containing heavy metal catalyst under carbon monoxide-hydrogenation conditions in which said catalyst comprises at least one sulfided heavy metal element selected from the group consisting of molybdenum, tungsten, rhenium, and an alkali or alkaline earth promoter which has been treated with a nitrogen-containing compound, or a thermally stable derivative thereof is provided.

Synthesis gas to alcohols process

A debridger for finely divided solids fed from a hopper to a screw feed by gravity. It has a heavy base that can rest on the threads of the screw feed and will be moved up and down over succeeding threads. There is a member attached to the base for extending up centrally in the hopper with radial arms reaching near the walls of the hopper.

Debridging apparatus

The deactivation rate of a catalyst used for the high temperature, high space velocity desulfurization of heavy oils is reduced by the incorporation in the catalyst of a small amount of a noble metal.

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Wappingers Falls, NY, United States of America

Jitendra A Patel