Exxonmobil Research and Engineering Company

Manuel Anthony Francisco

Ramanathan Sundararaman

Thomas Francis Degnan, Jr

Roby Bearden, Jr

William Ernest Lewis

John P Greeley

Rustom Merwan Billimoria

Abhimanyu Onkar Patil

Michael Siskin

Jacob Joseph Habeeb

Paul Podsiadlo

Anjaneya Sarma Kovvali

Randolph John Smiley

Andrew Jackson

Manika Varma-Nair

Roberto Garcia

Mainak Ghosh

Eugenio Sanchez

Natalie Ann Fassbender

Clifford C Walters

Steven Webster Levine

Colin L Beswick

Michael Eugene Landis

Sharon Feiller

Phiroz M Bhagat

Amitava Sarkar

Andrew Kaldor

Systems and methods are provided for slurry hydroconversion of a heavy oil feed, such as an atmospheric or vacuum resid. The systems and methods allow for slurry hydroconversion using catalysts with enhanced activity and/or catalysts that can be recycled as a side product from a complementary refinery process.

Slurry hydroconversion using enhanced slurry catalysts

Systems and methods are provided for slurry hydroconversion of a heavy oil feedstock, such as an atmospheric or vacuum resid, in the presence of an enhanced or promoted slurry hydroconversion catalyst system. The slurry hydroconversion catalyst system can be formed from a) a Group VIII non-noble metal catalyst precursor/concentrate (such as an iron-based catalyst precursor/concentrate) and b) a Group VI metal catalyst precursor/concentrate (such as a molybdenum-based catalyst precursor/concentrate) and/or a Group VI metal sulfided catalyst.

Slurry hydroconversion catalysts

A heavy petroleum oil feed is upgraded by having its amenability to cracking improved by subjecting the oil to selective partial oxidation with a catalytic oxidation system to partially oxidize aromatic ring systems in the heavy oil. The partially oxidized oil can then be cracked in the conventional manner but at lower severities to lower molecular weight cracking products. The cracking following the partial oxidation step may be thermal in nature as by thermal cracking, delayed, contact or fluid coking or fluid catalytic cracking or hydrogenative as in hydrocracking.

Upgrading heavy oils by selective oxidation

Heavy oils containing metalloporphyrins principally of nickel and vanadium are demetallized using an oxidizing agent such as aqueous hydrogen peroxide and catalytic amounts of phosphoric acid, preferably with tungstic acid in combination with a phase transfer agent. Up to 99% of the Ni and V are deposited in the aqueous phase and are removed from the oil. The homogenous, water soluble reactants and catalyst have the advantage of being separated more easily from the Ni and V dissolved in the aqueous phase than the same metals deposited on solid phase heterogeneous catalysts.

Demetallization process for heavy oils

Petroleum resid, bitumen and/or heavy oil is upgraded by the separation of asphaltenes and/or resins from such resids, bitumen and/or heavy oils by contacting them with an ionic liquid with which the asphaltenes and/or resins interact.

Upgrading of petroleum resid, bitumen or heavy oils by the separation of asphaltenes and/or resins therefrom using ionic liquids

A method for recovering high molecular weight naphthenic tetra-acids, particularly ARN acids from a calcium naphthenate deposit. Calcium naphthenate deposits contain large amounts of calcium naphthenate salts of ARN acids. The method dual solvent extraction process in which the naphthenic tetra-acids chemically bound as calcium naphthenate salts are converted into free acid monomers by an aqueous acid. The resulting free acid monomers are then dissolved into an organic solvent phase and the counterions dissolve in the aqueous acid phase. The naphthenic tetra-acids are then recovered from the organic solvent phase.

Process for the extraction of high molecular weight naphthenic acids from calcium naphthenate salts

The invention comprises lubricating compositions and hydraulic fluids containing N,N'-diaryl-o-phenylenediamine compounds that impart good levels of oxidation inhibition in the lubricants and hydraulic fluids. The invention further comprises a method of making N,N&#x2032;-diaryl-o-phenylenediamine compounds.

Lubricating compositions containing ashless catalytic antioxidant additives

The present invention is directed to a method that determines the necessary and sufficient tests to relate a variety of apparently non-related tests to desired final test results. The present invention also provides a method to determine those tests which, having been shown capable to be used in a high-throughput environment, are able to predict end-use qualification test results for lubricants, greases or industrial fluids. As a corollary, the present invention provides a method to select lubricant formulations and components based on apparently non-related, but predictive tests. In an applied example, the present invention is directed to a device and method that produces and evaluates formulated lubricants, functional fluids, and greases by determining previously unknown relationships between Intermediate Tests and End-use Tests.

Method to determine predictive tests and device applying same to lubricant formulations

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Manuel Anthony Francisco