Texaco Inc.

Chevron U.s.a. Inc.

Michael K Porter

David E Sherwood, Jr

Darush Farshid

Ajit K Bhattacharya

Glenn A Clausen

David Michael Bosi

Goutam Biswas

Lucy Wu

Jeffery B Harrison

James Knight

The present disclosure provides a system and method for responding to an unintended increase in pressure within a high pressure processing system. The system and method of the present disclosure provides a pressure relief system that releases pressure reliably even if the material under pressure is of mixed phase. In addition, the system and method for releasing pressure avoids the need for complex subsystems to contain and process materials that escape the system during the pressure release process.

Pressure relief in high pressure processing system

Low pressure process for the hydroconversion of heavy hydrocarbons

An improved ebullated bed hydroconversion process is disclosed that utilizes a bimodal heterogeneous catalyst and a metal containing oil-miscible-catalysts compound to achieve a reduction in sediment, an increase in conversion, a reduction in the energy utilized to maintain reaction conditions and increases the stability of the ebullated catalyst bed. The oil-miscible compound may be provided in a concentration so as to provide about 1 to about 60 wppm metal based on the charge hydrocarbon oil.

Hydroconversion process

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Cypress, TX, United States of America

Michael K Porter