Saudi Arabian Oil Company

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Jgc Catalysts & Chemicals Ltd.

Japan Cooperation Center Petroleum

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Boreskov Institute of Catalysis

Japan Cooperation Center for Petroleum and Sustainable Energy

Other

Boreskov Instutite of Catalysis

Saudi Arabain Oil Company

Suadi Arabian Oil Company

Omer Refa Koseoglu

Robert Peter Hodgkins

Abdennour Bourane

Adnan Al-Hajji

Kuo-Wei Huang

Jean-Marie Maurice Basset

Anissa Bendjeriou Sedjerari

Sathiyamoorthy Murugesan

Koji Uchida

Manoj K Gangwar

Hendrik Muller

Yaming Jin

Mitsunori Watabe

Sohel K Shaikh

Zhonglin Zhang

Vinod Ramaseshan

Stephane Kressmann

Frederick Marie Adam

Masaru Ushio

Valentin Parmon

Bruce Richard Beadle

Rajesh Parsapur

Zinfer Ismagilov

Svetlana Yashnik

Mikhail Kerzhentsev

Koji Nakano

Gordon Jamieson

Ali Mahmood Al-Somali

Abdullah Mohammed Aitani

Ashok Kumar Punetha

Farhan M Al-Shahrani

Rakan Sulaiman Bilaus

Saroj Kumar Panda

Ali H Alshareef

Noor Al-Mana

Tomoyasu Kagawa

Ali Alzaid

Ziyauddin S Qureshi

Salman J Al-Khaldi

Musaed Muhammad Al-Thubaiti

Anissa Bendjeriou-Sedjerari

Vishvedeep Bhat

Musaed Salem Al-Ghrami

Shakeel Ahmed

Mohammed Abdul Bari Siddiqui

Mohammad Naseem Akhtar

Christopher F Dean

Guanghui Zhu

Ryuzo Kuroda

Takashi Kameoka

Seiji Arakawa

Yuichi Takamori

Hassan Saeed Al-Awad Alasiri

Moussab Harb

Anas Farkad Alkhani

Nadrah Al-Awani

Ali H Al-Abdul'Al

Mishaal Al-Thukair

Miao Sun

Jean-Pierre R Ballaguet

Qasim Saleem

Amer A Al-Tuwailib

Ali Mahmoud Al-Somali

Hanadi Al Jawad

Mohammed Ibrahim Katheeri

Emad Al-Shafi

Anton Salnikov

Manouj K Gangwar

Javier Ruiz Martinez

Moussa Zaarour

Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ghamdi

Jean Pierre Ballaguet

Lianhui Ding

Mazin M Fathi

Ezzat Hegazi

Bandar Hussain Alsolami

Sameer Ali Al-Ghamdi

Alberto Lozano Ballesteros

Essam A Al-Sayed

Yu Han

Ali H Al-Shareef

Palani Arudra

Takaki Mizuno

Youshan Ma

Ali H Al-Abdul'al

Samy Ould-Chikh

Muhammad Naseem Akhtar

Nadrah Abdullah Alawani

Gerard De Nazelle

Ata Can Koseoglu

Abdulrahman Al-Bassam

Ali Sawan

Tulay Inan

Alain Paul Ranc

Ali Al-Hamadh

Jaffar H Al-Nufaily

Dhiya Al Syed Ahmad

Tatsuaki Hasegawa

Naoyuki Kido

Kenji Nita

Disclosed herein are modified zeolites and methods for making modified zeolites. In one or more embodiments disclosed herein, a modified zeolite includes a microporous framework including a plurality of micropores having diameters of less than or equal to 2 nm and organometallic moieties each bonded to bridging oxygen atoms. The microporous framework includes at least silicon atoms and oxygen atoms. The organometallic moieties include a metal atom and a ring structure including the metal atom, a nitrogen atom, and one or more carbon atoms. The metal atom may be bonded to a bridging oxygen atom, and wherein the bridging oxygen atom bridges the metal atom of the organometallic moiety and a silicon atom of the microporous framework.

Method of making modified zeolites that include amine-containing organometallic moieties

An acid medium is provided comprising one or more water-soluble oxidized disulfide oil ODSO compounds. The use of such an acid medium is disclosed as a replacement for conventional acids. Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to an ODSO acid or ODSO acid mixture medium comprising, consisting of or consisting essentially of one or more polar water-soluble ODSO compounds, including polar water-soluble ODSO compounds present in an effluent refinery hydrocarbon stream recovered following catalytic oxidation of mercaptans present in a petroleum feedstream.

ODSO acid medium, ODSO acid mixture medium, and uses thereof

Disclosed herein are modified zeolites and methods for making modified zeolites. In one or more embodiments disclosed herein, a zeolite may include a microporous framework comprising a plurality of micropores having diameters of less than or equal to 2 nm. The microporous framework may include at least silicon atoms and oxygen atoms. The modified zeolite may further include organometallic moieties each bonded to bridging oxygen atoms. The organometallic moieties may include a zirconium atom. The zirconium atom may be bonded to a bridging oxygen atom, and the bridging oxygen atom may bridge the zirconium atom of the organometallic moiety and a silicon atom of the microporous framework.

Modified zeolites that include zirconium-containing organometallic moieties and methods for making such

A process for reverse isomerization of a light naphtha feedstock containing branched C-Cparaffins. The process includes feeding a mixed feed stream including the light naphtha feedstock to a separation unit to generate an iso-paraffin stream and one or more normal paraffin streams. The process further includes mixing hydrogen gas and a hydrocarbon feed stream containing the iso-paraffin stream to form a hydrogen-enriched liquid feed stream which is provided to a reverse isomerization reactor. The hydrogen-enriched liquid feed stream is contacted with a solid reverse isomerization catalyst for reverse hydroisomerization in a substantially two-phase liquid-solid reverse isomerization fixed-bed reaction zone convert iso-paraffins to normal paraffins. The isomerization effluent stream is provided to a stabilization column to generate a stabilized isomerate stream which is combined with the light naphtha feedstock to generate the mixed feed stream. An associated system for performing the process is also provided.

Reverse isomerization process using feedstock containing dissolved hydrogen

A composition of matter is provided comprising hierarchically ordered crystalline microporous material having well-defined long-range mesoporous ordering of cubic symmetry. The composition possesses mesopores having walls of crystalline microporous material and a mass of mesostructure between mesopores of crystalline microporous material. Long-range ordering is defined by presence of secondary peaks in an X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern and/or cubic symmetry observable by microscopy.

Hierarchically ordered crystalline microporous materials with long-range mesoporous order having cubic symmetry

The present disclosure is directed to a method of manufacture of zeolite. A sol-gel formulation includes a water-soluble fraction of ODSO as an additional component. The resulting products include zeolite with increased crystallinity relative to comparable sol-gel formulations without ODSO as a precursor. In additional embodiments, the rate of crystallization of the zeolite is greater relative to comparable sol-gel formulations without ODSO.

Method to synthesize crystalline materials in the presence of ODSO with improved zeolite crystallization rates and enhanced relative crystallinity

Disclosed are methods and systems for quantitation of benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, o-xylene, m-xylene, and p-xylene in aromatics recovery complexes. High-performance liquid chromatography using a carbon stationary phase and a gradient mobile phase is performed. The carbon stationary phase can be a porous graphitic carbon stationary phase. The mobile phase includes an organic acid in water and an alcohol. The organic acid can include formic acid, and the alcohol can include methanol. The methods and systems achieve a resolution between xylene isomer peaks of greater than 2.0 when sampling industrial process streams in aromatic recovery complexes.

Optimization of p-xylene recovery by integration of HPLC into aromatics recovery complex

The present disclosure is directed to a method of manufacture of CHA framework crystalline materials of silica and a framework metal oxide, with the ability to reduce the amount of structure directing agent needed for synthesis. This is accomplished by using an improved sol-gel formulation including a water-soluble fraction of ODSO as an additional component. The resulting products include CHA framework crystalline materials of silica and a framework metal oxide, whereby a framework metal oxide can be an oxide of Al, Fe, B or Ga.

Method to lower structure directing agent content requirement for manufacture of crystalline material having a CHA framework

The invention relates to an integrated process for assessing one or more properties of a catalyst. In the method, a standard chemical reactor or reactors is/are provided, and a bypass means is also provided, to transport a sample of whatever is added to the industrial reactor, to the test reactor. Both gases and liquids are transferred to the test reactor.

Industrial scale endothermic pilot plant system

A process for upgrading a hydrocarbon feed includes contacting the hydrocarbon feed with hydrogen in the presence of a ring opening catalyst in a naphthene conversion unit, the contacting causing naphthenes in the hydrocarbon feed to react to produce a converted effluent comprising isoparaffins and normal paraffins. The process includes separating the converted effluent in a paraffin separation system to produce an isoparaffin-rich stream and an n-paraffin-rich stream. The process includes contacting the isoparaffin-rich stream with hydrogen in the presence of an isomerization catalyst in a reverse isomerization unit, the contacting causing isomerization to produce an isomerate comprising an equilibrium mixture of normal paraffins and isoparaffins. The process include separating the isomerate in the paraffin separation system to produce the isoparaffin-rich stream and the n-paraffin-rich stream, and passing the n-paraffin-rich stream to a steam cracker to produce a cracker effluent comprising olefins.

Systems and processes for producing ethylene from naphtha and butanes

Systems and methods are disclosed for providing virtual assays of an oil sample such as crude oil based on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy carried out on the oil sample, and the density of the oil sample. The virtual assay provides a full range of information about fractions of the oil sample including naphtha, gas oil, vacuum gas oil, vacuum residue, and other information about the properties of the oil sample. Using the system and method herein, the virtual assay data pertaining to these several fractions of the oil sample and the oil sample itself are obtained without fractionation of the oil sample into the several components.

Method to prepare virtual assay using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

A composition of matter is provided comprising hierarchically ordered crystalline microporous material having well-defined long-range mesoporous ordering of lamellar symmetry. The composition possesses mesopores having walls of crystalline microporous material and a mass of mesostructure between mesopores of crystalline microporous material. Long-range ordering is defined by presence of secondary peaks in an X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern and/or lamellar symmetry observable by microscopy.

Hierarchically ordered crystalline microporous materials with long-range mesoporous order having lamellar symmetry

In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a process for producing methanol and hydrocarbon products comprises: generating hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide in a hydrogen production unit; hydroprocessing a hydrocarbon feedstock stream using the hydrogen gas, thereby producing hydrocarbon products and waste hydrogen gas; and contacting the waste hydrogen gas with the carbon dioxide in a hydrogenation unit, thereby producing methanol and product hydrogen gas.

Integrated hydrocracking and carbon dioxide hydrogenation to produce oxygenated and hydrocarbon fuels

Method of producing pyrolysis products from mixed plastics along with an associated system for processing mixed plastics. The method includes conducting pyrolysis of a plastic feedstock to produce plastic pyrolysis oil; feeding the plastic pyrolysis oil to a first fractionator to separate the plastic pyrolysis oil into a distillate fraction including naphtha and diesel and a vacuum gas oil fraction; and feeding the distillate fraction to a three step hydrotreating operation. The three step hydrotreating operation includes feeding the distillate fraction to a first hydrotreating unit to remove di-olefins to produce a first product stream, feeding the first product stream to a second hydrotreating unit to remove mono-olefins to produce a second product stream; and feeding the second product stream to a third hydrotreating unit to remove sulfur and nitrogen by hydrodesulfurization and hydrodenitrogenation to produce a third product stream. Such system may be integrated with a conventional refinery.

Method of producing pyrolysis products from a mixed plastics stream and integration of the same in a refinery

A composition comprising a promotor component is disclosed comprising a mixture of one or more catalytically active components and one or more oxidized disulfide oil (ODSO) compounds, including a water-soluble fraction of ODSO. A composition comprising an aqueous solution of one or more catalytically active components and a promotor component is also disclosed. In certain embodiments the ODSO is obtained from the effluent of an enhanced MEROX process. The compositions facilitate transfer of catalytically active components (or components that will be catalytically active in the finished solid catalyst material) onto the surface of support materials.

Promotor for active phase metals dispersion in hydroprocessing catalysts and method of making the catalyst

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