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Paul F Keusenkothen

Frank Hershkowitz

James N McCoy

Gary David Mohr

John Scott Buchanan

Richard Charles Stell

Juan D Henao

Stephen Harold Brown

ChangMin Chun

Mayank Shekhar

Jeffrey William Frederick

Abhimanyu Onkar Patil

Alok Srivastava

James Earl Graham

Subramanian Annamalai

John William Fulton

Samia Ilias

Shiun Ling

S Mark Davis

Richard John Basile

George J Balinsky

Robert D Denton

Jeevan Sahib Abichandani

Kapil Kandel

Philip Andrew Ruziska

Brian Erik Henry

Mohsen N Harandi

James Richardson Lattner

Tan-Jen Chen

Guang Cao

Jason D Davis

Tan Jen Chen

Jennifer L Bancroft

Arthur R DiNicolantonio

Ian J Laurenzi

Judith Hey, Legal Representative

Julian A Wolfenbarger

Teng Xu

Wenyih Frank Lai

Larry Lee Iaccino

David Lawrence Stern

George Stephens

Neeraj Sangar

Jonathan Martin McConnachie

Michael Salciccioli

Bryan A Patel

Jaime A Valencia

John D Y Ou

James M Frye

John R Messinger

Seth McConkie Washburn

David W Maher

Renyuan Yu

Jiunn-Shyan Liou

Nick G Vidonic

John J Waldrop

Chad David Reimann

Keith Holroyd Kuechler

Michel A Daage

Daniel Paul Leta

Stephen John McCarthy

James Harding Beech, Jr

Matthew J Vincent

John Di-Yi Ou

Timothy Andrew Barckholtz

Randall David Partridge

Yun-Feng Chang

Charles John Mart

Robert David Strack

Robert Lee Antram

Eric Bart Sirota

Tilman W Beutel

John Slocum Coleman

Glenn Allen Heeter

Kirk C Nadler

Arsam Behkish

Rohit Vijay

Machteld M W Mertens

J Scott Buchanan

Elizabeth L Stavens

Nikolaos Soultanidis

Stephen M Cundy

Javier Guzman

Arthur R Di Nicolantonio

Edward W Corcoran

Monica D Lotz

J Tim Cullinane

Anatoly Ilich Kramer

Anthony Go

Reyyan Koc-Karabocek

Sina Sartipi

Meha Rungta

Ronald Raymond Hill, Jr

Elizabeth G Mahoney

David Beattie

Ranjita Ghose

Roxana Perez Velez

Andrew P Broenen

Nan Hu

Jeffrey C Bunquin

Disclosed are process and system for making an asphalt product and an olefin product from an asphaltenes-rich feed without using a vacuum distillation column. The feed is first deep stripped in a first stripping column using a stripping vapor such as steam and/or a C2-C3 paraffins-rich stream to obtain a bottoms liquid effluent having a high cutpoint and an overheads effluent comprising gas oil, lighter hydrocarbons, and the stripping vapor. The high-boiling point bottoms liquids effluent, with optional additional separation and/or treatment, can be used as asphalt products. The overheads effluent, with optional additional separation, can be fed into a pyrolysis furnace cracker, where it is converted into a cracker product mixture comprising olefins, lighter hydrocarbons, hydrogen, and the like, which can be recovered in a products recovery subsystem.

Process and system for processing asphaltenes-rich feed

Processes, systems, and apparatus are provided for producing a compressed process gas comprising light olefin such as ethylene. The process utilizes a pyrolysis reactor to produce the process gas. A power generator utilizes a turbine operated based on an Allam cycle to produce shaft power for operating one or more compressors involved in processing of the process gas while producing a reduced or minimized amount of COthat is released as a low-pressure gas phase product. Examples of using the shaft power for processing of the process gas can include compressing the process gas a process gas compressor powered by the produced shaft power and cooling the process gas using a refrigeration compressor powered by the produced shaft power.

Pyrolysis product compression using COloop

A method for isomerizing alpha olefins to produce an isomerization mixture comprising branched olefins can comprise contacting an olefinic feed including one or more C-Calpha olefins with a catalyst under skeletal isomerization conditions, wherein the catalyst comprises a molecular sieve having an MRE topology; and obtaining an isomerization mixture comprising one or more C-Cbranched olefins.

Methods for isomerizing alpha olefins

A method and apparatus for conversion of petroleum resid fluid through atomization and pyrolysis, including: generating a stream of atomized resid fluid; and delivering the stream to a plurality of cracking particles, wherein the cracking particles have a temperature from 700° C. to 1200° C. when the stream is delivered. Generating the stream of atomized resid fluid may include: delivering heated resid fluid to a nozzle; and delivering diluent fluid to the nozzle. A method and apparatus includes: a first multi-phase fluid application device configured to generate a first stream of atomized resid fluid; a port configured to guide a plurality of cracking particles to intersect the first stream; and a particle heating component configured to heat the cracking particles before the particles intersect the first stream.

Atomization and pyrolysis of resid cracking feed

Disclosed are novel supported nanoparticle compositions, precursors, processes for making supported nanoparticle compositions, processes for making catalyst compositions, and processes for converting syngas. The catalyst composition can comprise nanoparticles comprising metal oxide(s), such as manganese cobalt oxide. This disclosure is particularly useful for converting syngas via the Fischer-Tropsch reactions to make olefins and/or alcohols.

Supported nanoparticle compositions and precursors, processes for making the same and syngas conversion processes

Processes for converting an organic-material-containing feed comprising contacting the feed with a plurality of fluidized hot particles in a pyrolysis zone to product a first pyrolysis effluent, optionally contacting the first pyrolysis effluent with a quenching stream to impart additional pyrolysis of organic materials contained in the quenching stream, separating at least a portion of the particles and feeding them to a combustion zone where the particles are heated to an elevated temperature, optionally contacting the combustion zone effluent with a second organic-material-containing stream to produce, e.g., syngas, and feeding at least a portion of the heated particles to the pyrolysis zone.

Processes for converting organic material-containing feeds via pyrolysis

Processes are described for isomerizing one or more C-Calpha olefins to produce an isomerization mixture comprising one or more C-Cinternal olefins comprising contacting an olefinic feed comprising the one or more C-Calpha olefins with a catalyst under isomerization conditions, wherein the catalyst comprises a microporous crystalline aluminosilicate having an MWW framework. The resulting isomerization mixture typically exhibits a low pour point with maintained biodegradability properties as compared to the olefinic feed, and is particularly useful in drilling fluid and paper sizing compositions.

Processes for isomerizing alpha olefins

A catalyst and corresponding methods of using a catalyst are provided that can be beneficial for conversion of paraffins into a product stream enriched in aromatics and/or methane while reducing or minimizing the content of ethane in the product stream. Such catalysts and methods can be useful, for example, for processing a raw gas, associated gas, tail gas, natural gas, or other type of methane-containing feed stream to convert Chydrocarbons in the stream to heavier hydrocarbons and methane while reducing or minimizing content of ethane in the products from the conversion reaction. Such conversion can be useful for upgrading a methane-containing feed stream to have an energy content that is suitable for pipeline transport under one or more specifications for transport of natural gas. The catalyst and corresponding method can also be beneficial when used as a second stage catalyst in a configuration involving multiple conversion stages.

Conversion of C2 hydrocarbons in the presence of methane

The invention relates to catalysts and their use in processes for dehydrocyclization of light paraffinic hydrocarbon feedstock to higher-value hydrocarbon, such as aromatic hydrocarbon, to dehydrocyclization catalysts useful in such processes, and to the methods of making such catalysts. One of more of the dehydrocyclization catalysts comprising a crystalline aluminosilicate zeolite having a constraint index of less than or equal to about 12, at least one Group 3 to Group 13 metal of the IUPAC Periodic Table and phosphorous.

Catalyst and its use in dehydrocyclization processes

A novel process/system for flexibly producing chemicals and fuels from a petroleum feed such as crude comprise a flashing drum, a first cracker (e.g., a fluidized bed pyrolysis cracker or an oxidative cracker), and an olefin-to-gasoline reaction zone. The process/system can also include a steam cracker and a hydrotreater. The process/system can convert crude oil into hydrogen, C2-C4 olefins, gas oil and distillates with various amounts by adjusting the cut point of the bottoms effluent exiting the flashing drum.

Process and system for processing petroleum feed

Systems and methods are provided for conversion of light paraffinic gases to form liquid products in a process performed in a fixed bed radial-flow reactor. The light paraffins can correspond to Cparaffins. Examples of liquid products that can be formed include C-Caromatics, such as benzene, toluene, and xylene. The fixed bed radial-flow reactor can allow for improved control over the reaction conditions for paraffin conversion in spite of the fixed bed nature of the reactor. This can allow the process to operate with improved efficiency while reducing or minimizing the complexity of operation relative to non-fixed bed reactor systems.

Fixed bed radial flow reactor for light paraffin conversion

The invention relates to catalytic aromatization, e.g., for the conversion of non-aromatic hydrocarbon to higher-value aromatic hydrocarbon, to catalysts useful for such aromatization, to methods for making such catalysts, and to systems and apparatus for carrying out aromatization in the presence of the catalyst.

Catalytic aromatization

The invention relates to a regenerative reactor system which includes a reverse flow regenerative reactor. The reverse flow regenerative reactor includes a housing enclosing an interior region, and process flow components configured to manage the flow of a pyrolysis stream through the interior region. The process flow components include reactor beds. The reverse flow regenerative reactor also includes a pyrolysis inlet conduit for managing flow of the pyrolysis stream to the reverse flow regenerative reactor, and further includes a liquid distribution device that is configured to disperse a liquid portion of the pyrolysis stream along an internal surface of the pyrolysis inlet conduit.

Regenerative reactor system

The invention relates to hydrocarbon dehydrocyclization to produce products such as aromatic hydrocarbon, to equipment and materials useful for dehydrocyclization, to processes for carrying out dehydrocyclization, and to the use of dehydrocyclization for, e.g., natural gas upgrading. The dehydrocyclization is carried out in a catalytic reaction zone of a reverse-flow reactor.

Hydrocarbon dehydrocyclization

The invention relates to catalysts and their use in processes for conversion of hydrocarbon feedstock to a product comprising single-ring aromatic hydrocarbons having six or more carbon atoms, to the methods of making such catalysts, to processes for using such catalysts, and to apparatus and systems for carrying out such processes. One of more of the catalysts comprise a crystalline aluminosilicate having a Constraint Index in the range of 1 to 12, a first metal and/or a second metal, and at least one selectivating agent, such as, for example, an organo-silicate.

Catalyst and its use in hydrocarbon conversion process

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Houston, TX, United States of America

Paul F Keusenkothen