Conocophillips Company

Phillips 66 Company

Richard D Sadok

Bruce B Randolph

Alfred E Keller

Joseph B Cross

Kristi A Fjare

John Michael Hays

Uchenna Prince Paul

Sumod Kalakkunnath

Jon M Nelson

Danielle Kristin Smith

Probjot Singh

Mark Rumel Cragun

Howard L Wilson

Richard L Anderson

James A Anderson, Legal Representative

Prakash A Karpe

Samuel Henry Beuke

A process is described for flowing an oxygenate feed over a catalyst in an adiabatic fixed bed reactor to product a reactor effluent and heat. The reaction inside the adiabatic fixed bed reactor occurs at a reaction temperature from about 200&#xb0; C. to about 375&#xb0; C. The reactor effluent is then condensed to separate the liquid products and the gaseous products. A separation step then separates the gaseous products into hydrogen and off-gas.

Process scheme for catalytic production of renewable hydrogen from oxygenate feedstocks

Methods and apparatus relate to separating and removing aromatic compounds from a hydrocarbon stream. Splitting of the hydrocarbon stream into constituents as desired relies on a membrane and distillation columns that supply feed into the membrane and receive retentate and permeate streams output from the membrane. Configurations employing the membrane and the distillation columns enable benzene recovery and facilitate efficient separation.

Separation of aromatics with pervaporation membrane

Methods and apparatus relate to removal of mercury from crude oil. Such removal relies on transferring mercury from a liquid hydrocarbon stream to a natural gas stream upon contacting the liquid hydrocarbon stream with the natural gas stream. Processing of the natural gas stream after used to strip the mercury from the liquid hydrocarbon stream removes the mercury from the natural gas stream.

Mercury removal from crude oil

This invention relates to recovering hydrocarbons from oil shale preferably in-situ where the temperature of the oil shale deposit is controlled to maximize recovery of hydrocarbons and minimize decomposition of carbonate minerals into carbon dioxide that might be released into the atmosphere. The process includes generating heat from hydrocarbon gases recovered from the oil shale and then later performing a controlled burn of the char that is left in the spent shale after the kerogens have been thermally cracked and the most of the recoverable hydrocarbons have been recovered. The burning of the char is also controlled based on the temperature of the oil shale in-situ, the temperature of the gases returning to the surface from the oil shale and the carbon dioxide in the gases returning to the surface.

Recovery of hydrocarbons from oil shale deposits

A method for removing organic sulfur compounds from a vent gas is described. Also described is an apparatus for absorbing organic sulfur compounds from vent gas.

Process for removing sulfides

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Bartlesville, OK, United States of America

Richard D Sadok