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Richard Henry Schlosberg

Jacob I Emert

Richard D Jordan

David A Young

Edward L Diefenthal

Edmund John Mozeleski

Warren A Thaler

Jose G Santiesteban

Stephen Zushma

Stuart Leon Soled

James C Vartuli

Sabato Miseo

Joseph Ernest Baumgartner

Albert Ilya Yezrielev

Michael Gerard Matturro

Andrzej Mariusz Malek

Istvan T Horvath

Haven S Aldrich

Keith R Gorda

William D Diana

George A Knudsen

William B Eckstrom

Joseph V Cusumano

David Wayne Turner

Richard C Miller

Abhimanyu Onkar Patil

Donald N Schulz

Martin Leo Gorbaty

Shifang Luke Luo

William Alois Weber

Zhaozhong Jiang

Michael J Keenan

J Scott Buchanan

Carl Robert Beck

Martin A Krevalis, Jr

Edris Eileen Manry

Christine Esther Kliewer

Lisa I-Ching Yeh

Carolyn Boggus Duncan

Thomas Marshall Larson

Jennifer Schaefer Feeley

Dennis Jay Davoren

Linda J Broadbelt

Steven T Ragomo

Kirk Christian Nadler

Frank Hershkowitz

Harry William Deckman

Stanley J Brois

Gabor Kiss

David John Lohse

Allen David Godwin

Ramzi Yanni Saleh

Christine A Costello

William Neergaard Olmstead

Manika Varma-Nair

Eddy Theophile Van Driessche

Georges Marie Mathys

William E Wellman

Michael G Romanelli

Robert P Reynolds

David Edward Gindelberger

Philippe Louis Buess

John Stephen Szobota

Roy L Pruett

Patrick Edward Godici

Charles G Scouten

Raf Caers

William Joseph Munley, Jr

Michael Siskin

Stephen Neil Vaughn

Christopher Lynn Becker

Terry Eugene Helton

Daniel Paul Leta

Glen Barry Brons

Francisco Manuel Benitez

Walter Weissman

Robert C Michaelson

Richard S Polizzotti

Peter S Maa

Kirk C Nadler

John E Johnston

Robert J Lang

Jeenok Theresa Kim

Paul Hamden Daniels

Jeenok T Kim

Robert B Long

Larry O Jones

Christian Peter Mehnert

Franklin J Wright

Shlomo Antika

Bernie John Pafford

Francisco M Benitez

Elisavet P Vrahopoulou

Konstantinos R Rigopoulos

Lisa I Yeh

Raphael Frans Ivo Caers

John R Hooton

Daniel Ray Neskora

Richard C Neavel

Patrick E Godici

This invention provides a process for producing a crude oil composition from oil sand using a solvent comprised of a hydrocarbon mixture to extract or remove only a portion of the bitumen on the oil sand. The solvent type and the manner by which the extraction process is carried out has substantial impact on the quality of the extracted oil component. The solvent is designed so that it has the desired Hansen solubility parameters that enable the partial extraction of the desired oil composition. The solvent is further designed so that it can be comprised of multiple hydrocarbons having the appropriate boiling point ranges that enable the solvent to be easily recovered and recycle, without the need to externally provide for solvent make-up.

Hydrocarbon extraction of oil from oil sand

Vapor phase hydrocarbon extraction of oil from oil sand

Disclosed are processes for producing deasphalted bitumen and heavy bitumen compositions from oil sands and processes for upgrading the bitumen compositions. The processes for producing the deasphalted bitumen and heavy bitumen compositions involve a Phase I and/or Phase II extraction solvent. According to the Phase I process, a high quality oil sands-derived, deasphalted bitumen can be produced using a Phase I type solvent. According to the Phase II process, a substantial amount of the heavy bitumen on the oil sand can be extracted using a Phase II type solvent, while producing a relatively a tailings by-product that is non-harmful to the environment. The heavy bitumen from the Phase II type extraction process can be hydroprocessed for ready conversion into relatively high volumes of high quality transportation fuels.

Hydroprocessing oil sands-derived, bitumen compositions

Disclosed are processes for producing crude oil and bitumen products of relatively high quality from oil sand. The processes for producing the high quality crude oil and bitumen products involve a Phase I and/or Phase II extraction solvent. According to the Phase I process, a high quality bitumen-derived crude oil can be produced using a Phase I type solvent. According to the Phase II process, a substantial amount of the bitumen on the oil sand can be extracted using a Phase II type solvent, while producing a relatively dry tailings by-product. The Phase I and Phase II extraction processes can be carried out independently or in conjunction with one another.

Process for producing crude oil and bitumen products

Disclosed are processes for producing a transportation fuel from a high quality oil sands-derived crude oil. The oil sands-derived crude oil is provided as a feed source for a catalytic conversion reaction, which produces the product useful as the transportation fuel. The oil sands-derived crude oil has an ASTM D7169 5% distillation point of from 400&#xb0; F. to 700&#xb0; F. Transportation fuel is produced from the provided oil sands-derived crude oil by treating the oil sands-derived crude oil through at least one catalytic cracking process and mild hydrotreating process.

Process for producing transportation fuels from oil sands-derived crude

Disclosed are processes for extracting deasphalted crude oil from oil sand. Deasphalted crude oil can be extracted using a hydrocarbon recycle solvent stream having specified Hansen blend parameters, with the oil sand being contacted with the hydrocarbon recycle solvent stream in a contact zone of a vessel to separate not greater than 80 wt % of the bitumen present on the oil sand. The separated bitumen is considered a deasphalted crude oil stream, since it has an asphaltenes content substantially lower than that of the total bitumen initially present on the oil sand. The deasphalted crude oil stream can be treated using a hydrotreating catalyst or catalytic cracking catalyst to produce transportation fuel.

Disclosed is a process for extracting an oil composition from oil sand. The extraction process is carried out using a fluidizing medium to fluidize oil sand particles within a contact zone in which the fluidizing medium contacts the oil sand and maintains the oil sand in the fluidized state. At least a majority of the fluidizing medium is in a vapor or supercritical state within the contact zone.

Extraction of oil from oil sand

Disclosed are processes for producing bitumen-derived crude oil and heavy bitumen compositions from oil sand. The processes involve treating oil sand feedstock with a first hydrocarbon solvent comprised of propane to produce the bitumen-derived crude oil composition having an asphaltene content of not greater than 5 wt % pentane insoluble, and an oil-depleted oil sand. The oil-depleted oil sand is treated with a second hydrocarbon solvent comprised of propane and a fraction of the bitumen-derived crude oil composition to produce the heavy bitumen composition and oil sand tailings. The oil sand tailings are dried by contacting the tailings with a drying composition comprised of a majority of propane.

Propane process for producing crude oil and bitumen products

A process for hydrogenating benzenepolycarboxylic acids or derivatives thereof, such as esters and/or anhydrides, is provided.

Hydrogenation of benzene polycarboxylic acids or derivatives thereof

The present invention is directed to a process for hydrogenating one or more organic compounds especially unsaturated organic compounds by bringing the compound into contact with a hydrogen-containing gas in the presence of a catalyst, which comprises one or more catalytically active metals applied to a porous catalyst support. The one or more catalytically active metals having been derived via a decomposed organic complex of the metal on the support, in particular amine complexes of the metal. The decomposed complex may be treated with hydrogen to activate the catalyst before use as a hydrogenation catalyst.

Hydrogenation processes

A process for hydrogenating benzenepolycarboxylic acids or derivatives thereof, such as esters and/or anhydrides, by bringing one or more benzenepolycarboxylic acids or one or more derivatives thereof into contact with a hydrogen-containing gas in the presence of one or more catalytically active metal, such as platinum, palladium ruthenium or mixtures thereof, deposited on a catalyst support comprising one or more ordered mesoporous materials.

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