Exxonmobil Research and Engineering Company

Amoco Corporation

Syncrude Canada Ltd.

Robert William Skwarok

Barry Bara

Rodney K Ridley

Darcy Daugela

Brian Knapper

Craig A McKnight

Jennifer McMillan

Mark Polak

Narasimhan Devanathan

Peter J Klomans

William B VanderHeyden

Pat Dougan

Larry P Hackman

Christian Wolfgang Schroeter

Nicholas Prociw

Brian Allen Knapper

A feed injector for a circulating fluid bed reactor is fitted with a discharge nozzle with a circular, radially notched discharge orifice to improve the surface-to-volume ratio of the spray pattern formed by the nozzle. The feed injector is useful for injecting fluids into various types of circulating fluid bed reactors in which good contact between the components of the fluidized bed and the injected fluid is required. It is particularly useful in fluid coking reactors.

Fluid injection nozzle for fluid bed reactors

A system for characterizing a slurry in a slurry process includes a flow tube, a camera, and a computer. The system is suitable for use with an oil sands extraction slurry processed or treated by an oil sands extraction slurry process. The slurry is diverted from the slurry process into the flow tube. The camera images the slurry as it flows through a transparent portion of the flow tube to produce a digital image of the slurry. The computer analyzes the digital image to determine a slurry characteristic. Based on the determined slurry characteristic, the computer may predict a performance metric of the slurry process and adjust an operating parameter of the slurry process to optimize the slurry process towards a target performance metric. Multiple systems may be used to continuously monitor slurry characteristics at upstream and downstream steps of the slurry process, and determine correlations between those characteristics.

System and method for image-based analysis of a slurry and control of a slurry process

Apparatus and methods useful for degassing a reaction mixture in a petrochemical processing reactor are disclosed. The methods and apparatus employ a novel liquid-gas separator that includes non-linear risers and that discharges the mixture into a vapor space in a manner intended to maximize degassing of the mixture. Resid hydrotreating processes employing these methods also are disclosed.

Hydrocarbon processing apparatus

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Robert William Skwarok