The University of Alabama

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Petroliam Nasional Berhad (petronas)

525 Solutions, Inc.

Chinese Academy of Sciences

The UAB Research Foundation (The University of Alabama at Birmingham)

Beijing University of Technology

Reliance Industries Limited

The Queen's University of Belfast

Streamline Automation LLC

Pretium Innovation, LLC

Adjacency Labs Corp.

Cheyenne Management Corp

Petroliam Nasional Berhad

Robin Don Rogers

Daniel T Daly

Richard Patrick Swatloski

Scott Kevin Spear

Gabriela Gurau

Julia L Shamshina

John David Holbrey

Banqiu Wu

John Holbrey

Ramana G Reddy

Patrick S Barber

Whitney Lauren Hough

Marcin Smiglak

Allan S Myerson

Parasu Veera Uppara

Tomislav Friscić

Megan B Turner

Oleksandra Zavgorodnya

Christopher Corey Hines

Chris S Griggs

Juliusz Pernak

Dan Daly

Tyler Stephenson

Ying Qin

Paula Berton

James Hilliard Davis, Jr

Hector Rodriguez

Rajkumar Kore

Rachel M Frazier

Whitney L Hough

James Hillard Davis

Kenneth Richard Seddon

Douglas Robert MacFarlane

Jimmy Wayne Mays

Lujia Bu

Roberto DiSalvo

Suojiang Zhang

Christopher Scott Griggs

Steven L Bryant

Kunlun Hong

Ronnie Michael Hanes

Peter P Hanik

H Waite Dykes, Jr

Dayaker Gandrath

Parker D McCrary

Whitney L Hough-Troutman

Anwarul Haque

Mustafizur Rahman

Ning Sun

Waduge Indika S Galpothdeniya

Terrance Opichka

Jonathan R Bonner

Ji Chen

Xingmei Lu

Hongwei Zhang

Joseph M Marrett

Mihails Arhangelskis

Janet L Scott

Hatem Titi

Katharina Bica

Jelena Turanjanin

Steven P Kelley

Pamela M Dean

Hatem M Titi

John D Holbrey

In alternative aspects, the invention provides process for the use of ionic liquids in the remediation and amelioration of oilsand materials, including treatment of tailings products including but not limited to mature fine tailings (MFT), separation of bitumen from oilsand, bitumen transportation, remediation of spilled bitumen and dilbit, treatment (breakage) of steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) and heavy oil emulsions solids removal from oil processing streams, in-situ bitumen recovery, in-situ extraction from mineral reservoirs, production well chemicals, CO2 sequestration and tracking fluids.

Deconstruction of oilsand materials using ionic liquids

A hypergolic co-crystal material for producing a hypergol when combined with an oxidizer; it has co-crystals composed at least of a hypergolic trigger component and an energetic coformer.

Hypergolic co-crystal material and method of use thereof

A hypergolic metal organic framework material for producing a hypergol when combined with an oxidizer, comprising a general structure M1-L-M2, wherein L is an aromatic organic linker comprising one or more unsaturated substituents, and wherein M1 and M2 are same or different metal cations.

Hypergolic metal organic frameworks

Ethylenically unsaturated polymerization catalyst compositions including an active catalytic metal component and an ionic compound component and methods for making and using same.

Polymerization compositions and methods for making and using same

In alternative aspects, the invention provides process for the use of ionic liquids in the remediation and amelioration of oilsand materials, including treatment of tailings products including but not limited to mature fine tailings (MFT), separation of bitumen from oilsand, bitumen transportation, remediation of spilled bitumen and dilbit, treatment (breakage) of steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) and heavy oil emulsions, solids removal from oil processing streams, in-situ bitumen recovery, in-situ extraction from mineral reservoirs, production well chemicals, CO2 sequestration and fracking fluids.

Deconstruction of oils and materials using ionic liquids

The present invention relates to a process for dissolving metals in perhalide containing ionic liquids, and to the extraction of metals from mineral ores; the remediation of materials contaminated with heavy, toxic or radioactive metals; and to the removal of heavy and toxic metals from hydrocarbon streams.

Ionic liquid solvents of perhalide type for metals and metal compounds

Methods for making metal particle-chitin composite materials are described. The methods can comprise contacting an ionic liquid with chitin, thereby forming a mixture; contacting the mixture with a non-solvent, thereby forming a chitin substrate in the non-solvent; collecting the chitin substrate from the non-solvent; deacetylating the collected chitin substrate, thereby forming a deacetylated chitin substrate; contacting the deacetylated chitin substrate with a metal salt, thereby forming an impregnated precursor composite material; and contacting the impregnated precursor composite material with a reducing agent, thereby reducing the metal salt to form a plurality of metal particles dispersed on the chitin substrate and forming the metal particle-chitin composite material.

Metal particle-chitin composite materials and methods of making thereof

Methods for separating chitin from a chitinous biomass are described, the methods comprising contacting the chitinous biomass with an ionic liquid to form a mixture comprising chitin; contacting the mixture with an aqueous solution of a kosmotropic salt, thereby coagulating the chitin and forming an biphasic system comprising an ionic liquid-chitin phase and an aqueous kosmotropic salt phase; separating the ionic liquid-chitin phase from the aqueous kosmotropic salt phase; and collecting the chitin from the separated ionic liquid-chitin phase, thereby forming a recycled ionic liquid.

Coagulation of chitin from ionic liquid solutions using kosmotropic salts

This invention relates to a process for removing metals, particularly mercury, from hydrocarbon streams by use of an ionic liquid, where in the metal-containing hydrocarbon stream is contacted with an ionic liquid to produce a product hydrocarbon stream having reduced mercury content.

Process for removing metals from hydrocarbons

Disclosed are double salt ionic liquids that include at least one organic cation and at least two metal halide anions. Methods of making the double salt ionic liquids can include combining two or more metal halide containing salts, wherein the metal halide containing salts include at least one organic cation and at least two metal halide anions. The reaction between the two or more salts at any ratio allows fine tuning, rate of dissolution, solubility, and bioavailability of the double salt ionic liquids. The ionic liquids disclosed herein can be used as a catalyst for catalyzing a chemical reaction. The chemical reaction can be an acid catalyzed chemical reaction such as a Lewis acid catalyzed reaction, a Beckmann rearrangement reaction, a Meyer-Schuster rearrangement reaction, a heterocyclic synthesis, a reaction for biodiesel production, a mercury-catalyzed type reaction, or a hydrogen-fluoride catalyzed type reaction.

Mixed metal double salt ionic liquids with tunable acidity

Described herein are methods of acylating an aryl substrate comprising combining a substituted aryl substrate with an acylating agent in the presence of a catalyzing medium, thereby acylating the substituted aryl substrate in the para position, wherein the catalyzing medium is an ionic liquid comprising at least one cation and at least one metal halide anion.

Methods of acylation with an ionic liquid catalyzing medium

Methods of separating chitin from a chitinous biomass that contains chitin and non-chitin material by a chemical pulping process that uses a protic ionic liquid or a composition comprising acid and base precursor molecules are described. Also described are methods for purifying chemically pulped chitin resulting in a pure chitin material with a high molecular weight and a higher degree of acetylation in comparison to traditional pulping and ionic liquid extraction based methods.

Chemical pulping of chitinous biomass for chitin

Disclosed are hypergolic salts with borane cluster anions that ignite spontaneously upon contact with nitric acid (from 70% to 100% in water) with short ignition delay. The salts, when added as trigger additive to combustible solvent or ionic liquids, make the resulting formulation hypergolic. The salts with borane cluster anions also shorten ignition delay in hypergols, such as RP-1, and additionally allow nitric acid to be used to replace liquid oxygen as an oxidizer. In some examples, the borane salts are formed in situ in an ionic liquid.

Hypergolic salts with borane cluster anions

Disclosed are methods for electrospinning chitinous biomass solution to form chitin fibers, using ionic liquids or other ion-containing liquids as solvent. Chitin fibers produced thereby and articles containing such chitin fibers are also disclosed. The chitin fiber thus obtained has very high surface area and improved strength over currently commercially available chitin materials.

Process for electrospinning chitin fibers from chitinous biomass solution

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