Phillips Petroleum Company

Phillips 66 Company

Conocophillips Company

Scott D Love

Charles A Drake

Stone P Washer

An-hsiang Wu

Tai W Kwok

Jianhua Yao

Edward L Sughrue

Bruce W Gerhold

Joseph E Bares

Jerry Glynn Feierabend

The improved methods relate to desalting hydrocarbon feeds using a separator with a stacked disk centrifuge to separate an emulsified oil and water rag layer. This method is effective for desalting heavy, high ionic, and non-traditional crude oils.

Refinery desalter improvement

The improved system relates to desalting hydrocarbon feeds using a separator with a stacked disk centrifuge to separate an emulsified oil and water rag layer. This system is effective for desalting heavy, high ionic, and non-traditional crude oils.

A process for hydrotreating acidic compounds of an acidic petroleum oil is disclosed. The process includes contacting the acidic petroleum oil with a hydrogen donor solvent to thereby produce a treated petroleum oil. The process can further include contacting a fraction or a full-boiling range portion of the treated petroleum oil with a hydrogenation catalyst in the presence of hydrogen and under process conditions sufficient to hydrogenate at least a portion of the hydrocarbons of the fraction or full-boiling range portion; and utilizing at least a portion of the hydrogenated fraction or full-boiling range portion as the hydrogen donor solvent.

Acidic petroleum oil treatment

A method for optimizing the yield of light olefins in a process for the conversion of a heavy hydrocarbon stream to aromatics and light olefins by contacting the heavy hydrocarbon stream with a zeolite catalyst along with the controlled introduction of a paraffin stream co-feed.

Conversion of heavy hydrocarbon to aromatics and light olefins

A method for optimizing the yield of aromatics and light olefins in a process for the conversion of cracked gasoline to aromatics and light olefins by separating the cracked gasoline into a light fraction and a heavy fraction and contacting the light fraction with a zeolite catalyst.

Gasoline upgrade with split feed

A process for desulfurizing and enhancing the octane of cracked gasoline by first aromatizing the cracked gasoline and, second, hydrodesulfurizing the resulting intermediate product stream.

Process for desulfurizing and aromatizing hydrocarbons

A novel zeolite catalyst composition comprising a mixture of a zeolite, a binder, and a zinc borate compound wherein such mixture is calcined or treated with steam. Preferably, the zeolite has not been treated with an acid. Also provided is a process of making such composition, a product by such process, and the use thereof in the conversion of a hydrocarbon-containing fluid such as a gasoline-boiling range fluid or coker naphtha. Use of such zeolite in the conversion of a hydrocarbon-containing fluid also includes pre-treating such hydrocarbon-containing fluid with a nitrogen removal medium such as ion-exchange resin.

Process for making zeolite containing zinc borate composition, the

A hydrocarbon conversion process comprises: (1) contacting a hydrocarbon feed such as, for example, gasoline, with a catalyst under a sufficient condition to effect the conversion of the hydrocarbon to a product stream comprising aromatic hydrocarbons and olefins; (2) separating the product stream into a lights fraction comprising primarily hydrocarbons less than 6 carbon atoms per molecule, a middle fraction comprising C.sub.6 -C.sub.8 aromatic hydrocarbons and non-aromatic hydrocarbons, and a C.sub.9 + fraction comprising aromatic compounds; (3) separating the C.sub.6 -C.sub.8 aromatic hydrocarbons from the middle fraction; and (4) separating hydrocarbons containing 5 or more carbons per molecule (C.sub.5 + hydrocarbons) from the lights fraction. The C.sub.5 + hydrocarbons can be combined with the hydrocarbon feed. The non-aromatic hydrocarbons can also be converted to olefins by a thermal cracking process. Furthermore, the middle fraction can also be obtained by reforming naphtha.

Hydrocarbon conversion

An apparatus and method are provided for the defluorination of a liquid hydrocarbon mixture, containing organic fluorides, produced during the conversion of hydrocarbons using a fluorine-containing catalyst. In one embodiment, both a thermal means and a contacting material are used to effectuate a more complete defluorination. The liquid hydrocarbon mixture is extracted from a distillation column and heated sufficiently in the thermal means to decompose at least some of the organic fluorides. The effluent from the thermal means is separated into a vaporous and a liquid effluent. The liquid effluent is passed to the bottom of the distillation column where it undergoes further defluorination through contact with the contacting material.

Apparatus for the thermal and catalytic defluorination of alkylate

A shell-and-tube heat exchanger with a tube sheet having partition grooves used to form joints with partition plates contained within the exchanger head. The partition plates define chambers within the head of the exchanger which direct the fluid through the exchanger tubes and which allow for the use of an unequal number of tubes per tube-side pass.

HF alkylation process

An apparatus and method are provided for the defluorination of a liquid hydrocarbon mixture, containing organic fluorides, produced during the conversion of hydrocarbons using a fluorine-containing catalyst. In one embodiment, both thermal means and a contacting material are used to effectuate a more complete defluorination. The liquid hydrocarbon mixture is extracted from a distillation column and heated sufficiently in the thermal means to decompose at least some of the organic fluorides. The effluent from the thermal means is separated into a vaporous and a liquid effluent. The liquid effluent is passed to the bottom of the distillation column where it undergoes further defluorination through contact with the contacting material.

Thermal and catalytic defluorination of alkylate

Heat exchanger in an HF alkylation apparatus

An improved method and apparatus for the safe handling of alkylation catalyst. The method and apparatus comprises a process vessel which serves a dual function of storing alkylation catalyst and of recontacting alkylation hydrocarbon product with alkylation catalyst. Alkylate product is passed through an eductor-mixer device which intimately mixes alkylate with catalyst. This mixture flows into the dual function recontacting vessel where a phase separation of the catalyst and alkylation hydrocarbon product takes place. Conduits are provided to connect the process reactor, cooling heat exchanger, settler, and interconnecting piping so as to allow the quick release of pressure from the combination storage-recontacting vessel and subsequent draining of catalyst into the vessel by use of gravitational force. The method and apparatus consists of a physical arrangement and use of alkylation process equipment in a manner which allows the use of a single vessel for both storage of alkylation catalyst and recontacting of alkylation hydrocarbon product. The apparatus and method is a safety feature which allows the transfer by draining of catalyst from the alkylation process vessels into the storage vessel by the sole use of gravitational energy motive force.

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Bartlesville, OK, United States of America

Scott D Love