Velocys Corp.

Thomas Hickey

Anna Lee Tonkovich

Sean P Fitzgerald

Steven T Perry

Ravi Arora

Paul William Neagle

Dongming Qiu

Kai Tod Paul Jarosch

Robert J Luzenski

Rachid Taha

Timothy J LaPlante

Jeffery D Slane

Jeffrey J Ramler

Frederick A Zenz

Harley D Freeman

Laura J Silva

Thomas D Yuschak

Bin Yang

Wayne W Simmons

Francis P Daly

Amanda Smith

Robert Dwayne Litt

Richard Q Long

Kai Jarosch

David Kilanowski

Timothy J Sullivan

Jeffrey Dale Marco

Kai T P Jarosch

Sean D Fitzgerald

Jeffrey D Slane

The invention providing methods of loading and unloading particulate from micorchannels in apparatus that contains multiple microchannels, typically apparatus that is designed to operate with hundreds or thousands of particulate-containing microchannels. Aligning a sonicating head at one end of a set of microchannels provides a particularly effective mode for densifying particulate in microchannels.

Loading/unloading of particulates to/from microchannel reactors

The invention providing methods of loading and unloading particulate from microchannels in apparatus that contains multiple microchannels, typically apparatus that is designed to operate with hundreds or thousands of particulate-containing microchannels. Aligning a sonicating head at one end of a set of microchannels provides a particularly effective mode for densifying particulate in microchannels.

The disclosed invention relates to a process, comprising: flowing a first reactant feed stream comprising a reactant substrate and a second reactant feed stream comprising an alkylating agent, an acylating agent or a mixture thereof, in a process microchannel in contact with each other to form a product comprising at least one alkylation product, at least one acylation product, or a mixture thereof; transferring heat from the process microchannel to a heat sink; and removing the product from the process microchannel.

Process using microchannel technology for conducting alkylation or acylation reaction

The disclosed invention relates to a process for converting ethylbenzene to styrene, comprising: flowing a feed composition comprising ethylbenzene in at least one process microchannel in contact with at least one catalyst to dehydrogenate the ethylbenzene and form a product comprising styrene; exchanging heat between the process microchannel and at least one heat exchange channel in thermal contact with the process microchannel; and removing product from the process microchannel. Also disclosed is an apparatus comprising a process microchannel, a heat exchange channel, and a heat transfer wall positioned between the process microchannel and heat exchange channel wherein the heat transfer wall comprises a thermal resistance layer.

Process for making styrene using mircochannel process technology

The disclosed invention relates to a distillation process for separating two or more components having different volatilities from a liquid mixture containing the components. The process employs microchannel technology for effecting the distillation and is particularly suitable for conducting difficult separations, such as the separation of ethane from ethylene, wherein the individual components are characterized by having volatilities that are very close to one another.

Distillation process using microchannel technology

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Dublin, OH, United States of America

Thomas Hickey