Exxonmobil Research and Engineering Company

Exxonmobil Chemical Patents Inc.

Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

Tracie L Owens

Timothy Lee Hilbert

Michael B Carroll

Eric B Senzer

Stephen Harold Brown

Lei Zhang

Ajit Bhaskar Dandekar

Kendall S Fruchey

Jingwen Zhang

Mosha H Zhao

April D Ross

Virginia M Reiner

Sara L Yohe

Steven Pyl

Stuart Leon Soled

Sabato Miseo

Daniel Paul Leta

Joseph Ernest Baumgartner

Anjaneya Sarma Kovvali

Gary Paul Schleicher

Christine Esther Kliewer

Keith K Aldous

Lisa I-Ching Yeh

Michael P Lanci

Javier Guzman

Beatrice Marie Gooding

Kanmi Mao

Thomas Elmer Green

Rugved P Pathare

Camden N Henderson

Sara K Green

Lukasz Koziol

Mohsen N Harandi

James Richardson Lattner

Wenyih Frank Lai

Doron Levin

Stephen John McCarthy

Charles Lambert Baker, Jr

Sylvain S Hantzer

Xiaochun Xu

Himanshu Gupta

Bradley R Fingland

Frank C Wang

James Ronald Bielenberg

Roland Bernard Saeger

Charles L Baker

Bryan E Hagee

Eugenio Sanchez

Glenn C Wood

Debra A Sysyn

Yogi V Shukla

Kathleen E Edwards

Jr Charles L Baker

Stephen J Mccarthy

Roland B Saeger

Ketih K Aldous

Systems and methods are provided for integration of use deasphalted resid as a feed for fuels and/or lubricant base stock production with use of the corresponding deasphalter rock for gasification to generate hydrogen and/or fuel for the fuels and/or lubricant production process. The integration can include using hydrogen generated during gasification as a fuel to provide heat for solvent processing and/or using the hydrogen for hydroprocessing of deasphalted oil.

Integrated resid deasphalting and gasification

Methods are provided for forming lubricant base stocks from feeds such as vacuum resid or other 510&#xb0; C.+ feeds. A feed can be deasphalted and then catalytically and/or solvent processed to form lubricant base stocks, including bright stocks that are resistant to haze formation.

Bright stock production from low severity resid deasphalting

Compositions are provided for lubricant base stocks produced from feeds such as vacuum resid or other 510&#xb0; C.+ feeds. A feed can be deasphalted and then catalytically and/or solvent processed to form lubricant base stocks, including bright stocks that are resistant to haze formation.

Bright stock production from deasphalted oil

Methods are provided for producing lubricant base stocks from deasphalted oils formed by sequential deasphalting. The deasphalted oil can be exposed a first deasphalting process using a first solvent that can provide a lower severity of deasphalting and a second deasphalting process using a second solvent that can provide a higher severity of deasphalting. This can result in formation of at least a deasphalted oil and a resin fraction. The resin fraction can represent a fraction that traditionally would have been included as part of a deasphalter rock fraction.

Sequential deasphalting for base stock production

The embodiments of the disclosure relate generally to adsorbent beds, adsorbent contactors, and methods of using same. The disclosure includes polymer filaments that include an adsorbent particle, such as a zeolite, metal oxide, metal organic framework. A plurality of fibers composed of the polymer filaments can be formed into an adsorbent bed for use in pressure swing and/or temperature swing adsorption processes. The plurality of fibers can be packed into a bed randomly, spirally wound, or woven into a fabric that can be formed into a contacting structure. The adsorbent particle can be contained within the polymer filament and can interact with a medium having a component for adsorption by being in fluid communication with the medium via tortuous pathways within the polymer.

Adsorbent-incorporated polymer fibers in packed bed and fabric contactors, and methods and devices using same

A method of screening a hydrocarbon stream for potential toxicological hazards. The method involves providing a hydrocarbon stream; conducting 2-dimensional gas chromatography (2D-GC) analysis to quantify saturates and aromatic distribution in the hydrocarbon stream; identifying 2-8 ring aromatic distribution and weight percentage of 2-8 ring aromatic molecules in the hydrocarbon stream from the 2D-GC analysis; relating the weight percentage of 2-8 ring aromatic molecules in the hydrocarbon stream from the 2D-GC analysis to a mutagenicity index (MI), in which the MI is determined in accordance with ASTM Standard Method E 1687; and assessing a potential toxicological hazard of the hydrocarbon stream based on the weight percentage of 2-8 ring aromatic molecules in the hydrocarbon stream from the 2D-GC analysis and a MI threshold value. The 2-8 ring aromatic distribution preferably includes 3-6 ring aromatics, more preferably 3.5-5.5 ring aromatics. The 2-8 ring aromatic distribution includes mono alkylated and multi alkylated aromatic molecules.

Composition and method of screening hydrocarbons to limit potential toxicological hazards

Provided herein are various methods for forming alkylaromatic sulfonate compositions and blended alkylaromatic sulfonate compositions, and such compositions themselves. The methods of various embodiments include obtaining a C-Chydrocarbon mixture, optionally treating the mixture to concentrate the mixture in sulfonatable aromatics, and sulfonating the mixture to form the alkylaromatic sulfonates. The mixture or treated mixture may be blended with linear alkyl benzene (LAB) compositions and sulfonated, and/or the alkylaryl sulfonates may be blended with linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (LAS) compositions, to form the blended alkylaromatic sulfonates of some embodiments. These compositions and processes for making them may be tailored to serve a variety of end uses, such as detergents in cleaning solutions or for enhanced oil recovery operations, and/or as low foaming and/or hydrotropic additives in detergent formulations, and the like.

Alkylaromatic sulfonate compositions from mixed hydrocarbons

Methods are provided for modifying hydrogenation catalysts having silica supports (or other non-alumina supports) with additional alumina, and using such catalysts to achieve unexpectedly superior hydrogenation of feedstocks. The modified hydrogenation catalysts can have a relatively low cracking activity while providing an increased activity for hydrogenation.

Method and system for producing low aromatic hydrocarbon products

Noble metal hydrogenation catalysts and aromatic saturation methods

Methods are provided for using a dewaxing catalyst formed using at least two structure directing agents for production of a lubricant base stock. For example, ZSM-48 crystals formed using multiple directing agents (and/or formulated catalysts made using such crystals) can have an increased activity and/or can provide an improved yield during catalytic production of lubricant base stocks. Additionally or alternately, ZSM-48 crystals formed using multiple directing agents (and/or formulated catalysts made using such crystals) can provide improved aromatic saturation during processing of a feed for lubricant base stock production.

Base stock production using a high activity catalyst

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Tracie L Owens