Basf Corporation

Engelhard Corporation

Uop Lcc

Basf Se Corporation

Basf Catalysts LLC

Microsoft Corporation

William Bachop Dolan

Kenneth F Butwell

Steven M Kuznicki

Tobias Eckardt

Mark M Davis

Roger Wyatt

Klaus Neumann

Alfonse Maglio

Angela Siegel

Justin Pan

Ulrich Mueller

Robert J Schmidt

Markus Schubert

Kishore J Doshi

Paul J Kuchar

Christoph Kiener

Frank Poplow

Dennis Reinertsen

Ulrich Müller

Barry Keven Speronello

Christopher Brian Quirk

Andrew S Zarchy

Arul A Menezes

Stephen D Richardson

Michael John Mitariten

Man-Wing Tang

Michael Barnett

Ingo Richter

John Byrne

Adam C Lack

Stefan Marx

Kirit M Patel

Lena Arnold

Michael Locascio

Timothy M Cowan

Matthias Weickert

Manish Mehta

Dana Mooney

Margaret Anne Greene

Mark Tomczak

Lawrence T Kass

Kenneth Butwell

Dana Rehms Mooney

Gerald Rzeczkowski

Michael Santamaria

Joseph Lynch

Kenneth F Buttwell

Christopher J Brockett

Dennis Reinersten

Lucretia H Vanderwende

Disclosed herein is a system including at least two adsorbent bed containing vessels in adsorption mode, where one has a high pressure PI and one has a low pressure P, and at least one adsorbent bed containing vessel in regeneration mode. The vessel that is in regeneration mode may have a pressure Pthat is intermediate to the pressures PI and Pof each of the vessels that are in adsorption mode. The system may be configured to introduce a gas feed stream into the high pressure (P) vessel to generate a first product stream, followed by passing a slip stream from the first product stream, to act as a regeneration gas, into the vessel that in regeneration mode, followed by passing the regeneration gas into the low pressure (P) vessel, without passing through a compressor, to generate a second product stream.

Elimination of recycle compressor in dehydration and contaminant removal systems

Disclosed in certain embodiments are processes for heavy hydrocarbon removal that implement a regeneration loop that introduces an absorbent into a regeneration gas stream, and systems for implementing the same.

Hydrocarbon recovery unit with recycle loop for adsorbent bed regeneration

Disclosed herein are processes and systems for removing heavy C5+ hydrocarbon components from a natural gas feed gas by subjecting the natural gas feed gas stream to an adsorber. The adsorber in the processes and systems described herein operating at a pressure that may be associated with improved adsorption capacity and longer breakthrough time.

Systems and processes for heavy hydrocarbon removal

Disclosed in certain embodiments are methods of removing water from a gas feed stream comprising hydrocarbons and water during an adsorption step of an adsorption cycle.

Adsorbent bed with increased hydrothermal stability

Disclosed in certain embodiments are sorbents for capturing heavy hydrocarbons via thermal swing adsorption processes.

Adsorbent for hydrocarbon recovery

Disclosed in certain embodiments are processes for heavy hydrocarbon removal that implement a regeneration loop to reduce an amount of liquid hydrocarbons exposed by the separator to the regeneration stream over one or more durations for which an average C5+ hydrocarbon content of the regeneration stream is reduced or minimal.

Hydrocarbon recovery units with separators configured to reduce liquid hydrocarbon exposure to regeneration gas streams

Mixed adsorbent/desiccant beds comprising in some embodiments from about 20 vol % (volume percent) to about 90 vol % of one or more adsorbents and from about 10 vol % to about 80 vol % of one or more desiccants, based on the total volume of the adsorbent/desiccant mixture, prevent water reflux during thermal regeneration of adsorption beds in gas processing plants and methods.

Gas dehydration with mixed adsorbent/desiccant beds

The invention is related to a storage vessel () comprising a shaped body () of a porous solid, wherein the storage vessel () comprises a wall () with a section () comprising at least one inlet (), wherein the storage vessel () has a central axis () and the central axis () is a longitudinal axis of the storage vessel () and/or perpendicular to a cross-sectional area of the at least one inlet (), wherein the shaped body () covers at least 85% of an inner volume () of the storage vessel () and the shaped body () comprises an opening () in an axial direction (), axial referring to the central axis () of the storage vessel (), wherein the opening () extends from a first end () of the shaped body () to an opposing second end () of the shaped body () and wherein the storage vessel () comprises exactly one shaped body (), which is formed in one piece. The invention is further related to a shaped body and use of the shaped body.

Storage vessel comprising a one-piece shaped body of a porous solid

A process is disclosed for removing contaminants from an olefin stream, comprising passing the contaminated olefin stream through a first adsorbent in a thermal swing adsorption process to produce a relatively pure olefin product stream, and a regenerating gas stream containing the contaminants, passing the contaminated regenerating gas stream through a pressure swing adsorption process to yield a relatively pure regenerating gas stream, which can be redirected to the thermal swing adsorption process for regenerating the adsorbent therein.

Regeneration loop clean-up

An adsorption process is disclosed for removal of acid gas contaminants from a liquid or gas which comprises providing an activated alumina adsorbent which is impregnated with a compound selected from the group consisting of one or more alkali metal compounds, one or more alkaline earth metal compounds, or a mixture of such compounds; contacting the liquid or gas containing acid gas contaminants with the activated alumina adsorbent to adsorb enough acid gas contaminant in the liquid or gas to lower the contaminant content of the liquid or gas, the alumina adsorbent being formed from agglomerated calcined alumina powder and provided with a mercury pore volume of pores greater than 500 angstroms at least 0.10 cc/g.

Adsorption of acid gases

A process for removing heavy hydrocarbons from a natural gas stream comprises passing the natural gas stream thought a TSA adsorbent unit to adsorb heavy hydrocarbons, regenerating the TSA adsorbent by heating to form a contaminant-containing gas phase, cooling the contaminated gas phase to separate water and heavy hydrocarbon liquids to form a third gas phase and directing the third gas phase to a PSA unit to adsorb heavy hydrocarbons from the third gas phase. The product from the PSA unit can be sent to pipeline or recycled to the TSA unit for further hydrocarbon removal and recovery.

Heavy hydrocarbon removal process

The present invention relates to a process for the separation of at least one unbranched C4-C2O hydrocarbon from a fluid mixture containing the unbranched hydrocarbon and at least one branched isomer of the unbranched hydrocarbon, which comprises the step of&#x2014;contacting the fluid mixture with an adsorbent comprising a porous metal organic framework material, which material comprises at least one at least bidentate organic compound coordinately bound to at least one metal ion, to get the unbranched hydrocarbon adsorbed, wherein the at least one at least bidentate organic compound is a monocyclic, bicyclic or polycyclic ring system which is derived from at least one heterocycle selected from the group consisting of pyrrole, alpha-pyridone and gamma-pyridone and has at least two ring nitrogens and is unsubstituted or bears one or more substituents selected independently from the group consisting of halogen, Ci-6-alkyl, phenyl, NH2, NH(d-6-alkyl), N(C1-6-alkyl)2, OH, Ophenyl and OCi-6-alkyl, where the substituents Ci_6-alkyl and phenyl are unsubstituted or bear one or more substituents selected independently from the group consisting of halogen, NH2, NH(d-6-alkyl), N(C1-6-alkyl)2, OH, Ophenyl and OCi-6-alkyl. The present invention also relates to the use of said porous metal-organic framework material in a process for the separation of unbranched hydrocarbons from their branched isomers.

Process for the separation of unbranched hydrocarbons from their branched isomers

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