Exxon Research and Engineering Company

Exxonmobil Research and Engineering Company

Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

William Neergaard Olmstead

Roby Bearden, Jr

Saul Charles Blum

Michael Siskin

Mark Alan Greaney

Martin Leo Gorbaty

Winston K Robbins

Richard Henry Schlosberg

David T Ferrughelli

Kuangnan Qian

Larry Arthur Green

Irwin A Wiehe

Stephen B Jaffe

Stuart Leon Soled

Frank Hershkowitz

Kun Wang

Guido Sartori

Sabato Miseo

David William Savage

Alan Roy Katritzky

Leo D Brown

David Craig Dalrymple

Peter S Maa

Simon Robert Kelemen

Michael C Kerby

Bruce Henry Ballinger

Roland Bernard Saeger

Howard J Freund

Tan-Jen Chen

Suzzy Chen Hsi Ho

Richard P Rhodes

Kathleen E Edwards

Jason B English

Yitian Xiao

Gary J Dechert

David J Curry

A E Bence

Suzzy Chen Ho

Gary James Dechert

Larry A Green

A Edward Bence

Leo Dale Brown

Peter Sheng-Shyong Maa

A process for converting light paraffins (especially C-C) to middle distillate and higher boiling range liquid hydrocarbons by (1) oxygen or air oxidation of iso-paraffins to alkyl hydroperoxides; (2) conversion of alkyl hydroperoxides to dialkyl peroxides; (3) radical coupling of paraffins using the dialkyl peroxides as radical initiators forming heavier hydrocarbon products; and (4) fractionation of the heavy hydrocarbon products. The net reaction is catalytically converting light paraffins to heavier hydrocarbons using oxygen or air to effect the conversion.

Upgrading paraffins to distillates and lubricant basestocks

The present invention is a method to determine the TAN and TAN as a function of boiling point for a hydrocarbon feedstream using an electrospray ionization mass spectrometer (ESI-MS). The steps of the method include determining the signal as a function of mass from the ESI-MS while minimizing the formation of oligomers and fragmentation of the molecular species in the feedstream and then determining the TAN from the signals. The TAN is also determined as a function of boiling point.

Measurement of distributed total acid numbers by electrospray mass spectrometry

The present invention is a method to determine the composition of a hydrocarbon feedstream from a small sample of hydrocarbons including the steps analyzing the sample with a combination of chromatograph and mass spectrometer, and reconciling output from step a) with other analytical measurements to determine to determine the composition of the hydrocarbon feedstream.

Micro-hydrocarbon analysis

A method of predicting the composition of hydrocarbon products of a complex carbonaceous material when exposed to specific time and temperature conditions is disclosed. In one embodiment, the material is characterized to obtain elemental, chemical and structural parameters. A representative chemical structure of the material is constructed based on the characterization information. The representative chemical structure is then stochastically expanded to a molecular ensemble chemical structural model that includes heteroatoms. The chemical structural model is coupled to a compositional yield model and the composition of the material products is determined using kinetic modeling. Methods are provided of constructing a chemical structural model of complex carbonaceous material, of coupling a molecular ensemble of chemical structures to a thermal chemical mechanism, of updating an ensemble of chemical structures during the kinetic modeling to reflect chemical reaction products and of eliminating molecules from the system.

Chemical structural and compositional yields model for predicting hydrocarbon thermolysis products

The present invention relates to a method for determining the source of fouling in petroleum thermal conversion process units. More particularly, the invention distinguishes whether fouling occurs due to feed entrainment of small feed droplets or vapor phase condensation.

Method for determining the source of fouling in thermal conversion process units

The present invention is a process for decreasing the acidity of a starting acidic crude oil by contacting an acidic crude with an effective excess of ammonia dissolved in said crude to form an ammonia-continuous oil discontinuous phase at a temperature and conditions sufficient to form the corresponding amide of the naphthenic acids. The process is useful in the processing of acidic crudes.

Process for treatment of petroleum acids with ammonia

The present invention is a process to remove a major portion of metals and coke precursors from a hydrocarbon stream. The steps of the process include contacting the feedstream with a hydrocarbon insoluble adsorbent, recovering the oil which does not adsorb and removing the metals and coke precursors from the adsorbent.

Selective adsorption process for resid upgrading (law815)

The viscosity of hydrocarbon feeds in reduced from crudes or crude by thermal treatment.

Viscosity reduction by heat soak-induced naphthenic acid decomposition

The invention comprises a method for reducing the amount of carboxylic acids in petroleum feeds comprising the steps of (a) adding to said petroleum feed a catalytic agent comprising an oil soluble or oil dispersible compound of a metal selected from the group consisting of Group VB, VIB, VIIB and VIII metals, wherein the amount of metal in said petroleum feed is at least about 5 wppm, (b) heating said petroleum feed with said catalytic agent in a reactor at a temperature of about 400 to about 800.degree. F. (about 204.44 to about 426.67.degree. C.) and a pressure of about atmospheric to about 1000 psig (about 6996.33 kPa) in the substantial absence of hydrogen, and (c) sweeping the reactor containing said petroleum feed and said catalytic agent with an inert gas to maintain the combined water and carbon dioxide partial pressure below about 50 psia (344.75 kPa).

Process for reducing total acid number of crude oil

The invention comprises a method for reducing the amount of carboxylic acids in petroleum feeds comprising the steps of (a) adding to said petroleum feed a catalytic agent comprising an oil soluble or oil dispersible compound of a metal selected from the group consisting of Group VB, VIB, VIIB and VIII metals, wherein the amount of metal in said petroleum feed is at least about 5 wppm, (b) heating said petroleum feed with said catalytic agent in a reactor at a temperature of about 400 to about 800.degree. F. (about 204.44 to about 426.67.degree. C.), under a hydrogen pressure of 15 psig to 1000 psig (204.75 to 6996.33 kPa), and (c) sweeping the reactor containing said petroleum feed and said catalytic agent with hydrogen-containing gas at a rate sufficient to maintain the combined water and carbon dioxide partial pressure below about 50 psia (about 344.75 kPa).

The instant invention is directed to a process for reducing organic acids in petroleum feeds containing organic acids comprising: (a) thermally treating a petroleum feed containing organic acids in a thermal reaction zone comprising a plurality of stages in series, at a temperature and pressure sufficient to decompose at least a portion of said organic acids while sweeping said plurality of stages with an inert gas, to produce a volatile organic acid containing hydrocarbon fraction and a non-volatile hydrocarbon fraction; (b) treating said volatile hydrocarbon fraction to neutralize at least a portion of said organic acids therein and to produce a treated volatile hydrocarbon fraction; (c) collecting said non-volatile hydrocarbon fraction from said thermal reaction zone; and (d) blending said treated volatile hydrocarbon fraction of step (b) with said collected non-volatile hydrocarbon fraction.

The present invention provides for a method of decreasing the Conradson carbon content of metal containing petroleum streams by forming a mixture of the Conradson carbon containing petroleum fraction and an aqueous electrolysis medium containing an electron transfer agent, and passing an electric current through the mixture or optionally through the pretreated aqueous electrolysis medium at a voltage, sufficient to decrease the Concarbon content of the stream. The cathodic voltage is from 0 V to -3.0 V vs. SCE. The invention provides a method for enhancing the value of petroleum feeds that traditionally have limited use in refineries.

Method for decreasing the conradson carbon content of petroleum

The present invention provides for a method of decreasing the metals content of metal containing petroleum streams by forming a mixture of the petroleum fraction containing those metals and an aqueous electrolysis medium containing electron transfer agent, and passing an electric current through the mixture or through the pretreated aqueous electrolysis medium at a voltage, sufficient to remove the metals such as Ni, V and Fe from the stream (i.e. to produce a petroleum fraction having decreased content of the metals). The cathodic voltage is from 0 V to -3.0 V vs. SCE. The invention provides a method for enhancing the value of petroleum feeds that traditionally have limited use in refineries due to their metals, e.g., Ni and V content.

Method for demetallating petroleum streams

Petroleum acids, e.g., naphthenic acids, are removed from crudes or crude fractions by thermal treatment.

Thermal decomposition of naphthenic acids

A process for heteroatom removal-enhancing hydrogenation of highly refractory aromatic ring structures that involves contacting a highly refractory structure having at least one aryl linkage connecting a first heteroaryl moiety and a moiety selected from the group consisting of an aryl moiety and a second heteroaryl moiety with supercritical water having a temperature of from about 400.degree. C. to about 600.degree. C. in the presence of from about 3.4 MPa to about 18.6 MPa of CO to produce lower molecular weight products having decreased aromatic and heteroatom content. The process has utility for producing more valuable lower molecular weight products having a reduced aromatic heteroatom content from starting materials that are highly refractory and widely considered to be difficult to upgrade such as coals and asphaltenes, and model compounds containing the biaryl linkages.

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William Neergaard Olmstead