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| 20090206006 | Process and Apparatus for Upgrading Heavy Hydrocarbons Using Supercritical Water - Heavy hydrocarbons are upgraded more efficiently to lighter, more valuable, hydrocarbons with lower amounts of solid carbonaceous by-products in supercritical water using two heating stages, the first stage at a temperature up to about 775K and the second stage at a temperature from about 870K to about 1075K. The temperature is preferably raised from the first temperature to the second temperature by internal combustion using oxygen. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20100206773 | Conversion of a light sweet refinery to a heavy sour refinery - This is a unique way of upgrading an existing refinery to process heavy sour crude. The system does not significantly modify an existing sweet refinery. Rather, a hydrocracker is used at the existing light sweet refinery location to create light sweet crudes from heavy sour crudes prior to processing in an existing sweet refinery. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100326887 | Process for Separating Pitch from Slurry Hydrocracked Vacuum Gas Oil - A process is disclosed for converting heavy hydrocarbon feed into lighter hydrocarbon products. The heavy hydrocarbon feed is slurried with a particulate solid material to form a heavy hydrocarbon slurry and hydrocracked in a slurry hydrocracking unit to produce vacuum gas oil (VGO) and pitch. A first vacuum column separates VGO from pitch, and a second vacuum column further separates VGO from pitch. As much as 15 wt-% of VGO can be recovered by the second vacuum column and recycled to the slurry hydrocracking unit. A pitch composition is obtained which can be made into particles and transported without sticking together. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110163004 | UPGRADING HEAVY OIL - Methods, systems and other embodiments associated with upgrading heavy oil are presented. A method of upgrading heavy oil comprising heating heavy oil to produce heated heavy oil. The method further comprises creating high pressure pulses in the heated heavy oil to crack the heated heavy oil to produce an oil with a lower viscosity than the heavy oil. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110163005 | UPGRADING HEAVY OIL BY HYDROCRACKING - Methods, systems and other embodiments associated with upgrading heavy oil by hydrocracking are presented. A method of upgrading heavy oil includes mixing raw heavy oil with hydrogen to produce a mixed heavy oil. The mixed heavy oil is heated to produce heated heavy oil. High pressure pulses are created in the heated heavy oil to crack the heated heavy oil to produce cracked oil with a lower viscosity than the raw heavy oil. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20130199966 | FISCHER-TROPSCH CATALYSTS - A method of producing an aluminium oxide supported catalyst for use in a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction, which comprises: spray-drying a slurry of γ-alumina and a source of a spinel forming metal to form a solid precursor material; calcining the precursor material to form a modified support material including a metal aluminate spinel; impregnating the modified alumina support material with a source of cobalt; calcining the impregnated support material, and activating the catalyst. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130341244 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR UPGRADING HYDROCARBONS - In one embodiment, a system for upgrading a hydrocarbon material may include a black wax upgrade subsystem and a molten salt gasification (MSG) subsystem. The black wax upgrade subsystem and the MSG subsystem may be located within a common pressure boundary, such as within a pressure vessel. Gaseous materials produced by the MSG subsystem may be used in the process carried out within the black wax upgrade subsystem. For example, hydrogen may pass through a gaseous transfer interface to interact with black wax feed material to hydrogenate such material during a cracking process. In one embodiment, the gaseous transfer interface may include one or more openings in a tube or conduit which is carrying the black wax material. A pressure differential may control the flow of hydrogen within the tube or conduit. Related methods are also disclosed. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140262949 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATED TEMPERATURE CONTROL OF REACTOR SYSTEM - Methods of controlling the heat-up and/or cool-down of a reactor system. One method includes collecting data sets for a hydrocracker reactor system at a first heat-up rate, generating a stability detection model of the reactor, modifying the heat-up rate through an operating region where initiation of reactions are expected and where reactions are occurring until the reactor achieves stable operation. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20150329487 | Improved Synthesis Of Succinimides And Quaternary Ammonium Ions For Use In Making Molecular Sieves - The present invention relates to the synthesis of succinimides, in particular to a method for the synthesis of a succinimide compound, comprising the step of reacting an alkyne, with carbon monoxide and ammonia or an amine, in the presence of an iron catalyst, wherein the reaction is carried out in an amine liquid phase and/or in the absence of an ether solvent. The succinimides may be reduced to quaternary ammonium cations which may be used as structure directing agents in the synthesis of molecular sieves. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20160002541 | COMMERCIAL FISCHER-TROPSCH REACTOR - A method for converting synthesis gas into liquid hydrocarbons by introducing a synthesis gas feed into a Fischer-Tropsch system that includes a catalytic reactor fluidly connected with at least two slurry loops, the reactor comprising at least as many reactor product outlets and slurry return inlets as slurry loops; each slurry loop comprising a separation system comprising at least one separator, an inlet of each separator fluidly connected to a reactor product outlet via a slurry offtake, and an outlet of each separator fluidly connected to a slurry return inlet via a slurry return; separating concentrated catalyst slurry from the reaction product via the slurry loops; removing liquid hydrocarbon product from each separator; and returning concentrated catalyst slurry to the catalytic reactor via the slurry returns and slurry return inlets. A system for converting synthesis gas into liquid hydrocarbons via the method is also disclosed. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160082405 | FLUID HAMMERS, HYDRODYNAMIC SIRENS, STREAM REACTORS, IMPLEMENTATION OF SAME, AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT OF FLUIDS - A fluid hammer/siren can operate in fast valve mode with no leakage flow. A stream reactor and process for chemical reaction acceleration provides a flow of liquid or gas forming jets, streams, vortices, or walls of cavities/bubbles that collide with each other or with other liquid, solid, or gaseous interfaces with energies (defined as the sum of molecular kinetic plus thermal energy) in excess of a chemical reaction activation energy. Wastewater treatment methods accelerate suspended particles to high velocity in a fluid flow and then decelerate rapidly by stopping the flow for accelerated inertial-force driven separation. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160186071 | METHOD FOR PREPARING SYNTHETIC FUEL FROM NATURAL GAS OF STRANDED GAS FIELD AND ASSOCIATED GAS FROM OIL & GAS FIELDS BY GTL-FPSO PROCESS - The present invention relates to a method for preparing a synthetic fuel on a vessel above a stranded gas field or an oil & gas field by a GTL-FPSO process, more particularly to a method for preparing a synthetic fuel with superior economic feasibility, productivity and efficiency using a compact GTL (gas to liquid) apparatus that can be used for a stranded gas field or an oil & gas field and an FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading) process under a condition optimized for the ratio of carbon dioxide in the stranded gas field or the oil & gas field and an apparatus for the same. | 06-30-2016 |
