| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 208125000 | With nonreactive material | 20 |
| 20090014355 | Method for Improving Liquid Yield During Thermal Cracking of Hydrocarbons - Metal additives to hydrocarbon feed streams give improved hydrocarbon liquid yield during thermal cracking thereof. Suitable additives include metal overbases and metal dispersions and the metals suitable include, but are not necessarily limited to, magnesium, calcium, aluminum, zinc, silicon, barium, cerium, and strontium overbases and dispersions. Particularly useful metals include magnesium alone or magnesium together with calcium, barium, strontium, boron, zinc, silicon, cerium, titanium, zirconium, chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, and/or platinum. In one non-limiting embodiment, no added hydrogen is employed. Coker feedstocks are a particular hydrocarbon feed stream to which the method can be advantageously applied, but the technique may be used on any hydrocarbon feed that is thermally cracked. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090301935 | Process and Apparatus for Cooling Liquid Bottoms from Vapor-Liquid Separator by Heat Exchange with Feedstock During Steam Cracking of Hydrocarbon Feedstocks - A process and apparatus for cracking liquid hydrocarbon feedstocks utilizes a vapor-liquid separator to treat heated vapor-liquid mixtures to provide an overhead of reduced residue content. Hot liquid bottoms from the separator are heat exchanged with cool hydrocarbon feedstocks for cracking to provide cooled liquid bottoms and preheated feedstock. At least a portion of the preheated feedstock is directed to a convection section of a pyrolysis furnace for additional heating and subsequent cracking. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100108569 | MILD CRACKING OF PARAFFINS - A process is disclosed for the mild cracking of C | 05-06-2010 |
| 20140311947 | Defoaming Systems and Methods in Hydrocarbon Processes - Methods for defoaming in hydrocarbon processes include the steps of providing a defoaming agent, and introducing the agent into a hydrocarbon process to inhibit or control foaming in the hydrocarbon process. These methods may be particularly useful in coking processes, especially as to foaming in coke drums. In certain embodiments, defoaming agents may comprise a plurality of carbon nanoparticles. In some embodiments, drag reducing agents may comprise high-molecular weight alkanes. Advantages include, but are not limited to, more efficient and effective foam inhibition, reduced or eliminated product contamination, reduced or eliminated catalyst poisoning, increased refinery production rate, debottlenecking the coker, and reduced cost and consequences of applying too much antifoam. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140374317 | Defoaming Systems and Methods in Hydrocarbon Processes - Methods for defoaming in hydrocarbon processes include the steps of providing a defoaming agent, and introducing the agent into a hydrocarbon process to inhibit or control foaming in the hydrocarbon process. These methods may be particularly useful in coking processes, especially as to foaming in coke drums. In certain embodiments, defoaming agents may comprise a plurality of carbon nanoparticles. In some embodiments, drag reducing agents may comprise high-molecular weight alkanes. Advantages include, but are not limited to, more efficient and effective foam inhibition, reduced or eliminated product contamination, reduced or eliminated catalyst poisoning, increased refinery production rate, debottlenecking the coker, and reduced cost and consequences of applying too much antifoam. | 12-25-2014 |
| 208126000 | Solids | 3 |
| 20090114567 | CRACKING HYDROCARBONACEOUS MATERIALS WITH HEATING BODIES - A continuous process and apparatus for treating feedstocks containing carbonaceous materials involves heating bodies to heat the feedstock to vaporize and crack hydrocarbons and carbon formed on heating bodies is removed through direct contact to a flame heater. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20160102255 | Integrated Heavy Liquid Fuel Coking With Chemical Looping Concept - A process for power generation using a chemical looping combustion concept is integrated with heavy liquid fuel coking in a cracking reactor, and is configured such that petcoke deposits on metal oxide particles from the cracking reactor are used as fuel in the chemical looping combustion reaction. The process is also configured such that metal oxide particles provide the heat necessary for the cracking reaction to be initiated in the cracking reactor. | 04-14-2016 |
| 208127000 | Suspension system | 1 |
| 20090288991 | Addition of Spent Activated Carbon to Asphalt Compositions and to Coking Units as Feedstock or Quencher - An asphalt mastic is prepared by combining spent activated carbon, that has not been regenerated, with liquid asphalt to achieve a composition that is useful for a variety of applications for which asphalt is used, including aggregate compositions and roofing materials. The activated carbon can also serve as a foaming initiator for the production of foamed asphalt. Still further, the activated carbon can be used as coking unit feedstock and as a quencher for a delayed coking unit. | 11-26-2009 |
| 208128000 | Vapors | 12 |
| 20080230444 | Hydrocarbon Material Processing System and Method - A hydrocarbon material processing system can reduce consumption of fossil fuel, environmental loads, and cost for processing a hydrocarbon material. The hydrocarbon material processing system has a gasification furnace ( | 09-25-2008 |
| 20090261017 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UPGRADING HYDROCARBONS - Systems and methods for upgrading hydrocarbons are provided. A portion of a hydrocarbon can be vaporized in the presence of gasified hydrocarbons, combustion gas, and solids to provide a vaporized gas. A portion of the hydrocarbon can be cracked in the presence of the gasified hydrocarbons, the combustion gas, and the solids to provide a cracked gas. A portion of the hydrocarbon can be deposited onto the solids to provide hydrocarbon containing solids. At least a portion of the hydrocarbon containing solids can be selectively separated to provide separated hydrocarbon containing solids and a hot gas product. The hot gas product can be at a temperature of from about 400° C. to about 1,650° C. A portion of the hydrocarbon containing solids can be combusted in the presence of an oxidant to provide the combustion gas. A portion of the hydrocarbon containing solids can be gasified to provide the gasified hydrocarbon. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090266741 | NOZZLE REACTOR AND METHOD OF USE - A nozzle reactor system for increasing the conversion rate of material feed injected into the nozzle reactor system. The system includes two or more nozzle reactors aligned in series, such that material exiting a first nozzle reactor may be injected into a second nozzle reactor, Each nozzle reactor includes an interior reactor chamber and an injection passage and a material feed passage that are each in material injecting communication with the interior reactor chamber. Furthermore, the injection passage is aligned transversely to the injection passage. The injection passage is configured to accelerate cracking material passed therethrough to a supersonic speed. A method of increasing the conversion rate of material feed utilizing multiple cracking steps is also described. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20140202925 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING HYBRID CRUDE OILS AND FUELS - A simplified process is provided for creating hybrid crude oils and hybrid crude fractions with characteristics superior to the original. The process uniquely combines gases with crude oil or crude fractions in an effervescent turbulent manner at low temperatures and pressures and without the further aid of catalysts. The process breaks large chain hydrocarbons into smaller chain hydrocarbons, molecularly combines carbon, hydrogen, and/or hydrocarbon molecules from the gases with and into hydrocarbon molecules of the crude or crude fraction, and separates contaminants and impurities. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20160251581 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING HYBRID CRUDE OILS AND FUELS | 09-01-2016 |
| 208129000 | Combustion gases | 1 |
| 20140197072 | OIL UPGRADING WITHIN COMBUSTION EXHAUST - Methods and systems relate to upgrading hydrocarbons, such as bitumen, by contacting the bitumen with flue gas of oxy-combustion. Quenching a mixture formed of the bitumen and the flue gas controls conversion of the bitumen. Limited size and amount of equipment needed enables employing such upgrading at production fields to facilitate making the bitumen transportable by pipeline without relying on diluents. | 07-17-2014 |
| 208130000 | Steam | 6 |
| 20090050530 | Process and Apparatus for Steam Cracking Hydrocarbon Feedstocks - The present disclosure provides a process for treating a hydrocarbon feedstock comprising: (a) feeding the hydrocarbon feedstock at a linear velocity equal to or less than 0.9 m/s to a first preheating zone in the convection section of a steam cracking furnace; (b) preheating the hydrocarbon feedstock in the first preheating zone to vaporize less than 99 wt. % of the hydrocarbon feedstock to form a vapor-liquid mixture; (c) separating at least a portion of the vapor-liquid mixture to form a vapor fraction and a liquid fraction; and (d) feeding at least a portion of the vapor fraction to the steam cracking furnace. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090107887 | Vapor/Liquid Separation Apparatus - A vapor/liquid separation apparatus for treating a flow of vapor/liquid mixtures of hydrocarbons and steam comprises a vertical drum with a side inlet to introduce hydrocarbon/steam mixtures, an overhead vapor outlet, and a lower section in communication with a cylindrical boot of less diameter than the drum, the boot comprising sufficient gas-liquid contact surface, e.g., that provided by one or more sheds, baffles and/or distillation trays, to provide at least a partial theoretical distillation stage, and a lower portion for receiving liquid from the drum, a lower outlet for removing the liquid, and an inlet for introducing a stripping gas such as steam, hydrogen, light crackable hydrocarbon, and/or methane, below the distillation tray and preferably above the level of liquid in the boot. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20100300936 | Method and Apparatus for Recycle of Knockout Drum Bottoms - A process and apparatus for cracking a hydrocarbon feed in a steam cracking furnace by withdrawing a resid-rich stream from a resid knockout vessel and recycling the resid-rich stream through a convection heating section of the furnace. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110084000 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING NOZZLE REACTOR PITCH - Methods and systems for cracking hydrocarbon material in a nozzle reactor and processing any un-cracked hydrocarbon material passing through the nozzle reactor. The nozzle reactor used may have a configuration whereby cracking material is injected into the nozzle reactor at a high velocity, including supersonic speed. The hydrocarbon material is injected into the nozzle reactor and intersects with the cracking material to crack hydrocarbon material. Any hydrocarbon material that pass through the nozzle reactor un-cracked can be re-injected into the nozzle reactor. An increase in the concentration and amount of un-cracked hydrocarbons injected into the nozzle reactor may increase the overall conversion of hydrocarbons into lighter hydrocarbons. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20130306519 | NOZZLE REACTOR AND METHOD OF USE - Embodiments of a nozzle reactor of the type useable to inject a first material feed stock and a second material feed stock to cause interaction between the first material feed stock and second material feed stock are described herein. According to some embodiments, the nozzle reactor may crack residual oil produced by other processing units in a refinery process. Furthermore, nozzle reactors may replace traditional processing units of a refinery process, such as cokers, hydrocrackers and deasphalting units. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20160168480 | Pyrolysis Furnace Tubes | 06-16-2016 |
