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| 20080312076 | Process for sulfurization or presulfurization of solid particles of a catalyst or an adsorbent - The invention relates to a process for incorporating sulfur in the porosity of the solid particles of a catalyst for the conversion of hydrocarbons or an adsorbent. This process is carried out off-site in the presence of hydrogen sulfide that is pure or diluted in hydrogen or nitrogen, a process in which said particles are made to rise or fall in a sulfur incorporation zone that comprises at least one vibratory helical coil that is essentially tubular in shape and that comprises at least two turns, whereby said particles are subjected to a temperature profile over the majority of their path in said coil and whereby said particles are brought into contact with at least one fluid on at least one portion of their path. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090000992 | COLOUR SORTING OF CATALYST OR ADSORBENT PARTICLES - Process for separating at least one type of catalyst or adsorbent particles having similar colours characterized in that such particles undergo an oxidative heating treatment for generating particle of different colours, and then particles are separated using a colour sorting process for separating at least one type of particles. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20100105540 | PROCESS FOR THE REGENERATION OF CATALYSTS FOR THE TREATMENT OF HYDROCARBONS - The present invention provides a process for the regeneration of a catalyst comprising at least one metal from Group VIII and at least one metal from Group VIB which are deposited on a refractory oxide support, comprising:
| 04-29-2010 |
| 20100105541 | PROCESS FOR THE REGENERATION OF CATALYSTS FOR THE TREATMENT OF HYDROCARBONS - A subject-matter of the present invention is a process for the regeneration of a catalyst comprising at least one metal from Group VIII and at least one metal from Group VIB which are deposited on a refractory oxide support, comprising:
| 04-29-2010 |
| 20110092360 | PROCESS FOR SULFURIZING HYDROCARBON TREATMENT CATALYSTS - The present invention relates to a process for sulfurizing a hydrocarbon treatment catalyst, comprising:
| 04-21-2011 |
| 20110098175 | PROCESS FOR SULFURIZING HYDROCARBON TREATMENT CATALYSTS - The present invention relates to a process for sulfurizing a hydrocarbon treatment catalyst, comprising:
| 04-28-2011 |
| 20120231947 | PROCESS FOR THE OFF SITE REGENERATION OF SOLID CATALYSTS - The invention provides a process for the off site regeneration of a solid catalyst, comprising two consecutive steps:
| 09-13-2012 |
| 20140042057 | Process for passivation by a nitrogen-containing compound of a zeolitic catalyst, in particular a hydrocracking catalyst - The invention relates to a process for ex-situ treatment of a catalyst that contains at least one hydrogenating phase, and at least one amorphous silica-alumina or a zeolite that contains acid sites, whereby said process comprises:
| 02-13-2014 |
| 20140155664 | Method For Preparing Supported Metal Catalysts For Hydrogenating Unsaturated Hydrocarbons - The present invention relates to a method for preparing a supported metal catalyst for the selective hydrogenation of unsaturated hydrocarbons, characterized in that it comprises the following steps:
| 06-05-2014 |
| 20140251870 | PROCESS FOR THE START-UP OF HYDROTREATMENT OR HYDROCONVERSION UNITS - The invention describes a process for start-up of a hydrotreatment or hydroconversion unit carried out in the presence of hydrogen, in at least 2 catalytic beds, process in which
| 09-11-2014 |
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| 20090076862 | AUTOMATED SPLIT TICKETING - An enhanced travel search tool aimed at providing travel opportunities includes a ticket splitter operating from a list of flight connections provided by a front-end flight search engine. The ticket splitter comprises a unit for valuating all ticket partitions generated from the provided list of connection flights and a tree of split criteria updated in a cache for determining the partitions and attributing to each partition a probability value of obtaining a split-ticket solution. The ticket splitter also includes a unit for selecting those of the valuated partitions that have a probability value higher than a defined threshold and provides a sorted list of recommended partitions to a back-end fare search engine to price all the selected partitions including a reference single-ticket solution. Travel search tool offering of travel opportunities is enhanced by automatically including multi-ticket travel solutions. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20100131553 | GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING BEST TRAVEL DEALS - A global distribution system (GDS) organized for searching travel deals from a plurality of travel vendor fare databases ( | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100293012 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AN OPTIMAL LOW FARE FOR A TRIP - A method for determining an optimal fare for a trip comprising a departure location, an arrival location, the method comprises the following steps: sending a request for the trip wherein the request comprises a departure location, an arrival location and a corresponding fare for the trip; automatically modifying the request by searching in a predetermined database to determine a set of additional requests wherein each comprises at least one of the departure location, the arrival location or one or more additional locations which may form at least a part of the requested route wherein the predetermined database comprises said additional requests and a corresponding fare for each additional request; selecting one or more additional requests to form one or more alternative requests which include at least on of the departure location or the arrival location as the request; calculating the up to date fares for each alternative request in order to determine a resulting fare for each alternative request; comparing the fare and the resulting fares in order to determine the lowest resulting fare for the trip. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100299318 | ONLINE TRAVEL RESERVATION SYSTEM AND METHOD DELIVERING RESTRICTION-AWARE TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES - An online reservation system including a fare search engine is described. The system includes a database of published fares, a database of rules attached to the published fares and a fare family solver to categorize the published fares into sets of predefined generic fare families on the basis of the rules attached to the published fares. The fare family solver further includes a generic partitioning fare family database holding the attributes of each predefined generic fare family allowing to determine to which fare family the published fares belong to. The attributes of each predefined generic fare family are first set up by a fare family composer operated by an administrator of the system. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20110145025 | MULTI-DESTINATION TRIP SELECTION - A method of selecting at least one trip from a plurality of possible trips, each of the plurality of possible trips being for travel from an origin location and comprising stops at a plurality of destinations. The method is performed in computer apparatus configured to execute the method. The method comprises: determining a fare for each of a plurality of different leg options for each leg, each leg being between one of: the origin location and a destination; and two destinations; selecting a plurality of candidate leg options for each leg based on comparative amounts of the determined fares, the plurality of candidate leg options being fewer in number than the plurality of different leg options; and determining at least one trip based on the plurality of candidate leg options for each leg. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110167051 | SEARCH ENGINE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A method of searching for a entity amongst a plurality of entities, wherein all the entities are linked by at least one criterion in common and have a plurality of data formats, wherein each entity comprises a set of data which can be searched by means of criteria entered by a user; and wherein each entity has a data format; and further wherein a specific one of the data formats defines a standard record format; the method comprising the steps of: determining the data format of an entity; if the data format of the entity does not match the standard record format, passing the entity to a pre-processing engine; if the data format of the entity does match the standard record format, passing standard record format data of the entity to a main processing engine; in the pre-processing engine comparing the entity data format to the standard record format and applying a conversion to the entity set of data; converting the entity set of data to the standard record format based on the conversion to form a converted set of data; passing the converted set of data to the main processing engine; in the main processing engine receiving the standard record format entity set of data and the converted set of data; and producing a set of results combining the converted set of data and the standard record format data for selection by a user of a preferred entity. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20120239636 | System and method for processing complex queries - The invention relates to a method and system for processing complex queries each corresponding to a plurality of components to be combined. Elements corresponding to these components are searched. The elements are of different element types and are originally described by definition data having heterogeneous data structures. A conversion step transforms the heterogeneous definition data into converted definition data of one single format. An engine then retrieves elements and builds associations of elements matching the query parameters based on the converted definition data, thereby providing with a reply to the query in an optimized manner. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20130030848 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AN OPTIMAL LOW FARE FOR A TRIP - A method for determining an optimal fare for a trip comprising a departure location, an arrival location, the method comprises the following steps: sending a request for the trip wherein the request comprises a departure location, an arrival location and a corresponding fare for the trip; automatically modifying the request by searching in a predetermined database to determine a set of additional requests wherein each comprises at least one of the departure location, the arrival location or one or more additional locations which may form at least a part of the requested route wherein the predetermined database comprises said additional requests and a corresponding fare for each additional request; selecting one or more additional requests to form one or more alternative requests which include at least on of the departure location or the arrival location as the request; calculating the up to date fares for each alternative request in order to determine a resulting fare for each alternative request; comparing the fare and the resulting fares in order to determine the lowest resulting fare for the trip. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130173429 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING FOR AND/OR PURCHASING PRODUCTS OR SERVICES - A method of searching for a product or service and presenting the results in a calendar type view; wherein the search is instigated in a request which includes a plurality of parameters, such as a city pair and/or a date, and one or more upsell criteria; the method comprising the steps of: determining via a computer search, results which meet at least one parameter and one or more upsell criteria to thereby determine a flight domain; progressively determining the flight domain via a computer to produce refined results; limiting the number of results in the flight domain based on the at least one parameter, one or more upsell criteria and first one of a plurality of abstraction levels to thereby obtain the refined results, which refined results have lowest prices; and presenting the refined results in a view such as a calendar matrix view. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20140089042 | Method, Apparatus and System for monitoring competition price and for providing corrective messages - A computer-implemented method of detecting price discrepancies over time and providing analysis messages comprises: retrieving a set of price results based on at least one parameter selected from a set of parameters; detecting a pattern in the set of price results; accessing and updating a pattern cause database for identifying at least one predetermined pattern cause based on the detected pattern; analyzing each predetermined pattern cause and associated corrective actions; and generating at least one analysis message containing: the at least predetermined pattern cause and the associated corrective actions. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140278614 | ALTERNATIVE TRAVEL RECOMMENDATIONS - Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating travel recommendations and alternative travel recommendations. At least one minimum fare path having an associated value may be determined based on a travel request. At least one alternative fare path having an associated value may be determined based at least in part on the associated value of the at least one minimum fare path. At least one travel recommendation may be generated based on the at least one minimum fare path, and at least one alternative travel recommendation may be generated based on the at least one alternative fare path. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140324550 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AN OPTIMAL LOW FARE FOR A TRIP - A method, system and computer program product assist an airline in determining if a lower fare exists for a trip among fares already proposed by the airline or other airlines. A set of tables, each associated with particular departure and arrival locations, may be created in an encompassing request database based upon results identified for requests sent from one or more clients, travel agents or airlines to a production traffic engine. The encompassing request database may then be queried by an airline to determine whether a lower fare exists for the trip. | 10-30-2014 |
