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WO/2015/191236A1 |
Aspects of the invention provide a process and system for upgrading a hydrocarbon feed. The process includes providing a hydrocarbon feed and a utility fluid. Then selectively extracting from the feed at least a portion of particulates t...
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WO/2015/191148A1 |
Methods for upgrading a hydrocarbon feed are disclosed. The methods include a hydrocarbon feed having an insolubility number, Ifeed, with at least a first fluid to form a fluid-feed mixture; and inducing a centrifugal force to the fluid-...
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WO/2015/184464A1 |
A process for dewatering crude oil is described. The process includes feeding crude oil onto a separation of a cyclone separator that is at least partially disposed in a flash vessel. The temperature are pressure in the flash vessel are ...
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WO/2014/193666A9 |
An improved method and process unit for desalting petroleum crude oils in which a portion of the stable emulsion layer which forms in the desalter vessel is withdrawn from the desalter and diluted with a liquid diluent, typically oil or ...
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WO/2015/171879A1 |
The processes and systems herein described enable the use of C02 to handle heavy oil fractions. A significant reduction in the requisite energy to maintain such a fuel in fluid form is attained. The energy reduction from herein described...
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WO/2015/167869A1 |
Methods and systems are provided for improving liquid product quality or yield from atmospheric or vacuum distillation unit by subjecting fractionated streams from such distillation units to hydrodynamic cavitation.
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WO/2015/167862A1 |
New methods and systems for crude oil desalting are provided that utilize hydrodynamic cavitation to crack molecules that have a tendency to form emulsions, thereby allowing increased desalter throughput, reduced desalter operating tempe...
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WO/2015/167863A1 |
Methods and systems are provided for improving viscosity of a heavy hydrocarbon product stream such as a vapor-liquid separator drum bottoms stream, a steam cracker tar stream, or a combination thereof by subjecting the stream to cavitat...
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WO/2015/167864A1 |
Methods and systems are provided for pretreating a heavy oil feed to a hvdrocracker, such as a slurry hvdrocracker to partially convert the stream and/or to convert catalyst precursors in the stream to catalytically active particles by h...
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WO/2015/167860A1 |
Systems and methods are provided for converting resids to oil streams useful as fuel oils by utilizing hydrodynamic cavitation. The cavitated fuel oils are more suitable for subsequent conversion to lighter products (e.g., through fluid ...
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WO/2015/167861A1 |
Systems and methods are provided for deasphalting with integrated hydrodynamic cavitation to improve the yield or quality of deasphalted oil obtained from a deasphalting unit.
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WO/2015/167868A1 |
Systems and methods are provided for improve the rheologieal properties of heavy crudes, waxy crudes, dilatant crudes and other crudes possessing challenging transporting properties utilizing hydrodynamic cavitation to crack hydrocarbons...
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WO/2015/167867A1 |
Systems and methods are provided for dewaxing a distillate fuel oil by subjecting an at least partially hydroprocessed distillate fuel oil to cavitation to reduce the pour point, reduce the cloud point, reduce the cold filter plugging po...
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WO/2015/167866A1 |
Systems and methods are providing for integrating a cavitation unit to the backend separation system of a hydrotreater to improve conversion.
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WO/2015/160537A1 |
A system for desalting a crude oil stream includes an elongated, vertically oriented vessel (10) that has an interior piping structure arranged concentric to the vessel (10). The piping structure, which may have more than one level (55/5...
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WO/2015/160521A1 |
A desalter system is configured to separate water from an oil/water mixture and maintain an oil/water interface within the system at acceptable levels. In one embodiment, the desalter system includes a pressure vessel, a plurality of ele...
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WO/2015/149158A1 |
An optimized reaction chamber for a sonic reactor or sonicator is disclosed. The optimized reaction chamber is designed to have a spherical shape to enable higher operating pressure and temperature inside the reaction chamber, allowing u...
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WO/2015/143561A1 |
A process for polishing a dilbit product produced from a conventional paraffinic froth treatment process results in a polished dilbit product stream having minimal impurities, including water, mineral and non-mineral solids and water, th...
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WO/2015/134731A1 |
Closed loop filtration systems and methods of the present teachings can provide liquid reformable fuels enriched in light end hydrocarbons and/or having reduced content of sulfur and/or other impurities. Such enriched liquid reformable f...
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WO/2015/116727A1 |
A system and method for cleaning sulfur and other pollutants from bunker oil to be used for fuel in large cargo ships is described. Preferably, the system includes two or more stages having a mixer to create an emulsion of oil and water....
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WO/2015/096957A1 |
A process for obtaining dust-free and dried tar as well as a tar-free, dried filter cake product from a gas condensate, comprising the following process steps carried out one after the other: - cooling and depressurization of the gas con...
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WO/2015/094651A1 |
A petroleum desalting process in which the role played by the oil/bulk-resolved-water interface in the dehydration of the stabilized emulsion which forms in the desalter is recognized. The desalting process is improved by introducing the...
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WO/2015/084761A1 |
A petroleum desalting process in which fluid from interracial boundary layer between the settled water layer and the settled oil layer or emulsion-water layer in the vessel is withdrawn from the desalter and recycled to the crude oil inl...
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WO/2015/080834A1 |
A process and system for desalting crude oil includes delivering a stream of salty crude oil and wash water into a mixing valve, mixing the stream of salty crude oil and wash water through the mixing valve to create a mixed stream of des...
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WO/2015/063250A1 |
A process for controlling the accumulation of catalyst solids in a recovery train of an oxygenate to olefin process comprising: a) providing an effluent stream from an oxygenate to olefin reaction, wherein the effluent stream comprises s...
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WO/2015/057300A2 |
Methods, systems and designs are provided for removing mercury from crudes. Crude oil is heated to a temperature above 100°C in a stabilization column for a time sufficient to convert all of the forms of mercury in the oil into the elem...
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WO/2015/054406A1 |
In various aspects, methods and apparatuses for liquid-liquid extraction are provided. In certain aspects, an emulsion can be formed by combining a feed stream, an extractant, and a surfactant. The feed stream comprises a plurality of di...
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WO/2015/047623A1 |
A petroleum desalting process in which the oil/water emulsion layer which forms in the desalter vessel between the settled water layer and the settled oil layer is separated into the oil and water components by contact with a heated high...
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WO/2015/031359A1 |
A method (10) of minimizing vapor transmission from a constructed permeability control infrastructure can comprise forming (12) a heterogeneous hydrated matrix within the constructed permeability control infrastructure, the constructed p...
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WO/2015/021546A1 |
A process for treating heavy oil to provide a treated heavy oil having a reduced density and viscosity, as well as an olefin content that does not exceed 1.0 wt. %. The process comprises separating the initial heavy oil into a first frac...
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WO/2015/022677A1 |
The present invention is a process to obtain liquid and/ or gaseous hydrocarbons through the retorting of oleagenous rocks, for example, pyrobetuminous shale and/or materials containing organic compounds in retorts, preferably vertical a...
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WO/2015/017939A1 |
A process for treating a heavy oil by heating a feedstock comprising a heavy oil in order to separate from the heavy oil a first fraction. The first fraction contains no more than 25% of the total number of acid groups of the heavy oil. ...
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WO/2015/007343A1 |
A process and apparatus are proposed for obtaining a hydrocarbon-containing composition from a fluid comprising used oil, wherein the hydrocarbon-containing composition has a boiling range from 170°C to 390°C and the hydrocarbons have ...
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WO/2015/000061A1 |
A process for reducing the olefins and/or di-olefins content of a hydrocarbon-containing feed, such as that resulting from the thermal cracking of heavy oil, thermally cracked bitumen, or thermally cracked petroleum are disclosed. The pr...
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WO/2014/209115A1 |
The present invention relates to a system for purifying asphalt from an asphalt lake. The system comprises for this purpose a slope on which asphalt tumbles downward in the direction of a sedimentation container. Provided at an end of th...
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WO/2014/202617A1 |
The present invention relates to a device (10) for treating at least one liquefiable substance (12) corresponding to solidified petroleum products, said device being provided with an intake assembly (15) comprising: - at least one intake...
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WO/2014/202596A1 |
Process for Removing Metals from High-Boiling Hydrocarbon Fractions Subject-matter of the invention is a process for removing metal impurities from hydrocarbon fractions, as they are obtained for example as product of the Fischer- Tropsc...
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WO/2014/202594A1 |
Process for Removing Metals from High-Boiling Hydrocarbon Fractions Subject-matter of the invention is a process for removing metal impurities from hydrocarbon fractions, as they are obtained for example as product of the Fischer-Tropsch...
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WO/2014/174536A1 |
The process for treating a hydrocarbon-based heavy residue (1), in particular bituminous residues with a high asphaltene content, comprises the following operations : A) bringing the heavy residue to be treated to a temperature within th...
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WO/2014/172361A1 |
A process to facilitate gravimetric separation of alkali metal salts, such as alkali metal sulfides and polysulfides, from alkali metal reacted hydrocarbons. The disclosed process is part of a method of upgrading a hydrocarbon feedstock ...
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WO/2014/168889A1 |
The present invention provides a molecular rupture and recombination of fuels with additives or fuel enhancers such as, but not limited to, non-hydrocarbon and/or hydrocarbon substances such as but not limited to, water, methanol, ethano...
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WO/2014/167424A2 |
A system and method is provided for upgrading a continuously flowing process stream including heavy crude oil (HCO). A reactor receives the process stream in combination with water, at an inlet temperature within a range of about 60 °C ...
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WO/2014/159379A1 |
Systems and methods are provided for sidestream mixing. The system may include a first junction formed from a plurality of conduits. The plurality of conduits may include a first conduit fluidly coupled to a compressor, the first conduit...
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WO/2014/156382A1 |
Provided are a method and device for reforming heavy oil in order to efficiently lighten the heavy oil and continuously obtain reformed oil with high added value. The reforming device comprises a reforming reactor provided with a first r...
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WO/2014/138208A1 |
This present invention generally relates to a process for upgrading and desulfurizing crude oil using supercritical water. In general, the invention provides a process for removal of contaminants from a crude oil stream by mixing the cru...
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WO/2014/137608A1 |
An improved process and separator for desalting petroleum crude oils which m be operated in a continuous manner under automatic control; the improved desalter is therefore well suited to modern refinery operation with minimal downtime. A...
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WO/2014/131089A1 |
A method and apparatus is described for removing at least some contaminants from a hydrocarbon feedstock, such as a petroleum. The method includes treating the contaminated feedstock during flow through a supercritical reactor with super...
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WO/2014/113195A2 |
Systems and methods are provided for using field enhanced separations to produce multiple fractions from a petroleum input. A liquid thermal diffusion and/or electric field separation is used to produce the fractions. The fractions can t...
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WO/2014/102492A1 |
The invention relates to a method for producing an end fuel composition comprising a soap stock composition and a heavy fuel, comprising steps of mixing the soap stock composition and the heavy fuel in pre-determined proportions, and cen...
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WO/2014/090717A2 |
The invention relates to a method for treating heavy fuel oil on board ships, said oil being used as fuel, in particular for a diesel engine and said method comprising the following steps: a) provision of heavy fuel oil (OIL1) to be trea...
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