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| 20090057197 | METHODS FOR PRODUCING A CRUDE PRODUCT - Methods for conversion of a hydrocarbon feed to a total product are described. Contact of the hydrocarbon feed with one or more catalysts at selected contacting conditions produces the total product. The total product includes a crude product that is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa and has one or more properties that are changed relative to the respective property of the hydrocarbon feed. Selected contacting conditions include a partial pressure of at most 7 MPa. During contact a P-value of a hydrocarbon feed/total product mixture remains at least 1.0. The crude product has a residue content of at most 90% and/or a reduced viscosity of at most 50% as compared to the residue content and/or viscosity content of the hydrocarbon feed. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090188836 | METHODS FOR PRODUCING A CRUDE PRODUCT - Systems, methods, and catalysts for conversion of a hydrocarbon feed to a total product are described. Contact of the hydrocarbon feed with one or more catalysts produces the total product. The total product includes a crude product that is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa having a residue content of at most 90% of the residue content of the hydrocarbon feed. At least one of the catalysts includes a metal from Column 6 of the Periodic Table, mineral oxide fines and a support. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090206005 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND CATALYSTS FOR PRODUCING A CRUDE PRODUCT - Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The one or more catalysts may include a catalyst that has a median pore diameter of at least 90 Å. One or more properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090255850 | CATALYSTS HAVING SELECTED PORE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS, METHOD OF MAKING SUCH CATALYSTS, METHODS OF PRODUCING A CRUDE PRODUCT, PRODUCTS OBTAINED FROM SUCH METHODS, AND USES OF PRODUCTS OBTAINED - A catalyst and a method of preparation of said catalyst is described herein. The catalyst includes one or more metals from Columns 6-10 of the Periodic Table and/or one or more compounds of one or more metals from Columns 6-10 of the Periodic Table, a pore size distribution with a median pore diameter ranging from 105 Å to 150 Å, with 60% of the total number of pores in the pore size distribution having a pore diameter within 60 Å of the median pore diameter, with at least 50% of its pore volume in pores having a pore diameter of at most 600 Å, and between 5% and 25% of its pore volume in pores having a pore diameter between 1000 Å and 5000 Å. Methods of producing said catalyst are described herein. Crude products and products made from said crude products are described herein. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090255851 | CATALYSTS, PREPARATION OF SUCH CATALYSTS, METHODS OF USING SUCH CATALYSTS, PRODUCTS OBTAINED IN SUCH METHODS AND USES OF PRODUCTS OBTAINED - A catalyst that includes one or more metals from Column 6 of the Periodic Table and/or one or more compounds of one or more metals from Column 6 of the Periodic Table and a support. The support comprises from 0.01 grams to 0.2 gram of silica and from 0.80 grams to 0.99 grams of alumina per gram of support. The catalyst has a surface area of at least 315 m | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090283444 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND CATALYSTS FOR PRODUCING A CRUDE PRODUCT - Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts containing a Column 6 metal and having a pore size distribution having a median pore size diameter of at least 90 Å wherein at least 60% of the total number of pores in the pore size distribution have a pore diameter within about 45 Å of the median pore diameter produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed includes organic oxygen containing compounds and has a TAN of at least 0.3. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25 ° C. and 0.101 MPa and has a TAN of at most 90% of the TAN of the crude feed and an organic oxygen content of at most 90% of the organic oxygen content of the crude feed. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090288987 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND CATALYSTS FOR PRODUCING A CRUDE PRODUCT - Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts comprising one or more metals from Column 6 of the Periodic Table produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed contains oxygen and sulfur. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa and contains at most 90% of the oxygen content of the crude feed and from 70% to 130% of the sulfur content of the crude feed. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090288989 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND CATALYSTS FOR PRODUCING A CRUDE PRODUCT - Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The one or more catalyst may include an uncalcined catalyst. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20090308791 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND CATAYLSTS FOR PRODUCING A CRUDE PRODUCT - Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The one or more catalyst may include an uncalcined catalyst. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100055005 | SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING A CRUDE PRODUCT - A system for producing a crude product is provided. The system includes an upstream contacting zone for contacting a crude feed, where a catalyst comprising vanadium is located in the upstream contacting zone. The system also includes a downstream contacting zone positioned downstream of the upstream contacting zone, where a catalyst comprising a metal from Column 6 of the Periodic Table is located in the downstream contacting zone. The system is useful for reducing the Total Acid Number of a crude feed. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100089794 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A CRUDE PRODUCT, METHOD FOR PREPARING A DILUTED HYDROCARBON COMPOSITION, CRUDE PRODUCTS, DILUENTS AND USES OF SUCH CRUDE PRODUCTS AND DILUENTS - Methods for producing a crude product, methods for preparing a diluted hydrocarbon composition, crude products, diluents and uses of such crude products and diluents are described. The method includes contacting of a hydrocarbon feed with one or more catalysts, where at least one of the catalyst includes one or more metals from Column 6 of the Periodic Table and/or one or more compounds of one or more metals from Columns 6 of the Periodic Table. The method produces a crude product having a MCR content of at most 90% of MCR content of the hydrocarbon feed and having total content of UV aromatics in a VGO fraction of the crude product which is greater than or equal to the total UV aromatics content of the hydrocarbon feed VGO fraction of the hydrocarbon feed. The crude product may be separated into two or more portions, which portions may be useful as a diluent. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100098602 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND CATALYSTS FOR PRODUCING A CRUDE PRODUCT - Methods and systems for contacting a crude feed that has a total acid number (TAN) of at least 0.3 with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product are described. The one or more catalysts may include a first catalyst and a second catalyst. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa and the crude product has a TAN of at most 90% of the TAN of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100326890 | HIGHLY STABLE HEAVY HYDROCARBON HYDRODESULFURIZATION CATALYST AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USE THEREOF - Described is a catalyst useful in the hydroprocessing of a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock wherein the catalyst comprises a calcined mixture made by calcining a formed particle of a mixture comprising molybdenum trioxide, a nickel compound, and an inorganic oxide material. The catalyst may be made by mixing an inorganic oxide material, molybdenum trioxide, and a nickel compound to form a mixture that is formed into a particle and calcined to provide a calcined mixture. The process involves the hydrodesulfurization and hydroconversion of a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock which process may include the conversion of a portion of the pitch content of the heavy hydrocarbon feedstock and the yielding of a treated product having an enhanced stability as reflected by its P-value. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110124497 | CATALYST AND PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ULTRA-LOW SULFUR DISTILLATE PRODUCT - Described is a catalyst and process useful in the hydrodesulfurization of a distillate feedstock to manufacture a low-sulfur distillate product. The catalyst comprises a calcined mixture of inorganic oxide material, a high concentration of a molybdenum component, and a high concentration of a Group VIII metal component. The mixture that is calcined to form the calcined mixture comprises molybdenum trioxide, a Group VIII metal compound, and an inorganic oxide material. The catalyst is made by mixing the aforementioned starting materials and forming therefrom an agglomerate that is calcined to yield the calcined mixture that may be used as the catalyst or catalyst precursor. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110160044 | CATALYSTS FOR PRODUCING A CRUDE PRODUCT - Methods and systems for contacting of a crude feed with one or more catalysts to produce a total product that includes a crude product are described. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The crude product has an MCR content of at most 90% of the MCR content of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed. | 06-30-2011 |
