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...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7632394 | System and process for upgrading heavy hydrocarbons A system and process for upgrading hydrocarbons such as heavy oils includes high temperature plasma reactor apparatus, in one or more vessels, into which the oils are introduced along with water, such as steam, to produce lighter hydrocarbon fractions, along with ca... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7316773 | Catalytic cracking process and the device used therein The present invention relates to a catalytic cracking process and a device used in the process in particular, the present invention provides a catalytic cracking process, which comprises which comprises: 1) catalytic cracking a fee... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7270739 | Fractionating and further cracking a Cfraction from a naphtha feed for propylene generation The present invention relates to a process for selectively producing C3 olefins from a catalytically cracked or thermally cracked naphtha stream by fractionating the naphtha feed to obtain at least a C6 rich fraction and feeding the C6 | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267759 | Fractionating and further cracking a Cfraction from a naphtha feed for propylene generation The present invention relates to a process for selectively producing C3 olefins from a catalytically cracked or thermally cracked naphtha stream by fractionating the naphtha feed to obtain a C6 fraction and feeding the C6 fraction ei... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7029571 | Multi stage selective catalytic cracking process and a system for producing high yield of middle distillate products from heavy hydrocarbon feedstocks According to this invention, there is provided a process and apparatus for catalytic cracking of various petroleum based heavy feed stocks in the presence of solid zeolite catalyst and high pore size acidic components for selective bottom cracking and mixtures there... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6905591 | Deep catalytic cracking process The present invention provides a catalytic cracking reactor system and process in which a riser reactor is configured to have two sections of different radii in order to produced improved selectivity to propene and butenes as products. ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6869521 | Process and apparatus for upgrading FCC product with additional reactor with thorough mixing A process and apparatus are disclosed contacting hydrocarbon feed with catalyst in a reactor vessel under conditions more vigorous than bubbling bed conditions and preferably fast fluidized flow conditions. The vigorous conditions assure thorough mixing of catalyst ... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6866771 | Process and apparatus for upgrading FCC product with additional reactor with catalyst recycle A process and apparatus is disclosed for contacting feed with mixed catalyst in a secondary reactor that is incorporated into an FCC reactor. The mixed catalyst used in the secondary reactor is regenerated catalyst from a regenerator that regenerates spent catalyst ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6837989 | Cycle oil conversion process The invention relates to a process for converting cycle oils produced in catalytic cracking reactions into olefin and naphtha. More particularly, the invention relates to a process for hydroprocessing a catalytically cracked light cycle oil, and then re-cracking it ... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6811682 | Cycle oil conversion process The invention relates to a process for converting cycle oils produced in catalytic cracking reactions into light olefin and naphtha. More particularly, the invention relates to a process for hydroprocessing a catalytically cracked light cycle oil in order to form a ... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6767451 | Procedure and device for cracking of hydrocarbons using two successive reaction chambers A process for cracking, in a fluidized bed, a hydrocarbon charge wherein the cooling particles, which may optionally also be catalytic particles, circulate in two successive reaction chambers (1; 16), in each of which they are brought into contact with at lea... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6641715 | Method and device for catalytic cracking comprising reactors with descending and ascending flows An entrained bed or fluidised bed process for catalytic cracking of a hydrocarbon feed in two reaction zones is described, one zone (1) being in catalyst dropper mode, the other (2) being in catalyst riser mode. A feed (102) and catalyst from at least one... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6352638 | Two-stage process for converting residua to gasoline blendstocks and light olefins A two-stage process for converting petroleum residua and other low value oils to high valued gasoline blendstocks and light olefins. The first stage is comprised of a thermal process unit containing a reaction zone comprised of a horizontal moving bed of ... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6339181 | Multiple feed process for the production of propylene This invention relates to a process to produce propylene from a hydrocarbon feed stream, preferably a naphtha feed stream, comprising C5 and C6 components wherein a light portion having a boiling point range of 120° C. or less is introduced into a reacto... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6113776 | FCC process with high temperature cracking zone A high efficiency FCC process obtains the necessary regenerated catalyst temperature for a principally thermal cracking stage by cracking a light feedstock such as naphtha or a middle distillate in a first riser that principally performs thermal cracking ... | 09/05/2000 |
| 5976352 | Process for thermal conversion of hydrocarbons to aliphatic hydrocarbons which are more unsaturated than the starting products, combining a steam cracking step and a pyrolysis step A continuous pyrolysis and decoking process and apparatus is described for the production of acetylenic compounds, in which hydrocarbons and steam are circulated in at least one tube (31) of a steam cracking reactor (30) and steam is circulated in at leas... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5925236 | Processes for visbreaking heavy hydrocarbon feedstocks In a process and apparatus for visbreaking a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock in the liquid state, whereby the feedstock is brought to an appropriate temperature to cause cracking of at least part of the hydrocarbons present, and is then introduced into the bo... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5846403 | Recracking of cat naphtha for maximizing light olefins yields A process for increasing the yield of C3 and C4 olefins by injecting light cat naphtha together with steam into an upstream reaction zone of a FCC riser reactor. The products of the upstream reaction zone are conducted to a downstrea... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5817226 | Process and device for steam-cracking a light and a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock There is provided a process and a device with a convection zone (A) and a radiation zone (B) in a furnace (10), whereby the process includes: a first stage of precracking a feedstock of light hydrocarbons (1) and a second stage of final co-cracking of the... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5498326 | Process for and apparatus for catalytic cracking in two successive reaction zones The invention relates to a process for catalytic cracking and the associated apparatus in which the cracking reaction takes place in two substantially vertical and successive reaction zones, the loads being introduced into the first zone where it circulat... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5372704 | Cracking with spent catalyst A process and apparatus for low cracking or recracking of liquid hydrocarbons with FCC catalyst containing 0.2 to 1.5 wt % coke is disclosed. FCC naphtha, or a thermally or hydrocracked naphtha, contacts spent FCC catalyst in a naphtha recracking reactor ... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5154818 | Multiple zone catalytic cracking of hydrocarbons Methods for the fluidized catalytic cracking of plural hydrocarbon feedstocks in a riser reactor are disclosed. The processes generally comprises contacting a relatively light hydrocarbon feedstock in a first reaction zone with a first catalyst stream com... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5152883 | Process for the production of improved octane numbers gasolines Process for producing gasolines having improved RON and MON which consists in subjecting the LCO, HCO and CLO obtained by catalytic cracking of a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock, to a hydrogenation treatment and subjecting the obtained products to a new catal... | 10/06/1992 |
| 4990314 | Process and apparatus for two-phase fluid catalytic cracking system A fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) process and apparatus which employs relatively more elutriatable catalyst particles comprising intermediate pore zeolite, particularly ZSM-5, and relatively less elutriatable catalyst particles comprising large pore zeolit... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4888103 | Process of stripping in a catalytic cracking operation employing a catalyst mixture which includes a shape selective medium pore silicate zeolite component An improved process for stripping, or desorbing, entrained hydrocarbon material and, where present, sulfur-containing material, from a catalyst mixture recovered from a catalytic cracking reaction zone is described which comprises: (a) providing a quantit... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4863585 | Fluidized catalytic cracking process utilizing a C3-C4 paraffin-rich Co-feed and mixed catalyst system with selective reactivation of the medium pore silicate zeolite component thereofo The present invention discloses a catalytic cracking process featuring at least one riser reactor, at least one stripping unit and at least one regenerator, which comprises: (a) cracking a C3-4 paraffin-rich feed in the lower section of the ris... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4861458 | Process for catalytic cracking of a hydrocarbon charge subjected to a pretreatment with solid particles of low activity A process and an apparatus for catalytic cracking in a reaction zone operated with a fluid or a moving bed is disclosed, wherein the charge is subjected to at least one pretreatment. According to the invention, at least a portion of said charge, as vapor 40, ... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4849093 | Catalytic aromatic saturation of hydrocarbons In the catalytic processing of aromatic hydrocarbon compounds, a hydrocarbon oil is successively contacted at aromatic saturation conditions with a catalyst in a first reaction zone and contacted at a lower temperature with a second portion of the catalys... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4836909 | Process of thermally cracking heavy petroleum oil A process of thermally cracking a heavy petroleum oil wherein the heavy petroleum oil is treated successively in a cracking furnace and then in a perfect mixing type tank reactor. The thermal cracking in the cracking furnace is performed at a temperature ... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4802971 | Single riser fluidized catalytic cracking process utilizing hydrogen and carbon-hydrogen contributing fragments A catalytic cracking process is disclosed which comprises: (a) thermally and/or catalytically cracking a hydrogen-rich hydrocarbon feed in the lower region of a riser reactor in the presence of a catalyst composition comprising a first catalyst component, and,... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4784745 | Catalytic upgrading of FCC effluent An apparatus and process for catalytically upgrading an FCC effluent is described, wherein the FCC effluent is contacted with a shape-selective catalyst at low severity conditions prior to fractionation.... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4749469 | Process control system for multi-reactor hydrocarbon conversion processes A temperature control process is disclosed for a hydrocarbon conversion process wherein a feedstock is heated in a furnace and is partly converting in a first reactor, the effluent from the first reactor is cooled in a first heat exchanger and by adding a... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4721557 | Combination process for the conversion of a residual asphaltene-containing hydrocarbonaceous stream to maximize middle distillate production A process for the conversion of residual asphaltene-containing hydrocarbonaceous charge stock to selectively produce large quantities of high quality middle distillate while minimizing hydrogen consumption.... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4663022 | Process for the production of carbonaceous pitch A continuous process for the production of carbonaceous pitch, including heat-treating an aromatic heavy oil in a first thermal cracking zone for obtaining a first cracked product, and introducing the first cracked product into a second thermal cracking z... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4659452 | Multi-stage hydrofining process A two-stage hydrotreating process comprises the steps of (1) contacting a liquid hydrocarbon-containing feed stream, which contains nickel, vanadium and Ramsbottom carbon residue, with hydrogen and a solid inorganic refractory material (preferably alumina... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4655904 | Thermal cracking process for selectively producing olefins and aromatic hydrocarbons from hydrocarbons A process for selectively producing olefins and aromatic hydrocarbons by thermal cracking of hydrocarbons which comprises the steps of: burning hydrocarbons with oxygen in the presence of steam to produce a hot gas of from 1300° to 3000° C. comprising s... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4624771 | Fluid catalytic cracking of vacuum residuum oil A mixture of hydrocarbons consisting of gas oil and residual oil is catalytically cracked in the presence of a fluidized zeolite catalyst. The mixture of hydrocarbons is classified by boiling range as a 550°-1000° F. gas oil and a 1000+° F. vacuum ... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4585544 | Hydrocarbon pretreatment process for catalytic cracking A process for pretreating residual oil by thermal regenerative vaporizing and pretreatment at short residence times and catalytically cracking the pretreated effluent from the thermal regenerative pretreatment process.... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4581124 | Process for thermally cracking heavy hydrocarbon oil A continuous process for thermally cracking a heavy hydrocarbon oil, including heat-treating the heavy hydrocarbon oil in a first thermal cracking zone for obtaining a first cracked product, and introducing the first cracked product into a second thermal ... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4552644 | Duocracking process for the production of olefins from both heavy and light hydrocarbons The invention is a method for cracking heavy oils to olefins. In parallel streams, the heavy stream and a steam diluent are heated to the point of partial thermal cracking while in the other stream a lighter oil and steam are cracked to produce olefins. T... | 11/12/1985 |
