DR. RICHARD JAMES FOLEY, MD
Osteopathic Medicine at Timberdale Ln, Houston, TX

6190533, Feb 20, 2001

May 8, 1997

8/848438

Carl W. Bradow - Pearland TX
Dane Clark Grenoble - Nassau Bay TX
Stanley N. Milam - Houston TX
Bruce H. C. Winquist - Houston TX
Brendan D. Murray - Houston TX
Richard M. Foley - Houston TX

Exxon Chemical Patents Inc. - Houston TX

C10G 6906, C07C 404

208 57

An integrated process for converting a hydrocarbon feedstock having components boiling above about 100. degree. C. into steam cracked products is described. The process first involves passing the feedstock to a hydrotreating zone at a pressure in the range of from about 400 psig to about 1,250 psig to effect substantially complete decomposition of organic sulfur and/or nitrogen compounds. The product from the hydrotreating zone is passed to a steam cracking zone. Hydrogen and C. sub. 1 -C. sub. 4 hydrocarbons, steam cracked naphtha, steam cracked gas oil and steam cracked tar are recovered, where the amount of steam cracked tar produced is reduced by at least about 15 percent, basis the starting hydrocarbon feedstock which has not been subject to hydrotreating.

6210561, Apr 3, 2001

May 8, 1997

8/854017

Carl W. Bradow - Pearland TX
Dane C. Grenoble - Nassau Bay TX
Richard M. Foley - Houston TX
Brendan D. Murray - Houston TX
Bruce H. C. Winquist - Houston TX
Stanley N. Milam - Houston TX

Exxon Chemical Patents Inc. - Houston TX

C10G 6902, C10G 6906

208 89

An integrated process for converting a hydrocarbon feedstock having components boiling above about 100. degree. C. into steam cracked products is described. The process first involves passing the feedstock to a hydrotreating zone to effect substantially complete decomposition of organic sulfur and/or nitrogen compounds. The product from the hydrotreating zone is passed to an aromatics saturation zone. The product is then passed to a steam cracking zone. Hydrogen and C. sub. 1 -C. sub. 4 hydrocarbons, steam cracked naphtha, steam cracked gas oils and steam cracked tar are recovered. The amount of steam cracked tar produced is reduced by at least about 30 percent, and the amount of steam cracked tar produced is reduced by at least about 40 percent, basis the starting hydrocarbon feedstock which has not been subject to hydrotreating and aromatics saturation.

7501549, Mar 10, 2009

Oct 6, 2006

11/544172

Gary G. Podrebarac - Houston TX, US
Richard Foley - Houston TX, US

Catalytic Distillation Technologies - Pasadena TX

C07C 7/04, C10G 45/02

585804, 585809, 585810, 208211, 208212, 208213

An integrated process for the isolation of benzene contained within a fluid catalytically cracked naphtha is disclosed wherein a Cfraction containing a benzene concentrate is subjected to etherification with alcohol (e. g. methanol and/or ethanol) to convert the Cisoolefins to ethers which are separated by fractional distillation. If desired the ethers may be dissociated to the isoolefins and alcohol. The remaining material in the benzene concentrate may then be treated to remove olefins and organic sulfur compounds so that the benzene may be removed by solvent extraction. Alternatively the benzene in the remaining material may be subjected to hydrogenation.

5059741, Oct 22, 1991

Jan 29, 1991

7/647078

Richard M. Foley - Houston TX

Shell Oil Company - Houston TX

C07C 513

585734

An integrated process for the production of a refinery gasoline pool with enhanced octane value from a pentane and hexane containing feedstock by first contacting with an isomerization catalyst; fractionating the resulting product into an iC. sub. 5 product stream forming part of said refinery gasoline pool and a bottom stream containing nC. sub. 5, nC. sub. 6, mono-branched C. sub. 6 and dibranched C. sub. 6 ; passing said bottom stream through an adsorption bed with dibranched C. sub. 6 passing thru unabsorbed; desorbing nC. sub. 5, nC. sub. 6 and monobranched C. sub. 6 from the absorption bed; and recycling the desorbed nC. sub. 5, nC. sub. 6 and monobranched C. sub. 6 to the isomerization zone.