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Process and apparatus employing microchannel process technology

US8747656B2 · kind B2 · utility

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75References

79Claims

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Assignee

Velocys, Inc. · US

Inventors

Anna Lee Tonkovich · Dublin, US
Ravi Arora · Dublin, US
John H. Brophy · Bath, GB
Francis P. Daly · Delaware, US
Soumitra Deshmukh · Dublin, US
Maddalena Fanelli · Plain City, US
Kai Jarosch · Bexley, US
Timothy J. LaPlante · Columbus, US
Richard Q. Long · New Albany, US
Terry Mazanec · Solon, US
Daniel Francis Ryan · Baton Rouge, US
Laura J. Silva · Dublin, US
Wayne W. Simmons · Longmont, US
Bruce E. Stangeland · Berkeley, US
Yong Wang · Richland, US
Thomas Yuschak · Lewis Center, US
Steven T. Perry · Galloway, US
Jeffrey D. Marco · South Charleston, US
Michael Alan Marchiando · London, US
Robert Dwayne Litt · Westerville, US

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 9, 2009
Grant date	Jun 10, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 23, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02P20/582
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

This invention relates to a process for conducting a hydrocracking or a hydrotreating process in a microchannel reactor. This invention also relates to a process and apparatus for flowing a vapor and liquid into a plurality of microchannels in a microchannel processing unit.

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