Upgrading platform using alkali metals

Gordon, John Howard

Title: Upgrading platform using alkali metals

Abstract

A process for removing sulfur, nitrogen or metals from an oil feedstock (such as heavy oil, bitumen, shale oil, etc.) The method involves reacting the oil feedstock with an alkali metal and a radical capping substance. The alkali metal reacts with the metal, sulfur or nitrogen content to form one or more inorganic products and the radical capping substance reacts with the carbon and hydrogen content to form a hydrocarbon phase. The inorganic products may then be separated out from the hydrocarbon phase.

Inventors:: Gordon, John Howard

Issue Date:: 2014-09-09

Research Org.:: National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1157577

Patent Number(s):: 8828221

Application Number:: 13/550,313

Assignee:: Ceramatec, Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT)

Patent Classifications (CPCs):: C - CHEMISTRY C10 - PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES C10G - CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS

C - CHEMISTRY C25 - ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES C25C - PROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC PRODUCTION, RECOVERY OR REFINING OF METALS

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C - CHEMISTRY C10 - PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES C10G - CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS
C10G2300/308 - Gravity, density, e.g. API
C10G2300/202 - Heteroatoms content, i.e. S, N, O, P
C10G29/20 - Organic compounds not containing metal atoms
C10G50/00 - Production of liquid hydrocarbon mixtures from lower carbon number hydrocarbons, e.g. by oligomerisation

C - CHEMISTRY C25 - ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES C25C - PROCESSES FOR THE ELECTROLYTIC PRODUCTION, RECOVERY OR REFINING OF METALS
C25C3/02 - of alkali or alkaline earth metals

C - CHEMISTRY C10 - PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES C10G - CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS
C10G2300/1037 - Hydrocarbon fractions
C10G2300/207 - Acid gases, e.g. H2S, COS, SO2, HCN
C10G2300/205 - Metal content
C10G2300/1025 - Natural gas
C10G29/04 - Metals, or metals deposited on a carrier

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DOE Contract Number:: FE0000408

Resource Type:: Patent

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

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Desulphurization of gasoline by metallic sodium
journal, July 1976

Reggel, L.; Blaustein, B.; Delle Donne, C.
Fuel, Vol. 55, Issue 3, p. 170-172
https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-2361(76)90082-X

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