Geoffrey Loyd Price

US Patent:

8075641, Dec 13, 2011

Filed:

Sep 17, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/212558

Inventors:

Alex Aravanis - San Diego CA, US
Jason Pyle - Del Mar CA, US
Geoffrey Price - Tulsa OK, US
Daniel Crunkleton - Broken Arrow OK, US

Assignee:

Sapphire Energy, Inc. - San Diego CA
The University of Tulsa - Tulsa OK

International Classification:

C10L 1/18

US Classification:

44307, 585240, 44308, 44605

Abstract:

Processes of converting to feedstocks comprising hydrocarbons to compositions comprising light hydrocarbon products are described herein. Also described are processes and methods of producing and refining compositions comprising terpenes from biomass that can be suitable as a fuel product.

US Patent:

8292975, Oct 23, 2012

Filed:

Nov 11, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/294999

Inventors:

Jason L. Pyle - San Diego CA, US
Alex M. Aravanis - San Diego CA, US
Daniel Crunkleton - Broken Arrow OK, US
Geoffrey L. Price - Tulsa OK, US

Assignee:

Sapphire Energy, Inc. - San Diego CA
The University of Tulsa - Tulsa OK

International Classification:

C10L 1/18

US Classification:

44307, 44308, 44605, 585240

Abstract:

Processes of converting to feedstocks comprising hydrocarbons to compositions comprising light hydrocarbon products are described herein. Also described are processes and methods of producing and refining compositions comprising terpenes from biomass that can be suitable as a fuel product.

US Patent:

20130289324, Oct 31, 2013

Filed:

Dec 27, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/996425

Inventors:

Geoffrey L. Price - Tulsa OK, US
Brian L. Goodall - Spring TX, US
Daniel J. Sajkowski - Kewadin MI, US

International Classification:

C10G 3/00

US Classification:

585469

Abstract:

Renewable oils are converted to aromatics, by contact with a catalytically-active form of gallium, for use in the petrochemical industry and/or for fuel blending components or additives. The renewable oil(s) feature high oxygen content, high H/C mole ratios, and high fatty acid or fatty acid ester content prior to heating and contact with the catalyst. The catalyst may be, for example, a gallium-doped version of one or more zeolite-alumina matrix catalysts with pore sizes having 10 oxygen atoms in the pore mouth, such as ZSM-5, ZSM-11, ZSM-23, MCM-70, SSZ-44, SSZ-58, SSZ-35, and ZSM-22. Aromatics-production from the renewable oils is enhanced at higher gallium-cation levels, with the preferred level being about 1.0 Ga/framework-Al. While various renewable oils, or “bio-oils,” may be used, algae oil has exhibited very high BTEX yields over the gallium cation catalyst, under conditions at or near 1 atm and approximately 400 degrees C.

US Patent:

55830811, Dec 10, 1996

Filed:

Aug 31, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/115192

Inventors:

Geoffrey L. Price - Baton Rouge LA
Vladislav Kanazirev - Sofia, BG

Assignee:

Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and
Mechanical College - Baton Rouge LA
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Sofia

International Classification:

B01J 2704

US Classification:

502 61

Abstract:

A catalyst useful in the conversion of nitrogen oxides or in the synthesis of nitriles or imines from amines, formed by preparing an intimate mechanical mixture of a copper (II)-containing species, such as CuO or CuCl. sub. 2, or elemental copper, with a zeolite having a pore mouth comprising 10 oxygen atoms, such as ZSM-5, converting the elemental copper or copper (II) to copper (I), and driving the copper (I) into the zeolite.

US Patent:

51496798, Sep 22, 1992

Filed:

May 1, 1990

Appl. No.:

7/517334

Inventors:

Geoffrey L. Price - Baton Rouge LA
Vladislav I. Kanazirev - Sofia, BG
Kerry M. Dooley - Baton Rouge LA

Assignee:

Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and
Mechanical College - Baton Rouge LA

International Classification:

B01J 2906
B01J 2308

US Classification:

502 61

Abstract:

A catalyst useful in the aromatization of light paraffins and other hydrocarbons conversion reactions, formed by preparing an intimate mechanical mixture of a gallium-containing species, such as Ga. sub. 2 O. sub. 3, with a zeolite having a pore mouth comprising 10 oxygen atoms, such as ZSM-5, preferably followed by treatment with a reducing agent, such as hydrogen.