公开(公告)号：US12031094B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-09

申请号：US18213233

申请日：2023-06-22

Applicant: MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LP

Inventor： Jeffrey A. Sexton ,  Roy Roger Bledsoe, Jr. ,  Lance T. Campbell ,  Randy N. Ridge ,  Brian K. Wilt

IPC: C10G11/00 ,  G01N21/31 ,  G01N33/28 ,  G06F30/28

CPC classification number: C10G11/00 ,  G01N21/31 ,  G01N33/28 ,  G06F30/28 ,  C10G2300/4006 ,  C10G2300/4012

Abstract: Assemblies and methods to enhance a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) process associated with a refining operation, during the FCC process, may include supplying a hydrocarbon feedstock to first processing units associated with the refining operation. The assemblies and methods also may include conditioning a hydrocarbon feedstock and unit material samples, and analyzing the samples via one or more spectroscopic analyzers. The assemblies and methods further may include prescriptively controlling, via one or more FCC process controllers, based at least in part on the hydrocarbon feedstock properties and the unit material properties, the FCC processing assembly, so that the prescriptively controlling results in causing the FCC process to produce intermediate materials, the unit materials, and/or the downstream materials having properties within selected ranges of target properties, thereby to cause the FCC process to achieve material outputs that more accurately and responsively converge on one or more of the target properties.

公开(公告)号：US20240217498A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-04

申请号：US18378760

申请日：2023-10-11

Applicant: MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LP

Inventor： David E. Pittman, JR.

IPC: B60T17/18 ,  B60T13/26

CPC classification number: B60T17/18 ,  B60T13/26

Abstract: Systems and methods for a vent interlock system to ensure vent cover closure prior to operation of a transportation vehicle. An embodiment of a system may include an interlock bar. The interlock bar may, in a lowered position, prevent a hydraulic valve handle of a hydraulic pump assembly from moving from an open position to a closed position, the hydraulic valve handle in the closed position to allow a vent cover of the trailer to be opened. The system may include a plunger valve connected to brakes of the transportation vehicle to lock the brakes of the transportation vehicle to prevent operation of the transportation vehicle when the interlock bar is raised. The system may include a spring operated latch attached to the transportation vehicle to hold the interlock bar in the lowered position via a notch or aperture in the interlock bar.

公开(公告)号：US20240209988A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-27

申请号：US18595896

申请日：2024-03-05

Applicant: MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LP

Inventor： Zachary D. Thobe

IPC: F17C13/02 ,  B67D7/04 ,  F17C13/08

CPC classification number: F17C13/02 ,  B67D7/048 ,  B67D7/0492 ,  F17C13/085 ,  F17C2221/037 ,  F17C2260/044 ,  F17C2270/0134 ,  F17C2270/0168

Abstract: Scalable greenhouse gas capture systems and methods to allow a user to off-load exhaust captured in an on-board vehicle exhaust capture device and to allow for a delivery vehicle or other transportation mechanism to obtain and transport the exhaust. The systems and methods may involve one or more exhaust pumps, each with a multi-function nozzle assembly including an exhaust nozzle corresponding to a vehicle exhaust port and a fuel nozzle for supplying fuel to a vehicle fuel tank. Upon engagement with the vehicle exhaust port, the exhaust nozzle may create an air-tight seal between the exhaust nozzle and the vehicle exhaust port. An exhaust conduit may be configured to transport captured exhaust therethrough from the exhaust nozzle to an exhaust holding tank connected to and in fluid communication with the exhaust conduit.

公开(公告)号：US12011697B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-18

申请号：US18219280

申请日：2023-07-07

Applicant: MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LP

Inventor： Kyle E. Miller

IPC: B01F23/40 ,  B01F25/53 ,  B01F35/83 ,  B01F25/00

CPC classification number: B01F23/49 ,  B01F25/53 ,  B01F35/833 ,  B01F2025/919

Abstract: Methods and systems of admixing hydrocarbon liquids from two or more sets of tanks into a single pipeline to provide in-line mixing thereof. In an embodiment of the in-line mixing system, hydrocarbon liquids stored in at least one tank of each of two or more sets of tanks positioned at a tank farm are blended into a blend flow pipe via in-line mixing and the blended mixture is pumped through a single pipeline. In one or more embodiments, the in-line mixing system employs a separate spillback or recirculation loop that is fluidly connected to each set of the two or more sets of tanks to control the flow of the hydrocarbon fluid/liquid from each set of tanks to the blend flow pipe. Associated methods of operating one or more embodiments of the system include regulation of spillback or recirculation loop flow rate and/or pressure to drive the actual blend ratio towards a desired blend ratio.

公开(公告)号：US20240189753A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-13

申请号：US18142111

申请日：2023-05-02

Applicant: MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LP

Inventor： Michael Esquivel ,  Ethan Spielvogel

IPC: B01D46/16 ,  B01D46/00 ,  B01D46/62 ,  B01D46/66 ,  B08B17/02

CPC classification number: B01D46/16 ,  B01D46/0005 ,  B01D46/62 ,  B01D46/66 ,  B08B17/02 ,  B01D2265/025 ,  B01D2271/027 ,  B01D2273/14

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods operable to reduce catalyst fouling by removing solid particulates from a heated fluid stream upstream of a catalyst using one or more flue gas strainer apparatuses that may be cleaned or serviced without ceasing or disrupting heating or catalytic operations. The flue gas strainer apparatuses may include a housing having a front end and a back end, the housing comprising a receiving portion, an outer edge, an inner edge, and an inner bore extending from the front end to the back end of the housing along the inner edge. The inner bore is operable to allow a heated fluid stream to pass therethrough. The flue gas strainer apparatus may also include a moveable strainer portion comprising one or more removable mesh portions. Each of the one or more removable mesh portions may have a plurality of pores and configured to capture solid particulates suspended in the heated fluid stream. The one or more removable mesh portions may be operable to be removingly received in the receiving portion of the housing.

公开(公告)号：US20240182803A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-06

申请号：US18405061

申请日：2024-01-05

Applicant: MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LP

Inventor： Matthew T. Woodchick ,  V. Elijah Mullins ,  Peg Broughton

IPC: C10L1/04 ,  C10G11/18 ,  C10G69/04 ,  C10L1/06 ,  C10L1/08 ,  C10L10/00

CPC classification number: C10L1/04 ,  C10G11/18 ,  C10G69/04 ,  C10L1/06 ,  C10L1/08 ,  C10L10/00 ,  C10G2300/107 ,  C10G2300/1077 ,  C10G2300/202 ,  C10G2300/205 ,  C10G2300/206 ,  C10G2300/207 ,  C10G2300/302 ,  C10G2300/304 ,  C10G2300/308 ,  C10G2400/04 ,  C10L2200/0263 ,  C10L2200/0438 ,  C10L2200/0446 ,  C10L2200/0461 ,  C10L2230/14 ,  C10L2270/026 ,  C10L2290/24 ,  C10L2290/46 ,  C10L2290/543 ,  C10L2290/547

Abstract: Low sulfur fuel oil blend compositions and methods of making such blend compositions to increase the stability and compatibility of LSFO blends having paraffinic resids that are blended with distillates and/or cracked stocks of higher asphaltenes and/or aromatics content. In one or more embodiments, distillates and/or cracked stocks that incrementally reduce the initial aromaticity of the distillate or cracked stock with the highest aromaticity are sequentially blended prior to resid addition. Such incremental reduction and sequential blending have been found to provide a resulting low sulfur fuel oil blend that is both compatible and stable.

公开(公告)号：US20240133524A1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-25

申请号：US18382377

申请日：2023-10-19

Applicant: MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LP

Inventor： Matthew T. Freeman ,  R. Benjamin Hill ,  Terry Riesen

IPC: F17D3/03 ,  C10L1/08

CPC classification number: F17D3/03 ,  C10L1/08 ,  C10L2200/0446 ,  C10L2230/14 ,  C10L2270/026

Abstract: Methods and systems for, among other embodiments, transporting renewable diesel (RD) through a pipeline, or a portion thereof, are provided. In certain embodiments, the method may include transporting the renewable diesel from a first pipeline terminal to a second pipeline terminal, the renewable diesel wrapped head and tail with a compatible diesel fuel. The method may also include restricting the transport of the diesel fuel in the pipeline to diesel fuel compositions having a first composition or first specification, the first composition or first specification characterized by a selected amount of the renewable diesel, or a component thereof, the selected amount being less than the selected amount allowed in a second target specification for the diesel fuel. The method may also include combining, at the second pipeline terminal, at least a portion of the mixed interface fraction stream with at least a portion of the diesel fuel fraction stream so as to produce a diesel fuel stream meeting the second target specification.

公开(公告)号：US11920504B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-05

申请号：US18207722

申请日：2023-06-09

Applicant: MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LP

Inventor： Zachary D. Thobe

IPC: F17C7/00 ,  F01N13/08 ,  G06Q20/10

CPC classification number: F01N13/08 ,  F17C7/00 ,  G06Q20/10 ,  F17C2205/0352 ,  F17C2221/013 ,  F17C2227/0135 ,  F17C2227/0157 ,  F17C2250/032 ,  F17C2250/0443 ,  F17C2250/0447 ,  F17C2270/0168

Abstract: Scalable greenhouse gas capture systems and methods to allow a user to off-load exhaust captured in an on-board vehicle exhaust capture device and to allow for a delivery vehicle or other transportation mechanism to obtain and transport the exhaust. The systems and methods may involve one or more exhaust pumps, each with an exhaust nozzle corresponding to a vehicle exhaust port. Upon engagement with the vehicle exhaust port, the exhaust nozzle may create an air-tight seal between the exhaust nozzle and the vehicle exhaust port. A first pipe may be configured to transport captured exhaust therethrough from the exhaust nozzle to. The captured exhaust may be at least temporarily stored in an exhaust holding tank connected to and in fluid communication with the first pipe.

公开(公告)号：US11891581B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-06

申请号：US18124230

申请日：2023-03-21

Applicant: MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LP

Inventor： Gregory A. Cantley ,  Ross Vail ,  Kathleen Yaden ,  Ray Brooks

IPC: C10G9/20 ,  B01D45/08 ,  C10G45/02 ,  C10G9/18 ,  B01J8/00 ,  C10B43/06 ,  C10G7/10 ,  C10G47/00 ,  C10G9/16

CPC classification number: C10G9/16 ,  B01D45/08 ,  B01J8/008 ,  C10B43/06 ,  C10G7/10 ,  C10G9/18 ,  C10G9/20 ,  C10G45/02 ,  B01J8/003 ,  C10G47/00 ,  C10G2300/107 ,  C10G2300/1077 ,  C10G2300/4031 ,  C10G2300/4056 ,  C10G2300/708

Abstract: A coke catching apparatus for use in hydrocarbon cracking to assist in the removal of coke and the prevention of coke build up in high coking hydrocarbon processing units. The apparatus includes a grid device for preventing large pieces of coke from entering the outlet of the process refining equipment while allowing small pieces of coke to pass through and be disposed of. The coke catching apparatus can be easily disassembled to be removed from the refining process equipment and cleaned.

公开(公告)号：US20230416615A1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-28

申请号：US18243131

申请日：2023-09-07

Applicant: MARATHON PETROLEUM COMPANY LP

Inventor： Nikolas A. Larsen ,  Jeffrey A. Sexton ,  Ray Brooks

IPC: C10G11/18 ,  B01J8/24 ,  B01J8/18 ,  B01J38/02

CPC classification number: C10G11/182 ,  C10G11/187 ,  B01J8/24 ,  B01J8/1836 ,  B01J8/1809 ,  B01J38/02 ,  B01J2208/00017 ,  C10G2300/1011 ,  C10G2300/4081 ,  C10G2300/202 ,  C10G2300/4006 ,  C10G2300/708

Abstract: Systems and methods for enhancing the processing of hydrocarbons in a FCC unit by introduction of the coked FCC catalyst from the FCC reactor and a renewable feedstock to the FCC regenerator to facilitate regeneration of the coked FCC catalyst. The renewable feedstock can contain biomass-derived pyrolysis oil. The biomass-derived pyrolysis oil and coke from the coked FCC catalyst are oxidized by oxygen to provide a regenerated catalyst that is recycled to the FCC reactor.