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Sr. Specialist At Dow Chemical

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Location:
Saginaw, Michigan Area
Industry:
Chemicals

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Us Patents

Process For Vinyl Chloride Manufacture From Ethane And Ethylene With Immediate Hcl Recovery From Reactor Effluent

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US Patent:
6797845, Sep 28, 2004
Filed:
May 14, 2002
Appl. No.:
10/130103
Inventors:
Daniel A. Hickman - Midland MI
John P. Henley - Midland MI
Mark E. Jones - Midland MI
Kenric A. Marshall - Lake Jackson TX
Daniel J. Reed - Angleton TX
William D. Clarke - Brazoria TX
Michael M. Olken - Midland MI
Lee E. Walko - Midland MI
Assignee:
Dow Global Technologies Inc. - Midland MI
International Classification:
C07C 1715
US Classification:
570224, 570216, 570226, 570227, 570228, 570230
Abstract:
A process for producing vinyl chloride monomer where significant quantities of both ethane and ethylene in input streams to the affiliated reactor where hydrogen chloride in the reactor effluent is essentially fully recovered from the reactor effluent in the first unit operation after the ethane/ethylene-to-vinyl reaction step or stage. Steps are presented of oxydehydro-chlorination catalytic reaction of ethane, ethylene, hydrogen chloride, oxygen, and chlorine; quenching the reactor effluent stream to provide a raw product stream having essentially no hydrogen chloride; and separation of the raw product stream into a vinyl chloride monomer product stream and into a lights stream; and recycling the lights steam to the reactor.

Process For The Conversion Of Ethylene To Vinyl Chloride And Novel Catalyst Compositions Useful For Such Process

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US Patent:
6909024, Jun 21, 2005
Filed:
Oct 3, 2000
Appl. No.:
10/130104
Inventors:
Mark E. Jones - Midland MI, US
Michael M. Olken - Midland MI, US
Daniel A. Hickman - Midland MI, US
Assignee:
The Dow Chemical Company - Midland MI
International Classification:
C07C017/013
C07C017/02
C07C017/07
C07C017/08
US Classification:
570216, 570224, 570226, 570227, 570228, 570230
Abstract:
This invention is a process for producing vinyl chloride from an ethylene-containing feed, oxygen, and a chlorine source in the presence of a catalyst. The process permits direct production of vinyl chloride in a single reactor system, and further permits ethane to be used as the Chydrocarbon feed with recycle of ethylene from the product stream to constitute the ethylene specified for the feed. This invention in another aspect concerns also a composition of matter, and a method for making the composition, wherein the composition is useful as a catalyst for the vinyl chloride process. The composition comprises a rare earth-containing material, with the proviso that the catalyst prepared therefrom is substantially free of iron and copper and with the further proviso that when cerium is present the catalyst further comprises at least one more rare earth element other than cerium.

Process For Vinyl Chloride Manufacture From Ethane And Ethylene With Partial Chl Recovery From Reactor Effluent

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US Patent:
6933417, Aug 23, 2005
Filed:
Oct 6, 2000
Appl. No.:
10/130102
Inventors:
John P. Henley - Midland MI, US
Mark E. Jones - Midland MI, US
Daniel A. Hickman - Midland MI, US
Kenric A. Marshall - Lake Jackson TX, US
Daniel J. Reed - Angleton TX, US
William D. Clarke - Brazoria TX, US
Michael M. Olken - Midland MI, US
Lee E. Walko - Midland MI, US
Assignee:
Dow Global Technologies Inc. - Midland MI
International Classification:
C07C017/15
C07C017/152
C07C017/158
US Classification:
570224, 423481, 423502, 423493, 423472, 423500, 570216, 570219, 570223
Abstract:
A process for producing vinyl chloride monomer from ethylene and ethane having input of significant quantities of both ethane and ethylene in input streams to the affiliated reactor where hydrogen chloride in the reactor effluent is only partially recovered from the reactor effluent in the first unit operation after the ethane/ethylene-to-vinyl reaction step or stage. Steps are presented of oxydehydro-chlorination catalytic reaction of ethane, ethylene, hydrogen chloride, oxygen, and chlorine; cooling and condensing the reactor effluent stream; and separating the condensed raw product stream into vinyl chloride monomer and a reactor recycle stream.

Process For The Conversion Of Ethylene To Vinyl Chloride, And Novel Catalyst Compositions Useful For Such Process

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US Patent:
20050148805, Jul 7, 2005
Filed:
Feb 8, 2005
Appl. No.:
11/053688
Inventors:
Mark Jones - Midland MI, US
Daniel Hickman - Midland MI, US
Michael Olken - Midland MI, US
International Classification:
C07C017/152
C07F005/00
US Classification:
570227000, 534015000
Abstract:
This invention is a process for producing vinyl chloride from an ethylene-containing feed, oxygen, and a chlorine source in the presence of a catalyst. The process permits direct production of vinyl chloride in a single reactor system, and further permits ethane to be used as the Chydrocarbon feed with recycle of ethylene from the product stream to constitute the ethylene specified for the feed. This invention in another aspect concerns also a composition of matter, and a method for making the composition, wherein the composition is useful as a catalyst for the vinyl chloride process. The composition comprises a rare earth-containing material, with the proviso that the catalyst prepared therefrom is substantially free of iron and copper and with the further proviso that when cerium is present the catalyst further comprises at least one more rare earth element other than cerium.

Dehydrogenation Process And Catalyst

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US Patent:
20100236985, Sep 23, 2010
Filed:
Mar 4, 2010
Appl. No.:
12/717453
Inventors:
Lin Luo - Lake Jackson TX, US
Susan Domke - Rosharon TX, US
Howard W. Clark - Lake Jackson TX, US
Richard A. Pierce - Lake Jackson TX, US
Michael M. Olken - Midland MI, US
International Classification:
C10G 35/06
B01J 23/58
US Classification:
208138, 502330
Abstract:
A supported catalyst and process for dehydrogenating a hydrocarbon, the catalyst comprising a first component selected from the group consisting of tin, germanium, lead, indium, gallium, thallium, and compounds thereof; a second component selected from the group consisting of metals of Group 8 of the Periodic Table of the Elements and compounds thereof, and a support comprising alumina in the gamma crystalline form. The catalysts are especially active and efficient when employed in concurrent flow in a dehydrogenation reactor having an average contact time between the hydrocarbon and catalyst of from 0.5 to 10 seconds

Method For Preparing A Heterogeneous, High-Activity Platinum-Containing, Supported Hydrogenation Catalyst

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US Patent:
20110065572, Mar 17, 2011
Filed:
May 8, 2009
Appl. No.:
12/991771
Inventors:
Michael M. Olken - Midland MI, US
Edward M. Calverley - Midland MI, US
Assignee:
DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. - Midland MI
International Classification:
B01J 21/08
US Classification:
502241, 502246, 502250, 502254, 502255, 502258, 502262
Abstract:
The present invention is an improved method for preparing a heterogeneous, supported hydrogenation catalyst that comprises a Group VIII A metal and a catalyst support (for example, SiO, with either a hydrophilic or a hydrophobic surface) via aqueous deposition precipitation as well as the catalyst prepared by said method.

Process For Making Polyol Ethers

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US Patent:
20110207969, Aug 25, 2011
Filed:
Feb 15, 2011
Appl. No.:
13/027480
Inventors:
Michael M. Olken - Midland MI, US
Michael L. Tulchinsky - Midland MI, US
International Classification:
C07C 41/05
B01J 21/18
B01J 37/02
B01J 37/16
US Classification:
568679, 568680, 502185, 502184
Abstract:
The present invention generally relates to a process for making polyol ethers by reacting a polyol and a carbonyl compound together in the presence of hydrogen gas and a palladium hydrogenation catalyst on an acidic mesoporous carbon support.

Method For Making Porous Zeolitic Films

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US Patent:
61240273, Sep 26, 2000
Filed:
May 3, 1994
Appl. No.:
8/237484
Inventors:
Paul D. Ries - Midland MI
Michael M. Olken - Midland MI
Malcolm W. Warren - Midland MI
Robert C. Dye - White Rock NM
International Classification:
B05D 306
US Classification:
4283044
Abstract:
A vapor deposition method for coating a substrate with a porous zeolitic film. The method includes two steps. The first step is to irradiate a zeolite with a pulsed laser beam to vaporize the zeolite in a plume adjacent to the zeolite. The second step is to intercept the plume on the substrate to form the porous zeolitic film. A piezoelectric substrate can be used to produce a chemical sensor.
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