Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'In-Situe Treatment Of A Fischer-Tropsch Catalyst' Filed by BP P. L. C.

MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517058240 A) filed by BP P. L. C., London, on June 17, for 'in-situe treatment of a fischer-tropsch catalyst.'

Inventor(s) include Paterson, Alexander James.

The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A process for converting a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide to a hydrocarbon composition comprising one or more optionally oxygenated hydrocarbons, the process comprising the following steps: (a) providing a first catalyst material comprising cobalt disposed on a support; (b) reducing the first catalyst material to form the first activated catalyst; (c) contacting the first activated catalyst with a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide at a first reaction temperature (TR1) of at least 180 C and first reaction pressure (PR1) of at least 10 bara to produce hydrocarbons for a first reaction time period of at least 24 hours; (d) after the first reaction time period, contacting the first activated catalyst with a first hydrogen rich stream at a first temperature (T1) and a first pressure (P1) to form a first treated catalyst; (e) contacting the first treated catalyst with a carbon monoxide rich stream at a second pressure (P2) and a second temperature (T2) to provide a second treated catalyst, wherein P2 is at least 1 bara and at most 50 bara, and T2 is at most 300 C; (f) contacting the second treated catalyst with a second hydrogen rich stream at a third temperature (T3) and a third pressure (P3) to form a second activated catalyst, wherein P3 is at least 10 bara and wherein T3 is less than 300 C; and (g) contacting the second activated catalyst with a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide at a second reaction temperature (TR2) of at least 180 C and second reaction pressure (PR2) of at least 10 bara to produce hydrocarbons."

The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 01, 2023, under International application No.PCT/IB2023/062141.

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