Kellogg, M. W. Company

Kellogg Brown Root—KBR (formerly The M.W. Kellogg Company)... 

Catalyst Research Associates (CRA) was formed. The original CRA members were Standard of New Jersey (Exxon), Standard of Indiana (Amoco), Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP Oil), The Texas Company (Texaco), Royal Dutch Shell, Universal Oil Products (UOP), The M.W. Kellogg Company, and I.G. Farben (dropped in 1940). 

Wrench, R. E., and Glasgow, P. E., The M.W. Kellogg Company, FCC Hardware Options, Paper No. 125C, presented at the AIChE National Meeting, Los Angeles, California, November 17-22, 1991. 

The M. W. Kellogg Company, private communication to API Subcommittee on Corrosion. 

The sulfuric acid process was developed by several companies and is available for licensing by these companies. The first sulfuric acid units were of the jet design with time tanks equipped with baffles for reactors. The M. W. Kellogg Company developments in the sulfuric acid process include the cascade reactor, which uses autorefrigeration. 

ART [Asphalt Residuum Treating] A process for converting heavy petroleum fractions into more easily processed liquid fractions. Developed by Engelhard Corporation and offered by the M.W. Kellogg Company. Three units were operating in 1996. 

Cross A high-pressure, mixed-phase, thermal process for cracking petroleum, introduced in the United States in 1924 by the Cross brothers, further developed by the M.W. Kellogg Company, and widely used in the 1920s and 1930s. Eventually, 130 units were built in the United States and abroad. 

Fluid Hydroforming An early catalytic reforming process in which the catalyst was used in a continuously regenerated fluidized bed. Developed by the M.W. Kellogg Company. 

HyL [Hojalata y Lamina] A direct reduction ironmaking process in which pellets or lumps of ore are reduced in a batch reactor using a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Used in countries that have natural gas and cannot afford to invest in blast furnaces. Developed in the 1950s in Mexico by the Hojalata y Lamina Steel Company (now Hylsa) and the M.W. Kellogg Company, and now operated in nine other countries too. See DR. 

KAAP [Kellogg Advanced Ammonia Process] The first high-pressure process developed for synthesizing ammonia from its elements that does not use an iron-containing catalyst. The reformer gas for this process is provided by the KRES process. The catalyst was developed by BP it contains ruthenium supported on carbon. Developed by M.W. Kellogg Company in 1990 and first installed by the Ocelot Ammonia Company (now Pacific Ammonia) at Kitimat, British Columbia, in 1992. By 2005, over 200 large scale plants had been contracted worldwide. 

Orthoflow A fluidized-bed catalytic cracking process in which the reactor and regenerator are combined in a single vessel. Designed by the M.W. Kellogg Company and widely used in the 1950s. First operated in 1951 by the British American Oil Company at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. By 1994, more than 120 units had been built. 

Ultra-Orthoflow An FCC process that converts petroleum distillates and heavier fractions to products of lower molecular weight. Developed by M.W. Kellogg Company. Over 100 units were operating in 1988. 

In 1946, The M. W. Kellogg Company was determined not to permit a Stanolind-Texas Company-Hydrocarbon Research consortium to race ahead with a fluid-bed hydrocarbon synthesis development, unopposed. Mr. Kellogg, in a rare decision for the head of an architect-engineering enterprise, decided to spend some of his company s own money to forge onward with the work interrupted on June 28. 

Fig. 3. Second M. W. Kellogg Company fast-bed pilot plant for gasoline synthesis. Initially, the two upper sections of the 4-inch fast bed were fitted with tubular heat exchangers—i.e., vertical tubes, with tube sheets above and below, and with the tubes surrounded by a cooling oil. Later, these exchangers were replaced by oil-jacketed sections of open 4-inch pipe. The dashed lines indicate other changes made after initial shakedown operations, having two effects lengthening the 2-inch standpipe, and causing catalyst to discharge well below filter elements mounted in the expanded section near the top of the hopper seen on the right.

BOILER SHALL BE FURNISHED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE M. W. KELLOGG COMPANY SPEC. 

A good example of the front-end demethanizer scheme is the licensed processes developed by the M.W. Kellogg Company, Hydrocarbon Process. 68(11), 102(1989), and by the Stone and Webster Engineering Company, Hydrocarbon Process., 64(11), 137(1985). The process developed by Linde A.G., Hydrocarbon Process. 64(11), 137(1985) for producing ethylene from hydrocarbon liquids is an example of the deethanizer scheme. The advantages and disadvantages... 

In the fluid-catalyst process, finely divided catalyst powder is continuously circulated from reactor to regenerator and back again without mechanical means. The fluid process was originated by the Standard Oil Development Company, the research organization of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, in collaboration with The M. W. Kellogg Company and Standard Oil Company (Indiana). Other companies participating in the development were Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Ltd., Shell Oil Company, The Texas Company, and Universal Oil Products Company. This process was first announced in 1941 (48). 

Fig. 44. M. W. Kellogg Company, Orthoflow design of fluid cracking unit. [Petroleum Refiner 30, No. 9, 178 (1951). Reprinted by permission.]...

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