Mobil Oil Corporation

Mobil Oil Corporation has developed a process on a pilot scale that can successfully convert methanol into 96 octane gasoline. Although methanol can be used directiy as a transportation fuel, conversion to gasoline would eliminate the need to modify engines and would also eliminate some of the problems encountered using gasoline—methanol blends (see Alcohol fuels Gasoline and other motor fuels). 

II. F. Sheets of Vacuum Oil Company, who learned of Houdi y s work and shared his vision for converting vaporized petroleum to gasoline catalytically, invited him to the United States. After a successful trial run, Houdry moved his laboratory and associates from France to Paulsboro, New Jersey, to form a joint venture, Iloudiy Process Corporation, with Vacuum Oil Company. In that year Vacuum Oil Company merged with Standard Oil of New York to become Socony-Vacuum Company (much later Mobil Oil Corporation). 

The catalyst companies were encouraged to resume their research activities in automotive catalysis in the late 1960 s as further tightening of automotive emissions standards became imminent, and it appeared that mere engine modifications might be inadequate to meet the new standards. A systems approach was first used upon the formation of the Inter-Industry Emission Control Program by the Ford Motor Company and the Mobil Oil Corporation in 1967, which was joined by a number of oil companies in the U.S. and a number of automobile companies in Italy, Japan, and Western Germany. 

EBMax A continuous, liquid-phase process for making ethylbenzene from ethylene and benzene, using a zeolite catalyst. Developed by Raytheon Engineers and Constructors and Mobil Oil Corporation and first installed at Chiba Styrene Monomer in Japan in 1995. Generally similar to the Mobil/Badger process, but the improved catalyst permits the reactor size to be reduced by two thirds. 

MSTDP [Mobil selective toluene disproportionation] A process for converting toluene to benzene and a xylene mixture rich in /7-xylene. The catalyst is the zeolite ZSM-5, selectively coked to constrict the pores and thus increase the yield of //-xylene produced. Developed and licensed by the Mobil Oil Corporation and first commercialized in Sicily in 1988. See also MTDP. 

Socony Vacuum This United States oil company, now the Mobil Oil Corporation, invented many processes, but the one bearing the company name was that for making thiophene from butane and elemental sulfur at 560°C. It was operated by the Pennwalt Company in the 1950s and 1960s but then abandoned. 

Tests by Mobil Oil Corporation [74] on dibutyl butylphosphonate showed that its toxic effects on rats were moderate at 3gkg (oral), and for rabbits it was nontoxic at >5gkg (dermal) exposure. With DEHPA, acute toxicity was found for rats at concentrations of 1.4 gkg (oral). 

Mobil Oil Corporation, Material safety data bulletin, 1981. 

Mobil Oil Corporation. TSCA sec. 8(e) Submission 8EHQ-0381-0366 Follow-up. 4 Four Week Inhalation Toxicity Study in the Rat. Prepared by Bio/dynamics, Inc, Washington, DC, Office of Toxic Substances, US Environmental Protection Agency, 1981... 

Mobil Oil Corporation Refinery Uni royal Chemical Company, Inc Texaco... 

Hoechst Celanese Corporation) (Mobil Oil Corporation) (AIChE/CCPS)... 

Initial studies using cobalt-, nickel-, and iron-modified zeolites X and Y (241, 242) were, however, not particularly encouraging with relatively poor activities, selectivities, and stabilities. This situation has now changed dramatically with the discovery by Mobil Oil Corporation of a new series of synthetic high-silica zeolites. The so-called ZSM-5 zeolite (in the H form) is capable of converting methanol quantitatively to hydrocarbons and water (239), i.e.,... 

The third factor was the attendance of nine well-known carbon scientists from Europe and Japan in the 1984 symposium. Support for their attendance was obtained by a grant from The Petroleum Research Fund supplemented by contributions from the following industrial sponsors Aluminum Company of America, Ashland Petroleum Company, Arco Petroleum Products Company, Exxon Research Development Laboratories, GA Technologies Inc., Gulf Canada, Ltd., Gulf Research Development Company, Koppers Company, Inc., Mobil Oil Corporation, The Standard Oil Company (Ohio), and UOP, Inc. 

Whilst the majority of the discussion thus far has been concerned with metallo-substituted redox molecular sieves, it is important to note that proto-nated zeolite forms can also be employed for selective oxidation with aqueous hydrogen peroxide. An excellent example of this is the study conducted by the Mobil Oil Corporation.52 Their work has shown that a number of protonated zeolites such as H-ZSM-5 or zeolite-/ can be used with hydrogen peroxide to catalyse the oxidation of cyclic ketones to lactones or the co-hydroxycarboxylic acids (Figure 4.12). 

MWI [Mobil Wax Isomerization] A process for improving the quality of petroleum-based lubricating oils. The undesirable wax constituents are hydroisomerized to products of lower molecular weight, using a zeolite catalyst, and the resulting product is treated with an organic peroxide to increase its viscosity. Developed by Mobil Oil Corporation in 1990. 

Engineers at Mobil Oil Corporation are satisfied that a one-dimensional analysis is suitable for treating reaction kinetics in these beds, simply using an appropriate Peclet number to represent the effective axial gas diffusivity (Avidan, 1982 Krambeck et al, 1987). Inputs for Mobil s analysis are two (1) the Peclet number expected for a commercial fluid bed in question—they estimate this to be 7 for beds they contemplate for carrying out Mobil s methanol-to-gasoline or methanol-to-olefin reactions—and (2) kinetic data from a pilot fluid bed, which can be expected to reflect, reasonably well, whatever top-to-bottom mixing of powder will occur in the commercial bed. 

Periodic mesoporous silicas were reported for the first time in the literature by researchers at the Mobil Oil Corporation in the early 1990s, although a synthetic process that yields very similar reaction products was patented twenty years prior (MoUer and Bein, 1998). The reactive internal surfaces of these solids have been used to attach functional groups that can act as complexing agents for metal cations. However, as well as complexation and similar uses like ion exchange and sorption, the channels have been used to grow metal clusters and wires. 

---