Pure Oil Company

Alco An early process for thermally polymerizing refinery gases (mainly C3 and C4 hydrocarbons) to yield liquid hydrocarbon mixtures, suitable for blending with gasoline. The process was operated without a catalyst, at 480 to 540°C, and 50 atm. Developed by the Pure Oil Company, Chicago, and licensed to Alco Products, United States. 

Butomerate A catalytic process for isomerizing //-butane to isobutane. Developed by the Pure Oil Company. 

Folkins A process for making carbon disulfide from methane and sulfur at elevated temperature and pressure. A complex separation system removes the hydrogen sulfide from the products so that this sulfur can be re-used. The process can be operated catalytically or non-catalytically. Developed in 1948 by H. 0. Folkins and others at the Pure Oil Company, Chicago. 

Isomerate A continuous hydrocarbon isomerization process for converting pentanes and hexanes to highly branched isomers. Developed by the Pure Oil Company, a division of the Union Oil Company of California. The catalyst, unlike those used in most such processes, does not contain a noble metal. 

The most available graphite plate is made by POCO (Pure Oil Company), a division of Entegris Inc. A variety of high-strength isotropic graphite is produced by POCO where PyroCell is the most known product with very low porosity. 

J.M. Smith was in charge of a variety of research projects. Studies of temperature gradients in continuous gas-solid catalytic reactors were supported by Petroleum Research Foundation (PRF), whereas from 1946 until 1950 the Research Cotrell Corporation supported his work on heat and mass transfer in fluidized gas-solid systems, and after 1950 his work on flow in fluidized systems. The Engineering Experimental Station was the sponsor of Smith s work on vapor-phase hydration of ethylene oxide, and in 1947 the Texas Company gave him a grant for the study of the radial temperature gradients of gas-solid catalytic converters. Finally, his studies on the reaction of sulfur vapor and methane were sponsored by the Eastman Kodak Company and the Pure Oil Company. 

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