US Patent Issued to BASF on June 30 for "Ultra-low zeolite content FCC catalyst in-situ crystallization" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,829, issued on June 30, was assigned to BASF Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.).

"Ultra-low zeolite content FCC catalyst in-situ crystallization" was invented by Junmei Wei (Iselin, N.J.), Nicholas Robert Favate (Iselin, N.J.), Samantha L. Rice (Iselin, N.J.) and Lucas Dorazio (Iselin, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provides a method of making a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalyst, the method includes: in situ crystallizing Y-zeolite on a precursor microsphere to provide the FCC catalyst, wherein the in situ crystallizing includes: mixing the precursor microspheres with sodium silicate, a zeolite initiator (se...