US Patent Issued to BOREALIS on Sept. 15 for "Conversion of plastic waste to hydrocarbons using a transition metal oxide" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,645, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to BOREALIS GMBH (Vienna).

"Conversion of plastic waste to hydrocarbons using a transition metal oxide" was invented by Henrik Thunman (Gothenburg, Sweden), Martin Seemann (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Chahat Mandviwala (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing a mixture of hydrocarbons from plastic waste, the process comprising the steps of a) contacting the plastic waste with steam and a hydrogen controlling material comprising at least one transition metal and/or its oxide, wherein the transition metal is not in its highest oxidation state, thereby forming a mixtur...