US Patent Issued to CHENGDU ORGANIC CHEMICALS Co. LTD. CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, CHENGDU ZHONGKE CATALYSIS TECHNOLOGY on April 7 for "Process and device for preparing trioxane from methanol" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,242, issued on April 7, was assigned to CHENGDU ORGANIC CHEMICALS Co. LTD. CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Chengdu, China) and CHENGDU ZHONGKE CATALYSIS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China).

"Process and device for preparing trioxane from methanol" was invented by Qian Lei (Chengdu, China), Linlin Liang (Chengdu, China), Conger Deng (Chengdu, China), Weixin Lei (Chengdu, China) and Honglin Chen (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for preparing trioxane from methanol includes: step 1: subjecting a mixture of methanol and methylal to a reaction to obtain formaldehyde, and absorbing the formaldehyde with water to obtai...