US Patent Issued to Chevron Phillips Chemical on April 14 for "Loop slurry reactor cooling processes and systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,887, issued on April 14, was assigned to Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP (The Woodlands, Texas).

"Loop slurry reactor cooling processes and systems" was invented by Reza Khankal (Kingwood, Texas), James E. Hein (Kingwood, Texas), Anurag Gupta (Kingwood, Texas), Enrique J. Mancillas (Kingwood, Texas) and Timothy O. Odi (Kingwood, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and processes for distributing reactor coolant flow to the cooling jackets of a loop slurry reactor, where the reactor coolant is used to control the temperature of the loop slurry reactor in olefin polymerization. Also disclosed are systems and pro...