US Patent Issued to Chevron Phillips Chemical on March 24 for "Alkyl aluminum catalyst deactivation with water and solids removal via filtration" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,806, issued on March 24, was assigned to Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP (The Woodlands, Texas).

"Alkyl aluminum catalyst deactivation with water and solids removal via filtration" was invented by Jeffrey C. Gee (Kingwood, Texas) and Brooke L. Small (Kingwood, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Water is combined with an oligomer product that contains an oligomer and an alkyl aluminum catalyst to deactivate the catalyst and form a treated product containing the oligomer and aluminum-containing solids. The aluminum-containing solids then can be separated from the treated product."

The patent was filed on Sept. 27, 2023, under Appl...