US Patent Issued to Chevron Phillips Chemical on March 24 for "Systems and techniques for heating polymer reactor flashlines" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,946, issued on March 24, was assigned to Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP (The Woodlands, Texas).

"Systems and techniques for heating polymer reactor flashlines" was invented by Ai-Fu Chang (The Woodlands, Texas), Hetian Li (The Woodlands, Texas) and Christina Barry (The Woodlands, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polyolefin reactor flashline heater system may include an enclosure, a heating section, and a transformer. The heating section is contained in the enclosure and extends between a first end and a second end. The first end is fluidically coupled to a polyolefin reactor product inlet. The second end is fluidically coupl...