US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on June 30 for "Reactor system for acetylene absorption and selective hydrogenation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,558, issued on June 30, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Reactor system for acetylene absorption and selective hydrogenation" was invented by Huping Luo (Moraga, Calif.), Xiaoying Ouyang (Albany, Calif.), Christopher Declan Lane (El Cerrito, Calif.) and Howard Steven Lacheen (Richmond, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including an acetylene absorption and hydrogenation reactor configured to receive an acetylene-rich gas stream and a hydrogen stream flowing upwards or downwards to a reaction zone and a cooled liquid solvent flowing downwards to the reaction zone, wherein the cooled recycled liqui...