US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on Oct. 6 for "Repurposing fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) systems to generate renewable fuel intermediate compositions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,350, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Repurposing fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) systems to generate renewable fuel intermediate compositions" was invented by Sven Ivar Hommeltoft (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), William Richard Boorujy (Livermore, Calif.) and Steven Xuqi Song (El Cerrito, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of repurposing a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) system originally designed for cracking vacuum gas oil (VGO) may include generating a first mixture of a renewable lipid feedstock and a particulate catalyst. The first mixture may be flowed through a riser for a suff...