US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on Oct. 6 for "System and method for impurity removal from cargo tanks of vessels that store and transport hydrocarbons" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,373, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"System and method for impurity removal from cargo tanks of vessels that store and transport hydrocarbons" was invented by Adam James Dassey (Houston), Manoj Ramachandran (Houston), Shaik Mohammed Mushtaq (Houston) and Thomas Peter Hoelen (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process to remove impurities from a surface of a cargo tank of a vessel used to transport liquid hydrocarbons includes using an active chemical solution to dissolve at least a portion of the impurities or the matrix in which they are embedded deposited on the surface of t...