US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on Sept. 15 for "Generating renewable naphtha" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,647, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Generating renewable naphtha" was invented by Jinyi Han (San Ramon, Calif.), Horacio Trevino (Richmond, Calif.), Sven Ivar Hommeltoft (Pleasant Hill, Calif.) and Guan-Dao Lei (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for generating renewable naphtha are provided herein. Some examples include (a) flowing a renewable fuel intermediate composition over a first fixed-bed catalyst in a first reaction zone to generate a saturated, hydrodeoxygenated product. A liquid portion of the renewable fuel intermediate composition may be...