US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on Sept. 29 for "Process and system for converting solid carbon-based feedstocks to hydrocarbons and coke utilizing a coke drum" (California, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,396, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Process and system for converting solid carbon-based feedstocks to hydrocarbons and coke utilizing a coke drum" was invented by Mahdi Khademi (Los Angeles), Anshu Anshumali (Mobile, Ala.) and Hye-Kyung Timken (Albany, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process includes receiving, in an unheated coke drum, a feedstock comprising a solid carbon-based material, heating the unheated coke drum and the feedstock comprising the solid carbon-based material to a first temperature to form a heated feedstock comprising the solid carbon-based material in a s...