US Patent Issued to Clariant International, Lummus Technology on Oct. 27 for "Processes and systems for alkane dehydrogenation" (New Jersey, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,261, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Clariant International Ltd (Muttenz, Switzerland) and Lummus Technology LLC (Houston).

"Processes and systems for alkane dehydrogenation" was invented by Vladimir Fridman (Louisville, Ky.) and Sunil Panditrao (Budd Lake, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to processes and systems for dehydrogenating alkanes. The present disclosure relates specifically to processes and systems for dehydrogenating alkanes in which catalyst beds can be cooled rapidly to prevent runaway. In one aspect, a dehydrogenation process includes, when the temperature of at least one...