ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,998, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to COOLBROOK OY (Helsinki).
"Suppression of coke formation in hydrocarbon processing equipment" was invented by Alexander Karpov (Helsinki), Denis Semenov (Helsinki) and Vahid Sudzhadinov (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing coke formation during thermal or thermochemical conversion of hydrocarbon feedstocks in a gaseous diluent using a rotary reactor provided. The method includes supplying an amount of additional gaseous diluent into high-temperature region or regions of the reactor, where conditions are established for thermal or thermochemical conversion to occur. In t...