ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,320, issued on April 7, was assigned to DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Midland, Mich.).
"Method of controlling alpha-olefin condensation in absorption media during polyolefin production" was invented by Timothy W. Gambrel (Lake Jackson, Texas) and John D. Hebert (Rayong, Thailand).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method comprising discharging from a reactor to an absorber a product stream that comprises a polymer or interpolymer, a solvent and hydrochloric acid; absorbing the hydrochloric acid from the product stream in the absorber; discharging the product stream now devoid of substantially all hydrochloric acid to ...