US Patent Issued to Evonik Operations on June 16 for "Process for the energy-efficient preparation of alkali metal alcoholates" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,082, issued on June 16, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Process for the energy-efficient preparation of alkali metal alcoholates" was invented by Dirk Roettger (Cologne, Germany), Sebastian Reimann (Wesseling, Germany), Niklas Paul (Marl, Germany), Armin Matthias Rix (Marl, Germany), Philip Zitzewitz (Haltern am See, Germany) and Moritz Schroder (Munster, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for preparing alkali metal alcoholates in counter flow by way of reactive rectification, the alkali metal being selected from sodium and potassium. The process is carried out ...