ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,436, issued on June 23, was assigned to ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. (Baytown, Texas).
"Processes for dehydrogenating alkanes and alkyl aromatic hydrocarbons" was invented by Christian A. Diaz Urrutia (Auderghem, Belgium), Xiaoying Bao (Houston), Keith H Kuechler (Friendswood, Texas), Saurabh S. Maduskar (Houston), Arun K. Sharma (Hellertown, Texas) and Russell T. Clay (Tomball, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrocarbon can be contacted with dehydrogenation catalyst particles to produce an effluent that can include coked catalyst particles and dehydrogenated hydrocarbon(s). A first stream rich in coked catalyst particles...