US Patent Issued to ExxonMobil Chemical Patents on Nov. 3 for "Methods for reducing fouling in tar upgrading processes" (New Jersey, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,133, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. (Spring, Texas).

"Methods for reducing fouling in tar upgrading processes" was invented by Sundar Narayanan (Annandale, N.J.), Gaurav Agrawal (Branchburg, N.J.) and Teng Xu (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to methods for reducing fouling in tar upgrading processes and to apparatus for carrying out such processes. In some embodiments, a method is provided that includes providing a first tar stream, combining the first tar stream with a utility fluid to form a first process stream having a viscosity lower than that of ...