US Patent Issued to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING on Sept. 29 for "Upgrading bio-waste in FCC" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,397, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING COMPANY (Spring, Texas).

"Upgrading bio-waste in FCC" was invented by Xiaochun Xu (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Dario Campani (Novara, Italy) and Hyung Rae Kim (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include: providing bio waste stream wherein the bio waste stream comprises at least one bio waste selected from the group consisting of palm oil mill effluent, soapstock, and combinations thereof; introducing the bio waste effluent stream into a fluidized catalytic cracking unit; contacting the bio waste with a catalyst in the fluidized cata...