ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,533, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (Mumbai, India).
"Apparatus for distributing fluid in downflow reactors" was invented by Valavarasu Gnanasekaran (Bengaluru, India), Pradyut Kumar Dhar (Bengaluru, India), Samuel Jedidiah Mekala (Bengaluru, India) and Bojja Ramachandra Rao (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present subject matter relates an apparatus (120) for distributing polyphasic fluid mixture to a catalyst bed in a downflow reactor (100). The apparatus (120) comprises a distributor tray (140) comprising a plurality of distributor units (150). The distributor unit (1...