US Patent Issued to HINDUSTAN PETROLEUM on Sept. 22 for "Process for the production of ethyl tertiary butyl ethers" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,921, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to HINDUSTAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION LIMITED (India).

"Process for the production of ethyl tertiary butyl ethers" was invented by Santhoshkumar Reddy Sandiri (Hoskote Taluk, India), Bennet Chelliahn (Hoskote Taluk, India), Valavarasu Gnanasekaran (Hoskote Taluk, India) and Ramachandra Rao Bojja (Hoskote Taluk, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a process for the preparation of ethyl tert-butyl ether comprising: (a) reacting ethanol with a mixture of C4 hydrocarbon feed in the presence of a catalyst to obtain a mixture; and (b) contacting the mixture with an entr...