US Patent Issued to IFP Energies nouvelles on Aug. 4 for "Method for the selective hydrogenation of a gasoline in the presence of a catalyst on a mesoporous-macroporous substrate" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,608, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to IFP Energies nouvelles (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

"Method for the selective hydrogenation of a gasoline in the presence of a catalyst on a mesoporous-macroporous substrate" was invented by Philibert Leflaive (Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France), Etienne Girard (Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France) and Antoine Fecant (Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for selective hydrogenation of gasoline including polyunsaturated compounds and light sulfur compounds wherein the gasoline and hydrogen is brought into contact with a catalyst containing a group VIB metal, a group VIII metal...