US Patent Issued to IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES on July 28 for "Unit for producing and separating aromatics with recovery of an extract and/or raffinate from a liquid-liquid extraction process" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,447, issued on July 28, was assigned to IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

"Unit for producing and separating aromatics with recovery of an extract and/or raffinate from a liquid-liquid extraction process" was invented by Jeremy Gazarian (Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France), Thi Bich Ngoc Dang (Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France), Li Zhang (Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France), Arnaud Cotte (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Anais Dorsey (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a production and separation device and method wherein: a reforming effluent (40) is produced and fractionated in a separatio...