US Patent Issued to Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies on March 17 for "Method for shutting down a Fischer-Tropsch reactor" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,181, issued on March 17, was assigned to Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies Ltd. (London).

"Method for shutting down a Fischer-Tropsch reactor" was invented by Robert Miles Baker (London), Jay Simon Clarkson (Stockton-on-Tees, Great Britain), Andrew James Coe (London), Robert William Gallen (Reading, Great Britain), Richard Philip David Pearson (London) and Colin Tamsett (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described for shutting down a Fischer-Tropsch reactor fed with a reactant gas mixture comprising a synthesis gas and a recycle gas recovered from the Fischer-Tropsch reactor in a synthesis loop, said Fischer-Tropsch ...