US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on March 31 for "Process for producing C2-C4 olefins" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,045, issued on March 31, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Process for producing C2-C4 olefins" was invented by Abdulkadir Tanimu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah Mohammed Aitani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ramzi Hadi Alshugaih (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing C2-C4 olefins including the fluid catalytic cracking of a solution of a low-density polyethylene (LDPE) in a heavy vacuum gas oil in the presence of a catalyst, wherein the catalyst includes: an ultra-stable Y zeolite; and, a ZSM-5 zeolite, wherein the ZSM-5 zeolite has: a sili...