ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,996, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Linde GmbH (Pullach, Germany).
"Method and system for steamcracking" was invented by Michael Horenz (Munich), Mathieu Zellhuber (Martinsried, Germany), Robert Stegemann (Munich) and Gunther Schmidt (Deisenhofen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of steam cracking includes using a steam cracking arrangement that has a fired cracking furnace, a quench cooling train, and rotating equipment at least partly driven by electric energy. A process gas stream is passed through the furnace and the cooling train. A steam generation arrangement, operated in thermal association with the crackin...