US Patent Issued to LINDE on July 7 for "Method and system for steamcracking" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,102, issued on July 7, was assigned to LINDE GMBH (Pullach, Germany).

"Method and system for steamcracking" was invented by Mathieu Zellhuber (Martinsried, Germany), Michael Horenz (Munich), David Bruder (Munich) and Martin Hofstatter (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of steam cracking using a steam cracking arrangement including an electric cracking furnace without a convection zone and a quench cooling train is proposed, wherein a process gas stream is passed through the cracking furnace and the cooling train. The cooling train is operated to comprise at least two distinct cooling steps arranged in either order, wherei...