US Patent Issued to Lummus Technology, Saudi Aramco Technologies on May 26 for "Process for mixing dilution steam with liquid hydrocarbons before steam cracking" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,626, issued on May 26, was assigned to Lummus Technology LLC (Houston) and Saudi Aramco Technologies Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Process for mixing dilution steam with liquid hydrocarbons before steam cracking" was invented by Dennis Maloney (Houston), Kandasamy Sundaram (Houston), Raghu Narayan (Houston) and Abdul Rahman Zafer Akhras (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for steam cracking a whole crude that may include a volatilization device, a control system, a separator, and a steam pyrolysis reactor. The volatilization device may be configured to separate a vapor phase from a liquid phase. The control system may be ...