US Patent Issued to Marathon Petroleum on Sept. 29 for "Methods and systems for enhancing processing of hydrocarbons in a fluid catalytic cracking unit using plastic" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,401, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Marathon Petroleum Co. LP (Findlay, Ohio).

"Methods and systems for enhancing processing of hydrocarbons in a fluid catalytic cracking unit using plastic" was invented by Nikolas A. Larsen (Findlay, Ohio) and Jeffrey A. Sexton (Findlay, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for enhancing the processing of hydrocarbons in a FCC unit by introduction of fluidized plastic at one or more locations of the FCC unit. In an embodiment, the method may include passing a coked FCC catalyst from a cyclone of the FCC unit to a regenerator. The method may include introducing ...