US Patent Issued to NOVA CHEMICALS (INTERNATIONAL) on June 2 for "Oxygen removal from an ethane ODH product stream using ethanol" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,841, issued on June 2, was assigned to NOVA CHEMICALS (INTERNATIONAL) S.A. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Oxygen removal from an ethane ODH product stream using ethanol" was invented by Bolaji Olayiwola (Calgary, Canada), Vasily Simanzhenkov (Calgary, Canada), Shahin Goodarznia (Calgary, Canada), David Gent (Lacombe, Canada) and Mohammad Keshtkar (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for converting ethane to ethylene are provided. An exemplary method includes providing a feed stream including the ethane and oxygen to an oxidative dehydrogenation reactor and converting at least a portion of the ethane to ethy...