US Patent Issued to OMV DOWNSTREAM on Sept. 15 for "Apparatus and process for separating components of a multiphase hydrocarbon stream" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,531, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to OMV DOWNSTREAM GMBH (Vienna).

"Apparatus and process for separating components of a multiphase hydrocarbon stream" was invented by Wolfgang Hofer (Vienna), Andreas Lechleitner (Vienna) and Martina Baroncelli (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a process enable separating components of a multiphase hydrocarbon stream. The apparatus may include an outer vessel having a top end with a top outlet and a bottom end with a bottom outlet, with a longitudinal axis extending between the top end and the bottom end. An outer vessel body disposed between the top end and the bottom end ...