US Patent Issued to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 25 for "Process for conversion of waste plastics into chemicals" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,029, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).

"Process for conversion of waste plastics into chemicals" was invented by Robert C. Schucker (Spring, Texas), Dustin Farmer (Houston) and Jason Loiland (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for the conversion of plastics to chemicals includes, in part: providing a plastics stream (A) including polyvinyl chloride (PVC); supplying the plastics stream (A) and a solvent (S) to a reactor vessel (1); subjecting the plastics in the reactor vessel to a temperature of less than=250deg C. to greater than350 under applying...