ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,033, issued on July 14, was assigned to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).
"Systems and methods for producing wash oil" was invented by Steven Leen (Geleen, Netherlands), Fabrice Cuoq (Geleen, Netherlands), Daan Thijs (Geleen, Netherlands) and Recai Artan (Geleen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for producing a wash oil using a light fuel oil (e.g., cracked distillate) are disclosed. The methods include hydrogenating the cracked distillate and separating the hydrogenated cracked distillate to remove C4 to C6 hydrocarbons to produce the wash oil."
The patent was filed on Nov. ...