US Patent Issued to SABIC Global Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Process for producing ethylene oxide from ethane by oxidative dehydrogenation and epoxidation with low ethane concentration in oxidative dehydrogenation effluent" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,811, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SABIC Global Technologies B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).

"Process for producing ethylene oxide from ethane by oxidative dehydrogenation and epoxidation with low ethane concentration in oxidative dehydrogenation effluent" was invented by Robert Roger Broekhuis (Sugar Land, Texas), Pankaj Singh Gautam (Sugar Land, Texas), Tian Gu (Sugar Land, Texas) and Sagar Sarsani (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ethylene oxide (EO) production process comprising (a) introducing a first reactant mixture (C2H6, C2H4, O2) to a first reactor to produce a first effluent stream (C2H4, C2H6, ...