US Patent Issued to TOPSOE on May 12 for "Process and plant for improving oxygenate to gasoline conversion" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,294, issued on May 12, was assigned to TOPSOE A/S (Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark).

"Process and plant for improving oxygenate to gasoline conversion" was invented by Arne Knudsen (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Kumar Rabi (Naerum, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Process and plant for producing a gasoline product from an oxygenate feed stream, the process including the provision of a methanol-to-gasoline reactor in a gasoline synthesis loop. The process and plant may include combination of an overhead stream from a de-ethanizer, e.g. a fractionation column, located downstream the cooling and separation of the raw gasoline produced in the metha...