US Patent Issued to UOP on April 7 for "Process for converting olefins to distillate fuels with oligomerate recycle" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,218, issued on April 7, was assigned to UOP LLC (Rosemont, Ill.).

"Process for converting olefins to distillate fuels with oligomerate recycle" was invented by Ashish Mathur (Gurgaon, India), Manuela Serban (Northbrook, Ill.), Joel S. Paustian (Vernon Hills, Ill.) and Deng-Yang Jan (Elk Grove Village, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for dimerizing and oligomerizing olefins to distillate fuels which utilizes a solid acid catalyst for ethylene oligomerization in a first stage and a metal catalyst for further oligomerization in a second stage. Distillate fuels can be produced from the process. Oligomerized olefins may be r...