US Patent Issued to UOP on Aug. 4 for "Dehydrogenation and pyrolysis product recovery with a common C3 splitter" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,247, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to UOP LLC (Rosemont, Ill.).

"Dehydrogenation and pyrolysis product recovery with a common C3 splitter" was invented by Sudipta K. Ghosh (Gurgaon, India), Prashant Balyan (Gurgaon, India), Xin X. Zhu (Long Grove, Ill.), Kyle Cuellar (Fulshear, Texas), Fuyue Stephanie Li (Lake Jackson, Texas) and Ernest J. Boehm (Hanover Park, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process and apparatus integrate recovery of propylene from a pyrolysis reactor and a paraffin dehydrogenation reactor. A common C3 splitter column fractionates propylene product from propane recycle to a paraffin dehydrogenation reactor. Th...