US Patent Issued to UOP on Feb. 17 for "Integrated process for the conversion of crude to olefins" (Illinois, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,000, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to UOP LLC (Rosemont, Ill.).

"Integrated process for the conversion of crude to olefins" was invented by Stanley S. Carp (New Lenox, Ill.), Alan K. Bedell (Durango, Colo.), David M. Banks (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Keith Allen Couch (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Gregory Funk (Carol Stream, Ill.), Cora Wang Ploentham (Elk Grove Village, Ill.) and Stanley Joseph Frey (Palatine, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing light olefins comprising thermal cracking. Hydrocracked streams are thermally cracked in a steam cracker to produce light olefins. A pyrolysis gas stream is separated i...