US Patent Issued to UOP on Feb. 17 for "MFI zeolite and its uses for production of light olefins and/or aromatics" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,874, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to UOP LLC (Rosemont, Ill.).

"MFI zeolite and its uses for production of light olefins and/or aromatics" was invented by Deng-Yang Jan (Elk Grove Village, Ill.), Jaime G. Moscoso (Mount Prospect, Ill.), Lijun Xu (Schaumburg, Ill.) and Xi Zhao (Arlington Heights, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved MFI zeolite having low aluminum occupation at intersection sites characterized by an ortho-xylene to para-xylene uptake ratio of 0.1 to about 0.55. Processes for converting hydrocarbon or oxygenate to a product comprising light olefins and/or aromatics using the improved MFI zeolite as cataly...