US Patent Issued to UOP on July 28 for "Process for preparing an olefin stream for oligomerization with acetylene conversion" (Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,211, issued on July 28, was assigned to UOP LLC (Rosemont, Ill.).

"Process for preparing an olefin stream for oligomerization with acetylene conversion" was invented by Andrew Piotrowski (Chicago), Ernest J. Boehm (Hanover Park, Ill.), John J. Senetar (Naperville, Ill.), Matthew C. Cole (Evanston, Ill.), Jeannie Mee Blommel (Oregon, Wis.), Christopher Procopi (Glenco, Ill.), Ian G. Horn (Streamwood, Ill.) and Andrew B. Chin (Wilmette, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for preparing an olefin stream for oligomerization comprises fractionating an olefin stream to provide an ethylene stream and a olefin rich stream. Acetylen...