ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,748, issued on June 30, was assigned to UOP LLC (Rosemont, Ill.).
"Process for converting olefins to jet fuel" was invented by Krishan Pratap Jadaun (Gurugram, India), Vikrant Vilasrao Dalal (Gurugram, India), Stanley Joseph Frey (Palatine, Ill.), Arunim Bose (Gurugram, India) and Richa Sharma (Gurugram, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for dimerizing and oligomerizing olefins to distillate fuels which subjects oligomerized product to hydrocracking and hydroisomerization in a single reactor to convert heavier oligomers to jet fuel range oligomers. A jet fuel product stream may be taken from a side of a stripping column ...