US Patent Issued to UOP on June 30 for "Process for preparing an olefin stream for oligomerization with selective hydrogenation" (Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,557, issued on June 30, was assigned to UOP LLC (Rosemont, Ill.).

"Process for preparing an olefin stream for oligomerization with selective hydrogenation" 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 (Glencoe, 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 a light gas stream and a olefin rich stream. The ...