US Patent Issued to UOP on June 9 for "Process for producing renewable mono-methyl alkylbenzene products" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,702, issued on June 9, was assigned to UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.).

"Process for producing renewable mono-methyl alkylbenzene products" was invented by Geoffrey W. Fichtl (Chicago), Phuong T.M. Do (Mount Prospect, Ill.), James T. Wexler (Wheaton, Ill.), Hai Du (Hinsdale, Ill.), Eseoghene Jeroro (Chicago) and Patrick C. Whitchurch (Elgin, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes for producing mono-methyl alkylbenzenes from natural oils are described. The processes includes a linear selective cracking process to crack C14+ chains into C9 to C14 chains which are useful for making linear alkylbenzene for use in detergents and a hydro...