US Patent Issued to UOP on Sept. 8 for "Dehydrogenation and pyrolysis product recovery with heat integration" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,378, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to UOP LLC (Rosemont, Ill.).

"Dehydrogenation and pyrolysis product recovery with heat integration" was invented by Ernest J. Boehm (Hanover Park, Ill.), Sudipta K. Ghosh (Gurgaon, India), Prashant Balyan (Gurgaon, India), Xin X. Zhu (Long Grove, Ill.) and Kyle Cuellar (Fulshear, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process and apparatus integrate recovery of propylene from a pyrolysis reactor and a paraffin dehydrogenation reactor. The improved process for recovering light olefins utilizes heats of compression to heat reboil streams."

The patent was filed on Nov. 15, 2023, under Application No...