MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517058233 A) filed by BP P. L. C., London, on June 17, for 'in-situ treatment of a fischer-tropsch catalyst.'

Inventor(s) include Paterson, Alexander James.

The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A process for converting a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide to a hydrocarbon composition comprising one or more optionally oxygenated hydrocarbons, the process comprising the following steps: (a) providing a catalyst material comprising cobalt disposed on a support; (b) reducing the catalyst material at a temperature of below 300 C to f...