US Patent Issued to ADEM Technologies on July 15 for "Desulfurization and sulfur tolerant hydrogenation processes of hydrocarbon feedstocks" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,967, issued on July 15, was assigned to ADEM Technologies Inc. (Louisville, Ky.).

"Desulfurization and sulfur tolerant hydrogenation processes of hydrocarbon feedstocks" was invented by Mahendra Sunkara (Louisville, Ky.), Sivakumar Vasireddy (Louisville, Ky.) and Juan He (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a method for removing sulfur from liquid hydrocarbon feedstocks and for performing hydrogenation reactions in sulfur-contaminated feedstocks, including the hydrogenation of naphthalene in the presence of sulfur compounds, using catalysts or adsorbents comprising metal oxide nanowires decorated w...