US Patent Issued to Arkema France on Feb. 18 for "Process for the co-production of methyl mercaptan and of dimethyl disulfide from carbon oxides" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,468, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Arkema France (Colombes, France).

"Process for the co-production of methyl mercaptan and of dimethyl disulfide from carbon oxides" was invented by Georges Fremy (Lacq, France), Jean-Michel Raymond (Cauneille, France), Eric Lamant (Lacq, France) and Helori Salembier (Lacq, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a process for the co-production of methyl mercaptan and of dimethyl disulfide, comprising the following successive steps: a) reaction of at least one carbon oxide in the presence of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and hydrogen to form a stream (M) comprising methyl mercapta...