US Patent Issued to BASF on Oct. 21 for "Column for thermal treatment of a mixture of compounds having a tendency to polymerization" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,417, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

"Column for thermal treatment of a mixture of compounds having a tendency to polymerization" was invented by Ulrich Hammon (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and Lukas Schulz (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention related to a column for the thermal treatment of a mixture of compounds having a tendency to polymerization, as well as a thermal separating process using the column. The column includes a mass transfer tray having a rising tube with an inlet opening below the tray and an outlet opening above the tra...