US Patent Issued to CASALE on March 4 for "Radial or axial-radial chemical reactor with a fine catalyst" (Italian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,972, issued on March 4, was assigned to CASALE SA (Lugano, Switzerland).

"Radial or axial-radial chemical reactor with a fine catalyst" was invented by Sergio Panza (Como, Italy), Pierdomenico Biasi (Como, Italy) and Ermanno Filippi (Castagnola, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reactor for catalytic chemical reactions comprising a catalyst bed with an annular-cylindrical form crossed by a radial flow or mixed axial-radial flow, wherein the bed is delimited by cylindrical walls made gas-permeable by means of slits and the catalyst bed is formed by particles of catalyst with a nominal minimum size such that: the ratio between...