US Patent Issued to Celanese International on June 10 for "Methods and systems of monitoring flammability of various streams during vinyl acetate production" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,686, issued on June 10, was assigned to Celanese International Corp. (Irving, Texas).

"Methods and systems of monitoring flammability of various streams during vinyl acetate production" was invented by Steve R. Alexander (Houston), Kevin Clair Hanks (League City, Texas), Stacey Somerville (Houston), David S. C. Lee (Houston) and Christopher Paul Devlin (Corpus Christi, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for producing vinyl acetate may use flammability limit (FL) formulas with improved efficiencies at more than one location in the vinyl acetate production process. Herein, FLs can be used at one or more of four po...