US Patent Issued to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM PROCESSING, SINOPEC on Oct. 14 for "Composite adsorbent for separation of ethylbenzene by adsorption distillation and application thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,672, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM PROCESSING, SINOPEC (Beijing).

"Composite adsorbent for separation of ethylbenzene by adsorption distillation and application thereof" was invented by Siyuan Qie (Beijing), Wencheng Tang (Beijing), Ming Zhao (Beijing), Longsheng Tian (Beijing), Siliang Gao (Beijing) and Weiwei Pang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite adsorbent for separating ethylbenzene from C8 arene by an adsorption distillation contains 1-50 mass % of a xylene adsorbent and 50-99 mass % of a carrier liquid. The carrier liquid is se...