ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,484, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and SHANGHAI RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY, SINOPEC (Shanghai).

"Full conversion method and device for producing light aromatic hydrocarbons from light cycle oil" was invented by Junlin Zheng (Shanghai), Xiangdong Jiang (Shanghai), Qi Song (Shanghai) and Dejin Kong (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a full conversion process and a device thereof for producing light aromatic hydrocarbon from LCO. The process includes the steps of: subjecting LCO stream to hydrofining and impurity separation, then performing selective co...