US Patent Issued to Dow Global Technologies on April 22 for "Catalyst systems and methods for producing olefins using the same" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,360, issued on April 22, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Catalyst systems and methods for producing olefins using the same" was invented by Lin Luo (Freeport, Texas), Yang Yang (Freeport, Texas) and Matthew T. Pretz (Freeport, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a fluidization promoter useful for dehydrogenation includes from 0.1 wt. % to 10 wt. % gallium, from 5 ppm to 500 ppm platinum, less than 5 wt. % alkali metal or alkaline earth metal, and a support material. A median particle size of the fluidization promoter is from 20 micro metre ...