US Patent Issued to ENI on July 1 for "Hydrotreatment catalysts and process for preparing said catalysts" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,710, issued on July 1, was assigned to ENI S.p.A. (Rome).

"Hydrotreatment catalysts and process for preparing said catalysts" was invented by Angela Carati (San Giuliano Milanese, Italy), Giuseppe Bellussi (Piacenza, Italy) and Michela Bellettato (San Donato Milanese, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process may prepare catalysts advantageously usable in the hydrotreatment processes, for example in hydrodesulfurization, hydrodenitrogenation, hydrodearomatization processes of hydrocarbons. Such catalysts may include mixed oxides of nickel, aluminum, molybdenum, and tungsten and optionally a transition metal Me selected from Zn, M...