US Patent Issued to Evonik Operations on Oct. 28 for "Process for the recovery of a light boiler and a heavy boiler from a vapor stream" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,504, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Process for the recovery of a light boiler and a heavy boiler from a vapor stream" was invented by Thorsten Merker (Erftstadt, Germany) and Christoph Hiller (Duelmen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for the recovery of a light boiler and a heavy boiler from a vapor stream includes introducing a vapor stream comprising a light boiler and a heavy boiler into a column, withdrawing a vapor stream (3) enriched in the light boiler from the top of the column and a liquid stream (4) enriched in the heavy boiler from the bottom of the column. Th...