US Patent Issued to ExxonMobil Chemical Patents on Oct. 7 for "Processes and systems for upgrading a hydrocarbon" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,018, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. (Baytown, Texas).

"Processes and systems for upgrading a hydrocarbon" was invented by Selma S. Lawrence (Houston), Mark A. Nierode (Kingwood, Texas) and Rodney S. Smith (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes are provided for removing contaminants from a refinery gas. Such process can include recovering a process gas comprising ethylene and propylene from a steam cracker effluent recovered from a stream cracker in a steam cracker facility. A refinery gas can be recovered from a refinery facility. The process gas can be compressed in a pl...