US Patent Issued to ExxonMobil Engineering and Technology on Nov. 18 for "Processes and systems for removing coke particles from a pyrolysis effluent" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,497, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ExxonMobil Engineering and Technology Co. (Spring, Texas).

"Processes and systems for removing coke particles from a pyrolysis effluent" was invented by Thomas T. Hirst (Houston), George Stephens (Huffman, Texas) and David Spicer (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes and systems for pyrolysing a hydrocarbon. In some examples, the process can include mixing a cooled hydrocarbon effluent and a cooled de-coking effluent to produce a combined effluent. The combined effluent can be introduced into an inlet conduit of a separator under conditions that provide less than80 wt. % of the plur...