US Patent Issued to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING on Dec. 23 for "Reduced H2 consumption during deoxygenation" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,654, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING COMPANY (Spring, Texas).

"Reduced H2 consumption during deoxygenation" was invented by Megan E. Witzke (Bedminster, N.J.), Randolph J. Smiley (Hellertown, Pa.), Chuansheng Bai (Phillipsburg, N.J.), Scott J. Weigel (Allentown, Pa.) and Xiaochun Xu (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for reducing hydrogen consumption during deoxygenation of bio-derived (or at least partially bio-derived) feedstocks. The reduced hydrogen consumption is achieved by performing the deoxygenation in the presence of a bulk multimetal...