US Patent Issued to HEFEI INSTITUTES OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES on May 20 for "Methods for catalytically degrading polyolefin plastics at low temperatures" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,006, issued on May 20, was assigned to HEFEI INSTITUTES OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Hefei, China).

"Methods for catalytically degrading polyolefin plastics at low temperatures" was invented by Huajie Yin (Hefei, China), Tengxiu Tu (Hefei, China), Yijin Wu (Hefei, China), Haimin Zhang (Hefei, China) and Guozhong Wang (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for catalytically degrading polyolefin plastics at a low temperature is provided. The method uses NaCl-KCl-AlCl3 molten salt as the catalyst and adds KHCO3 as an additive. Without adding organic solvents, the polyolefin plastics are successfully d...