US Patent Issued to IFP Energies nouvelles on Dec. 16 for "Method for extracting alcohols from an initial mixture comprising alcohols in aqueous phase" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,345, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to IFP Energies nouvelles (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

"Method for extracting alcohols from an initial mixture comprising alcohols in aqueous phase" was invented by Eszter Toth (Rueil-Malmaison, France), Helene Velly (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Nicolas Lopes Ferreira (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a process for extracting alcohols from an initial mixture (1) comprising alcohols in aqueous phase, with: a distillative separation by an isopropanol-butanol distillation column (III) equipped at the top with a condenser (c3), intended for separating said...