US Patent Issued to IFP Energies Nouvelles on May 27 for "Process for separating out an effluent obtained from an oligomerization step" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,312, issued on May 27, was assigned to IFP Energies Nouvelles (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

"Process for separating out an effluent obtained from an oligomerization step" was invented by Pierre-Alain Breuil (Rueil-Malmaison, France), Nicolas Aribert (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Olivier Cotte (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for treating an effluent obtained from an oligomerization step in a vaporization step. In particular, the oligomerization step is a step for dimerization of ethylene to 1-butene with a nickel-based catalytic system."

The patent was filed on Nov. 17, ...