US Patent Issued to Ineos Acetyls UK on Dec. 16 for "Processes for treating off-gas in an acetic acid production unit" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,547, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Ineos Acetyls UK Ltd. (Lyndhurst, Great Britain).

"Processes for treating off-gas in an acetic acid production unit" was invented by John Peter Eric Muller (Hull, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to processes for scrubbing an off-gas stream of an acetic acid production unit. In one aspect, a process includes introducing the off-gas stream to the absorption column; introducing to the absorption column, a methanol stream at a first flow rate, the methanol stream having a first temperature at the liquid inlet, the first temperature being at leas...