US Patent Issued to Kellogg Brown & Root on Sept. 16 for "Hydrogenation of acetylenes in a hydrocarbon stream" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,963, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Kellogg Brown & Root LLC (Houston).

"Hydrogenation of acetylenes in a hydrocarbon stream" was invented by David Sellinger (Houston), Robert Choi (Houston), Quo-Chen Yeh (Sugar Land, Texas), Alok Srivastava (Houston), Kristine E. Hamilton (Houston) and Michael A. Radzicki (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for hydrogenation C3 and C4 acetylenes contained within a hydrocarbon stream generated in a stream cracker unit where a debutanizer is placed upstream of a depropanizer for more economical processing of the hydrocarbon stream to produce lighter hydrocarbons, where the system re...