US Patent Issued to LANZHOU INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES on July 22 for "Method for preparing 1,3-propanediol with high space-time yield and high concentration" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,641, issued on July 22, was assigned to LANZHOU INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Lanzhou, China).

"Method for preparing 1,3-propanediol with high space-time yield and high concentration" was invented by Zhiwei Huang (Lanzhou, China), Xiaolan Yao (Lanzhou, China), Xuemei Li (Lanzhou, China), Jian Yang (Lanzhou, China) and Chungu Xia (Lanzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing 1,3-propanediol with a high space-time yield, in which A methyl 3-hydroxypropionate solution is pumped into a tubular fixed-bed reactor loaded with a surface modifier-coated nano-Cu-based catalyst for continuou...