ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,305, issued on May 27, was assigned to LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY LLC (Houston).
"Production of heavy isoparaffinic hydrocarbons" was invented by Marc Andrew Laurin (Houston), Rosette Barias (Houston), Manoj Som (Houston) and Liang Chen (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes and systems for the production of heavy isoparaffinic hydrocarbons include feeding hydrogen and a mixed isoolefin stream, including C8-C12 olefins, isoolefins, and oligomers, and C8-C12+ hydrogenated hydrocarbons to a trickle-bed reactor system. The hydrogen and mixed isoolefin are reacted over a hydrogenation catalyst, producing a liquid effluent comprising hy...