US Patent Issued to NESTE on April 8 for "Method for producing renewable C3 hydrocarbons and renewable aromatic hydrocarbons" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,996, issued on April 8, was assigned to NESTE OYJ (Espoo, Finland).

"Method for producing renewable C3 hydrocarbons and renewable aromatic hydrocarbons" was invented by Eveliina Makela (Porvoo, Finland), Marja Tiitta (Porvoo, Finland) and Marja-Liisa Karkkainen (Porvoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for producing renewable C3 hydrocarbons D and renewable aromatic hydrocarbons E from a renewable feedstock A, in particular to methods comprising hydrodeoxygenation (20) and catalytic cracking (40) steps wherein the catalytic cracking is catalysed by a catalyst comprising a zeolite and a ...