US Patent Issued to NOVA Chemicals (International) on June 10 for "Removal of carbon monoxide, oxygen and acetylene from an oxidative dehydrogenation process" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,683, issued on June 10, was assigned to NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Removal of carbon monoxide, oxygen and acetylene from an oxidative dehydrogenation process" was invented by Yoonhee Kim (Calgary, Canada), Xiaoliang Gao (Calgary, Canada), Vasily Simanzhenkov (Calgary, Canada), Bolaji Olayiwola (Calgary, Canada), Shahin Goodarznia (Calgary, Canada) and David Gent (Red Deer, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of converting one or more alkanes to one or more alkenes that includes providing a first stream containing one or more alkanes and oxygen to an oxidative dehydrogenation reactor; conv...