US Patent Issued to NOVA Chemicals (International) on March 4 for "Mitigating naturally occurring radioactive material in oxidative dehydrogenation" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,806, issued on March 4, was assigned to NOVA Chemicals (International) S.A. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Mitigating naturally occurring radioactive material in oxidative dehydrogenation" was invented by Vasily Simanzhenkov (Calgary, Canada), Bolaji Olayiwola (Calgary, Canada) and Shahin Goodarznia (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for mitigating naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) in an oxidative dehydrogenation process includes a feed stream, an oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) reactor, an effluent stream, a processing unit, and a NORM reduction unit. The feed stream includes oxygen, a hydrocarbon, an...