US Patent Issued to Phillips 66 on April 1 for "Pentane-enriched hydrocarbons to transportation fuel" (Oklahoma, Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,287, issued on April 1, was assigned to Phillips 66 Co. (Houston).

"Pentane-enriched hydrocarbons to transportation fuel" was invented by Chengtian Wu (Bartlesville, Okla.), Jonathan Marda (Baton Route, La.), Karthikeyan Marimuthu (Bartlesville, Okla.), Dhananjay Ghonasgi (Bartlesville, Okla.) and Jianhua Yao (Bartlesville, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods that increase production of a liquid transportation fuel blend component by utilizing C5 hydrocarbon streams taken from both a refinery naphtha stream and an NGL fractionator pentanes plus stream. A high vapor pressure pentane fraction from the NGL fractionator is separ...