US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Aug. 19 for "Natural gas liquids upgrading process: two-step catalytic process for alkane dehydrogenation and oligomerization" (Indiana, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,891, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Natural gas liquids upgrading process: two-step catalytic process for alkane dehydrogenation and oligomerization" was invented by Rakesh Agrawal (West Lafayette, Ind.), Jeffrey J. Siirola (Kingsport, Tenn.), Taufik Ridha (West Lafayette, Ind.), Yiru Li (West Lafayette, Ind.), Fabio H. Ribeiro (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Jeffrey T. Miller (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process to catalytically transform natural gas liquid (NGL) into higher molecular weight hydrocarbons includes providing an NGL stream, catalytically dehyd...