US Patent Issued to SABIC Global Technologies on Dec. 9 for "Process for producing ethylene oxide from ethane by oxidative dehydrogenation and epoxidation using a recycle reactor design" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,175, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SABIC Global Technologies B.V. (Bergen Op Zoom, Netherlands).

"Process for producing ethylene oxide from ethane by oxidative dehydrogenation and epoxidation using a recycle reactor design" was invented by Robert Roger Broekhuis (Sugar Land, Texas), Pankaj Singh Gautam (Sugar Land, Texas), Tian Gu (Sugar Land, Texas) and Vidya Sagar Reddy Sarsani (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ethylene oxide (EO) production process comprising (a) introducing a first reactant mixture (C2H6, C2H4, O2) to a first reactor system to produce a first effluent stream (C2H4, C2H6, O2), wherein the mol...