US Patent Issued to SABIC Global Technologies on Feb. 25 for "Naphtha catalytic cracking process" (Saudi Arabia, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,415, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to SABIC Global Technologies B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).

"Naphtha catalytic cracking process" was invented by Talal Khaled Al-Shammari (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Mamilla Sekhar Babu (Geleen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for producing light olefins and BTX (benzene, toluene, and xylene). Crude oil is first separated to produce light naphtha and heavy naphtha. Light naphtha is fed to a steam cracking unit and heavy naphtha is fed to a catalytic cracking unit. The effluent from the steam cracking unit and the effluent from the catalytic cracking unit are flow...