US Patent Issued to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 4 for "Method for the production of MTBE and 1-butene from a C 4 feed stream" (Dutch, Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,075, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).

"Method for the production of MTBE and 1-butene from a C 4 feed stream" was invented by Mohammad Al-Somali (Jubail, Saudi Arabia), Ewa Gebauer-Henke (Geleen, Netherlands), Aaron Vandeputte (Geleen, Netherlands), Christian Okolo (Geleen, Netherlands) and Rasim Yagan (Geleen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for producing MTBE and 1-butene are disclosed. A crude C4 hydrocarbon stream is obtained by removing butadiene from a C4 hydrocarbon mixture of a hydrocarbon cracking unit. The crude C4 hydrocarbon strea...