ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,466, issued on March 18, was assigned to SABIC Global Technologies B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).
"Isooctane production from field butane" was invented by Dustin Fickel (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing isooctane by introducing a butane feed stream (containing n-butane, i-butane) and hydrogen into a catalytic hydrogenolysis reactor to produce a hydrogenolysis product stream; separating the hydrogenolysis product stream into a butane stream (i-butane, optionally n-butane); feeding the butane stream to a catalytic dehydrogenation reactor to produce a dehydrogenation product stream comprisin...