US Patent Issued to SABIC Global Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Treating and steam cracking a combination of plastic-derived oil and used lubricating oils to produce high-value chemicals" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,942, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SABIC Global Technologies B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).

"Treating and steam cracking a combination of plastic-derived oil and used lubricating oils to produce high-value chemicals" was invented by Nicolas Goyheneix (Riemst, Belgium) and Lara Galan-Sanchez (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for producing one or more olefins using waste plastics and used lubricating oil are disclosed. Mixed waste plastic is processed in a pyrolysis unit to produce plastic derived oil. The plastic derived oil is subsequently blended with used lubricating oil to form a ...